Well, Christmas is now over and time for you all to work off that turkey and all those chocolates!

And tonight was a great start – a great turnout and lots of effort and great spirit from everyone. Don’t forget, for all of you White Belts we will be working on Sanbon Kumite over the next few weeks which is the third and final discipline you need to attain your Orange Belt. Look out for some posts with helpful hints, tips and videos over the coming week.

Following on from my previous post, congratulations to David Bindewald for being Student of the Month – I thought it would be nice to have his photo in this week!

I would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate Ketan Bhardwa for attaining his Purple Belt in December, it was a tough grading in the second hour but he rose to the challenge and he and his family are now all at the same level (which should help with harmony in the home!)

Also I would like to say “well done” to Ethan Wade for attaining his Red Belt in December (see picture below) and Ben Weston for getting his Yellow Belt (will hopefully publish a photo of this next week).