At the recommendation of Oliver Geddes; members of council present shown in pictures

Later found the precise date is July 27, will try to get around to updating in 6 years when I am next willing to trigger a re-confirm.

Later found actual date: August 7th~, 2013; can't update without triggering re-vote, unfortunately. Also added a picture I found of me getting my third stripe, where we were wearing gis.

Ben Williams dragged me along sometime in early 2006, when I was in high school; I can't remember how I finally calculated this exact date, hard before the era of smartphones. I know he got his blue belt on my first day. I trained for 6 months, then 6 months later for 1 month, and then didn't really train for another 6 or 7 years. This pic of me is sometime between 2009 and 2011, wearing my original gi for halloween. I was technically a white belt at the time of photo, only picture of me as a white belt in a gi in existence I think.