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Sunday 22nd March 2020
Applications due: Thursday 12th

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Grading Results - Dec 2019

38 students attended the examination

11 Little Ninjas promotions:

26 Martial Arts promotions:

  • 2 x ‘L’ passes
  • 7 x ‘+’ pass
  • 7 x ‘A’
  • 2 students had both, A, +
  • One student retained their current belt

4 Black Belt Candidates attended for a pre-grading progress check. Whilst these are not technically graded, they each demonstrated an ‘A’ standard as expected of a black belt candidate.

Annual Awards 2023


Congratulations to Simon Oxenham for his Special Award, and Arlo Williams for Student of the Year 2023. Very well deserved gents!

Hey team,

As mentioned at graduation, We are going to place an order for some more hoodies and t-shirts, our usual design with the big logo on the back.

They’ll be available in plain black or grey, or the nice ‘varsity’ style with the red lining to the hood as shown here, and either pullover or zip-up styles. Once again we’ll also have a special ‘team’ zoodie available just for our Black Belt members (including candidates) with the red stripes on the sleeves too:

For more examples please take a look on the website at:
www.blackbeltacademy.info/members/hoodies

Please note: We won’t be ordering a lot of extras for stock as that is prohibitively expensive. These will be available by pre-order only.

The deadline for this order will be
Thurs 23rd November. 

If you want one, please don’t leave it and assume we’ll have spares as I don’t expect to be ordering a load of extras for stock as that’s got to come out of my own pocket and I’ve got stung before with a load of shirts hanging around for month!We’ll have order forms in class.

Please note: we no longer accept cheques for gradings / equipment sales simply as we have to drive to Gloucester to pay them in…  But we can take card/contactless payments (or cash, obv) at the school.

New Beginners

Take a look at this page with some useful information to download just for you guys!

Members Mailing List

The primary method we use to notify members of important information / events is email, so it’s essential that you have at least one email subscribed to the members mailing list.

If you’d like to add another mail to the list, please use the form linked here:

Reporting Absence

If you’re sending us a message to let us know you won’t be in class, firstly thanks – it’s important we know to ensure the register is correct, but please remember you need to do this via phone, text or email only as these are the only things we check at the school.  We don’t check social media etc. at the school so Facebook messages etc. won’t get read. Thanks!

Master Olpin’s mobile is 07973 368304 for text or calls, or you can email admin@blackbeltacademy.info

Queries about monthly payments

If you budget your membership via monthly payments please remember that if you have any queries or need to make any changes to bank details you need to do this directly with DFC.

Once they’re set up, DFC handle all the admin and simply send me a report at the end of the month.   That’s exactly what we pay them for so we don’t have to get bogged down with dealing with individual admin for 50-odd students.

You can phone them on 01908 422007 or email them on info@debitfinance.co.uk.  

The school reference is 2368 Ilyokwan Black Belt Academy and your reference will be the payee and student name.

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