End of Year Grading
Senior & Intermediate Grading 2019
Well done everyone that participated in and successfully graded at the weekend, for the candidates who attempted 7th Kyu Red belt it was, as expected, a massive shock to the system as their fitness and mettle are properly tested for the first time. Emotions always run high as its the first insight into testing their syllabus under duress...congratulations to Tyler, Malika, Shayan, Ishaan and Janno on an outstanding first senior grading.
Congratulations also to James, Gracie, Bryony and Lina, who successfully made it through their second senior grading to 6th Kyu Yellow belt and as expected suffered the infamous "Yellow belt syndrome" having experienced their first grading a few months previous everyone seems to forget how vigorous the testing really is as fitness and aggression levels are pushed to their limits...but well done you got there and you know you rightly deserve those belts.
Lina not satisfied with earning her Yellow belt decided she was going to join Anika, Daniel and Sankit for the 5th Kyu Orange belt grading as well.
A have to say a special well done to Max and Harry who spent the entire day on the mat stepping in as Ukes to assist where needed with all the other Kyu gradings throughout the day before giving us an awesome 3rd Kyu Blue belt grading, straight into action with non compliance syllabus testing, so not only were they already fairly well spent fitness and energy wise but as expected pushed to their limits for their grading as well concluding their grading with another fitness test resulting in two extremely fatigued and battered candidates...Well done you two.
