Promotions

Congratulations to Tsuyoshi, Blake and Albert, promoted to Green Belt, Yellow Belt and Orange Stripe. Well deserved all of you.

Sensei

Summer Camp

Summer camp has come and gone. Thanks to Sensei Bob and all the rest of the Sensei for hosting a great camp. Guelph was well represented with 9 karate ka as well as Sensei Wolfgang making an appearence.
We want to congratulate Hanshi Douglas Roberts on his promotion to 9th dan as well as Sensei James (Ottawa) and Sensei Mike (Guelph)who were recommended for 4th and 3rd dan.
Summer camp this year taught us much about commitment and determination with Hanshi Douglas Roberts leading the way.
Next on the agenda will be Kingstons tournament scheduled for November 3.
See you all there and keep training.

Sensei Mike

Schedule change....

I think that everyone knows this by now, but Saturday classes have moved to 9:30 am and are now 90 min long.

Spring Fitness Testing

Once again, to see if the students have improved in fitness levels. We did max pushups in 1 min, max situps in 1 min and max squats in 1 min.

ID /Pushups /Situps /Squats/ Score

H.M. /42 /43 /35/ 120
M.A. /43/ 41/ 34 /118
C.E.1 /50/ 35/ 38/ 123
C.E.2 /18/ 28/ 25/ 71
T.G. /21/ 27/ 24/ 72
M.H. /5 /16 /43 /64
C.L. /1 /9 /25/ 35
E.A. /19 /34 /34/ 87
T.A. /53 /40/ 50 /143

C.E.1 is the older, C.E.2. is the younger.

Compare these to the scores from Nov/Dec here to see how much you have improved and remember we keep track of these not to see who is the 'best' or the 'strongest' but to see how much stronger everyone is getting over time. Also remember that Senpai counted this testing (which means only good reps counted!) and the testing in Nov/Dec was counted partially by other students.

GKD Junior Tournament 2007

A whole bunch of news here! Starting with a big thank you to all of the participants and parents at our 2nd annual tournament. We had groups attend from Ottawa, Kingston, London and Mississauga as well as Guelph. See the picture of the whole group below.


We were very proud of our students - they performed with spirit and determination. Tsuyoshi followed in his brother's footsteps by winning the GKD Burpee award. Chris was the recipient of the Male Spirit Award and Madeleine was the recipient of the female Spirit Award. A number of promotions took place:

4th kyu - Michael and Haley
7th kyu - Chris
8th kyu - Elsha and TJ
9th kyu - Chandler

Congratulations to all of these students. There are also a few students that are very close to promotion - keep working hard. In addition to the mudansha promotions there were also some yudansha promotions:

1st dan - Sensei Maia
2nd dan- Sensei Glen
4th dan - Sensei Chris
7th dan - Sensei Bob and Sensei Rick

A huge thank you to the seniors, Hanshi Roberts, Sensei Bob and Sensei Rick for coming out, and a personal thank you to Sensei Wolf for attending. Once again, congratulations to all of the participants - we saw some excellent kata and shiai. Thanks to Sensei Jim and Greg for getting everything on video!

Clicking on the little picture below will take you to the album of pictures from the tournament.

GKD 2007 Junior Tournament

Recent promotions

Just wanted to put up a quick note congratulating Colin and Madeleine on their promotions to 9th kyu. Keep up the good work!

Don't forget about our upcoming tournament on Saturday, April 28.

Upcoming Guelph Tournament

GKD will be hosting the 2nd Annual Junior Tournament and Adult Seminar Day on Saturday April 28. Check out the main page for a link to the tournament details.

We look forward to seeing everyone there.

London Kohaku

Congratulations to everyone who participated in the recent Kohaku, hosted by the Ken Shin dojo in London. Special recognition goes to Tsuyoshi and Madeleine. Tsuyoshi won five fights for the second time and was promoted to orange stripe. Madeleine was participating in her first tournament and won three fights. Congratulations Madeleine! The Guelph team fought hard and we are happy with all of your performances. A big thank you to the parents that came out to support the club and to the parents that drove. As well, thanks to the host dojo for a great spring tournament.

The black belts also had an opportunity to learn a bo form from Sensei Hawthorne, for which we are very appreciative.

Events update

As mentioned in the previous post we have set a date for the 2nd annual GKD junior tournament (April 28, 2007). In addition, we have firm dates for two other tournaments. The closest is at the London dojo and will be held on March 24. Cost is $10 and start time is 10 am. This is a kohaku or team fighting competition. Full rules and details are available on the London website (see the links page). We will also likely be attending the St. Jerome tournament held at the end of May. More details on these to follow.

Long term, we can plan on the annual Shorinjiryu Kudaka summer camp in August and the Kingston Kohaku in October/November.