Sensei Andy Coe became the first student to train with Roffey karate club through to his 3rd Dan Black belt. what made this extra special for Andy was that is son Jamie also graded to 1st Dan Black belt at the same time.
The grading took almost three hours and as ever was a test of skill, technique, knowledge, endurance and spirit.
This brings the number of students to achieve their Black belt with Roffey to 22,and although some of these are not able or around to train at present there martial arts path started with Roffey Karate Club and their achievements with us will always be with them. This also shows that many of you have the focus and dedication to pursue a path which is often difficult, often painful and always demanding, but which creates in you a spirit that will always be of benefit and shows to the outside world just what you can achieve.
So to those of you who are just starting on your Karate do journey I would say again that all of you have the ability to become a black belt, what you need is the belief that you can get there and the spirit to get there.
Fuyu wa Tsutomete ( work hard)
