Senior Instructors

National Black Belts

The qualification of a black belt is an important one and is taken very seriously within the Kent Karate Schools.

There are several black belts within the Kent Karate Schools, all are fully qualified, nationally registered black belts and are listed on the NAKMAS National Register of Qualified Black Belts.

All black belts within the Kent Karate Schools have undergone strict black belt examination/grading by the NAKMAS National Governing Body Grading Panel. All examinations/gradings for black belt level are not club black belts, i.e not awarded by the club or assessed by any of the Kent Karate Schools black belts. They are all national black belts and examinations are conducted by an independent examination panel led by the chief

black belt examiner, Peter Manning 6th Dan Black Belt (shihan/master level), who is the Technical Advisor on the NAKMAS National Technical Committee. Peter himself is registered on the NAKMAS National Register of Qualified Black Belts.

All black belts within with Kent Karate Schools hold nationally recognised and certificated coaching awards to the standard of the National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs).

Senior Black Belt Instructors/Coaches within the Kent Karate Schools are:-

Shihan Joe Ellis 7th Dan
Shihan Mick Elcombe 5th Dan
Shihan Sandra Beale-Ellis 5th Dan
Sensei Mathew Velvick 3rd Dan
Sensei Steve Keeler 3rd Dan
Sensei Gavin Finn 3rd Dan

Black Belt Instructors/Coaches within the Kent Karate Schools are:-

Senpai Jacinta Babaian 2nd Dan
Senpai Aleks Wulff 2nd Dan
Senpai Daniel Congerton 1st Dan

Junior Black Belt Coaches within the Kent Karate Schools are:

Senpai Connor Velvick 1st Dan
Senpai Joshua Traylor 1st Dan
Senpai William Freed 1st Dan

Click here to read the formal Black Belt Guidelines

Click here to view the official NAKMAS National Register of Qualified Black Belts