This has been a year of milestones for Northland Kenpo Karate, a member of possibly the world's largest organisation of its kind - the Larry Tatum Kenpo Karate organisation specialising in self-defence, centred in California.
The year started with a visit by a 10th-degree black belt from New Orleans, who stayed with the Masons for a week in February and took in the beautiful Northland sights.
Moving on through the year, with great local support in Dargaville and Whangarei, classes grew in size and maturity of skill.
August saw the club head to Wellington to the Annual Championships at the Police College Gym in Porirua, where our students won two of the three overall age group trophies across all categories of skill sets.
Our June and December black belt gradings provided the impetus for intense learning and ownership of information taught through the age groups.