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PROFILE: Christopher Anderson

Christopher has been training since 2000 and during all those years he's been a regular attendee in activities, despite the fact that he lives in the Central Coast.

OK, so credit for his attendance should largely go to his parents and younger sister, who have to wait at night before driving him home after his karate class, but it was he who wants to train!

Sometimes he wants to stand out (above, at right) and sometimes he doesn't! (left, at left)

Here he is after one of his first tournaments. (Nov 2001). He doesn't seem to have a uniform yet! Or maybe it was still in the wash after the tournament.

Finally, we see him in a dogi! This time it's the June IFKKA 2002 event. He is one of only three in this picture, apart from Sensei Shah, who is still training.

It took a couple of tries, but he eventually managed to get his first trophy at the Nov 2002 IFKKA Teams tournament, though he looks as though he's not quite sure about it!

Despite several disappointments, Christopher's perseverance and consistence throughout 2003 earned him the Most Improved Student Award.

Jump forward to 2004, where he won a trophy in the IFKKA teams tournament.

He also participated in an eye-opening Ashihara seminar with Shihan Hoosain Narker of Ashihara Karate International in 2004

And finally, in Round 5 of the National All Styles, his perseverance paid off with a 2nd place in the point sparring division. Here he is with Ali Aryan, a student from Marrickville dojo, and of course, the then (still) Senpai Shah.


As a consequence of having won a placing in the final round of the NSW NAS, he managed to secure a place in the Nationals. It took a lot of effort on his part, with many failures, but eventually all the hard work paid off. The picture shows him (top left) and most of the IFKKA team that represented us in at the NAS Nationals.

At the 2004 Kempo Ryu Karate tournament he was bitterly disappointed with his performance. In 2005, he managed to do a bit better...

His training is finally starting to pay off in spades from the look of it. 2005 is truly the year of Christopher - at least for Christopher anyway, as can be seen by his various successes at the National All Styles tournaments (thereby ensuring him another berth at the Nationals.

At left he's joined by another long time student who's been together with him from the start - see if you can recognise him in the top pictures.....

Sadly, Christopher will be leaving us at the end of this year when he leaves primary school and goes to high school a bit closer to home.

However, he doesn't plan to stop training; he's already been training at a kyokushin club nearer to home this past year as well as with us, and he intends to continue there from next year on.