Congratulations to the Uni team for performing so well at the KUGB Student Championships. Alex, Tyrone and Graham brought home 1st place in the Team Kata with Ciaran, Tim and Kerry coming 2nd. Ciaran then went on to win the brown belt Kata event too. Fantastic result guys!
Awesome result for Meleri for getting Silver in both the girl’s kata and kumite events. Well done indeed! Also well done for Steve Bailey for narrowly missing out on the boys kata finals, hoping you get the luck you deserve next time, eh?
Most of the videos were accidentally recorded in slow motion. Great for analysing detail but not so good to watch. If anyone fancies converting them to normal speed let us know 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zH4dwyKZ6M
Well done! to Meleri, Steve B and Anya, who competed at the National Youth Championships in Chesterfield on Saturday 3rd July. They all performed well, and came away with even more medals and trophies! Meleri righted a wrong from the Welsh Champs, repeating the same kata and winning gold in the individual girls black belt kata. Anya did well in the individual girls brown belt kata, taking silver after narrowly missing out on gold by only 0.1 point, and the team kata were narrowly beaten in the finals, winning themselves a 3rd place and some bronze medals. Steve missed out on a place in the individual boys black belt kata after losing in the eliminations against some very strong opposition.
Congratulations to everyone who competed on the 19th of June. Mel, Steve, Anya and Ella performed brilliantly, with Mel winning silver in the girls kumite and bronze in the girls kata, Steve winning gold in the boys kata and bronze in the boys kumite, Anya winning bronze in the girls kata and Ella winning bronze in the ippon kumite. Mel, Steve and Anya also teamed up to win gold in the team kata – AGAIN!
Rosie, Mark, Bernie, Rhys and Scott from the university club also competed, all performing well but narrowly missing out on places in the finals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRmD2EqFJZ0
Congratulations to everyone for doing so well at the KUGB National Championship. You may have heard the news already but for those who don’t already know, Meleri, Steve B and Anya won the Children’s Team Kata event at the British Championships in Birmingham recently. Awesome!
Well done to Hywel, Scott, Ella, George and Celyn for competing well, future champions maybe? Let’s keep our fingers crossed for the upcoming Welsh Championships on June 19th.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ez0GjIV9CA
A good turn out saw us coming home with some good results. Scott Fleming won gold in the Men’s Kata, and also won silver in the team kata alongside Tim Hudson and Kerry Thomas. Scott, Tim, Nat Wright and Mark Reading took bronze in the Men’s Team Kumite, and Nat and Samuel Pike took gold and silver in the ippon kumite. Well done!
We’d also like to say a big well done to Anya, Rosie, Christopher and Ryan for also doing very well but unfortunately came home empty handed… this time. Let’s hope you get the luck you deserve next time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbVFdKxQ0d0
It was an excellent week. Pete Bonser gained his instructor’s qualification on the Tuesday. Thursday’s kata competition went well with Steve Bailey taking second in the black belt kata, Scott Fleming taking first in the brown belt kata and Kerry Thomas, Tim Hudson and Iwan Roderick came first, third and fourth in the colour belt competition.
As usual the course was top notch, mentally and physically exhausting but extremely rewarding and inspirational as always.
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Sensei Paul narrowly misses out of the medals int the Team Kata, coming 5th and very narrowly losing to a split decision in the individual kata against the eventual winner.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0S5ma-C0q0&feature=g-upl
Sensei Paul narrowly misses out on the medals.
Disappointment as Paul James loses in the quarter finals of the individual kata after a split decision against the eventual winner, Akio Tamashiro of Peru.
The second outing for the new Welsh Kata Team narrowly missed the finals with a commendable 6th place, a couple of places higher than at last year’s European Championships showing steady improvement.
http://youtu.be/83fhfqSOcbw
Senior Men’s Kata final
Paul takes the “brown belt katas” for a run-out in the elimination rounds in preparation for the World Championships. Was surprised to make it through to the finals!
http://www.youtube.com/v/bslyrrEeuWc&hl=en&fs=1&
Paul’s 12th consecutive win, Steven holds his own in the kumite and Toni joins Paul and Dan in the team kata
First of all I’d like to congratulate everybody in their efforts at the recent North Wales Kyu Grades Championships. We had a fantastic result of 4 Gold, 1 Silver and 5 Bronze. In addition we also won two additional trophies: “Best Male Competitor” and “Best Attitude and Etiquette”. Well done!
Well done to Pete Bonser for winning the Kata event at this year’s TWC course and congratulations to Toni James for gaining her Instructor’s Qualification.
