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Next Grading
Sunday 22nd March 2020
Applications due: Thursday 12th
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| Gradings (Sundays) | Graduation (Thursdays) | |
|---|---|---|
| March 2020 | 22nd | 26th |
| June | 21st | 25th |
| September | 20th | 24th |
| December | 13th | 17th |
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.
Facebook Messenger
Members OnlyCan I please remind people to please refrain from using FB messenger to contact me for anything relating to the Academy as I won’t see the messages!
Other than to access this group and to admin the Academy page, I don’t use my personal FB for anything ‘work’ related at all, and I want to keep that as the one space which is reserved purely for my closest friends and family. As such I have the privacy settings set to only allow messages through from a very small list of people.
If you’ve sent something and it looks like I’ve not seen it or read it, that’s because I haven’t! If you’re not on that list, the messages will go off to some kind of Facebook black hole and I won’t see them.
It’s really not – but for all kinds of reasons I do need to keep my personal life separate from my coaching etc.Also, because of both safeguarding guidelines and my Police role I am expected to be quite strict with social media etc., hence why I don’t add students or other coaching clients to my friends list unless we are actually friends socially outside of the Academy.
There are plenty of other ways to contact me.For most Academy things, email is preferable (please remember to use an appropriate subject rather than simply replying to some old irrelevant mail!).
When reporting absence from class, please remember that the only messages which will get checked at the school are regular text messages or emails to the Academy account, both of which I check before classes begin.
Ta!Master O.
Black Belt Applications
Members OnlyAdult Classes on Thursdays
Members OnlyHad a couple of questions about timing of the thursday sessions for adults, and the schedule needs updating again to reflect what we actually do now as when we originally shifted back to ou pre-covid schedule we didn’t really originally expect everyone to show up, in reality 95% of the experienced students always turn up for the whole session :-)
So, ongoing we’ll assume that basically, it’s ALL adults from 7:30, experienced only from 8:15. It’s been working out really well like that and it means you can get a lot more training in and we can cover a lot more interesting stuff later on. The first session will still concentrated on foundation level training appropriate to all members, and then the beginners will leave at 8:15 and we’ll focus on the more advanced / fusion topics in the later one.