yoku-do karate 2010

2010 is at a slow start, only one competition at the moment, but a very good result. Taking an 11 strong squad to the Yamaguchi Goju-Kai invitational junior ku ite competition on May 9th and acheiving 7 medals. 3 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze. well done. As we are only still at the start of the year there will be more competitions coming up, the next on the listing is the Seitou Ryu competition on May 23rd results of that one will be added to this Squad page after the event, keep your eyes peeled.

Well as promised here's the update and right on time,at the Seitou Ryu competition today we took 10 gold and 2 silver yes you read right what an amazing day. You all make me so proud what a fantastic squad i have, well done all of you, even the teams done well and the kata teams wiping the score boards out standing. Looking forward to the next competition. here's a list of who took what,

A Team Kata - Sensei Martin Rees, Sensei Ben Feltham, Ben Slack    Gold

B Team Kata - Harrison Mitchell, Bradley Gray, Thomas Goldstone      Gold

Junior Kumite team - Harry Goldstone, Oliver Goldstone, Owen Jones  Gold

Kata; Harrison Mitchell  gold   Ben Slack   Gold    Bradley Gray    Silver

Kumite; Alfie Watts   Gold     Elisha Chaplin    Gold     Harry Goldstone    Gold

    Harrison Mitchell   Gold     Thomas Goldstone   Silver       Sam Philpot  Gold 

Second part of the year and competitions are coming in fast, well done today to the squad members who entered the Ipswich competition,6 Bronze, 2 Silver, 2 Gold. A tough day but the results not bad. I'll keep you informed on the future comps as they are a bit on top of each other. below are the results of todays event, well done.

KATA;  Bradley Gray Silver,  Thomas Goldstone  Bronze,  Harry Goldstone Gold.

Kumite; Elisha Chaplin Bronze,  Thomas Goldstone Bronze,  Karl Lloyd Bronze,  Harry Goldstone Silver,  Sam Philpot Gold,  John Hanley Bronze,  Lindsay Roberts (Nee Hillum) Bronze. Welcome John and welcome back Lindsay

The results from the SKU open British championships were excellent, Two gold medals and everyone performed amazing, the standerd was very high in both kata and kumite. The squad members that entered, due to your performance will be entered into the English Championships in November. well done.

Lindsay Roberts     Gold

Bradley Gray         Gold

and good effort from Harry Goldstone, Oliver Goldstone and Elisha Chaplin

Well what a year, the results from the English championships was a good. The kumite is getting sharper but Kata needs some work, Harry Goldstone being the man of the day. well done everyone.

Lindsay Roberts  Bronze   indiv kumite

Harry Goldstone   Gold  Indiv kumite

                         Silver  Team kumite

                         Bronze Team rotation kumite

And to end the year for us the Seitou Ryu tournament was a good result again, even though there are referee's out there that can't stand to see us keep winning. (train your students harder then). well done to all squads on this one, check out the results.