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This past weekend, Denné, Violina and I traveled to Livermore, California for a seminar with Ikeda Sensei at Jim Alavarez Sensei’s dojo. After a great day of training on Saturday, Denné tested for shodan.

Denné began his training with his Dad in Chicago many years ago, so this day was a long time coming, but all of his hard work and preparation certainly paid off. Denné looked very solid in his technique and movement. His weapons take aways were very good and his kumitachi and kumijo were very impressive as well.

This adds one more yudansha to our ranks—with three still to come next month. Way to go Denné, you did a splendid job in representing our group!