Gorleston Self Defence club hold annual Summer Grading

On the  Sunday 7 th June at the Church Lane Community Centre, the O-Yama-Ryu Goshin Jitsu Club held its regular summer kyu grading . This was the opportunity for the students to show to their parents some of the Goshin Jitsu and self defence techniques they had learnt in the last six months of training with the club.The following students went through their paces and were awarded the coloured belts that they had trained for.
The successful Junior students included :-

• Red Belt – Lars Woolnough

• Orange  Belt - April Wood  & Paul Martynik

• Green Belt –  Eve Walker

• Blue Belt -  Adam Drew

• Senior Student Paul Miller was awarded his Lower Blue Belt

• Junior student Chris Hodds was awarded his Shodan Ho Belt

The Shodan-Ho rank is the highest grade possible to obtain as a junior student within the Goshin Jitsu style. Chris was also awarded his Assistant Coach Badge for all his help with training younger students at both the Gorleston club and at the Southtown Goshin Karate clubs.

The Clubs Senior Instructor Shihan Kevin Garwood said he was pleased with the progress of all the students, but did emphasize if the students want to achieve the highly prized Shodan Ho belt, it has to take a lot of dedication, effort and regular training and like all sports, if you work hard and train regularly you get the rewards out of the martial arts.