September 2025 Newsletter

Welcome!

Please join us in welcoming the below students who have joined Berkshire Martial Arts in the past month!

Riaan Nair

Eli Nomeika

Sebastian Lamberth

Sapphire Hill

Sunil Rajender Nair

Rory Caird

Gloria Suvajac

Gabriel Suvajac

Daniel Suvajac

Ivan Bazuk

Edward Matei Selimaj

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FINAL REMINDER - Uniform

There are still students attending class not in full uniform, and there were even examples of this in gradings! This is the final reminder and we will now be preventing anyone from attending class if they do not have full uniform, this will be doubly true for gradings and no refund will be given in these circumstances.

Shorts in particular appear to be an issue. Remember these are an optional extra, if you do not own a pair of Berkshire Martial Arts shorts then you must wear your uniform trousers. Trousers themselves should also be uniform trousers, black jogging bottoms, leggings etc are not suitable.

In emergencies non-uniform items can be worn in class but this must be first agreed with an instructor ahead of time.

All uniform items can be purchased from the club store in the student area and on the app.

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Combatives Class

There will be no combatives class this month due to using an alternative venue for this months' grading

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What's on?

If you have any upcoming events or activities you'd like to make Berkshire Martial Arts students aware of please email the details over to jason@berkshiremartialarts.co.uk and we will add it to the next newsletter.

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New Belt Ranks!

Congratulations to all the below students who successfully passed their latest grading and received their new belt ranks

Josie Lander - Purple Senior

Tekare McKenna-Stevens - Blue Senior

Ben Bates - Gold Senior

Gabriel Jones - Gold Senior

Lucy Rose Ward - Gold Senior

Aria Bates - Gold

Logan Bates - Gold

David Hritcu - Yellow Senior

Erica Rodrigues - Yellow

Raphael Ford - Yellow

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Top Attendance!

Well done to the below students with the highest attendance last month.

Juniors - Under 13 years old

Riley Shinners - 17 classes

Chloe Darby - 12 classes

Lia Rodrigues - 10 classes

Seniors - Over 13 years old

Rob Grossmith & Tekare McKenna-Stevens - 18 classes

Kieran Darby - 15 classes

Callum Bartaby - 14 classes

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This Month's Grading

This month's colour belt grading will be held on Sunday 28th September at Heathfield School, London Road, Ascot, SL5 8BQ . Further details will be provided to eligible students the week before the grading. The day will likely run to the approximate schedule below:

9am - Blackbelt Academy Class

10am - Grading Group 1

11am - Grading Group 2

All names below are eligible to grade this month and should have received an email confirming their eligibility. Please check your spam/junk folders if you have not received your email. To secure your place in the grading we must receive a completed colour belt grading registration form and payment by Friday 19th September.

Eligible Students

Aditya Puthran

Alexander Atkins

Alexander Harris

Andrew Lunn

Anita Puthran

Bella Sanders

Bodhi Bates

Dean Mason

Elaina Sanders

Evie Bartaby

Finlay Bartaby

Hayden Cowling

Henry Roberts

Jack Collins

Kaden Dollery

Kenisha Ghotey

Laura Summers-Bates

Lia Rodrigues

Logan Dollery

Martin Stefanov

Michael Parry

Onel Ranaweera Vitharana

Rachel Hinde-Harris

Radovan Binstead

Reyon Ranaweera Vitharana

Rob Grossmith

Ruben Ford

Tia Meades

Yusuf Shaikh

Yuvein Ranaweera Vitharana