December 10th 2024 the result of the grading to 8th degree of Master Annick Van Driessche was published.
She did the grading in Mar del Plata, Argentina October 27th during the World Cup, in front of a grading panel consisting of Grand Masters Hector Marano, Omar Merodio and her role model Azucena Zorzon. Because the grading to 7th degree took place on December 10th 2017 the result was not published immediately after the grading.
The grading consisted of 3 patterns, step sparring, hosinsul, sparring, breaking techniques and theory. The thesis, which is compulsory for grading 7th, 8th and 9th degree, was send to the ITF office and the examiners some weeks before the actual grading.