Vote Sensei Dean Geyer for Australian Idol '06!

Dean, who trains at the Shotokan Karate Coalition Honbu Dojo with his father is taking idol by storm. He is currently the favourite with many betting agencies to win the event and showed everyone his enormous potential with a spine shivering performance of Tonic's 'If You Could Only See'. Dean is already being talked about on South African radio and in their newspapers. I am sure that this is the start of a huge career for Dean. Make sure you vote! Visit www.deangeyer.net to write in Deans Fan Forum. more news

P.S. Watch out for this guy, there's nothing he can't do.

Silver Medal at World Champs

Recently sensei Luke flew to Italy to compete in the WTKA World Championships. Sensei Luke competed outstandingly to gain a fourth in kata and to bring home the silver medal in the men's 70-75kg fighting event. Go Aussie's!!

Uncle Aker...!

LB-Karate congratulates Shelley on the new additions to her family. Shelley (the better half of LB Karate) has recently met her half brother, Jason Akermanis for the first time in Melbourne. Jason is a three time A.F.L. premiership winner with the Brisbane Lions, the 2003 Brownlow medallist and 4 times all australian (to name but a few of his accolades). Shelley also hopes to meet up with her other brother Rory soon.

picture -Maddyson, Elly, Pyper and Xander with Uncle Jason -Inset Shelley and Jason

SUMO NIGHT BIG SUCCESS!
Recently we held our first team sumo competition. The night was designed to be a fun event and students were invited to bring their friends along to join in. Students were split into eight teams of 5 and then given the challenging task of coming up with a team name. Each match was very exciting with very strong competition, but eventually we did get a winner. The results were as follows, 3rd place -The Gangsters, 2nd Place - The Karate Kids and the title of Grande Sumo Champs went to the JACKIE CHANS. Thankyou everyone for a great night.

STUDENTS EXCELL AT GRADING
Our first grading for 2006 was very impressive. As usual there was a great deal of improvement in all our students and most importantly all the kids tried their best. We hope that the new report cards that we gave the students were helpful to both students and parents and a more effective and immediate feedback system.
The following students received grading certificates for outstanding performance during grading

SKC Novice and Elite Championships in Caulfield.

LB Karate took 17 Students to the National Titles on the 20 th of November in Caulfield. We all had a fantastic day with our students showing not only great technique but also great sportsmanship. Here are the results

VISITING INSTRUCTOR

On Saturday the 11th of Sept we were lucky to have the head instructor of the Shotokan Karate Coalition (SKC), Sensei Keith Geyer (7th Dan) come to Roxburgh Park and teach our students. All the students enjoyed the demonstrations performed by the black belts before splitting into smaller groups for individual instruction.

Thank you to Sensei Keith and all of the black belts for providing us with this fantastic opportunity,