Few! The proficiency tests are done for another month.

As usual, it's a lot of fun to train with the added intensity of being marked, and I'm sure we've all got some mental notes of things to work on before the grading in November.

A big thanks to all the ukes, markers, and organisers.

We have uploaded a large gallery from Wednesday's brown belt proficiency tests and a smaller one from Saturday's white belt proficiency tests.

A few of the pointers which came up:

• Avoid cutting the katadori techniques down too much
• Remember to block all tsuki (punch) attacks before proceeding with a technique
• Remember which of the yokomen techniques are best done by entering (that's ikkyo and its variants) and which of the tsuki techniques are best done on the inside (ikkyo and shihonage)
• For jiyu waza we need to pay more attention to varying the distance and timing - it's not supposed to be as regular as normal training
• Know the names of the techniques!