Official BKA gradings

[BKA]

Well done Duncan, Avril and Luca!

[BKA]

Congratulations to Donald Grant, who, wearing his post-Glastonbury tan and bedraggled knees, stepped up on to the Dan ladder today. "Long Overdue" indeed! 

[donald grant]

Ha ha, just seen the photo; look at my tiny little post-Glastonbury eyes !  Thanks to the Void for performing what was as much an autopsy as an exam on me. 

[BKA]

Congratulations to the non-Japanese players who got themselves graded whilst in Japan recently.

Quoting from Kitajima-san on FB:

Nine people in total took an Dan examination.
(America 5、Canada 2, Netherlands 1, Denmark 1, Mongolia 0 )

4Dan(四段) ：
Matthew Ballard (USA) ｛●１，０００、５１s｝

3Dan(参段)：
Alex Smith （Canada）｛６８６、●５０s｝

2Dan(弐段)：
Matt Decoteau （USA）｛３００｝,
Keith Matsumura （USA）｛●１，０００、●４１s｝,
Rodney Ansell （Canada）｛●４６８、●７２s｝

1Dan(初段)：
Trevor Starnes （USA）｛２００｝

● In the case of a next promotion Dan examination, it is available as a prior registration record

Pre-Dan(準初段)：
Arthur Graaf （Netherlands）,
Philip Eldrige （Denmark）

1kyu(一級)：
Kyle Leibow （ＵＳＡ）

[BKA]

Forum members have had their member profiles adjusted with their new grades, and been added/moved to
http://kendama.co.uk/pre-dan.html and
http://kendama.co.uk/dan.html

[BKA]

Updated examiner list:
Void, Bristol
Matt, Bedford
Sam, W. London
Donald, Fife
MisterJumpshoe, peripatetic/Crete
Alex Ruisch, Amersfort
Jeffrey van Reeven, Rotterdam
Daniela von Rohr, Switzerland
Thomas Holzer, Switzerland
Nicolas Schopfer, Switzerland
Mirek Širina, Czech Republic
Thorkild May, Denmark
Mathias Steen Rasmussen, Denmark
Philip Eldridge, Denmark
Raul Portales, Netherlands
Lars Burgstahler, Germany
Nabin Shakya, Benicarlo, Spain
Javi Ballester, Benicarlo, Spain
Benjamin Ferrando, Benicarlo, Spain

Welcome and thanks to Philip, Nabin, Javi and Ben.

Many congratulations to all those who recently got a new or improved grading at EJC Toulouse!

[The Void]

I updated
http://kendama.co.uk/dan.html
http://kendama.co.uk/pre-dan.html and
http://kendama.co.uk/kyu.html
...for forum members who changed their grade in Toulouse. If you got a grade and want to be on the list... join the forum! :-)

I didn't get a photo of every exam pass, so if I missed you (and I think there are a couple of people who improved that I didn't get), then please PM me. Also, let me know if you can be more specific on your Moshi Kame or STB scores.

Thanks!

[BKA]

Congrats to Rob, Ash and Will who all got their first gradings today.



Moshi Kame is hard! Practice Moshi Kame!

[BKA]

Congrats to Tomáš - 2nd Kyu.

[The Void]

[user]Yan Kud[/user] got his (JKA) 4th Dan certified at JKA HQ. Go Yan, now get 5th!

[BKA]

BKA exams for Pre-Dan and Dan grades have increased in price for 2014.

BUT they have stayed the same for BKA members.

[The Void]

Nice work, [user]SweetsKendamas[/user], 5th Dan!

[BKA]

1st Kyu for Daniel. Well done.

#HarderThanYouThink

[The Void]

Got my 4th & 5th Dan officially JKA-certified.

[HansNickmans]

Wow Void, that looks great!
How do you do that? If you have your dan, can you request this?
Good luck on the 6th, that's gonna be a nice certificate collection :-)