Our first ever three-art SEQ Regional seminar and grading opportunity is almost here. It will be a full day on Saturday, with doors opening at 9 am and training starting at 9.30 am.

We are very fortunate to be hosting many of the Queensland-based senior sensei across Kendo, Iaido and Jodo, including Katsumi Kuramochi sensei, who is coming down from Cairns along with three of his students who will be presenting for grading. We will have a very busy afternoon, with 12 people challenging for Kendo grading (5 for their very first time), 7 for Iaido grading, and 8 for Jodo grading, plus club members and sensei from across SEQ to participate in the training opportunity and encourage those making grading atempts.

Friday night we will be going out with Kuramochi sensei and the Cairns contingent, which is certainly something to look forwards to.

Club members, friends and interested visitors are very welcome to come and watch. And I will be hitting up a few of you to come and help for parts of the day. We are putting on a pizza lunch, which you can pre-order on the Club website at: online at:
http://www.bbrd.org.au/memberships-and-courses/pizza-lunch-for-seq-regional-seminar-and-grading-18-september-2021-one-portion

We will be abiding by any COVID based restrictions that are in force on the day. This will mean that if anyone has been down the range to the affected SEQ local government areas, you will need to wear a mask while inside the CBRC. For those participating in the training, grading, or goodwill keiko at the end of the day, we are asking that you also mask up regardless of whether you have been down the hill just to simplify things and provide a bit of solidarity with our visitors who are affected. And we will be following our general hygiene and COVID safe protocols in and around the training spaces as per usual.

Have a great week everyone! I’ll look forward to seeing many of you on Saturday.