Saturday 14 July 2012

Lithuania Training Camp



I traveled over to Lithuania for a Training Camp.  In total there were 15 of us who went over with other players from Shadsworth and SKK coming with us.  It was a really tough camp and I really pushed the randori doing four sessions a day fighting on both the Junior and Senior sessions.  I had over 50 randoris.

Saturday 7 July 2012

National Team Championships

This year the North west Area managed to put all three teams into the competition.  It was a great team event and it was great to be part of a team.
There were eight Junior boys teams entered.  The lowest weight in the team was -34 going up to 81+.  Teams were placed into two groups of four and we were in a group with the Northern Area, Midlands Area and the Southern area.
  
v Southern Area (First  Match)
In our first match we fought well managing to beat the Southern area 5-4.  I beat Adam Khakiev.

v Midland Area (Second Match)
In our second match we were up against the strong Midland team losing the contest 4-5.  In my contest I defeated Robbie Beedles.

v Northern Area (Third Match)
In our final match we needed to beat the Northern Area in order to go through to the semi-finals.  We all fought really well winning the match 7-3.  I defeated Alex hampshire in my contest.

v Scotland (Semi-Final)
Our Semi-Final draw was against the strong Scotland team.  Their team was full of top talent and the final score was an 9-1 beating.

Finishing with a Bronze medal was a good result for the North West.