This past Sunday, Feb 5^th, the Ueshiro Cocoa YMCA Dojo in Florida had the great privilege of hosting Black Belt testing, spanning Black Belts from our entire Ueshiro Shorin-Ryu Karate USA (SRKUSA) family. 

 

The test was led by Hanshi Scaglionne and Kyoshi Baker, and two boards of judges comprised of Shihan (school directors) from New York City (Sensei Mackay), Los Angeles (Sensei Barnes), Northampton (Sensei Moriarty and Sensei Gobillot), Virginia (Sensei Joe Knight and Sensei Teresa Knight), Cocoa Beach (Sensei Chaskelson), and Cocoa YMCA (Sensei Oscarson and Sensei Tamir).

 

Big congratulations with Joy and Vigor to the following promoted Black Belts and all other participating Black Belts showing support:

 

Promoted to Shodan:

 

John Adams		NYC
Daniel Lax		NYC
John Lee		NYC
John Robbins		NYC
Lisa Harvey		Northampton
Mike Paulsen		Northampton
Anil Jaising		Palisades NY
Carla Arevalos-Eddy		Cocoa Beach / Cocoa YMCA

 

 

Promoted to Nidan:

 

Tzvi Bar-Shai		NYC
Richard Vachino		NYC
Kristen Dominger		NYC
Lou Ruvolo		Northampton
Connie Rutkowski		Cocoa Beach

 

 

Promoted to Sandan:

 

Elliot Potter		Palisades NY
Karen Brophy		Los Angeles
Kurt Tezel		Cocoa Beach

 

 

We look forward to next year’s 45^th anniversary training & celebration of Master Ueshiro’s arrival in the USA.  The celebration is to be hosted by the Virginia dojo in the US Capital, Washington DC.

 

Domo Arigato Gozaimasu,

 

Sensei Tamir

Ueshiro Cocoa YMCA Dojo, Florida