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ICKFA Dojo NewsSunshine Coastby Martin Phillips Shihan2008 Sunshine Coast Christmas, Family, Training DayIn our usual end of year tradition, our local association management committee organised a great day of formembers and families that was well attended with around 100 people converging on Cotton Tree Park,Sunday 14th December.The day started in the usual way with training which started in the park with a rotation of various groups leadby senior members of the dojo, and ended up in the Maroochy River, with some kumite and practice ofvarious throwing techniques.After training, and a brief swim, "The Emmas" (Emma Woodhouse and Emma Moehead) entertained the kidswith various games and competitions that they had been preparing for several weeks beforehand. While thebig kids got together for our local association AGM. The new committee had several members from theprevious year with a few new faces joining the team: Chairperson- Jim Moehead, Secretary - Helen O'Grady,Treasurer - Debbie Woodhouse, Instructor Representative - Martin Phillips, and General Members - CarmenKitchen and Ben Fleming.Following the AGM we had a free sausage sizzle put on by theassociation with donations from our local butchers whojust happen to be part of the club: North Buderim Butchersand Mick's Meat Barn.Then it was time for a visit from Santa who stopped in to giveout a few small gifts to the kids. And finally the end of yearpresentations, recognising student who have performed wellthroughout the year.Beginner Child of the Year: Emma Rhodes PeryIntermediate Child of the Year: William NakAdvanced Child of the Year: Viet KaasBeginner Adult of the Year: Amber JamesIntermediate Adult of the Yeart: Chris BakerAdvanced Adult of the Year: Jim MoeheadCompetitor of the Year: Duncan BiggBudoka of the Year: Helen O’GradyJanuary Beach TrainingTo kick the year off in 2009, we had a few early mornings for beach training, to bring together two of the bestthings that the Sunshine Coast has to offer: Chito-Ryu and the beaches. Saturday 10th January was beachtraining for seniors at Maroochydore Beach. Unfortunately, there had been a bit of rain in the early hours ofthe morning, so attendance was quite small, but for the few who did make it in, we enjoyed lots of things thatyou just don't get to do in the dojo that you can only do at the beach.River of Knowledge – Autumn 2009 20
ICKFA Dojo NewsSunshine Coast (cont.)Two weeks later, Saturday, 24th January, we had an beach training open to all members at MooloolabaBeach. Matthew Stevenson, one of our local black belts had an injury which meant he couldn't train, but hecame along as official photographer for the day, and got a lot of great photos. This time training was a lotmore varied, but due to the heat, we took some time to work on various self defence applications andfinished off with a sumo competition on the waters edge. After training, the left over sausages from theChristmas Day were put to good use for breakfast and our local committee got together for the first meetingafter the AGM.Mooloolaba BeachGeorge Britchford and Matthew ThomsonIn The DojoAfter our national development day when all instructors got together in Sydney in December last year, wetook away a lot of inspiration to increase the level of activity in the dojo. As a result, when school started backthis year we introduced a much more full training schedule for Sunshine Coast members to enjoy, doublingthe number of classes to 30 per week. For members this has given much greater flexibility to and access to awider variety of class types, including early morning and day-time classes for adults, little champions karateclasses for 4-6 year olds and a variety of specialist classes including: kumite, weapons and self defence.For teachers the increase in classes has been a bit step up from last year, but new classes are alreadystarting to fill. Early in the new year our membership dropped quite considerably with a lot more people thannormal stopping over the new year period for various reasons. But, for the first time ever, just a few weeksago, Maroochydore Dojo reached the milestone of over 100 active members, a target that has eluded us forquite some time.On Sunday 22nd February, Sunshine Coast members started on the road towards the 2010 Soke Cup, withour first monthly squad training session. It was quite well attended for the very first Soke Cup SquadSession, but we expect the group to grow as momentum picks up and we head into the 2009 tournamentseason. The session focussed on developing kumite basics, growing a strong spirit and an introduction toshitei kata. After the session, we had a brief meeting with our local team manager, Jim Moehead who helpedoutline some of what's involved in preparing for the Soke Cup logistically. And we had an introductoryJapanese lesson with Nicole Notting Sensei, who has a background teaching High School Japanese and hashad many trips to Japan herself. In March we are looking forward to extending upon this first squad sessionand joining with members from the Gold Coast who will be coming to enjoy the training and next Japaneselesson.River of Knowledge – Autumn 2009 21
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