Newtown

Marrickville

Dulwich Hill

December 2007

There will be no training on Friday the 7th of December, because Newtown PS will be having their Year 6 Formal that night.

November 2007

Sensei Shah and Alexander went to New Zealand last month, for the IFK New Zealand camp. It was hard but enjoyable. Walking was not an option in the evenings, because of the hard leg work.

Sensei Shah took Thanh, Franc, and Alex to the UMA championships in Quaker's Hill on the 4th. They won 4 trophies among the three of them, with Alex making 2nd place in 4 rounds in his first try at Koshiki.

Bo training day will be on the 30th of November this month.

April 2007

School holidays as usual will see the Peewees Class drop out for the duration, but will be back on the first day of classes back at school - Friday 27th - since Tuesday is a public holiday. We WILL, by the way, be training on the 25th despite it being a public holiday.

March 2007

AMAC ROUND 1
Newtown did very well in the first AMAC tournament - with 9 or 10 trophies. Congratulations to all, in particular, Miko Chun, who fought his first full contact fight, won the first one and was well on the way to winning the second before an unfortunate, but spectacular knockout floored him! Congratulations also to John Pegios, who scored firsts in both points and freestyle sparring.

December 2006

During the summer school holidays, there will be NO 4:30-5:30 classes, but students from that class are welcome to train at the 5:45-6:45 class. Normal scheduling will start again the first training day of the new term i.e. Tuesday, 30th of January!

NAS NATIONALS
Six competitors, and 3 trophies! Can we ask for more? Congratulations to Andrew, John, and Tristan, for your placings at these NAS Nationals, and well done too, Alexander, Alex, and Michael for having represented us at the Nationals too!

GRADINGS
Congratulations to all those who graded this month. The results are on the grading pages. We have one new 4th kyu (green belt), one new 7th kyu (senior blue) and a whole bunch of new red belts!

October 2006

2nd - 14th : School holidays are on again. Children's classes are only on from 5:45 - 6:45pm during this time, but regular classes start on the first Tuesday of term 4 (17th October)

21st - 23rd: HOWEVER Sensei Shah and Shihan Doug will be going to New Zealand on that weekend, to participate in the IFK's NZ camp, so there will be NO children's classes on Friday 21st October, but Sensei should be back for the next Tuesday again.

29th: The weekend following that, are the NAS State Finals! A number of you have qualified to compete at the this tournament, and you will be getting your application forms soon. If you have won a trophy anytime at the NAS State tournaments this year, you automatically qualify to compete both at the State Finals, as well as the Nationals this year (in Melbourne). However, the only way to get your application forms for the Nationals is to compete at the State Final.

December 2007

Bo training day will be on the 6th of December. Don't forget!

November 2007

Shihan Doug ran a demonstration at the Earlwood Street Fair. About 14 people turned up, and some of them did a few board breaks.

March 2007

AMAC ROUND 1
Marrickville score a number of trophies too, about the same as Newtown, and Senpai Jorge outdid everyone by winning two first places in sparring, AND a second place in full contact - for him this was a first too, as he didn't get his black belt from Kyokushin! Well done also to Thanh Pham, who in his usual indomitable way, competed in the full contact again, and John Le who also scored first in both his sparring divisions.

December 2006

November 2007

Danny, the big guy from Dulwich Hill dojo, tried out for the new Gladiator series and got through. We might be seeing him on telly soon!

April 2007

Not much news for April other than that the dojo has just started up this month. Go along and train there, and introduce a friend of 10.