Black Belt Grading

The 2017 annual MayoShinDo Black Belt karate grading was this year held at Radley College Sports Centre, Oxford on the 1st and 2nd of September. Karatekas of various ages and grades from Oxford and Cornwall MayoShinDo karate Clubs were in attendance, keen to grasp the opportunity to demonstrate their techniques in front of a 7

This year’s Black Belt Grading gave us a superb weekend of many hours training and assessment. Friday evening was, as usual, meeting, greeting and training followed by ale at the famous First and Last pub. The grading though is never predictable. Saturday morning was a hard slog through the syllabus ending with an hour of

Another year, another Black Belt Grading. As usual it was held over a weekend at the Sennen Community Hall, Cornwall. Saturday was spent on all aspects of our system and technique. Later we all spent a really enjoyable evening at Clive and Lesley’s. On Sunday we resumed on a sunny but chilly morning, not for