Category: Gradings

Hi All. We had another grading at the Buntingford Karate Club last night (Thursday 2nd November). This was for Rick who was going for his 1st Kyu. Rick does a lot of gym work and power training and so he gave the kick bag part of his grading (see the 1st Kyu Syllabus) short shrift! I certainly would not want […]

Hi Folks. It’s been another grading success for two of the Buntingford Karate Club’s members. On Thursday 1st September Kyler and Sam went for their 7th Kyu Red belts. Sam has been away for two years at university and he took the wise precaution of joining another karate club near to where he trained in order to keep up his […]

Hi Folks. Owen and John (see last Blog) started together and have matched each other’s progress. So, following on from John’s recent grading success Owen was able to take his own grading at the Buntingford Karate Club for Green Belt recently and lifted his level of performance by a considerable amount from the last time he graded. As you can […]

Hi Folks. Isn’t it nice when someone gets a just reward? Well John certainly got his at his recent grading with the Buntingford Karate Club. John can best be described as being just “a nice guy”. He’s never pushy or showy and got quite a surprise when I told him that he ought to take his next grade (green). He […]

Hello Folks. Sorry about the lay off from blogging but Sue and I went to New Zealand in February and I quite got out of the Blog habit! So, Ben took and passed his purple belt (5th Kyu) a few weeks back and I told him then that if he put in some extra effort then I would grade him […]

Hi folks. Well they say that you get an orange for Christmas and Kyler has been no exception. Since his last grading in August he has put in a huge amount of effort to lift the standard of his karate. When you consider that Kyler is the youngest member of the Buntingford Karate Club his progress has been quite remarkable. […]

Hi Folks. Last Thursday evening (3rd December) we had another grading for Owen and John who were going for 7th Kyu Yellow Belt, and Ben, who was going for 5th Kyu (Purple). All three showed a good command of the syllabus required of them and, although there were the usual small mistakes, they all put up very competent performances. Ben was […]

Hi Folks. Well I knew that it would happen one day, it was just a matter of time. When Harry first joined the Buntingford Karate Club he took his training very very seriously and was constantly asking me “when can I take my next grading?” so that I had to rein him in a bit. Harry also joined a local […]