Just a quick note to let everyone know that some long overdue things are in train at the Club, and I would like for as many of you to be on board four them.

First will be a Club maintenance day, where we will be doing a stocktake of the Club’s stores, maintenance as required and cleaning. This will include checking in on any borrowed uniforms so that they can be properly allocated into our systems.

This will be on Saturday 12 August commencing from 2 pm, and expected to run the full 4 hours till 6 pm.

Along side the Club equipment, we will also be having workshops for your own gear’s maintenance, including wooden weapons, uniforms, protective equipment, and personal first aid kit checklist. I would strongly encourage everyone to participate.

Second item will be a very long overdue annual general meeting. We will be holding this on Sunday 27 August at 5 pm via Zoom. Again I would encourage all of you to participate as there will be some important changes to the Club that we will be made going forward, and it would be good to have as many of you be a part of that process. An e-mail with the Zoom details will be going out within the next few days.

Third, my workplace, Up & Active Physiotherapy will be participating in a team building exercise in the late afternoon/early evening of Friday 1 September, where they will be joining us in the dojo to get a taste of what the martial arts entails. Again there will be more details coming up in the next week, but it would be good to have some of you lock in that date to provide uke/motodachi services.

Finally, Kurt Graham sensei’s visit and weekend gasshuku is coming up the weekend of the 16th of September. It will be mostly jujutsu focussed. If you are interested in attending, please let me know ASAP.

Hope to see everyone in the dojo in coming days.