Best Adult – Meleri Pryse
Best Young Senior Grade – Cerys Scott.
Best Young Junior Grade – Luke Taylor.

Best Young Senior Grade – Winner: Cerys Scott and Lowri Scott with 11 stars.
Runner-up:  Thomas Cowhig with 7 stars.

Best Young Junior Grade – Winner: Luke Taylor and Sioned Exley with 8 stars.
Runner-up:  Conor Lochery with 6 stars.

Best Adult – Winner: Meleri Pryse with 17 stars.
Runner-up: Steven Bailey with 15 stars, and Christopher Davies with 11 stars.

Best Adult – Ros (Rostislav Revako)
Best Young Senior Grade – Meleri Pryse.
Best Young Junior Grade – Luke Taylor.

Best Young Senior Grade – Winner: Meleri Pryse with 29 stars.
Runner-up: Christopher Roberts with 16 stars, and Thomas Cowhig with 16 stars.

Best Young Junior Grade – Winner: Luke Taylor with 18 stars.
Runner-up: Sioned Exley with 17 stars, and Cerys Scott with 15.5 stars.

Best Adult – Winner: Ros (Rostislav Revako) with 44 stars.
Runner-up: Katharina Hoene with 34 stars, and Graham Hunt with 33 stars.

Best Adult – Katharina Hoene
Best Young Senior Grade – Meleri Pryse.
Best Young Junior Grade – Luke Taylor.

Best Young Senior Grade – Winner: Meleri Pryse with 24 stars.
Runner-up: Christopher Roberts with 18 stars, and Ella Evans with 16 stars.

Best Young Junior Grade – Winner: Luke Taylor with 24 stars.
Runner-up: Holly Thomas and Millie Hore with 19 stars each.

Best Adult – Winner: Katharina Hoene with 24 stars.
Runner-up: Ross (Rostislav Pevako) and Mark Reading with 20 stars each.

Fantastic performance at this year’s Shotokan Cup.

At only 16 years of age Meleri Pryse had a large task ahead of her after moving up a category this year to compete in the Ladies Under 21s Kata event. Surprising her opposition she stormed through the preliminary rounds with the top scores.  Entering the finals as one of the favourites Meleri performed a brilliant rendition of  Gankaku, taking the British title at her first attempt!

Steven Bailey had perhaps an even tougher challenge.  Moving up to the 18+ Men’s event having just turned 18 the day before meant Steve was the youngest in his category.  To make matters harder this event also consisted of the current World Champ, the European Champ and two other international medallists.  With a superb performance of Gojushiho Dai in the semi finals Steve missed out of the medals by the smallest margin possible (just 0.1 point!).  Being that close really shows that Steve has got what it takes to take on the very best.  Watch this space!

The others in brief…

Kat fought well, nearly beating a 4th Dan and had the courage to take on Kanku Dai in the eliminations.  Colin went toe to toe with someone twice his size and Mark rocked out a tidy Heian Godan and faced last year’s kumite champ without flinching.

All in all a good weekend, even if we did have our hotel double booked and had to drive an extra 20 minutes to get to Mansfield.

Big thanks also to Mark for driving all the way there and back.

Go Team Ikkyo!!

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Apologies for the quality of the videos, there’s some skipping.  My new camera is supposed to be able to take photos and video at the same time but the SD card looks like it’s on its last legs.  I’ll look into getting a new one.  Sensei Paul

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Best Adult – Mark Reading
Best Young Senior Grade – Steven Bailey.
Best Young Junior Grade – Luke Taylor.

Best Young Senior Grade – Winner: Steven Bailey with 11 stars.
Runner-up: Christopher Roberts with 10 stars, and Meleri Pryse with 8 stars.

Best Young Junior Grade – Winner: Luke Taylor with 16.5 stars.
Runner-up: Ioan Reading with 12.5 stars, and Jennifer James with 10.5 stars.

Best Adult – Winner: Mark Reading with 25 stars.
Runner-up: Colin Ferguson with 17 stars, and Katharina Hoene with 16 stars.

Best Adult – Katharina Hoene
Best Young Senior Grade – Christopher Davies.
Best Young Junior Grade – Luke Taylor.

Best Young Senior Grade – Winner: Christopher Davies with 22 stars.
Runner-up: Callum Bain with 19.5 stars, and Meleri Pryse with 17.5 stars.

Best Young Junior Grade – Winner: _Luke Taylor with 21.5 stars.
Runner-up: Sioned Exeley with 19.5 stars, and Cerys Scott with 18.5 stars.

Best Adult – Winner: Katharina Hoene with 23 stars.
Runner-up: Mark Reading with 22.5 stars, and Colin Ferguson with 16.5 stars.

Back row: Paul James, ?, Dave Mills, Hywel Davies, Christopher Roberts, Meleri Pryse, Steven Bailey, Katharina Hoene, ?, Berith Lochery, Mark Reading, ?, Becky Mitchell, Sensei Bob Poynton.

Middle row: Christopher Davies, James Roberts, Colin Ferguson, ?, ?, Brett Ferguson, Callum Bain, ?, Rachel Hill, ?

Front row: Thomas Cowhig, Lowri Scott, Luke Taylor, Cerys Scott, Olivia Hill, Mathilda Fenton, Connor Lochery, Holly Thomas, Julia Davies

Best Adult – Rosie Reading
Best Young Senior Grade – Meleri Pryse.
Best Young Junior Grade – Lowri Scott.

Best Young Senior Grade – Winner: Meleri Pryse with 28 stars.
Runner-up: Ella Evans with 21 stars, and Christopher Davies with 19 stars.

Best Young Junior Grade – Winner: Lowri Scott with 17.5 stars.
Runner-up: Olivia Hill with 16.5 stars, and Luke Taylor with 15.5 stars.

Best Adult – Winner: Rosie Reading with 29 stars.
Runner-up: Mark Reading with 26 stars, and Julia Davies with 17.5 stars.

Great result.  Ella coming 3rd in the girl’s kumite. Steve helped Mel and Anya get through to the Team finals but had to withdraw after injury.  Anya did an excellent job as a reserve. Mark fought well but was unfortunate to be drawn against Callum O’Neil (winner of Best Competitor trophy) for the second year running, this time taking an early lead only to lose in extra time.  Well done

If anyone has any photos, video or links of the day they want to share drop us a line.

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