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Kyu & Dan Gradings December 2024

The Kyu & Dan gradings, December 2024 were held at the Bournville College dojo (A.K.A. South & City College Birmingham – Longbridge Campus) on Saturday 14th December with a few additional gradings taking place the following week at the Weoley Castle dojo. All of us at BWCSK would like to congratulate all those who passed their gradings. Well done we were very pleased with the overall standard on display.

We also had a couple of students attempting different levels of black belt grading. Whilst unfortunately one didn’t pass on the day they put in a shift during the grading and will hopefully fair better when they take it again. As one would expect each higher dan grade gets harder with greater technical proficiency and knowledge required to pass, many require multiple attempst but through persistence and study get there in the end. Even attempting a Dan grading is a difficult task so we offer our heartfelt commiserations to the candidate that failed but are confident that they will come back stronger and better next time. We are pleased to be able to offer our special congratulations to Dion Worthington on achieving the rank of Shodan. Dion is a long time student of the Kenshin dojo and is the third student to achieve their black belt from Kenshin SKC since they became part of BWCSK. Dion started training with Sensei Franklyn Doras from a young age, continuing his training with Sensei Peter Shuter after the death of Sensei Doras and then again when the club became part of BWCSK. His willingness to help and tiredless dedication meant he became the first assistant instructor from Kenshin when it joined BWCSK.

Below is a selection of pictures from the grading days from our Flickr account.