{"id":125,"date":"2025-10-18T18:05:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T18:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.okknoxville.com\/?p=125"},"modified":"2025-11-05T19:07:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:07:51","slug":"october-18th-kyu-promotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.okknoxville.com\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"October 18th &#8211; Kyu Promotions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A special congratulations to our students for the kyu promotions today!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.okknoxville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251018_123036-3-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.okknoxville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251018_123036-3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.okknoxville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251018_123036-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.okknoxville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251018_123036-3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.okknoxville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251018_123036-3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.okknoxville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251018_123036-3-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today we promoted most of our students. It was an excellent demonstration and everyone did a fantastic job! A special thank you to Bob Noel, Mike McGee, Mike Bass, Darren Gilbert, Billy Bidwell and David Higgins for being on the board. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our students were all tested in Sanchin Kata, the test kata for their rank, a second &#8220;surprise&#8221; kata, Kanshiwa Bunkai, Kyu Kumite, Sparring and Uechi and Martial arts knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nathan Rutherford &#8211; Jun Shodan San<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John Perrone &#8211; Sankyu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gavin Perrone &#8211; Yonkyu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jake Rosson &#8211; Yonkyu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turk Underwood &#8211; Yonkyu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chase Slinger &#8211; Kukyu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"372\" 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Today we promoted most of our students. It was an excellent demonstration and everyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-special-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.okknoxville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251018_123036-3-scaled.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okknoxville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okknoxville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okknoxville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okknoxville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okknoxville.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.okknoxville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/www.okknoxville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okknoxville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okknoxville.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okknoxville.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okknoxville.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}