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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On Tuesday, 7th of December, we held a grading in the children’s group.
There were six kenshi who graded to 8 kyū and one who graded to 6 kyū.
Congratulations to Isaac, Jesper, Simon, Hugo, Sebastian and Joar, who did their test for 8 kyū (yellow belt) and Oscar that passed his test for 6 kyū (green belt).

On Tuesday, the 2nd of November, we had a kyū grading. It was Mikael Mansikkala who did the test for ikkyū (1 kyū, brown belt).

Michael did very well at his test, a big congratulation from all other members.

The Swedish Budo & Martial Arts Federation has an article about the Swedish national taikai in Shorinji Kempo.
You can read it here. (Swedish only)

A first information from Aosaka-sensei about the European Taikai in Monaco.

Dear Shorinji kenshi, dear country representatives,
As Head of the WSKO’s European Office, and following deliberations with WSKO President Ms. Yuki So, I am honored to announce the dates and location of the next European Taikai: it will be held from June 3to 5, 2011 in Monaco, at the Stade Louis II, 3 avenue des Castelans.
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