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Funakoshi Blue Belt Status Achieved!

Last Friday has come and gone and apart from the joyous occasion of seeing my child blob in its full black and white ultrasound glory, the other highlight to come out of the day was my successful grading for blue belt under the Funakoshi style.
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Coming Up, From Green to Blue

Eish, I didn't realise that my next grading is literally lurking around the corner. This time around I'll be pushing for my blue belt under the Funakoshi style and by the sounds of it, the amount of people grading out of my class appears to be pretty small - so I'm quite motivated to do as well as possible come the big day.
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Freedom Day and in Pain

So as all we South Africans know, Tuesday was a grand old public holiday, Freedom Day if you're counting. Now judging by the traffic pattern on Monday, it's pretty clear that a lot of my fellow Capetonians decided to take Monday off and enjoy an extended long weekend - something I with my 0.25 days of available leave was unfortunately not able to emulate.
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The Birth of Craig’s Debt and Bertie’s Moorings

As the evening stretched its legs and Chantelle found herself glued to the Curious Case of Benjamin Button, I rounded my weekend off by finishing Eyeshield 21 volume 4 and catching some Queen's Blade on my PC, meaning I put the perfect fanboy cap on what turned out to be a great mixture of socialising and relaxing weekend after all!
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Basic Japanese Karate Terminology

Training with Japanese terminology is proving invaluable in allowing for people from different nationalities and cultures to train with one another, without suffering from any major translation problems.
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