We go into this third week of January with a little more clarity regarding Club training session.

After our meeting with Facilities Management, the Guild and Student Services, we are still awaiting what might be the weekend training schedule for Saturdays, and what shape the weeknight sessions might take.

After speaking with Michael C and Brady, we are going to attempt starting classes at 6 pm rather than the 6:15/6:30 starts that we have managed in the past. Given the compression of time till we are certain what our evenings might look like, what we are proposing is:

Tuesdays:

• Systema 6:00–7:30 pm

• Iaido 7:00–8:30 pm

Thursdays:

• Jujutsu 6:00–7:30 pm

• Kendo 6:00–7:30 pm

• Jujutsu (Advanced) 7:30–8:30 pm

• Free Iaido/Jodo training 7:30-8:30 pm

What this will practically mean is that we need people to be ready to start their session by no later than 5 minutes past the stated kick off. This means that you will need to be dressed, ready to go and either strapping your bogu on or laying down mats on the dot of 6 pm.

The reduced time for training is not ideal, to say the least. However, we ought to be able to at least get some meaningful training in for the time that we have available.

As mentioned previously, weekend are sill completely up in the air as Facilities Management still needs to work out how much they intend o charge us for the use of the space.

What we may be doing in the interim is alternating between a Brisbane trip once a fortnight to train with the Brisbane Kendo Club, and then on the alternative Saturday have a get together in a park somewhere (weather permitting) to train some Arnis. And of course we will try to fit in some Kyudo taihai as we are able.

Apologies at this stage of the year to still not have clarity about our training situation. I would have hoped that we might have had some, but alas.

I hope to see folk at the dojo from tomorrow night. Let’s get back into training, brush those cobwebs off, and start working towards our goals for 2024!