The Bushido Shotokan Karate dojo put its students in Port Hardy and Sointula to the test last week as the club brought in Sensei Joe Dixon from Vancouver for a pair of seminar and testing events on the North Island.
After an instructional session where Sensei Dixon put the martial artists through their paces and gave insights on the finer points of the art, students were divided up for testing.
Each group performed a series of moves on command from the instructors then formed up to perform a kata (a prearranged sequence of moves) before pairing up to demonstrate sparring moves.
Bushido Shotokan Karate-Do Academy
Dojo leader: Ivan De Toro
Port Hardy
Braun, Cheryl — Green
Braun, Ezra — Green
Braun, Zephan — Green
Brunner, Larry — Yellow
Meredith, Aaron — Yellow
Jones, Heather — Yellow
Gough, Nadine — Yellow
Gough, Nathan — Yellow
Williamson, Joshua — Yellow
Cook, Tom — Yellow
Grant, John — Blue
Cook, Brennan — Yellow
Cheetham, Marie — Green
Cheetham, Tanya — Green
Mcgillawee, Sydney — Green
Mcgillawee, Larissa — Green
Miller, Patrick — Green
Osorio, Gabriel — Yellow
Sointula
Etzkorn, Jacob — Green
Etzkorn, Yvonne — Yellow
Weyer, Neil — Green
Watson, Brooklyn — Blue
Lam, Fay — Blue
Reyes, Victor — Yellow
Tynjala, Michael — Green
Tynjala, Sophie — Blue
Tyler, Jamie — Blue
Chateauvert, Kennedy — Blue
Chateauvert, Linden — Blue
