Karlstad/Harrow Gasshuku

Anders-sensei explains omote nageOver the weekend, 4 to 5 February we had a small gasshuku (training camp) with our friends from Harrow shibu in England. In addition to a number of members in Karlstad Shibu and then of course our visitors from Harrow, it was another two branches represented over the weekend. Karlstads Studenter Shibu had their shibu-chō Åke Olsson place on Saturday, and Jörgen Andersson on both days. Skövde was represented on Sunday by Peter Thorvald.
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Filip Graded to 8 kyū

Filip Kjellgren, graded to 8th kyū

Filip Kjellgren, graded to 8th kyū

On Tuesday we had a grading for Filip, who was ill and couldn’t do the test at the grading before Christmas.

Filip did well and passed hist grading for 8th kyū, yellow belt one yellow chevron.

A big Congratulations to Filip!

Kenta is doing a Comeback

Kenta tränar igen

Kenta tränar igen

Last Saturday, as well as the Saturday before that our old friend Kenta (Kenneth Westlund) showed up for practice again.

For those who don’t know Kenta he is shodan (1 dan), but has not practised for a few years. He works in Stockholm, but lives in Hammarö (just outside of Karlstad), so he will basically just to train at our Saturday sessions.

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Last Session for 2011

Filippa and Tindra show their embuOn Thursday, December 15th, we had the last practice session of the year and for the children’s group, we had arranged a small event including some demo and a short social activity with coffee, “julmust”, saffron buns and gingerbread (typical Swedish things for the season). Some members unfortunately were unable to attend but it was still quite a large attendance. Many of the children’s parents and siblings were also there to see what they practiced during the year.

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