Fantastic results for the Yanagi Kai squad at the Central England International Open, finishing forth in the over all medal table with six gold, nine silver and nine bronze. This was a great effort considering that we didn’t have our full squad in attendance and with a little more luck we might have been able to convert a couple of the silvers to gold and finished slightly higher.
Most encouragingly our medals haul was spread throughout our squad, from our younger members through to our more experience campaigners in both kata and kumite.
It’s always very difficult to point-out Individuals in such brilliant team performance but I feel I have to mention Jannat Farhan taking silver in the girls 10-11 years and going on and winning the 10-11 years mixed team event with Reece Allen and George Malone. Such a quiet and placid young lady when training at the dojo but we certainly saw a different side to her this weekend and that excites me for her future.
Competitor of the day has to be Eve Holdsworth with two gold and a silver, closely followed by Jed Thompson one gold and two silver as well as £100 cheque for wining one of the blue ribbon events.
Well done all.
Brilliant day of competition and a huge thank you to Sensei Stennett Harvey and his team for a well organised competition.
The days results are as follows;
Kata
Gold – Ellie Payne 14-15 years
Gold – Sam Eagle 12-13 years
Gold – Eve Holdsworth 12-13 years
Gold – Eve Holdsworth, Tahlia Blake 12 -13 years pair
Silver – Eve Holdswoth 14-15 years
Silver – George Malone 12-13 years
Silver – Liberty Blake 12-13 years
Bronze – Lydia Bevan Senior
Bronze – Ellie Costin 14-15 years
Bronze – Lydia Bevan, Ellie Costin 14 plus pair
Bronze – Tahlia Blake 12-13 years
Kumite
Gold – Jed Thompson – Senior
Gold – Reece Allen, Jannat Farhan, George Malone 11-12 years team
Silver – Jed Thompson Open
Silver – Jed Thompson -21 years
Silver – Daniel Bartoletta 14-15 year
Silver – Rhys Daly 14-15 years
Silver – Reece Allen 10 -11 years
Silver – Jannat Farhan 10-11 years
Bronze – Joshua Combers -21years
Bronze – Esther Beales -21 years
Bronze – Aiden Docherty 14-15 years
Bronze – George Malone 10-11 years