Genshin Kai Genshin Kai was formed in 1996 and was then named Genshin Kai Great Britain

Black Belt gradings at Genshin Kai Headquarters.

On Saturday August 25^th 2007 a Black Belt grading was held at the West Wilts Martial Arts Academy in Melksham.

Two students were grading, Lisa Marie Reed was attempting her Black Belt and Dave (dangerous) Gillett was attempting his 1^st kyu.

The grading started with a cardio vascular workout and progressed through various techniques to loosen up the students joints and to warm the muscles.

After an agonising 4 hours, the grading was over and the students were asked to leave the hall whilst the grading panel added up their marks and discussed their performances.

Lisa was awarded her 1^st Degree Black Belt and it was a unanimous decision by the three grading officials that Dave should also be promoted to 1^st Degree Black Belt. Congratulations to both of you.

The grading panel consisted of Grand Master Den Butler 7^th Degree Black Belt,

Chief Instructor Stu Pike 2^nd Degree Black Belt and Rikki Gullis 1^st Degree Black Belt.

Saturday 1^st September was the next Black Belt Grading.

Ashley Eaglestone of K1-Kickboxing, Swindon was attempting his 2^nd Degree Black Belt and Gary Johnson of Genshin Kai Ipswich was attempting his 3^rd Degree Black Belt.

The Grading started once again with a warm up routine, each Instructor did a 30 minute warm up, then it was on to pad work, as each was already an Instructor, the grading took a different path to the previous grading. Combination techniques and agility took up a good part of the grading, and at the end, each had to complete several minutes on the bags non stop.

Both Instructors were successful and passed, Ashley was awarded 2^nd Degree Black Belt

And Gary was awarded 3^rd Degree Black Belt.

The grading panel consisted of Grand Master Den Butler 7^th Degree Black Belt, Chief Instructor Damien Guy 2^nd Degree Black Belt and Les Davies 3^rd Degree Black Belt .

Les ( Tai Jutsu Kai, Bristol) originally came along to give Ashley some moral support, but because Den has an enormous amount of respect for Les, he invited him to sit on the grading panel.