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Two students moved into the advanced class after their last test. They earned their name plaques and hung them on the wall. Congratulations to them!
Yesterday, Saturday, August 24th, we had our Annual Karate Picnic. We had a wonderful time socializing. We were so pleased so many could make it, and we missed those who could not. Hopefully, next year’s schedule will work better. We loved seeing everyone having fun and strengthening friendships.
We had some students pass their belt rank test this week. We are very proud of how hard they have worked to earn their new ranks, congratulations!
Faulkingham Sensei had the great honor of receiving an award for Gateway Shidokan Karate, LLC’s official 10-year anniversary. The following is the introduction that accompanied the award presentation.
“Sensei Stephanie Faulkingham officially opened Gateway Shidokan Karate in 2014. In 2016 they had their first student earn a black belt. Since then, they have had the pleasure of seeing four students earn various degrees of black belt, the current highest ranked student holds a 3rd degree black belt. Gateway Shidokan Karate was housed in the Maryland Heights Community Center for years. In August 2022 Sensei Faulkingham moved the dojo to a retail space in Maryland Heights. With this move they were able to customize the space for their training needs and offer more classes. Additionally, two high ranked students have taken on official instructor roles in the dojo, with each of them teaching one night a week. Sensei Faulkingham expresses that it has been an honor and privilege to provide quality training within the diverse community for so many years and looks forward to many more.”
This past weekend we had that great joy of training with our extended karate family from all over the world during NTS (National Training Seminar) in Lansing, MI. As always, it is an amazing opportunity to learn new skills, further develop our existing skills, spend time with friends, and make new friends! It was wonderful to see Sensei Iha in person again; however, we did not get pictures with him this trip. We cherished our time spent with him. The pictures below are a collection from multiple sources at the seminar, enjoy!
