We’re just waiting on the final bit of sponsorship money from the bike ride to come in (£20) and then we have reached our target!
We’ve already started the process of putting our order in for the new mats so fingers crossed we’ll have them in the dojos within the next 2 weeks.
A huge thanks to everyone who took part on the day and to those who sponsored our riders with your generous donations. I’m working on a little video that will go up onto our YouTube page soon. It’s taking a little longer than I thought as I’m still waiting on video footage and photos from a few people but as soon as I have it all I can get it finished and upload it for all of you to see.
The “THANK YOU” page will be up on the site in a few days so be sure to keep a look out.
Once the mats have arrived we’ll get some fun pictures of all the students in action on them!
Osu!
Our fantastic riders after their 39 mile long journey through all the Seitou Ryu Karate dojos
Team SRK are joined by club mascot Yoshi for a photo with all of their trophies won on the day.
Three young students from our National Squad managed to win gold, silver and bronze medals in the AMA Southern Open Karate Championships held in Clacton-on-Sea on Sunday 14th April
Emma Ludkins, 10, brother Tommy, 9 from South Ockendon and Adam Baglin, 10 from Chelmsford, beat over 20 other competitors in the 4th Kyu and below junior division for kata to secure first, second and third placings. In addition to this, Emma also secured an additional 2nd place in the girls kumite division.
Chief instructor Sensei Richard Hang Hong said;
“They have all worked incredibly hard and its great to see it pay off at events such as these. The team spirit in the squad is fantastic, and special mention must be made of our youngest and newest member Megan Homer, who at just 8 years old won her first trophy for kumite today. She only started competing last month and this was only her second time in a tournament so this was quite an achievement for her. Her parents who were watching the entire day have been very encouraging and supportive and I’m sure they are extremely proud of her success too.”
The rest of the 12 strong squad kept up the good work and brought home 15 trophies in total. Richard Hang Hong won Bronze in the Men’s Black Belt Kata, following straight into the Mixed Open Black Belt Kata event and narrowly missed out on Gold but secured a Silver trophy. Fellow Wickford students Zoe Nolan (11yrs) and Connor Frost (12yrs) both whom had just graded to brown belt in March, won Bronze and Silver in their respective kata and kumite divisions. Chelmsford’s Martin Lawrence, 2nd Dan won Bronze in the men’s -75kg kumite, as well as winning Gold in Team Kata with Samuel Parker (Tilbury) and Sensei Richard. 16 year old black belt Jade Green from South Ockendon also had success with a Bronze win for Kata.
On Sunday 27th January at the South Woodham Ferrers dojo, students from across all Seitou Ryu Karate dojos were put through their paces at the bi-annual National Squad Selections.
Students had to demonstrate a variety of skills and abilities in speed, strength, co-ordination and agility, getting ranked on their individual kata and kumite performances, as well as going through a gruelling fitness and agility test to prove that they were capable of competing at the different levels of tournaments that they would be entering throughout the Spring 2013 season.
15 students were selected, 1 for the elite ‘A’ Squad and 14 for the ‘B’ Squad, with 3 of those being given an opportunity to be promoted to the ‘A’ Squad depending on how well they perform over the next 2 months.
The new line up is as follows:
‘A’ Squad
Martin Lawrence
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‘B’ Squad
Samuel Parker
Connor Frost
Jaiye Akinosho
Jade Green
Tatum Mandy
Zoe Nolan
Katie Nicholls
Alvin Shaw
James Burberry
Adam Baglin
Tommy Ludkins
Emma Ludkins
Claire Gillman
Megan Homer
Congratulations to all of the squad, we look forward to seeing great things from all of you throughout the season!
