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Sunday March 2nd 2008 at Bletchley Leisure Centre
It
was suggested that this year the Bletchley Area Gradings were to be
organised a little differently. Sensei McMahon and Sensei Kidby decided
to organise a series of displays & a large marketing compaign to
try to attract new beginners and show aspiring karate-ka what they
could look forward to & hope to achieve as a Dan grade.
The
demonstrations were split inbetween the various stages of the normal
gradings. The demonstrations included: self defence in common
situations against different size attackers, breaking demo, knife
defence, team kata, freestyle kumite, bo kata, bo kumite, sword
defence, mass Dan grade kata and line training.
The
audience seemed to enjoy all the displays, going by the appluase that
greeted the demonstrations. There were a few nervious people peforming
in the demonstrations but all executed sucessfully.
Club Trophy Winners:
Clapham: Luke Whitworth
Riseley: Gregory May
Ampthill: Oliver Donoghue
Brickhill: Daniel Young
Kempston: Mason Matthews
Newport Pagnell: Simon McMahon
Newton Longville: Louise Thomas
Bletchley: Sandrine Gaffney
Wolverton: Anthony Nevin
Cedars: Courtney Plummer
Bushfield: Jude Beckett
There
was good support from the Dan grades, thanks go to all that turned up
& all those who put a lot of time & effort into making the
demonstrations. Also congratulations go to all the students who passed
their gradings - keep up the hard work!
Below are some links to a selection of movie clips of demonstrations peformed:
Kumite
Bo Kumite
Gankaku sho
Line Training
Knife Defense
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