HALLOWEEN 2007

Witches, wizards, goblins, things that are not human and things that go bump in the night.  No, not a Stephen King movie but Halloween Training at Kaizen Martial Arts Academy.  Tuesday 30 October 2007 at East Leeds Dojo and Wednesday  31 October 2007 at West Leeds Dojo.  Reception and administration was managed by the Grand Witch Julie Reece who managed to look like she'd gone for a budget make over and won! She certainly frightened me.  Obviously diplomacy (and terror) prevents me from making any other comment.

At East Leeds I led the training and was ably assisted by Jo (the Slasher) Haigh and Vicki (the Little Red Devil) Sumner and Martin (the Karate Kid) Gubb. Vicki was joined in her attack on the senses by Harriet Kettlewell whose other claim to fame is mentioned in the Germany 2007 report! At West Leeds, Jodie (the Black Witch) Ritchie, Alan (Meagi) Wainwright and Darryl (the bone grinder) Garrick assisted.  The young karateka and their friends looked absolutely superb in their costumes and obviously they had spent a lot of time and effort  preparing for the evening.  The slightly less young karateka looked slightly worrying, in particular Suzanne Waterhouse and Yvette Wright who I intend to use as my new debt collecting agency staff! All the karateka got involved in all the activities and training. Some of the karateka were kind enough to look after the non-karateka and did a fabulous job. It looked like everybody appeared to have enjoyed themselves.

The winner of the gis  for the best costume went to Aidan Guy and Grace Dean. Well done you two..