Gradings – SKC England

Sunday, the 27th of June saw the very welcome return of our black and brown belt courses, followed up by a Dan grading for those hopeful Karateka looking to make the next step in their karate journey. The course served as a nice (and timely!) reminder of the standard expected by Sensei Eric, not just…

Following the latest government announcement that 21 June will be pushed back, please note the SKCE Dan grading will go ahead on Sunday, 27 June. The SKCE Kyu (colour belt) Grading scheduled for Sunday, 11 July will now take place during that week with your instructor at your usual SKCE club venue.

The event started on time at midday when Sensei Gerry and his team of senior officials of SKCE began registration and collection of licences for those who were eager to grade. In all in excess of 100 registered for the training courses taken, split in 2 groups of kyu grades and Dan grades, under the…

After due deliberation it has been decided to change the 5th dan and above grading examination requirements. This is in order to bring SKCE in line with other major Shotokan associations worldwide. In future only candidates who have been approved by the Chairman and Chief Instructor will be invited to attend a detailed grading and…

Congratulations to all the following Students who successfully achieved their Dan grades at the above course. SHODAN PASSES BOYS GIRLS Finlay Sokal Eva Kenny Elliot Kot Jaskiran Kaur Sandhu Veer Pawar Milica Kostic Marcus Micallef Molly Tapster Tru Sith Lucy Tapster Abishaan Saravanabavan Nadeen Abdelwahid Vladimir Kostic Judy Abdelwahid Daniel Lurie Megan Advani…

Congratulations to all the following Students who successfully achieved their Dan grades at the above course. BOYS GIRLS Jack Grainger Amreen Dhillon Aditya Bhagavatula Bianca Todorut Htoo Wei Nyah Glandfield Jinusan Kunasegaran Ahanu Sasikumar Yuvi Dhillon Naila Kaingu Fedi Michael Takhtay Sageena Thavarajah Joel Han Hanna Szczeklik Rishi Singh Seahra Ellie Grainger Kuvalayan Kanthan…

Congratulations to all the following Students who successfully achieved their grades:- SHODAN PASSES BOYS GIRLS Ethan Stronach Lenz Prina Makani Amartya Selvaradjou Ishanee Kulkarni Ramkissoon Chailujan Piratheepan Grace Hales Shankar Nimalathuan Sofia Dimperio James Moffatt Lauryn Griffiths Hibbert Tharun Sutharsan Arya Patel Aryan Makani Erin O’Sullivan Tyler Docherty Olivia Barr Kushul Jai Patel Arnau…

Since its formation SKCE have produced 2 Black and Brown belt courses each year all with dan gradings. Standards have always been high and typically each grading provides about 50 or so new dan grades. Last Sundays course was well attended with about 180 or so karateka taking part and probably as many parents. As…

SKCE’s first Black and Brown belt course of the year produced a total of 50 black belts awarded. Ashmole Academy was again the venue where 100’s of karateka gathered for the training course which preceded the grading and was given by SKCE’s Senior Instructors, Sensei’s Eric Pich, Peter Welsh, Darren Welsh, Graham Mercer and Sue…

ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL DAN GRADING COURSE More than 170 students attended the SKCE Black and Brown Belt Course and grading on Sunday 13th November 2016 at Ashmole Academy, Southgate. The course began with a special presentation to Sensei Gerry Grey. Sensei Eric Pich explained to everyone that he was being awarded his Godan (5th Dan) grade…

ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL GRADING PRODUCES 63 NEW DAN GRADES Sunday 15th May 2016 at Ashmole Academy, Southgate saw over 160 students attending the first SKCE Black and Brown Belt Course and grading for 2016. The course began with a special presentation to Sensei Eric Pich and Sensei Peter Welsh. The SKCE Chairman explained to everyone that…

Sunday 1st November 2015 at Ashmole Academy, Southgate saw over 180 students attending the final SKCE Black and Brown Belt Course and grading for 2015. The course training started later than usual but there was a reasonable turn out with everyone eager to get training. The training session focusing on the different syllabus requirements necessary…

Sunday 19th April 2015 at Ashmole Academy, Southgate saw over 200 students attending the first SKCE Black and Brown Belt Course and grading for 2015. An intensive 2 hour training session focusing on all the different syllabus requirements for the dan gradings under instruction from Sensei Eric Pich, Sensei Graham Mercer and Sensei Sue Sinclair. …

Another highly successful SKCE course was held at Ashmole Academy with approximately 180 taking part. Dan grade examinations were held after the course and the following successfully achieved their grade under the scrutiny of 9 senior examiners of SKCE and our congratulations to you all :- SHODAN PASSES (1st Dan) GIRLS BOYS Jodie HARRIS…

Sunday the 11th May saw our first black and brown belt and combined dan grading of the year. 70 SKCE Karateka put themselves forward to grade but over 180 others took part in the pre-grading course and benefited from the excellent tuition given by our senior instructors. Congratulations to those who were successful… here are…

Congratulations to the following Students who passed their gradings:- SHODAN PASSES Samuel HINCH Valeria ATIK Amir MANSOURI Ashley JOHN-BAPTISTE Nicholas CLARKE Cecilia LUSUARDI Amar GANDHI Archita TAYAL Omar ESSILFIE-QUAYE Shagana THAVARAJAH Kush THOBHANI Emily WETTASINGHE-LóPEZ Ryan LEUNG Jena AL-HASHIMI GRANT Michael YEUNG Vithush MANOHARAN Aaryan SHETH Nathan NEMBHARD Maanav PATEL Hiroshi ISHIZUKA Zack PLANT George…

Although Sunday 5th May 2013 happened to be a Bank Holiday weekend, this did not prevent over 150 SKCE members gathering at Ashmole Academy, Southgate for the first SKCE Black and Brown Belt course of the year. The initial training was spilt into groups each taken by one of SKCE Technical Directors with particular focus…

Spring, or, should I say late Winter, was the busiest March ever encountered for SKCE gradings. During the month, 3 area gradings took place. The first at Ashmole Academy, for the North London group of Clubs, then the following week at Kingswood School, Corby, for the Wellingborough group incorporating Kettering, Corby, Peterborough and Crowland, and,…

Congratulations to all those who achieved their Dan Grading’s. Here is a list of those who passed. SHODAN Andrey Afonin Kevin O’Shea Jessica Arnold Marie-Pavle Pierson Devante Cameron Scott Pimley Kavisha Eliyadurage-Fernando Rithik Pyne Callum Ellis George Reed Lamis Hamdi Shreya Sheth Oliver Hood Nicholas Simpson Satyam Karia Daniil Slavin Jayoon Knight Li An…

November 24th saw a swarm of karateka, young and… not quite so young packed into Weavers Sport Centre in Wellingborough for the final grading of the calendar year. Eager to impress and show off their skills in front of a capacity crowd of iPad wielding family and friends they lined up for a pre-grading course…