Kent International, Kent

This year's kent International was one of the hardest comps I have done in Great Britain. There were some really good Dutch fighters as well as all the best British under 34's boys. I would have to fight really well to get a medal in this years competition.

Jack Murphy (First Fight)

As usual I started really slowly and struggled to beat Jack. Jack fought reallywell but I beat him with a yuko.

???????????(Second fight)

Still could not get into my judo and only won with a yuko.
Ben Schuurman (Third fight)

Ben is a very big strong Dutch fighter who had beaten me earlier in the year at the Dutch Espoir. I fought really well dominating ben with many good attacks winning with....................

Ziggy van der Brink (Fourth fight).

Ziggy is a very strong Dutch fighter who finished third in this years Dutch Espoir. Ziggy is very hard to fight and very fast. I thought I should have got a score early on but lost to a dodgy Yuko late on in the fight. I was very pleased with the way I fought. Ziggy later beat Liam Tarandij in the semi-final.

??????????(Fifth fight)

Won this fight with an ippon early on.

Ben Schuurman (Sixth fight)

I was up against Ben again next in the repecharge and had to fight well again to have a chance of winning a medal. I fought Ben the same way I did before and dominated with many attacks. I threw Ben for Ippon late on.

Liam Tarandij (Seventh Fight)

Liam is great fighter but i was fighting well. The fight went all the way with Liam scoring a Yuko with one of his pick-ups beating me for the bronze medal.. I was still really pleased with the fight.

Link to the results http://www.kentjudo.tk/

Graz International, Austria

This was my third year at Graz. I love coming here as the weather is really hot and the sports centre has a great big water park attached to it. I went with Rhiannon, Sam and Fay this year.

Link to Results: http://www.judo-creativ.at/it2009_results/_index.htm

Hasan Tambiev (Austria) First fight

Aleksandar Jovic (Serbia) Second Fight

Nicola Mortal (Italy) Semi-Final fight

Balaxs Acs (Hungary) Final

Venray International, The Netherlands

This year Venray was going to be the hardest comp I had done yet. I was in the under 15's (u34kg) and many of the best fighters around were competing this year. It was a tough step up to the under 15's.

Vano Niniashvili (Georgia) First Fight

First fight up was against a very small fast Georgian fighter. Vano was on the Georgian national team. I had never seen him fight aywhere before so did not know what to expect. He was very very fast and I was unhappy at losing to a dodgy yuko. Vano won all the rest of his fights to reach the final with big ippons so my fight wasn't that bad really.

Denis Berberat (Switzerland) Second fight

My second fight was an easy Ippon win against a Swiss fighter.

Jonathon Benyachou (Germany) Third fight

My third fight was against a strong German fighter. I fought really well winning with a wazari and then an Ippon.

Leopold Reinicke (Germany) Fourth fight

My fourth fight was against another very strong German fighter. Leopold had earlier thrown Owen Corzilius for Ippon so it was going to be my hardest fight yet. I fought really well and had found my best judo to beat him with an Ippon.

Mikhail Parfeev (Russia) Fifth fight

I was against a really fast Russian next but was fighting really well by now. I beat him easily with another big Ippon.

Owen Corzilius (Netherlands) Sixth fight

I had reached my mat final of the repecharge against Owen. I had never fought him before but he is one of the best Dutch fighters in this age group. I had to wait over two hours before we fought and could not find the judo from before. I lost by a yuko.

I was really pleased with the way I fought this year and finished seventh. Link to results:

http://www.judovenray.nl/Toernooi/Uitslagen/f.htm#f1