This was my first competition in the 'B' band and it was the very difficult Heart of England. I was in a group of .. fighters. I needed to perform well in this and the Nationals to get a place on the English squad. It was going to be very hard as three of the existing squad were in my group.Earl Starbrook (Hardy Spicer )First Fight
I won this fight quickly with a nice ko-uchi
Miles Nelson (New Star) Second Fight
This fight went the distance and I won with a wazari.
The draw worked out really good because the four semi-finalists were me, Jordan, Kieran and Tommy. They are all older than me and on the squad already
Tommy Ryan (Pinewood) Semi-Final
Tommy is a great fighter and we always have good fights. It was a hard fight but I managed to win by a wazari.
Jordan Haughey (Micklefield) Final
I was really please to get into the final and was fighting very well. The fight went into golden score and I got caught for a yuko. I was really pleased with my silver medal.
Eric,
ReplyDeleteCongratulations my dear judofriend with this wonderfull result, keep on beating the Squidmembers till you're in !!
maybe i see you in december at the stage in Budokan Rotterdam (Mark Huizinga) i will go there only for one day because i'm in a personal training stage that time. Otherwise we will meet at Dutch Open 2010 Eindhoven !
For now have fun and make nice Ippons !!
Hello Eric.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations with the first place in Venray.
I will come to Kent at 25 june. I hope to see you there.
kindly regards.
Jeffrey van der Vliet
Eric lost his fight in Kent against Papadopoulos, a brown belder, the nr, 1 was Schuurmans a blue Belder
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