During the weekend of May 7th to 8th there was a gasshuku (training camp) for children in Gothenburg.
It was the first time ever that it was a training camp that was only for children. The arrangement was that we started at lunchtime on Saturday in order for everyone to have time to travel to Gothenburg on Saturday morning. Then there were a number of hours of exercise followed by a much appreciated visit to the amusement park Liseberg.
Sunday had training in the morning and the finish was scheduled for lunch so everyone could get home in reasonable time on Sunday.

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On Saturday the 21st we had a visit from Skövde. It was Peter, Andreas, Sandra, Johan and Robert who came to attend the training.
Always good fun to have visitors.

On Maundy Thursday we have practice as usual, both the children’s group and adults class are running as usual.

On Holy Saturday there is no training, so regular Saturday training is canceled.
During the school’s Easter break, we have practice as usual.

Last Thursday we had a kyū grading and Örjan Lippel did his test for yonkyū (4th kyū).

Örjan has been one of the most active members in terms of training attendance this semester and he passed his test without any problems.

Congratulations to Örjan!

Last Thursday, 20 January, we had a grading for Olof and Robert who was unable to attend the grading sessions in December.

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At Saturday’s training, we had a visitor from Gothenburg.
It was Arnaud Tiquet, soon to be Shibu-chō in Gothenburg (Report change of Shibu-chō in Gothenburg is submitted to the Hombu, but not confirmed by Hombu yet) who was visiting with us and train with us.

It was, as usual, nice to have someone with a higher rank on a visit and it was appreciated by all our members who attended the training.

The branch has received a number of Christmas and New Year greetings from various sources. In order for everyone to be able to see them in a simple way we have uploaded a number of them here.
We have also received a number of other greetings (without cards) including from our friends in Rakuto-doin in Kyoto, from Aosaka-sensei in Paris, a number of other Swedish branches, etc.

From Toronto shibu

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Today we had the last practice session for the year and also a kyū grading.

Johan Holmstrand tested for 2nd kyū and Magnus Englund tested to 3rd kyū.

A big congratulations to both Johan and Magnus.

On Tuesday the 14th December, we had another grading date for the children’s group for those who were unable to attend the week before.
This time we had two who tested for 5th kyū and two who tested for 8th kyū.

A big congratulations to Camilo and Tindra who passed their grading to 5th kyū and to Neo and Viktor who passed their test to 8th kyū.

Those who graded to Shodan. From left: Peter Thorvald, Andreas Laestadius, Erik Ohrn and Fedrik Fall.

On Saturday 11th of December there as a dan examination in Gothenburg.
We were three people from our branch that travelled down to Gothenburg early on the Saturday morning. The three were Anders Pettersson, our branch’s shibu-chō, who also should be one of the examiners, and Erik Öhrn who was going to do his grading. Joining in to the trip to Gothenburg was also Pelle Svensson.
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