🎉🥊 our busiest and best grading exam yet 🥊🎉 over 145 belts taken across the PKA national standard with every club from the Derbyshire Kickboxing family represented 💪 huge well done to everyone, the standard, skill and determination was clear from the first minute of the junior red belt session, all the way to the end of the adult higher grades exam 😀 huge thanks to everyone from the instructing and coaching team who sure today ran so smoothly Melissa Osborne Adam Sharman Paul Hickman Sean Wincott David Allen-Ashcroft Jon Davies Martin Ellis Tracey Garnham Kate HJ Rachael Smith Nicki Underwood Harrison, Joel, Holly & Lee Marsh 👏

Good luck everyone taking their grading exam today from across the association 👍🥊💪

📣 CONFIRMED GRADING EXAM SESSIONS 📣 see below session split and times for our mid-year grading exam on Sunday 12th July at Belper Leisure Centre 🥊👍📆

Please check and confirm your session time with your instructor - with over 140 belts being graded for, the day is extremely busy and late comers will not be permitted to start their exam

🔴 Juniors taking Red Belt = 09:00 to 09:45
🟡🟠 Juniors taking Yellow & Orange belt = 10:00 to 10:45
🔴🟡🟠Adults taking Red, Yellow and Orange belts = 11:00 to 11:45
🟢🔵🟣 Juniors taking Green, Blue and Purple belt = 12:00 to 13:00
🟢🔵🟣 Adults taking Green, Blue and Purple belt = 13:15 to 14:15

Good luck everyone 🥊👍💪😀

🎉 this really is the best part of being a coach 🎉 awarding such well deserved black belts 🥊😀 massive congratulations to Connor from Etwall class, Alfie and Heather from Wirksworth class all gaining their 1st Dan black belt and Jane Louise for her 2nd Dan black belt 🎉 thanks to everyone who has played a part in their journey to this huge milestone and awarded against the PKA national standard🥋

Great session held at Nottingham University Sutton Bonington campus last week leading students through self defense techniques 👍💪 huge thanks to Jane Louise for helping organise it and beating me up 🤷‍♂️😂

🎉 Another amazing interclub with our PKA sister clubs from Kickbox UK yesterday at Clifton 🎉 58 competitors from across Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire coming together with over 100 bouts, plus our junior padwork category and newly formed Semi Contact Points team event 💪🥊 incredible sporting conduct, skill and technique shown across the whole day and simply couldn’t be prouder of everyone who stepped up to compete 🎉special thanks to everyone in the instructing and coaching team who helped the day run so well Martin Ellis Martin Byrne Mike Szynal Kieron Tatham Eleanor Winch Laura Ward Andy Spencer David Allen-Ashcroft David Poole Matt Brownsword Jon Davies Adam Sharman Ceri Knapgate Paul Hickman Nicki Underwood

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