Southern

I am very proud to say that all our Squad members did a great job competing on Saturday at the KUGB Southern Region Championships. The event was attended by clubs from all over the south of England, and over seen by Sensei Bob Rhodes (7th Dan), who will be our next grading examiner in April.

Junior Success at the Southern Region Championships 2010

Thank you to all those students who took part and congratulations to you all. In our Junior Section Ben Claridge entered the Boys over 5ft 5 Kumite, Tom Randle and Jasper Laidlaw took part in the Children’s mixed Kata, gaining their first experience at a large competition event.

Lauren James, our reigning National Champion in Ippon Kumite, became the Southern Region Champion in Ippon Kumite, taking the Gold! A sterling result from a dedicated karateka, who has also been in bed for the past few weeks with a nasty illness, making her success even more amazing!

Luke Gilbert took Silver in the Boys under 5ft Shobu Ippon kumite event against one of the top junior competitors in the country, an excellent result too!

And Dylan Richards did an amazing job at his first Southern Regions to join Lauren in the medals, taking third place and a Bronze Medal in the Ippon Kumite section – fantastic!

The future of Can Do Martial Arts certainly seems bright and the Juniors seem set on showing the seniors how it is done!

Thank you and well done to Shannon and Sensei Nigel Couch, Brigid Sundaram and Sensei Adam Asher for their participation and great spirit in the contest. And congratulations to Sensei Sam Coxon and Sensei Ben Richardson on a quarter final placing in the male individual kumite event.

We hope to see more of our students joining the Competition Squad in the future and further successes at the National Championships in May.

Best wishes

Sensei Virginia Richardson