Final Karate

This weekend has been a bit mental and I will write more about that in the next few days but my final Karate grading took place on Saturday and it was as hard as usual. I was successful though and I now have a green belt which is 4th Kyu (out of 10 and numbers are descending so next step would be 3rd).

Quite an emotional time with eveything that is going on in our lives as we gear up to leave New Zealand next week - it has been a real week of goodbyes and after putting so much hard work into training sayng goodbye to the Karate was very hard. It is going to be something that I really miss (and they don't have this syle of Karate in Scotland unfortunately) but I will be able to continue doing something when I get home.

At the end of my Karate grading Shihan Ben made me go out and do an individual performance in front of everyone, he wished me well and presented me with a polo shirt from the Karate Club. Which was very nice of him.

here are some photos of my previous grading that have only recently been published on the Seido website.....