Black belts & Dan Examination in Athens – July 2023

On Saturday 15 of July 2023, the established promotional examinations were held at the premises of “Yoshukan” branch of Greece.

The exams were conducted by George Pelekis as a representative of Soke Mabuni and World Shito-ryu Karate-do Federation in the same way and keeping the same high requirements both on a technical and theoretical level just as Master Kassis has done for the last 17 years in this dojo.

So again this year the specific examination was demanding and lasted several hours including written and theoretical questions as well as practice for the most part (Kihon, Kata, Bunkai, Kumite, Self Defense and fitness).

The level of the participants was quite high as always and so rightfully the examinees managed to cope with the demands and conquer with their hard work and merit the level of Black Belt and Dan!!!
The successful ones are:
Irene Georgopoulou – 1st Dan
Ekaterini Halari – 1st Dan
Evripidis Prokopiou – 1st Dan
Stefanos Giakalis – 1st Dan
Nikolaos Giannopoulos – 1st Dan
Ioli Stavrinidi – Black Belt (Shodan Ho)