I wanted to pass on congratulations to Rob Doncaster who last week successfully graded to Shodan at the Kyudo shinsa in Nagoya.

Rob participated along side Tom Johnson sensei over the past fortnight at the annual opportunity for Australian kyudoka to train and grade in Japan. We are all looking forward to catching up and hearing Rob and Tom's stories when we next get an opportunity to train with them.

And we are still working towards a Toowoomba-based event later this year to showcase Kyudo and increase the number of practitioners based up the hill.