Shotokan Tokon Karate Competition 21st June 2009


The club would like to thank each and everyone who competed for the club or came to support the club at the Shotokan Tokon Karate Competition.

It was a fantastic event but we were more impressed with the brilliant team spirit you all showed. Anita, Immy, Marcus, Joy, Patrick, Robert and Josh, you are all a credit to the club.

Whether you came away with a medal or not, it doesn’t matter, the team gained so much experience that we can move forward and get even better.

The team competed against 5 other clubs and not only will they remember that we came away with 10 medals they will also remember how we all supported each other. Well done team :-)


 

2nd Annual Kata Competition 11th June 2009

 

Category

Dragons Individual Kata

Position

Name

Kata

1st Place Gold Medal

Annie Wellen

 

2nd Place Silver Medal

Megan Scotchmer

 

3rd Place Bronze Medal

Megen Wellen

 

 

Category

Dragons Team Kata

Position

Name

Kata

1st Place Gold Medal

Dragon Star

 

2nd Place Silver Medal

N/A

 

3rd Place Bronze Medal

N/A

 

 

Category

Junior Individual Kata up to Orange

Position

Name

Kata

1st Place Gold Medal

Callum Stewart

 

2nd Place Silver Medal

Annabel Otterburn

 

3rd Place Bronze Medal

Jack Otterburn

 

 

Category

Junior Individual Kata Orange/Yellow above

Position

Name

Kata

1st Place Gold Medal

Anthony Thomas

 

2nd Place Silver Medal

Marcus Eaglen

 

3rd Place Bronze Medal

Imogen Thorpe

 

 

Category

Junior Team Kata

Position

Name

Kata

1st Place Gold Medal

Elite Sandan

 

2nd Place Silver Medal

Team Cobra

 

3rd Place Bronze Medal

Team Thunder


 

Category

Senior Individual Kata 5th Kyu and above

Position

Name

Kata

1st Place Gold Medal

Joy Abed

 

2nd Place Silver Medal

Stacey Marshall

 

3rd Place Bronze Medal

David Wilson


 

Category

Senior Individual Kata up to 4th Kyu

Position

Name

Kata

1st Place Gold Medal

Patrick Draper

 

2nd Place Silver Medal

Diane

 

3rd Place Bronze Medal

Sean McCloskey


 

Category

Mixed Team Kata

Position

Name

Kata

1st Place Gold Medal

Yin Yan

 

2nd Place Silver Medal

Oh Joy

 

3rd Place Bronze Medal

The Otterburns


 

Category

Senior Team Kata

Position

Name

Kata

1st Place Gold Medal

The Big Peanuts

 

2nd Place Silver Medal

Beauties and the Beast

 

3rd Place Bronze Medal

Just In Time

 

 

Category

Senior Individual Creative Kata

Position

Name

Kata

1st Place Gold Medal

Josh Hannen

 

2nd Place Silver Medal

Steph Wilson

 

2nd Place Silver Medal

Anita Warnes

 

 

Category

Junior Individual Creative Kata

Position

Name

Kata

1st Place Gold Medal

Josh Hannen


2nd Place Silver Medal

Steph Wilson

 

3rd Place Bronze Medal

Jordan Bull

 

 

Category

Mixed Team Creative Kata

Position

Name

Kata

1st Place Gold Medal

Yin Yan


2nd Place Silver Medal

TBC


3rd Place Bronze Medal

N/A

 

We would like to thank all the people who took part in the contest and also to all the people who helped.

Junior Medal Awards

Senior Medal Awards


 

Kata and Kumite Competition January 2009

All members of the DSKC were very kindly invited to participate in a local competition between ourselves and other clubs, it was at extremely short notice but we did manage to field a team of four. Here they are in high level team tactics

 

Andy, David, Joy and Robert were able to attend and they did the club very proud. Robert competed in both Kata and Kumite.


And we are very pleased to say that he came 2nd in the Kata Competition


David and Andy competed in the Kata Competition but unfortunately did not place in the medal positions. Joy however was very sucessful, he joined up with two other dan grades from another club to compete in the Team Kata Competition and came 1st


He then went on to very narrowly missing out on the top spot in the Free Style Kumite Competition but came in a very rewarding 3rd place


I think you have to agree that for a first showing at the competition and with such a small team we did very well, congratulations to those who took part. 

DSKC 1st Annual Kata Competition June 2008


A great evening for everyone, with a brilliant atmosphere thanks to our students and all the spectators who came to watch this first Annual Kata Competition.

Special thank you to our Judges, Martin and Andy who had a tough task. The results in some categories were very close. Also thank you to our helpers, Kata demonstrators and volunteers who helped enormously with the smooth running of the event. It all helped towards a great atmosphere and thank you to those of you who commented on how much you enjoyed yourselves.

Below is a collection of photos and video of the evening, see if you can spot yourself, also for those observant amongst you, see if you can spot when I nearly fell over walking backwards whilst recording some of the video.

Competition is a small part of Karate training, and as in life there are bound to be happy results and disappointments too. We hope you will join us in congratulating those who achieved the highest scores.

White/Blue/Red belt Category - Juniors

 1st Place Gold Medal  James Jessop
 2nd Place Silver Medal  George Pickering 
 3rd Place Bronze Medal  Ellie McQuarrie
 Highly Commended  Eshanee Aubeeluck
 Highly Commended  Adam Richardson
 Highly Commended  Jordan Bull

Judges' comments on these students included 'deep stances', 'good kiai' 'good etiquette' and overall the judges scored most favourably on those students that really threw themselves into the Kata without losing accuracy.

Orange - Purple/white stripe Category - Juniors

 1st Place Gold Medal  Marcus Eaglen
 2nd Place Silver Medal  Amy Wild
 3rd Place Bronze Medal  Imogen Thorpe
 Highly Commended  Anthony Thomas
 Highly Commended  Nathan Clarke
 Highly Commended  Patrick Draper

Judges comments' 'Good front stance', 'Good etiquette', 'Sharp', '1 kata above grade' - the winning students were exceptionally sharp and showed great spirit. Sensei Martin also commented that winning student Marcus Eaglen has 'almost become part of the dojo furniture' as he trains regularly and rarely misses a session. Well done Marcus!

All grades - Senior Category

 1st Place Gold Medal  Karen Wild
 2nd Place Silver Medal  Andy Roe
 3rd Place Bronze Medal  Scott Sawers
 Highly Commended  Amrit Aubeeluck
 Highly Commended  David Wilson
 Highly Commended  Theo Giannoukos

A hard fought contest, very close results for several students. An atmosphere you could cut with a knife hand block!

Winners and commended students will all be invited to join the DSKC Kata Squad for open events coming soon.

Think you could do well in open competitions? Let us know if you would like to join in with Squad training. You'll be very welcome!

OSS!