\nIsabella Gray, Faith Hardy, Miguel Hardy, Zoe Kamarinos, Lily Schultz<\/p>\n
11th Kyu, Orange Belt (White Stripe)<\/strong> 10th Kyu, Orange Belt<\/strong> 9th Kyu, Green Belt (White Stripe)<\/strong> 8th Kyu, Green Belt<\/strong> 7th Kyu, Blue Belt (White Stripe)<\/strong> 6th Kyu, Blue Belt<\/strong> 5th Kyu, Purple Belt (White Stripe)<\/strong> 4th Kyu, Purple Belt<\/strong> 3rd Kyu, Brown Belt (White Stripe)<\/strong> 2nd Kyu, Brown Belt<\/strong> As promised, here is a short message that was posted on facebook shortly after the grading from the parents of one of our young students in the first group.<\/p>\n As a family we celebrate days like today. Grace had her Karate grading and went up a belt. I’m not sure if her technique was on point but I can tell you her can do attitude, commitment in always trying her best shone through. No coloured belt compares to how proud she was of herself when her name was called out. My heart swelled when I thought of how far we have come in our journey with Williams Syndrome. It doesn’t seem like that long ago she had a k-frame learning to walk and here she is walking unaided, balancing and kicking one leg ! She really is our “Amazing Grace”.<\/p>\n Thank you to Sandra & Martin at Sunshine Coast Karate for your continual support its awesome to be a part of such a wonderful facility where our kids can learn and grow.<\/p>\n Grace truly is an inspiration student. \u00a0An amazing example of perseverance and the indomitable spirit we hope to foster in all students. \u00a0With the support of her amazing family grace has had amazing growth in her karate journey. \u00a0It hasn’t been a fast track nor an easy one for her, but she keeps turning up and always gives her best.<\/p>\n When Grace first started training with us she could barely walk across the dojo, literally. \u00a0When she got the point of being able to stand on one leg without help, this was truly a life changing moment for her. \u00a0Now she can do so much more than that and we can’t wait to see what the future brings.<\/p>\n Grace\u00a0many not have the technical abilities or physical prowess of her peers. \u00a0But what she lacks in physical abilities, she makes up ten-fold with spirit. And the thing we love most about Grace, she always does it with a SMILE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Congratulations to everyone who stepped up for grading at yesterday’s grading (Saturday, 9th May). \u00a0Gradings are always a challenging time, for students, for parents who have children grading and also for instructors. \u00a0Some people may not realise that it’s also challenging for instructors, because it’s at grading days more than any other time, we are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dojo-news","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunshinecoastkarate.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunshinecoastkarate.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunshinecoastkarate.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunshinecoastkarate.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunshinecoastkarate.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunshinecoastkarate.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2775,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunshinecoastkarate.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions\/2775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunshinecoastkarate.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunshinecoastkarate.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunshinecoastkarate.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWilliam Baarslag, Ronald Burgess, Caelan Dean-Meredith, Halea Eggmolesse, Jessica Manning, Grace Smith-Leishman<\/p>\n![\"DSC_0061\"](\"http:\/\/www.sunshinecoastkarate.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0061.jpg\")
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\nAndrew Crocker, Bella Laurie, Daniel Probert, Charles Robinson, Riley Wallace<\/p>\n
\nBret Buckland, Chloe Crocker, Star Freedom, Lily Ludbrook, Kobe Marriott, Jonathan Schulze<\/p>\n![\"DSC_0062\"](\"http:\/\/www.sunshinecoastkarate.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0062.jpg\")
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\nMatai Doughty, Chanda Dunn, Paul Murray<\/p>\n
\nFelix Nicholls, Savannah Perdikis<\/p>\n
\nAnthony Williams<\/p>\n
\nKamryn Stray<\/p>\n![\"DSC_0066\"](\"http:\/\/www.sunshinecoastkarate.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0066.jpg\")
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\nNathan Eley, Jack Graham<\/p>\n
\nSelina Strazzari<\/p>\n
\nRenae Saunders<\/p>\n![\"DSC_0067\"](\"http:\/\/www.sunshinecoastkarate.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0067.jpg\")
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