Rato Branch, Potugal / January 2009 - Contributor: Martinho Marques

A new year, a new dojo.

Last year 2008, ended with a sad news for us in Rato Branch. Our founder dojo, FCUL dojo, was going to close by the end of December, so with the help of all of our kenshi in the period of a week we found ourselves a new dojo!

So in order to celebrate the 8 years we spent training in our first dojo, one of the sempai's organized a farewell dinner for all of our kenshi.

Of course, everyone was a little nostalgic but the group's spirit was great, as always.

Each and every one of the yudansha's, some of them who have been training from day 1, had a little speech, to motivate our younger kenshi, and it ended with our Branch Master's speech. Followed by some fotos.

The new year has passed since then, and we had our first training this week, in our new dojo, it was great. Here's a picture of our new dojo.

We would like to take the opportunity to wish everyone a happy new year!

 

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