Gradings 2023

We are pleased to announce that we will be holding our next gradings on Friday 24th March 2023!

Now for the important details:
The grading will run during normal class times, meaning we will need all students to be prompt and on time for classes so that we have enough time to grade all students.

Grading fee’s will need to be in 2 weeks beforehand with your Budo pass on Friday 10th March. We can accept cash or cheques (made payable to ‘J Davies’) but not any credit or debit cards.

As a reminder, here are the grading fee’s for both classes:

Juniors (Children’s class) Seniors (Adults class)
  • White to Green belts: £26
  • Blue+White to Brown+White belt: £31
  • Brown Belt: £25
  • Black+White (1st Dan): £60
  • White to Green Belts: £31
  • Blue+White to Brown+white belts: £41
  • Brown Belt: £35
  • Black (1st Dan): £120

You will also need to make sure your patches are sewn onto your Gi in the correct location(s), which can be found here:

Lastly, we will be doing some ‘Mock’ gradings between now and the actual grading to help students judge their own progress as well working out where they may still need to practice.

A hygiene reminder

It was nice to see so many people back after the summer break, though not so much to smell them.

We have had a student in the children’s class report that their training partner “wasn’t so fresh”.

We’re not going to name and shame, but we will take this opportunity to just remind all parents of students in the children class, to encourage them to have a shower before coming to class!

Return to classes Sept 2022

Where has the time gone? The summer holidays are over which means we’re back this week! Normal classes resume Friday 9th September!

We’re also aware that a few students memberships will have elapsed over the summer, so these students will need to renew their membership before starting.

  • The registration fee for the children’s class (7 – 15yr olds) is £28.
  • The registration fee for adults class (16+ year olds) is £32.
  • We can accept cash or cheques (made payable to ‘J Davies’) but not any credit or debit cards.

See you again on Friday!

Summer 2022 Survey Results

For the last couple of weeks we had been asking students and their parents to let us know if they would be available for any potential classes over the summer holidays. As promised, here are the results.

We’d like to thank both of the people who responded to our survey. Yes, only two people actually responded (actually a third person did as well but they left the name “Chuck Norris”, which didn’t help.)

Therefore we are taking the assumption that most people will not be available and thus we will not be reopening over the summer. This means classes will return on Friday 9th September 2021.

Enjoy the summer, and we’ll see you in September!