It seems like
yesterday that we opened the Collingwood Dojo and just
like that five years has gone by. Time flies when you're
having fun!
Looking
back, we definitely grew as a club and we are now a
recognized entity within the community. Over the years we
saw kids growing bigger, stronger, and we saw many
friendships form. These friendships extended beyond the
dojo and now we are like a large family.
The 2006-2007
season was full of excitement and we kept very busy
as usual. Thanks to the organization and it's organizing
members our dojo had a chance to participate at many great
events, like: "The Banff Black Belt Conference, Vancouver
Cup, Newton Tournament, Winter Camp, and The Canadian
Championship". We also had guest instructors and students
from other clubs and even other countries visiting our
dojo. We also visited other clubs and trained with our
extended kyokushin family. The most emotional event for
most of us was to train with Sensei Tony Severs, before he
retired as an instructor.
In the
Collingwood Dojo on the last day of training on June 29th
we prepared many exciting demos for the parents and
friends, including katas, board breaking, bo-fighting, and
a self-defense spectacular by Jacky, taking on 16 people
all at once. After the "Show" we all enjoyed our usual
kyokushin social potluck dinner.
Thank you for
another super year, have a great summer vacation and we'll
see you all in September!
For those of
you, who wants to train in the summer, please come to
Enderby for the annual summer camp. Locally Sempai Laszlo
will also do his usual summer training, twice a week:
Wednesday night 6-8pm, and Saturday morning 8-10am.
Best Wishes to
you and your family from all of us at Collingwood, OSU!
