{"id":2213,"date":"2014-10-06T13:34:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T13:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gmacmartialarts.org.uk\/news\/?p=2213"},"modified":"2014-10-06T13:34:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T13:34:46","slug":"october-black-belt-grading-promotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmacmartialarts.org.uk\/news\/october-black-belt-grading-promotions\/","title":{"rendered":"October Black Belt Grading Promotions"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1426717_10152781946003919_8467737420412091081_n\"<\/a>GMAC held their recent Black Belt grading on Saturday 4th October. \u00a0Five students from GMAC schools took part in the grading alongside four students\u00a0from Glasgow East School’s of TKD.<\/p>\n

The grading panel\u00a0consisted of Grand Master MacCallum 9th Degree (chair), Mr. McIlvaney 6th Degree, Mr. Shaw 6th Degree, Mrs. Timoney 5th Degree & Mrs. McIlvaney 4th Degree,\u00a0with special guest on the day Mr. Robin Blair 6th Degree. \u00a0Mr. Doyle 4th Degree was the grading facilitator.<\/p>\n

The grading began with a theory exam in the morning which lasted an hour. \u00a0After this the participants were given time to warm-up and revise their patterns etc before the practical exam commenced at 12 noon. \u00a0Their were 9 candidates in total who each had to perform 9 patterns up to their grade, as well as 1-step sparring, sparring, 2 vs 1 sparring, self-defence and a number of breaking techniques.<\/p>\n

The grading itself took around 4 hours with the following students being successful. \u00a0A special mention to Mr. John Rafferty from our Tollcross school who received the grading award from the examination panel.<\/p>\n

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Promoted to 1st Degree<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Connor Garland – Glasgow East<\/p>\n

Rebecca Burns – GMAC<\/p>\n

Karys Taylor – GMAC<\/p>\n

Derek Cochrane – Glasgow East<\/p>\n

John Rafferty – GMAC<\/p>\n

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Promoted to 2nd Degree<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Aidan Timoney – Glasgow East<\/p>\n

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Promoted to 3rd Degree<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Kerris Dickson – GMAC<\/p>\n

Christopher Dickson – GMAC<\/p>\n

Brian Anderson – Glasgow East<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GMAC held their recent Black Belt grading on Saturday 4th October. \u00a0Five students from GMAC schools took part in the grading alongside four students\u00a0from Glasgow East School’s of TKD. The grading panel\u00a0consisted of Grand Master MacCallum 9th Degree (chair), Mr. McIlvaney 6th Degree, Mr. Shaw 6th Degree, Mrs. Timoney 5th Degree & Mrs. McIlvaney 4th […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t