July News 2010

British International Championships 2010

The LKK Squad members attended the British International Open Karate Championships on the 10/11th July 2010. This prestigious event was held at the Kelvin Hall International Arena Glasgow Scotland.

This International event has not been held over the last few years and it was nice to see it back on the calendar for 2010. This event is always well attended and this year was no exception with over 800 category entries, 12 Countries and 3 Continents. It was nice to see teams from as far afield as Australia, Egypt and Yemen.

The first day was our 14yrs and above team members in action, first to medal on the mats was Chloe Duce in the 14-15 Female Cadets -54kg, she has had an exceptional year at competition winning her first International competition medal taking a well deserved Bronze. Emily Griffiths also took the Bronze in the Female Senior Open weight. Chris Harris in the Senior Male -60kg lost out in a close finale to the Scottish International fighter and had to settle for the Silver.

Day 2 first on the mats were our teams in the Boys 9yrs old and under Ethon Day, Lincon Pretlove and Zak Coates winning through to take the British International Title and Gold medals, followed by the Boys 10-13yrs Sam Day, Mitchell Priestley and Jack Wright also took the Gold in this section.

The individual events were to follow, next was Ethon Day in the Boys 7-9yrs in an exceptional large group fighting to his very best taking the Bronze medal. Mitchell Priestley in the Boys 12-13yrs -45kg added a Bronze medal to his collection, followed by Lincon Pretlove who also took the Bronze medal in the Boys 7-9yrs Open weight.

The only individual Gold medal of the Championships was taken by Zak Coates in the Boys 7-9yrs open weight section having an exceptional Championships winning through all of his rounds to the final winning the title under 9’s British International Champion 2010.

Medals:

Gold: 3
Silver: 1
Bronze: 5

Team:

Ethon Day, Zak Coates, Lincon Pretlove, Sam Day, Mitchell Priestley, Chloe Duce, Daniel Szabo, Chris Harris, Emily Griffiths, Loren Cook.

Links Karate Kai once again showed the true meaning of being a united club when out of club training time, 21 students and parents met up and headed to Colchester Cinema to see “KARATE KID”. In true LKK form the squad jackets were worn and our presence was known. The film was enjoyed by all and the atmosphere in the cinema was fantastic during the final fight when we all cheered on the hero as if he were one of our team members. The walk back to the car was great fun with the junior members getting their new moves out of their system before the next squad training. Good fun was had by all.