Toby Harwood 4th Kyu
Rebecca Picton 5th Kyu
Aidan Taylor 5th Kyu
Jack Hughes 8th Kyu
Harry Picton 8th Kyu
Eamonn Ali 9th Kyu
Georgie Berrystone 1st Dan Black Belt
At todays grading 13th April 2008
Seven students from Lancing Freestyle Karate were
selected to grade at Lancing Youth Centre Penhil Road.
This was a very important grading for Georgie Berrystone
who would be attempting to grade to 1st DAN Black Belt
.The grading was under the new structure of percentage
marking ,with each student needing to get 65% or more to
pass . The session prior to the grading was taken by
Dave Bishop 1st Dan who did a great session .Then after
a break Hannah Cogger took those grading on a warm up
before the grading statred.
All those selected performed to the best of their ability
,when performing ,Combinations ,Kata ,Partner
Combinations ,Sets ,Self Defence ,Self Defence weapons
and then Exercise including skipping at the end of a very
hard grading. The grading was taken by myself and i was
assisted by Pat Coady 2nd Dan .We both agreed that this
grading students had  performed to a better standard
than  prevously ,which i was very pleased with .Maybe the
new grading structure ie % was better for them.At the
end of the Kyu Grading they had all performed well and
passed without problems .Some students even reached
a +80% which was very high. Also&; Eamonn Ali who was
grading for the first time did very well .

After a short break it was time for Georgie Berrystone to
take her 1st Dan Grading .Which consisted of
Combinations ,6 Katas, 5 Sets ,Numerous Kicking and
Punching  techniques ,Plus Shield Work then 1m 30 secs
of continuous punching Followed by Kumite ,before she
had to do  exercise plus 150 skips which she performed
very well .Tiderness started to set  in but , georgie proved
that if you want something bad enough you pull out all the
stops to get it .And she did just that ,i was proud of her
today as i am all students associated with lfk. At the end
she had passed with another 80+mark.
Well done to all those who passed today ,and a Special
congratulations to Georgie .

Thank you also to Gerry Cogger for taking the
photographs .
GRADING 13TH APRIL 2008