On Sunday 28 February 5 members of CARISMA successfully passed their grading: one orange second, one orange and 3 yellow belts were awarded.

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On Sunday 6 December CARISMA awarded a number of new belts, including a brown, two blue, 3 green and various orange and yellow ones.  The technical level of all participants to the grading was, once more, very high and it was reflected by very high scores in their respective grading forms.

Well done to everyone and special thanks to James B. who helped with the grading.

Please have a look at some of the pictures of the grading here:

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CARISMA recently commissioned the production of a short clip that represents the essence of its training and spirit. BCTODAY, a professional agency specialized in video production based in Turin (Italy) was selected for this job given the professional experience I had with them during one of my previous jobs.

The result is stunning and I am very pleased of it.  Any comment to this post will be highly appreciated.

Many thanks from me personally and on behalf of the whole club for the effort and hard work all members put in this project.  Special thanks to Piero Masi (cameraman) and Stefano Giovannini (director of photography who actually did the filming following Piero’s suggestions) who flew to Cambridge for a day, spent many hours in Adembrooks hospital as Piero’s suffered of a kidney colic in the middle of the night and still managed to deliver some amazing work. Also a big thank to Emanuele Mercadante for the great editing work.

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CARISMA will take part to the Cultural Olympiad Celebrations held at The Corn Exchange theatre as shown on their web site.

A small group of CARISMA member will be selected to represent the club in the  half hour shows to be held on Sat 25 July between 11:45 and 12:15.   Please express you interested in being part of it (minimum technical standard and rank required) or if you would like to visit.  Those intending to be part of the show should consider to be busy on the Sat, between 11 and 12:30.

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Another very successful grading for CARISMA: 2 yellow belts, 3 orange, 2 orange second, 1 green, 1 green second, 1 blue second belts were awarded.  The overall grading tests showed great committment, technical proficiency and preparation from all participants.

Well done to everyone for the consistent effort put in it!

Grading Jun 2009

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