Video: Jiketsu Centre Hosts Awards Ceremony
Jiketsu Foundation, the charity arm of Jiketsu Centre, has recently presented awards, scholarships and certifications to deserving students, facilitators and teachers of their many current programmes.
Krysten Burrows who studies Mixed Martial Arts [MMA] has received the award for Deportment Youth/Adult. In the Tiny Tots Youth Martial Arts programme, Christiana Warren has received the award for Most Improved female and Sergio Defrias was awarded the Most Improved male. The award for Skill was presented to Azaria Mouchette and MMA practitioner, Dre Wilkinson.
From left, back row: Jameko Simons, Ryan Ray, Julia Cox and Krysten Burrows. From left, front row: Sensei Reuben Bean, Fatima Smith, Christiana Warren, Khari Sharrieff, J’Kai Berkley and Sarrah Hamza. Missing from photo: Sergio DeFrias, Azaria Mouchette, Dre Wilkinson, Tyler Furtado and Amari Bean.
The award for Self-Determination [the definition of “Jiketsu”] was deservingly awarded to 4-year-old Amari Bean and 7- year old Khari Sharrieff, active Karateka [practitioner of Karate] in our Tiny Tots and Youth programmes respectively. Youth Martial Arts student Julia Cox has received the Character Award while the Perseverance Award goes to Tiny Tot student, Tyler Furtado. J’Kai Berkley, who is a part of Jiketsu’s Youth Martial Arts programme, received the Scholastic Achievement Award.
Programme Certifications were presented to both Ryan Ray and Jameko Simons for fulfilling all requirements in the 2014 Mixed Martial Arts [MMA] Summer Intensive. Ray also received his Junior Facilitator Certification.
Fatima Smith earned the Facilitators Certification while Sarrah Hamza was awarded the Honorable Teacher Certification within Jiketsu Centre and its international affiliations. Ms. Hamza has contributed nearly one thousand hours of her expertise to Jiketsu Centre and was responsible for enhancing and completing our Natural History syllabus.
“We congratulate all participants, parents, guardians and teachers and thank the Jiketsu Centre Executive, committee members, teachers, facilitators and Donors for their unwavering dedication and commitment,” said Jiketsu’s owner and head instructor Reuben Bean.
“We continue to encourage excellence through our Academic Accountability Programme and S-K-ILLS Character Enhancement Programme. One of our objectives is to encourage excellence and institute Awards of Excellence and Scholarships for the deserving participants actively enrolled in our Jiketsu Centre Programmes.
An important part of the application process involves the completion of a specially designed report card by the child’s parents and teachers that are later reviewed by our Scholarship Committee.”
“The primary purpose of Jiketsu Foundation is to promote the ancient disciplines of Martial Arts and Whole Brain Thinking Techniques in Bermuda as a valuable and inexhaustible paradigm of educational and character enhancement for children and adults,” continued Bean.
“Moreover, the programmes and unique techniques offered through the Foundation are designed to develop confident and balanced citizens of this diverse community—and the world at large.”
For more information about the Jiketsu Foundation, please contact Reuben Bean at 705-7541 or email jiketsuadmin@northrock.bm
