IJR Karate

Last night was our last class of the summer holidays! Thanks to all those who have still been coming along. First week back at school next week, trying to settle back down into those routines.

Great effort from the kids class last night, a slightly smaller class but gave us chance to introduce them to sparring! Which seemed to be a great hit! So you can expect to seem more of that in our classes. For this students will need to think about getting their own hand pads, I roughly have around 7 pairs of club ones that students can borrow for those that don’t already have them. I’ll post some information regarding the options avaliable.

Great turn out in our adults class last night!! Actually had more in the adults class than we did in the kids! Including two guests, Georgia (friend of our other Georgia!) who used to train with us in our braintree class! And Isabel! They are also uni students, but really enjoyed the class so will likely be back whenever they are back from uni! Georgia and Georgia were in Croatia last week, and snapped this picture of them doing a high five! With their feet! Great work! It might have even been this that spurred on Georgia to come along to our class! (Also see a throw back picture to a class 6 years ago with both the georgias!

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Huge shoutout to our amazing supplier Blitz for hooking us up with top-notch training gear! 🙌 Your generosity is making a real difference in our game. Thanks for believing in us and helping us level up! 🙏

More gradings this weekend! And very well deserved! Another 2 orange stripes, 2 yellow belts and 1 yellow stripe! Well done all!!

Following on from our recent successes with gradings, one of our white belts wasn’t able to attend the grading. In last nights class we run an assessment for his first stripe belt during the lesson and awarded him his yellow stripe at the end of class! Great work Jacob!!

A big well done to our awesome students for smashing their gradings! Great effort by all who attended! And now we have 2 new yellow stripes! 3 new yellow belts! And 6 new orange stripes!!

Adult’s grading night!! Last night we saw our adults take part in our first group grading! Everyone put in amazing effort and really deserved there new grades!

We have Ian taking his first step on the grading ladder earning his 8th Kyu Yellow belt, Jack earning his 7th Kyu orange belt, Jim and Mark both earned their 4th Kyu purple belt. And James earning is 2nd Kyu brown belt!!

Georgia also took part in the grading, after being away for so long with Uni she wanted to make sure she still had it! And she did, smashing it, proving that she is still deserving of her purple belt!

Well done everyone!!

Shout out to Jack Rowbottom for surprising me last night with this personalised club jacket!! It’s awesome!!