HKK Wales Spring Course - April 2025

Four Nations together once more and I couldn’t be more proud of you all!

Successful grading on Saturday!

Friday night's class

And you should all be proud of yourselves - You all made the course enjoyable and exciting.

It was a pleasure to guide you through the 3 days of training and watch you all develop the skills and techniques that were explained, demonstrated, learned, and practiced by yourselves.

Susy and Nici

A big Thank you to Steve, Meesh, Ray, Nici, and Susy especially to Ray and Jason for crossing the pond to visit and train and entertain us.

Action shot from the grading

A sizeable grading followed Saturday's session, with many students from Cardiff, Penygroes, Pembrokeshire and Swindon passing.

Successful students from Penygroes club with Susy and Jon.

See here for newspaper report of the Penygroes students' success!

In addition to the excellent kyu gradings there were the following Dan grade promotions:

David Shepherd, Dave Payne and Mani Lowrie (apologies for blurry picture!)

David Shepherd - 1st Dan - Cardiff

Mani Lowrie - 1st Dan - Swindon

Dave Payne - 1st Dan - Swindon

Congratulations David, Dave and Mani!

The Sunday Squad

Nice form displayed by all during the grading on Saturday

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Hit him, Neil!

Dan grades having their brains fried

Dan grades being drilled

Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales sitting down to breakfast on Sunday

A rose between two thorns!

And a very happy birthday to Malcolm Glover who celebrated his 70th with us!

--Jon Dunn, HKK Wales

(words and pictures from Jon, photo captions by me)