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As 2025 is coming to a close it’s time to reflect on our activities for this year.  This November will mark our 40th anniversary as the BKKS JSC, however, it may also be our last year as a BKKS sub-committee.   2026 will present a number of opportunities and might be challenging, but for now let’s look back at 2025. Our year didn’t start until March (9th) when we held our annual trainee seminar which saw us induct two new trainees;…

At the 2025 All England Koi Show our judging and training methods came under scrutiny from Yuko Shirako the former General Secretary of ZNA Japan who was attached to the team headed by Tony Sheffield through which she observed the judging processes from start to finish i.e. from GC selection through Round 1 through to Rounds 2 and 3. Yuko’s CV is quite extensive. In her own words “Although I am not a certified koi judge, I have spent twenty-seven…