Senior USKFI members returned to Scotland recently for a weekend’s training with top KUGB instructor Sensei Frank Brennan, 7^th Dan. The group trained at three clubs: Largs karate club on Scotland’s West coast, Gourock Karate club near Glasgow and at the Glasgow Karate Academy, whose grading was held in the town of Kirkintilloch, near Glasgow. Sensei Brennan, as usual, provided students with insightful and technically challenging training sessions. The USKFI contingent also enjoyed the high standard of training with their Scottish counterparts and was made feel very welcome by club instructors and students alike in all the clubs they visited. The weekend, which is now cemented in the USKFI calendar as an annual event, would not have been possible without the organisational skills of Barbara Casey of Glasgow Karate Academy. Particular thanks go to senior club instructors Mark McKinlay and Gordon McKay from Largs, David Gillies from Gourock and Ben Fail from Glasgow (pictured above with USKFI karateka and Sensei Brennan) for their kind hospitality shown to the USKFI visitors.