December was a big month at our school, as almost all of our members under Black Belt received a promotion. Most juniors had not received a promotion in almost a year, as they are required to learn the same material as the adults. All represented themselves well at the exam and passed. Congratulations to all!!
Junior Yellow Belt – Than-Tu, Than-Nha, Emma, Sienna, Juliana, & Rayva
Junior Blue Belt – Evan-Micheal
Junior Green Belt – Donald, Alex, & Camren
December was a big month at the school! Almost all of our adults & teens under black belt received a promotion. We have a great group of adult students that spent a lot of hours and shed a lot of sweat to earn their next belt, and we couldn’t wait any longer to move them up!
Yellow Belt – Rahul
Blue Belt – Ashley, Drew, & Andy
Green Belt – Kristen & Andy
Brown Belt 3rd Kyu – Ben & Paul
Brown Belt 2nd Kyu – Akhmed
Brown Belt 1st Kyu – Joe
Congratulations to Kosho Instructor, Ken Kirchmayer, who was promoted to 5th Degree Black Belt at the Internatinoal Shuri-Ryu Association’s seminar on April 28th!
Congratulations to Kosho Instructor, Evan Jones, who was promoted to 2nd Degree Black Belt on March 19th! Evan has been training at the school for almost 20 years, and now teaches the Monday Kids & Family Class. His son has also recently started training. Photos from his karate career.
Thanks to St. Ursuala Villa grade school, who invited Kosho instructor, Nate England, to teach at their annual Cultural Day on February 27th. The class was part of the Japanese portion of the festival, so Nate went over some karate history before teaching the kids a few of the techniques.
Congratulations to all the kids that were promoted in the December Junior Belt Review.
Junior Brown Belt: Selema
Junior Green Belt: Michael, Reggie, & Aiden
Junior Blue Belt: Camren, Alex, & Donald
Junior Yellow Belt: Evan Michael the III
The kids have been training hard for a long time, and all are making great progress!! They are required to know all the same material as the adults, and over the last few weeks they had to go through a thorough pre-review process to be sure they had all the material down. All the instructors, fellow students, and of course parents are proud of their accomplishment!!
Congratulations to all the Kosho members promoted at the Fall CKF Jodo Seminar in Toronto!!! Isaballa Bonner – Ikkyu, Evan Jones -1st Dan, & Paul Tarvin 2nd Dan. The seminar was led by the current head of Jodo in Japan, Kurogo Sensei, and also the previous head of Jodo, Shiiya Sensei.
The group also stopped in Detroit to train at Peter Boylan’s dojo with another guest instructor from Japan, Okumoto Sensei.
Thanks to everyone who helped make this this a great an memorable road trip!!!
Congratulations to everyone promoted at this weekend’s belt review!! Green Belt: Daniel Mills & Becky Kelley, Blue Belt: Brian Wright & Isaballe Bonner, Yellow Belt: Andrew Clark, Kristen Klien, Will Jacobs, & Edward Moraites-Ly Great job everyone!
Thanks to Satoko Ikema, from Okinawa, who visited us last week! She gave a lot of extra instruction and training for the jo students, helped teach the kids, and even joined her first ever karate class. Great experience for everyone!
Congratulations to all the Juniors that were promoted on Monday!!
Jr Purple Belt – Selema
Jr. Blue Belt – Reggie, Aiden, Michael, Edward, & Jalen
Great job everyone!!!! Thanks to all parents!!
