Dear all,
We hope you have all had a great holiday and safe new year's celebrations, and that you'll pass any future unmentionables with valour and glory!
Here are a few things fyi:
1. You should all have skin grown back under your feet, so to make up for that GUKC sessions restart next week, 16 January, 9.15pm in the Activity Hall, running for another 8 week course. Remember that a little bit of stick-fighting is the best remedy for pre- and post-exam stress, so we hope to see you all there!
2. The course will be £20 for two weekly practices, or £2 per practice if you want to pay individually, so sign up from the beginning and save £12!
2,5. Any new people joining the club are very welcome! Please just come along to the practice, we have spare shinai (swords) so all you need is yourself and some comfortable clothes.
3. For continuing members, we would like to order armour by February, so please consider that. We'll have a price quote next week, it will probably be about £150-250, depending on how many orders we get. Remember that you can't do kendo without armour; all we've been doing so far is merely preparation. If you can't afford the armour at the moment, you are welcome to keep coming along to practices for as long as you care, but it will probably get kind of boring eventually. We will try to arrange a way of buying back sets of armour at half price if you decide not to continue with kendo at the end of the year, but we can't promise anything at the moment.
Before armour, however, you need a set of gi and hakama plus a bokuto for practising kata. This lot will be about £50-60, again cheaper the more we can order at once. Get in touch with Bob for details.
4. We have been approached by a medical clinic who are comparing treatments of Athlete's Foot, which is a condition common among martial artists. You get £80 plus travel expenses paid plus free treatment in return for trying a new product. This is all safe and run by professionals, so no risk involved, and a good chance to get rid of your Athlete's Foot. If you or any of your friends suffer from this, please get in touch with Sofie so she can pass you the clinic's details.
5. The final boring money issue is that we may have to introduce a small membership fee if we get affiliated to the SRC. We still haven't heard from them, but should do so shortly. This probably won't be more than 2 or 3 quid for the year, so nothing to upset anyone's budget (unlike a set of armour, perhaps ...).
6. As you may have seen on the GUKC page or the Facebook group, the great Glasgow Kendo Seminar will be the weekend of 7-9 March in the Kelvinhall, so put this in your diary! It's absolutely not to be missed. There is a grading from ikkyu and up, but we plan to have a kyu-grade club grading the week after the seminar. This is a fun, informal way to assess your own progress in a friendly environment.
7. Finally, REMEMBER TO RENEW YOUR BKA MEMBERSHIP! This is essential, mainly for insurance reasons. Presumably you have all received renewal forms by post, so please return them asap, which gets you a handy discount. In case you have not returned your form yet, you want the Concession membership (if you're a student, obviously!).
If you have any questions, get in touch, and see you on Wednesday!
Good luck to those with exams.
The GUKC Committee
We hope you have all had a great holiday and safe new year's celebrations, and that you'll pass any future unmentionables with valour and glory!
Here are a few things fyi:
1. You should all have skin grown back under your feet, so to make up for that GUKC sessions restart next week, 16 January, 9.15pm in the Activity Hall, running for another 8 week course. Remember that a little bit of stick-fighting is the best remedy for pre- and post-exam stress, so we hope to see you all there!
2. The course will be £20 for two weekly practices, or £2 per practice if you want to pay individually, so sign up from the beginning and save £12!
2,5. Any new people joining the club are very welcome! Please just come along to the practice, we have spare shinai (swords) so all you need is yourself and some comfortable clothes.
3. For continuing members, we would like to order armour by February, so please consider that. We'll have a price quote next week, it will probably be about £150-250, depending on how many orders we get. Remember that you can't do kendo without armour; all we've been doing so far is merely preparation. If you can't afford the armour at the moment, you are welcome to keep coming along to practices for as long as you care, but it will probably get kind of boring eventually. We will try to arrange a way of buying back sets of armour at half price if you decide not to continue with kendo at the end of the year, but we can't promise anything at the moment.
Before armour, however, you need a set of gi and hakama plus a bokuto for practising kata. This lot will be about £50-60, again cheaper the more we can order at once. Get in touch with Bob for details.
4. We have been approached by a medical clinic who are comparing treatments of Athlete's Foot, which is a condition common among martial artists. You get £80 plus travel expenses paid plus free treatment in return for trying a new product. This is all safe and run by professionals, so no risk involved, and a good chance to get rid of your Athlete's Foot. If you or any of your friends suffer from this, please get in touch with Sofie so she can pass you the clinic's details.
5. The final boring money issue is that we may have to introduce a small membership fee if we get affiliated to the SRC. We still haven't heard from them, but should do so shortly. This probably won't be more than 2 or 3 quid for the year, so nothing to upset anyone's budget (unlike a set of armour, perhaps ...).
6. As you may have seen on the GUKC page or the Facebook group, the great Glasgow Kendo Seminar will be the weekend of 7-9 March in the Kelvinhall, so put this in your diary! It's absolutely not to be missed. There is a grading from ikkyu and up, but we plan to have a kyu-grade club grading the week after the seminar. This is a fun, informal way to assess your own progress in a friendly environment.
7. Finally, REMEMBER TO RENEW YOUR BKA MEMBERSHIP! This is essential, mainly for insurance reasons. Presumably you have all received renewal forms by post, so please return them asap, which gets you a handy discount. In case you have not returned your form yet, you want the Concession membership (if you're a student, obviously!).
If you have any questions, get in touch, and see you on Wednesday!
Good luck to those with exams.
The GUKC Committee
posted by Sofie at 20:43
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