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Mearns & Deeside Course

The Mearns Dojo held it’s annual Christmas party and award ceremony for it’s Junior members on the 14th of December 2005. The party was well supported, with 27 juniors attending to celebrate the end of another great year for the club. Special awards were made to Robbie Martin for “Best Karateka”, Georgia Cruickshank received “Best Aikidoka”, Jack Neish won “Most Improved Student” and Sean Duncan received the “Best Spirit” award. It was very pleasing to see the kids having such a great time, the kids from both the Aikido and Karate classes mixed well as kids do, much food, fizzy drinks, jelly and ice cream was consumed throughout the evening. The adults also enjoyed a great evening early in the week going for a Chinese meal at a local restaurant, again much food and fizzy drinks were consumed. My thanks to all students and parents for the help and support throughout 2005, making it another successful year for the Dojo.

New Term Starts

The first class of 2006 will take place on the 10th of January at the Laurencekirk Dojo for the Aikidoka and the 11th of January at the Marykirk Dojo for the Karateka. The Junior Aikido class begins on Sunday 15th January.

Winter Training

The Dojo will be holding a series of outdoor winter training sessions in January, February and March for both the Karateka and Aikidoka. More details will be forth coming, in the meantime best look out those thermal Long Johns ( for those to young to remember long John’s ask Tony Briggs for a full description of the said items )

“The Mearns and Deeside dojo’s are registered with Hitohiro Saito Sensei’s organisation. We are as ever, committed to fostering good relations with other martial arts groups and individuals. We welcome new and old friends to our Dojo regardless of the paths they have chosen to follow.”

..............Mike Robertson