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Guyana Karate College successfully continues its mission into 2015
The Guyana Karate College continued into 2015 with its mission to
The successful participants take a group photo after the exercise.
empower our nation through karate to achieve healthier lifestyles. GKC and its affiliated member dojos held its first grading of the year on Saturday 28th March, 2015 at the Carifesta Sports Complex, Carifesta Avenue. The students were graded by Master Frank Woon-A-Tai, M.S., F.G.M.S., ninth-degree black belt who is the Chairman and Chief instructor of GKC and the International Karate Daigaku (IKD) world karate organisation.
Also present were Sensei Jeffery Wong (senior instructor of GKC and a 6th dan black belt), Sensei Aubrey Bettencourt (5th dan black belt), Sensei Eric Hing of Central Shotokan (GCC, 3rd Dan) and Sensei Kenrick Cheeks of Shakti Institute (West Coast).
The Grading began with the beginners (white belts) who all performed exceedingly well.
Hannah Farinha
Moving from 10 kyu to 8 kyu were Shane Sarjeant, Saidah Bradford, Aliya Robertson, Rodney Darius, Dhivendra Hanoman, Daniel Sarran and Sarah Parsaud.
Exceptional performances at the grading were young Cayla Richards, Gopal Persaud and Ray Samaroo who moved from 10 Kyu to 7Kyu. Rico Forris moved from 9 kyu to 8 kyu and Ruel Norton from 9 kyu to 7 kyu. Jayden Jettoo, Christian Jettoo and Joshua Dyall moved from 8 kyu to 7 Kyu followed by Romuald Khan, Diego De Nobrega, Taissa De Nobrega, Mekhi Ritchie-Taylor, Jonathan NG-A-Fook Nathanael Archer, Daniel Denny and Zaine Bispat who all moved from 7 Kyu to 6 Kyu. Joeancy Singh, Scott Lemuel, Damale Denny, Josiah Dyall, Eaton Low and Ezekiel Poulis all moved to 6kyu.
In addition Jonathan Robinson, Kelissa Juipter, Alyssa Ramotar, Seon Poulis, Jessica Callender and Aron Hendricks all moved from 5thkyu to 4th kyu. Moving from 4thkyu to 3rdkyu were Bruce Yong, Aditya Seetaram, Danielle Khan and Jeremiah Poulis. Jonathan Ramlal, William Grant, William Escarraga, Jun Mikami and Vickram Thani all moved from 3rd Kyu to 2nd Kyu. Also moving one rank higher from 2ndkyu to 1stKyu were Ronaldo Persaud, Aiden Singh, Jayden Hurry, Alyssa Singh and Dominick Johnson.
In the higher ranking,10 year old Hannah Farinha continues to excel along her karate trail as she moved up in rank from a1stdegree black belt to a 2nd degree black belt. She is currently, the youngest female IKD Nidan karateka to achieve this honor preceded by another excellent GKC student, Aliya Wong (presently a 3rd degree black belt).
Attaining 1st degree was Kevin Kellman who performed exceedingly well.
Adult classes which commenced early this year saw Paula Louis-Grant, Nadia Ramlal and Nalini Rampersaud moving from 10 kyu to 8 kyu at a later grading. Young Michael Blake also moved from 10 kyu to 9 kyu at this grading.
Altogether the first grading for the year 2015 was a tremendous success.
GKC continues to accept new students on Monday, Wednesday and Fridays at 5pm at the Carifesta Sports Complex on Carifesta Avenue and advance students from 6pm. The GKC also welcomes new students for adult classes which are held Tuesday and Thursday from 5:30-6:30pm. Interested persons can come in or call 676-7307.
The members of the Guyana Karate College are also preparing to defend their International Karate Diagaku World Cup Championship 2012 titles. This tournament is slated to be held in Canada from the 15th – 19th July, 2015. Team GKC is currently the second place overall winner, just medals behind Canada with 23 golds, 5 silver and 17 bronze. GKC is confident that they will bring back a greater victory to Guyana.
The college is looking forward for support towards its fund – raising endeavors to participate in the IKD World Tournament 2015 and its Dojo building Fund. The college continues to extend its sincerest gratitude to all contributors.
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