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Sensei Simon McMahon
Dec 28, 20181 min read
Bletchley Grading - December 2018
A great grading day for Bletchley students with some excellent feedback on their gradings. Well done to Zeeshan and Rayan for achieving...
Sensei Simon McMahon
Dec 8, 20182 min read
Kyu Gradings - December 2018
In early December, CFTS students across the areas met for the final event of the CFTS 2018 calendar, for the gradings. It was pleasing to...
Sensei Simon McMahon
Oct 5, 20182 min read
Dan Grading, October 2018, and AGM
Many congratulations to those who were awarded their new grades on Saturday October the 6th in Kempston at the black belt gradings. Those...
Sensei Simon McMahon
Sep 29, 20181 min read
Bletchley Grading - September 2018
Our first grading as Senseis of Bletchley Club - although there were only eight grading, they all put in maximum effort and were rewarded...
Sensei Simon McMahon
Sep 14, 20181 min read
Kyu Gradings - September 2018
A relatively quiet September grading for both Bedford and Milton Keynes areas as many had not been training during the summer, but well...
Sensei Simon McMahon
Jun 29, 20181 min read
Newton Longville Gradings - June 2018
Congratulations to Finn Cluett for winning the quarterly trophy and well done to all that graded or came along to support. Special...
Sensei Simon McMahon
Jun 15, 20181 min read
Kyu Gradings - June 2018
Another good grading day for the kyu grades with some excellent work and the standards were high. A change this time at Bletchley with...
Sensei Simon McMahon
Mar 30, 20181 min read
Newton Longville Gradings - March 2018
Another great grading day for Newton Longville students, the higher grade group did very well after a long arduous grading session (image...
Sensei Simon McMahon
Mar 30, 20181 min read
Newton Longville Gradings News - March 2018
Congratulations to Jude Cluett, who after a three hour grading became Newton Longville's youngest Shodan. Well done Jude!
Sensei Simon McMahon
Mar 17, 20182 min read
Dan Gradings - March 2018
On Saturday morning of March 24th, seven extremely nervous 1st Kyus from across CFTS met up in Kempston at 9am anticipating their Shodan,...
Sensei Simon McMahon
Mar 10, 20181 min read
Kyu Gradings - March 2018
Another good grading day for the kyu grades with some excellent work and attitudes being shown. The higher graders going for 3rd kyu and...
Sensei Simon McMahon
Dec 29, 20171 min read
Newton Longville Gradings - December 2017
Many thanks to all that came to train, grade or support the NL students at the recent grading. It was great to see so many of you there....
Sensei Simon McMahon
Dec 9, 20171 min read
Kyu Gradings - December 2017
It was a busy grading day in both areas and it was obvious that students had been putting in a lot of training in preparation for the...
Sensei Steve Cook
Nov 1, 20173 min read
Liam O'Reilly
I started training in 1985 in Newport Pagnell, under the instruction of Sensei Andy Kidby . At the time we were in an association called...
Renshi Kidby
Oct 20, 20172 min read
Dan Gradings - October 2017
Two of our most senior, experienced and respected Dan Grades have stories and karate journeys both similar and parallel culminating in a...
Sensei Simon McMahon
Sep 29, 20171 min read
Newton Longville Gradings - September 2017
Many thanks to all that came to train, grade or support the NL students at the recent grading. It was great to see so many of you there....
Sensei Simon McMahon
Sep 8, 20171 min read
Kyu Gradings - September 2017
This was a quiet grading as it was primarily for the students that trained through the summer and were worthy of grading. There were some...
Sensei Simon McMahon
Jun 29, 20171 min read
Newton Longville Gradings - June 2017
Congratulations to all that graded and a big "Well Done!" to the ones that double graded. The quarterly trophy was won by Max Standley...
Sensei Simon McMahon
Jun 16, 20171 min read
Kyu Gradings - June 2017
Standards were again high and students have been training well in the dojos. It was a good turnout in both grading areas. However, it was...
Sensei Simon McMahon
May 13, 20172 min read
Eamon Kennedy
I was introduced to Shotokan Karate in November 2001. A work colleague had two kids that were training at the Newport Pagnell karate...