Congratulations to all the Red Tigers brave enough to enter our tournament and test their skills against others of a similar age and grade. Thank you all for making it such a brilliant day. The standard was really impressive throughout. Huge thanks to the officials who worked hard together all day, setting up, judging and helping us clear up afterwards. The event was another successful one because our team are so dedicated to the club and the students.

Thanks to Jessica, Ben and Scott who provided the refreshments on the day and Helen for selling stock items.

There were two Instructors with very big birthdays yesterday who both chose to spend most of their day at our Tournament. Such dedication should be admired greatly and we hope both Jade Sensei and Tony Sensei had a fab day and enjoyed their birthday cakes!

Thanks should also go to the parents and supporters without whom, we would have no event. It’s you who enables our students to take part and it’s you who shares in the joy or picks up the pieces and sends them straight back to karate. We appreciate your support.

We are proud of all of our competitors because win, lose or draw, our Club is one big family. We stick together and support one another. If you went home disappointed, then it just wasn’t your day. Brush yourself off, work hard in class, ask your Sensei for some advice and try to your very best improve. We are all winners because we have all learned and now, have the opportunity to get better.

Do not be jealous of the winners, maybe they have been training longer than you, maybe they have more experience, maybe you just picked the wrong Kata to perform on the day. Learn from them and look at your own karate, get to know your strengths. Are you fulfilling your potential or just coasting along? Ask yourself what you can do to get better. There are no favourites here. Ninety nine percent of the time the winners are just the same as you, they’ve been in your shoes and lost at tournaments, the difference is, they have taken defeat and used it as their motivation. They’ve kept on trying, remained focused and stayed determined.

Our next Club Championships is a Kumite Tournament which will take place in Autumn. There is also a JKS Novice Competition coming up in May. If you are interested in competing regularly either regionally or nationally our squad class meets every Monday evening at Thornleigh Salesian High School in Bolton from 7pm-8pm. It is a very intensive and physically demanding class which is taught by Paul Wolstencroft Sensei and Mike Baron Sensei and attendance would be essential if you were to want to compete outside of Red Tiger.

Here are the lucky medal winners, make sure you take them back to show your classmates this week and wear them with pride. Well done to you all!

Ring 1 Kata Championships Results

Event 1: White Belts Under 16 Years 

Gold Medal 1st Place: Rebecca Jeffries

Silver Medal 2nd Place: Mason Caruana

Bronze Medal 3rd Place: Riley Timlin and Kaleb Lucas

 

Event 2: Adult Junro Kata and Adult Team Kata

Gold Medal 1st Place: Connor Cherry

Silver Medal 2nd Place: Emma Ginn

Bronze Medal 3rd Place: Nicole Chadwick and Daryl Brady

Adult Team Kata:

Gold Medal 1st Place:  Lee Rylance, Nicole Chadwick and Mark Ellicott

Silver Medal 2nd Place: Su Matthews, Ron matthews and Daryl Brady

Bronze Medal 3rd Place: Dave Thomas, Lewis Thomas & Brendan Conyard and Paul Evans, Sarah Evans and Jo Woodman.

 

Event 3: Age 6-7 Years Yellow to Green Belts and 6 year old Purple Belts

Gold Medal 1st Place: William Cristoforo

Silver Medal 2nd Place: Kaiden Hindley

Bronze Medal 3rd Place: Kai Van Dongen and James Caldwell Hayes

 

Event 4: Age 7-8 Years Purple Belts and Purple and White Belts

Gold Medal 1st Place: Giuseppe Pezzino

Silver Medal 2nd Place: Emily Knox

Bronze Medal 3rd Place: Zak Gould and Megan Dale

 

Event 5: Age 12-15 Years Purple Belts and Purple and White Belts

Gold Medal 1st Place: Gina Farrance

Silver Medal 2nd Place: Adam Paksy

Bronze Medal 3rd Place: Katie Davies and Darcy Mason

 

Event 6: Age 7-9 Years Yellow Belts to Green Belts 

Gold Medal 1st Place: Alex Ryan

Silver Medal 2nd Place: Demi McDonagh

Bronze Medal 3rd Place: Maksymilian Sobocinski and Bruce Terry

 

Event 7: Age 9 Green Belts to Brown Belts 

Gold Medal 1st Place: Lola Girault

Silver Medal 2nd Place: Grace Prince

Bronze Medal 3rd Place: Jorja Hughes and Ruben Smith

 

Event 8: 10-11 Years Green to Purple and White Belts 

Gold Medal 1st Place: Betsy Bullen

Silver Medal 2nd Place: Abby Fryer

Bronze Medal 3rd Place: Xander Matanle and Sam Lees

 

Event 9: 15-17 Years Male Black Belts 

Gold Medal 1st Place: Sam Jackson

Silver Medal 2nd Place: Connor Cherry

Bronze Medal 3rd Place: Christopher Dempsey and Greg Burton

 

Event 10: Junior Pairs Kata Higher Grades

Gold Medal 1st Place: Lori-Ann Moran and Sam Jackson

Silver Medal 2nd Place: Zak Thomas-Blackhurst and Molly Austin Hogsden

Bronze Medal 3rd Place: Louis Johnson & Matthew Affleck and Greg & Phillip Burton

Ring 2 Kata Championships Results:

Event 1: 5-8 Years Orange Belts

Gold Medal 1st Place: Isaac Page

Silver Medal 2nd Place: Daniel Beese

Joint Bronze Medals 3rd Place: Isaac Whittaker and Kian Hughes

 

Event 2: Siblings Kata

Gold Medal 1st Place: Kyle and Lola Girault

Silver Medal 2nd Place: Hannah and Lily Whalley

Joint Bronze Medals 3rd Place: Phill and Greg Burton

 

Event 3: Age 8-9 Years 2nd Kyu

Gold Medal 1st Place: Ellis Pindoria-Stott

Silver Medal 2nd Place: Izzy Baron

Joint Bronze Medals 3rd Place: Lily Whalley and Alex Gallacher

 

Event 4: Adult Males Brown and Black Belts

Gold Medal 1st Place: Daryl Brady

Silver Medal 2nd Place: Dean Knox

Joint Bronze Medals 3rd Place: Mark Ellicott and Lee Ryalnce

 

Event 5: Age 10- 12 Years Female Brown and Black Belts

Gold Medal 1st Place: Ava Nicholson

Silver Medal 2nd Place: Leah Duckworth

Joint Bronze Medals 3rd Place: Rosie Morriss and Millie Davies

 

Event 6: 12-13 Years Male Brown and Black Belts

Gold Medal 1st Place: Louis Johnson

Silver Medal 2nd Place: Danny Silverwood

Joint Bronze Medals 3rd Place: Jake Gould and Daniel Hartley

 

Event 7: Age 10-11 Years Boys 1st Kyu to Black Belts 

Gold Medal 1st Place: Matthew Affleck

Silver Medal 2nd Place: Jaime Pratley

Joint Bronze Medals 3rd Place: Jonty Johnson and Kyle Girault

 

Event 8: Junior Pairs Lower Grades

Gold Medal 1st Place: Emily and Joshua Knox

Silver Medal 2nd Place: Niamh Lysaght and Ellen Conyard

Joint Bronze Medals 3rd Place: Demi McDonagh & Megan Dale and Thomas Collin & Xander Matanle

 

Event 9: 14-17 Years Female 1st Kyu and Black Belts 

Gold Medal 1st Place: Lori-Ann Moran

Silver Medal 2nd Place: Leah Clare

Joint Bronze Medals 3rd Place: Megan Waters and Olivia Levell

 

Event 10: Junior Junro Kata

Gold Medal 1st Place: Lori-Ann Moran

Silver Medal 2nd Place: Sam Jackson

Joint Bronze Medals 3rd Place: Abby Fielding and Louis Johnson

 

Event 11: Adult Pairs Kata

Gold Medal 1st Place: Emma Ginn and Daryl Brady

Silver Medal 2nd Place: Andy Matalne and Jake Gould

Joint Bronze Medals 3rd Place: Paul and Sarah Evans

 

Ring 3 Kata Championships Results:

Event 1: Junior Team Kata Lower Grades

Gold Medal 1st Place: Poppy Evans, Luke Evans and Darcy Mason

Silver Medal 2nd Place: Matthew Harrington, Liam Dolan and Thomas Dolan

Joint Bronze 3rd Place: Grace Merriman, Freddie Lever and Ruben Smith and Robynn McNally, Ella Young and Akeccia Mutaki.

 

Event 2: 6-8 Years Red Belts 

Gold Medal 1st Place: Grace Merriman

Silver Medal 2nd Place: Alfie Davis

Joint Bronze 3rd Place: Yousef Kedjour and Ryan Bailey

 

Event 3: Family Kata

Gold Medal 1st Place: Catherine and Louis Johnson

Silver Medal 2nd Place: Aurelie Girault, Kyle Girault and Lola Girault

Joint Bronze 3rd Place: Dean Knox, Joshua Knox & Emily Knox and John O’ Donovan, Lilly O’ Donovan and Amy O’ Donovan.

 

Event 4: 10-11 Years Orange to Yellow Belts 

Gold Medal 1st Place: Isobel Pritchard

Silver Medal 2nd Place: Joel Mander

Joint Bronze 3rd Place:  Bradley Oliver

 

Event 5: Adult Males up to Purple and White Belt

Gold Medal 1st Place: Dave Smith

Silver Medal 2nd Place: Andy Matanle

Joint Bronze 3rd Place: Pawel Sobocinski and Paul Evans

 

Event 6: Adult Females Open Grade

Gold Medal 1st Place: Emma Ginn

Silver Medal 2nd Place: Su Matthews

Joint Bronze 3rd Place: Nicole Chadwick and Sarah Evans

 

Event 7: 12-14 Years Red To Purple Belt and 17 year old Green Belt 

Gold Medal 1st Place: Amy O’ Donovan

Silver Medal 2nd Place: Darcy Mason

Joint Bronze 3rd Place: Niamh Lysaght and Olivia Prince

 

Event 8: 9-11 Years Males Purple and White Belts and Brown Belts  

Gold Medal 1st Place: Ren Smith

Silver Medal 2nd Place: Ethan Green

Joint Bronze 3rd Place: Sonny Millington and Corey Stevens

 

Event 9: Age 10-11 Years 2nd Kyu Males

Gold Medal 1st Place: Zak Thomas-Blackhurst

Silver Medal 2nd Place: John Riley

Joint Bronze 3rd Place: Adam Bennett and Finley McLennan

 

Event 10: Junior Team Kata Higher Grades

Gold Medal 1st Place: Molly Austin-Hogsden, Lori-Ann Moran and Sam Jackson

Silver Medal 2nd Place: Leah Clare, Abby Fielding and Georgie Dyla

Joint Bronze 3rd Place: Jaime Pratley, Ava Nicholson & Cairan Abbott and Holly Dale, Lola Girault and Izzy Baron