The investment we put in on Monday night really paid off and last night we rebuilt the mat area in the new location (ready for the extension), built the change room, relocated the book/video cabinet and the trophy cabinet and replaced their contents, relocated the filing cabinets, dinosaur, photo and notice boards, and some of the chairs. We are now ready to train.
A huge thanks go to the 30 strong Budokan, Aikido, and BJJ clubs' members who took about 3 hours to get everything done: Marcel, Ashley & Naomi de Bruine, Sean Brothers, Jake and Donna Young, Alex Snoek, Peter & Kevin Schmitz, Guido Scholtz , Richard Lane, John Da Silva, Dale Keogh, Simon & Jake Farnsworth (BJJ & Budokan), Peter Sardelich, Steve (BJJ), Brian Medbury, Jarrad Copper, Nathan Stephenson-Wong, Tony Cox (Aikido), Bill Haines (Aikido), Mike Tressler (BJJ), Blaise Tuma, and Maryam Nesvaderani, and Rob, Kerrye, Nathan & Josh Katz.
Nearly everything we wanted to do was completed by about 9pm. Guido and I left at 10pm and with Guido's famous last words which are repeated every year: "...only 365 days until we have to do this ... again". I always look forward to those words.