THE GUYANA Karate College held its end of year grading examinations last Friday at its main dojo which is being housed in the Malteenoes Sports Club pavilion, where more than eighty of its students were promoted after successfully undergoing its belt rank tests, under the watchful eyes of Master Frank Woon-A-Tai and Sensei Jeffrey Wong.Leading the way at this grading session was the young phenomenon, Tyler Orderson, who two years ago, achieved the feat of becoming the youngest Shotokan Karateka to obtain the Shodan (black belt) ranking; this time achieving the accomplishment at just nine years old and becoming the youngest person across the Globe to earn a nidan (second degree black belt) ranking.
Alyssa Persaud with a top quality display of kata (form) and kumite (fighting) also earned her nidan ranking, even as Mickelly Rahaman, Rebecca Ramlall, Rachael Ramlall, Rajiv Lee, Khalid Adams, Zane Low and Arvin Seelall, all undertook a grueling examination to earn their shodan (black belt) rankings.
Moving from 10th kyu to 9th kyu were Daniel Denny, Damale Denny, Clide Sampson, Akil Sampson, and Ezkiel Poulis.
Whilst moving from 10th kyu to 8th were Bibi Mohamed, Kyle Chung, Kellisha Jupiter, Dana Persaud, Lana Persaud, Mario Dos Santos, Chrisann Newton, Rayden Persaud, Danielle Khan, Lemuel Scott, Jonathan Robinson, and Eaton Low.
Moving from 9th kyu to 7th kyu were Aditya Seetaram, Jonathan Niranyan, and Kenrick Narine, even as Alexander Persaud moved from 8th kyu to 7 B kyu, along with Aron Hendricks, Demetri Lowe, and Kiefer Barker, Destinny Cao, Bruce Yong, Rudy Austin, Seon Poulis, and Thamika Wong.
Jun Mikami, William Escarraga, Alyssa Singh, Nizi Realine, Krystal Realine, Jonathan Ramlal, and Vickram Thani, all moved from 7th kyu to 6th kyu; Faraud Mohamed from 7th kyu to 5 B kyu, Jeremiah Poulis 8th kyu to 6th kyu, Ethan Jones 6th kyu to 5B kyu, and Motilall Mattadin skipping from 7th kyu to 5th kyu.
Anish Sharma, Joshua Zaman, Daniel Lowe, Dominick Johnson, all moved from 6th kyu to 5th kyu, while Aiden Singh 7th kyu to 5th kyu, Ronaldo Persaud 6th kyu to 5th kyu along with Michael Alphonso and Scott Habibullah, even as promotions from 5th to 4th kyu were achieved by Jayden Hurry, Deron Austin, Daniel Hing, Basilia Bettencourt, Samuel Munroe, and Ian Boller.
Stefon Smith, Brittney Bettencourt, Daequan Burnett, and Rayad Boyceo moved from 4th kyu to 3rd kyu, Aron Connelly skipped from 3rd kyu to 1st kyu, Nigel Roberts moved from 3rd kyu to 2nd kyu, and moving from 3rd kyu to 2nd kyu were Jayz Halley, Princess Charles , Reba Ramlall, and Carmalita Byrne.
Navinda Soodoo moved from 3rd kyu 1st kyu, while ascending from 2nd kyu to 1st kyu were Otho Harris, Rhea Connelly, Jonathan Connelly, and Ryan Sarjoo.