Crawley Stars Shine at the
Severn Challenge Oct 2010
The club had 4 students representing England at the under 18 international event. In the clicker points under 16 team event Josh Mays captained England to overall victory with the assistance of Blake Collins and Yusmin Khan. The teams consisted of 7 fighters and England eased into the finals sefeating Ireland and Switzerland to set up a gudge match against old foes Wales.
As the final finished 3-3 both teams had to send out an extra fighter and Josh stepped up to secure an England victory by the narrowest of margins.
In the contact event for 16 and 17 year olds Dawid Ozga who had turned 16 the week before won his first fight and drew his second to claim 1st place overall in this round robin lightweight event.
34th British Open (Cup of Europe)
Crawley fighters found it tough going at this years Open which featured 13 countries and teams from 26 organisations.
Darren Stringer won his first fight by waza ippon with punches but came unstuck on the board breaking and lost his quarter final match to the winner Afansyev by one board.
Tom Silver took a disputed split decision in the HW section then defeated a tough spaniard by ippon with punches. Unfortunately his luck ran out when he met the giant Karshigeev from Russia who scored ippon with a gyaku tsuki.
The clubs only other entrant Tamas Takacs was gonig ok when he rolled his ankle causing him to lose his first round match.
Charlie Venes scores KO at Undisputed 3
Charlie took on Matt Jennens of the IKK in a 3 x 2 minute Knockdown one match. Matt took the fight to Charlie putting trememndous pressure on him in the first minute but Charlie came back and scored a waza ari by Jodan Mawashi Geri to take the round.
In the second again the spirited Jennens went for it but by now Charlie was in his stride and held off the onslaught before scoring ippon with a jumping spinning back kick.
New Shodan at the Dojo
15 yr old Junior Josh Mays became a first dan black belt at this years Summer Camp. The 5 hour grading watched over by BKK chief instructor Hanshi Steve Arneil saw Josh having to demonstrate a high technical level. Well done to Josh.
IKO 3 Knockdown World Cup Estepona - Spain
Darren Stringer fell at the final hurdle in his attempt to retain his World title. After moving straight into the quarter final due to fighter no shows and a injury withdrawal Darren faced Nonaka of Japan and made good use of the fact the Japanese fighter was already carrying injuries. As Nonaka pressured he kept punishing his legs with low kicks. The first round was given a draw and the Japanese fighters will was broken, being stopped with gedan mawashi geri.
The semi finsl was against old foe Imre Gyarmati of Hungary and this was a tight contest with Darren controlling the majority of the bout with speed of his technique.
The final saw the unorthadox Asqihar Jabbari of Iran cause problems with his height and range and Darren dropped a 2 round decision.
England v Wales Tournament Apr 2010
Four Club members were chosen for the England Squad to compete at the England v Wales Tournament in April 2010.
(Charlie Venes was unable to compete on the day)
Darren Stringer fought in the Men's Clicker Team winning his fight, but the Team were narrowly defeated taking Silver.
Josh Mays & Dawid Ozga fought in the Boy's Clicker Team and despite both of them winning their fights the Team took Silver.
Josh Mays also competed in the Boy's Kata Team, it was very close with Wales taking Gold & England Silver.
World Kata Tournament April 2010
Darren Stringer Takes World Title in Switzerland....
Darren Stringer fought in the Men's Clicker Team winning his fight, but the Team were narrowly defeated taking Silver.
Sensei Darren Stringer took Gold and the World Kata Title in Kriens, Switzerland in April 2010.
He also competed in the Men's GB Kata Team with fellow Club member Charlie Venes, taking 4th Place.
BKK National Kata & Senior Team Clicker Tournament March 2010
Darren Stringer Takes National Kata Title for the 8th Consecutive Year!
At the BKK National Kata & Senior Team Clicker Tournament in March 2010, Sensei Darren Stringer takes Gold and National Kata Title for the 8th Year running.
The Crawley Kata Team: Neil Madeley, Darren Stringer & Charlie Venes was changed when Charlie dislocated his finger during a clicker fight. Ian Hamilton stepped in to take his place and the Team finished 3rd.
The Crawley Clicker Team: Neil Madeley, Darren Stringer, Ian Hamilton, Gary Hawkins, Clive Norman & Charlie Venes were beaten by Westcroft who retained their Title leaving the Crawley Team with 2nd Place ~ Silver.
Other Club members who took part in the Kata are: Colin Spriggs, Richard Flores-Moore, Tony Klimaytys, Dawid Ozga, Steven Smoker, Blake Collins, Ryan Morter & Christopher Millar.
IKU Rengokai Open Tournament March 2010
Josh Mays & Dawid Ozga tried their first semi-contact tournament under the guidance of Shihan David Pickthall in March 2010.
They entered the IKU Rengokai Open International Tournament in the Junior Boys 13-15 category, held in Wales.
The boys dominated this category fighting their way into the Final, they fought well in a close Final with Dawid narrowly beating Josh taking 1st & 2nd Places
Pilatus Cup March 2010
Josh Mays age 14.
Josh was 1 of only 10 Juniors chosen to be part of the England Junior Squad for The Pilatus Cup Tournament in Kriens, Switzerland - held on Saturday 13th march 2010.
It was a Tournament for individuals in Clicker & Kata, with 4 Countries competing.
After some very close scoring, Josh managed 4th Place in the Junior Boys High Grade Kata.
In the Junior Boys High Grade Clicker Category, Josh fought and won 5 consecutive fights putting him in the Final against the Current World Junior Champion Nathan Williams from Wales.
Josh fought Nathan confidently scoring well to Win and take 1st Place.
Crawley Kyokushin Karate Kids NAS Final
Crawley Kyokushinkai’s young fighting stars in action at the December NAS finals.
The results of the day were:-
Josh
Yusmin
Points Sparring - 1st place.
Points Sparring - 1st place.
Continuous Sparring - 2nd Place
Continuous Sparring - 3rd Place
Forms/Kata - 3rd Place
BKK National Clicker Tournament Nov 2009
At the BKK National Clicker Tournament in November 2009, the Club's Junior Boys Team consisting of: Josh Mays, Dawid Ozga, Nathan Croke, Blake Collins & Liam Williams came 1st taking the National Title, beating Docklands 3-2 in the Final.
In the individuals, Josh Mays came 1st in the -168cm category taking the National Title, beating Club mates Blake Collins 2nd & Liam Williams 3rd.
Dawid Ozga came 2nd in the +168cm category after losing to the current World Champion from Wales in a close fought Final.
Yellow Belt Ryan Morter had his first success taking 1st Place and the National Title in the -160cm category.
Darren Stringer & Ian Hamilton had to settle for Joint 3rd Place in the Adult High Grade category, with over 60 fighters battling it out for the Title.
British Open Knockdown Tournament K2 October 2009 - 5
Crawley had just a few fighters competing at the British Open in October 2009.
Most of the regular competitors were recovering from competing at the All Kyokushin World Tournament in Hungary at the beginning of October
Heavyweight Tamas Takacs fought his way to the last eight before losing to the eventual Winner Tim Haverkamp from Holland. However, Tamas did win the wood breaking trophy for the second year running, breaking a total of 17 boards in three breaks, seven with his elbow!
Lightweight Charlie Venes managed to take 3rd place in the Novice Category.
Severn Challenge Clicker Tournament October 2009
Josh Mays was selected to Captain the England Junior Team along with Club mates Dawid Ozga & Yusmin Khan to compete in the Severn Challenge Clicker Tournament in October 2009.
There were 6 Countries competing at this pretigious event held in Hertfordshire, with England and Wales reaching the Final.
In a very tense Final, England were 3-0 down but the team responded well with a Victory for England taking the Title 4-3.
Crawley Kyokushin Karate Kids Clean Up at the NAS
Crawley Kyokushinkai’s young fighting stars look set for places in the National All Styles Finals in December after another terrific display at the Burgess Hill Triangle recently.
Charlie Venes was first in the cadet points fighting and was asked to compete in one of the mens categories taking first again.
Josh Mays aged 14 once again dominated his events taking gold in both the points and continuous fighting. In the same category Nathan Croke 14, took bronze in the continuous and Liam Williams aged 13 was 3rd in the points.
Yusmin , 14 added 2 more titles to her resume with a 1st in points and kata.
Ryan Morter aged 12 narrowly lost in the final of the points for 2nd place and added to that with a 2nd in the continuous.
Our pee wee fighter Finn Williams aged 7 had another 2nd place and Blake Collins aged 13 came 4th in the points.
With both the southern area and northern area fighters coming together for the 6th December we are looking forward to some tough battles for the top prizes.
Hungary 2009
The team of 24 karateka has seven British competitors included of which two Crawley fighters Sensei Darren Stringer and Senpai Tom Silver have been selected.
Both fighters are current British Champions at their respective weights and have performed well enough in 2009 to book themselves seats on the plane for what will surely be the martial arts tournament of the year.
They are currently being put through their paces and honing their fitness at the Dojo in Tilgate as they will need to be at their best both mentally and physically in an event that lasts 3 days.
After two days of qualifying the top 8 fighters in each weight will do battle for the title in front of an estimated 12500 spectators in the Pap Lazlo arena.
With Eurosport covering the tournament we expect the competition to be fierce in this bare knuckle knockdown style.
26 July 2009
Crawley Interclub
This years event was made up of 4 teams of 12 fighters plus individuals. Westcroft and Eastbourne made one team, Hastings/West Hill, Dunmow, Leyton and of course home team Crawley. Full results will be posted in the Special events. Photo's are on the gallery.
West Hill won a fight off for first against Crawley with two Pee Wee's contesting the trophy.
Many thanks for all that supported this event.
25 July 2009
Senpai Mick Gooch who was active in the BKK in the 70's and 80's visited the dojo on Saturday to be filmed by Titlebash.com performing one finger one arm push ups. Mick who came 3rd in the 1979 British Knockdown has devoted much of his time performing breaks such as tettsui on a coconut or a milk bottle. See the gallery special section for a picture of him doing a push up on a heineken bottle. We will also load a film of him doing the push ups on a nail head. A truly remarkable feat.
25 July 2009
Many thanks to Senpai Gary Hawkins for making and donating the new sign for the dojo and to Tony McGregor for his artwork
19 July 2009
National All Styles Championships Round 2- Burgess Hill
The second round took place with Crawley doing very well again. This time we only had 4 participants but they all performed to a high level.
Results below, photos loaded on gallery-
Josh Mays 1st Points, 1st Contiuous and 2nd in the Kata
Yusmin Khan 2nd Points, 2nd Continuous
Charlie Venes 3rd Points
Blake Collins also took part.
5 July 2009
Crawley will host an interclub clicker event at the dojo on Sunday26th July with a BBQ. Dunmow, Westcroft from London and a combined team of Hastings and West Hill will compete in the 4 club event. Team and Individual fighters will take part in PeeWee, -160cm, -165cm, +165cm and 16 to 18 yrs categories.
13 June 2009
Regional Knockdown Tournament - Milton Keynes
Heavyweight Tomas Takacs took 3rd place in his weight class at this event. After downing his first opponent Tomas was fouled with an illegal technique which split his mouth open. He tried to fight in the semi-final but was forced to withdraw when the cut re-opened and the Doctor's could not stem the bleeding.
Crawley's Roy Salvi had his first fight in the novice section losing a 3 rd decision but hopes to do better in October.
24 May 2009
National All Styles Championships - Burgess Hill
The dojo's junior section as well as cadets Charlie Venes and Dan Fryer from Derby took part in the 1st Round of the NAS points fighting event where different styles including Kick boxers and Taekwondo take part. They hold continous fighting similar to clicker and also points fighting. Results below-
Yusmin Khan 1st Continuous 12-14yrs and 2nd in the Points 13-14yrs,
Charlie Venes 1st Continuous 16-17years. Dan Fryer 2nd Points 16-17.
Liam Williams, Blake Collins and Alexander Tackley all took part in the event.
Liam, Blake, Finn, Charlie, Nathan, Yusmin and Josh
18 April 2009
England v Wales Event
Three Crawley members represented the dojo for England with Josh Mays in the junior kata team who narrowly lost. Charlie Venes in the mens kata team that won and Dawid Ozga in the junior clicker team. Dawid won his fight assisting England to team victory.
Dawid and Josh pictured below
5 April 2009
Da Gracia Dutch Youth Tournament - Holland
Charlie Venes took 2nd place in Kyokushin Rules Cadet fighting defeating his first opponent looking much stronger with punches and clearly hurting his opponent. His second fight was a draw with Charlie again being the stronger puncher but his opponent was more successful with kicks.
In the ubder 16 section Dawid Ozga had his first taste of international fighting winning his clicker fight against his dutch opponent. Overall the Dutch team came out on top.
16th March 2009
Pilatus Cup - Switzerland
The Swiss held their annual international event for juniors and cadets with England, Wales, Holland, Belgium and Switzerland competing. Crawley's Josh Mays took part in both the Kata and Clicker fighting events and was the only English competitor to come back with a trophy. He managed 4th place in the Kata but did one better in the fighting battling his way through to the semi's to be narrowly beaten by the eventual winner from Holland. Josh is pictured below with his 3rd place trophy and the rest of the junior competitors from England.
21st Feb 2009 Wanderlai Silva Seminar
Senpai Ian Hamilton took the opportunity to go up and train with MMA legend Wanderlai Silva who hosted a seminar with K-1 Remi Bonjansky. I am sure Ian will be keen to try out a few of his new moves during sparring at the dojo so watch out you've been warned.
Ian with Ultimate Fighter Wanderlai Silva
4th Dutch Open Knockdown 1st Feb 2009
The Crawley dojo finished off a successful weekend as Tom Silver gained 2nd place in the Mens Super HW category. He knocked out his first fighter with right jodan mawashi geri in 55 secs and then dispatched his next opponent by waza ippon scoring a half point winding the fighter from Belgium with a body punch then a straight back kick to the body sealed victory in 1min 23secs.
The final was an all BKK match with the much heavier Hadi Azizkhani using his 125kg weight to force Tom back. After an even 1st round Hadi managed to pick up the pace in the last 30 secs of the 2nd to gain judges decision victory.
Darren Chan took 2nd in the middleweight having to withdraw through shin injury and Wai Cheung took 3rd place also in MW after a tough 3 round battle with the eventual winner.
Felix Ntumazah, Wai Cheung, Darren Chan, Hadi Azizkhani, Tomas Takacs, Tom Silver, David Pickthall, Ian Hamilton
6th French Open Knockdown 31 Jan 2009
Darren Stringer took first place in the lightweight category in Lille. He scored a KO with right jodan mawashi geri against his first opponent in 1 min 35secs and made light work in his second fight taking a 3 minute decision. The semi final was a tougher affair against a Polish opponent who took him 5 minutes.
He faced previous champion David Derycke the hometown favourite in the final. Darren started well but the frenchman came back strongly to force two extensions before the judges gave Darren victory.
There was more success for the British fighters with Simeon Kyurchiev winning the middleweight and woodbreaking trophies and Lia Howlett taking 2nd place in the Ladies +65kg and Alan Shnawa 3rd in the LW.
Left to Right - Lia Howlett, Simeon Kurychiev, Darren Stringer, Alan Shnawa
31st Jan/ 1st Feb 2009
French Open/ Dutch Open Knockdown Events
Crawley members Darren Stringer, Tom Silver and Tomas Takacs will compete in their first knockdown tournaments of the year next weekend. Darren will take part in the 6th French Shinkyokushin tournament in Lille and Tom and Tomas will be going to Drachten Holland. The BKK is sending two teams to take part in these events under the guidance of Shihans David Pickthall and Terry Prescott.
29th November 2008
Success for the Juniors at the British Clicker Championships
Green Belts Dawid Ozga and Yusmin Khan took first place in their respective categories in the National event at Reading. Dawid beat clubmate in the Josh Mays in the boys -165cm category. Liam Williams also took a 3rd place trophy in the lower grade catgegory.
Sensei Darrwn Stringer had to settle for 2nd place losing the seniors final to Sensei Felix Ntumazah from Crystal Palace.
Crawley were also represented by Seniors Clive Norman, Alyse Madeley, Charlie Venes, Sam Hunt, Richard Flores-Moore and Juniors Jack Standen, Alexander Tackley, Dominik Ozga, Ryan Morter. Photos in Gallery.
Josh Mays, Dawid Ozga, Darren Stringer, Yusmin Khan, Liam Williams
Crawley dominate at the 32nd British Open Knockdown
Sensei Darren Stringer won the lightweight category and Senpai Tom Silver took the heavyweight title plus fastest KO defeating clubmate Tomas Takacs in the final. To round it off Sam Hunt to the novice heavyweight 1st place. The only fighter not to pick up a placing was 40 yr old Gavin Rush who came back after 18 years and did not disgrace himself losing to his Dutch opponent on a weight decision after the judges could not pick a winner. Pictures to be added in the gallery.
27th September 2008
The 32nd British Open Knockdown Championships is only a week away with K2 being a sellout. Support the Crawley fighters. Sensei Darren Stringer Lightweight, Senpai Tom Silver Heavyweight, Senpai Sam Hunt Novice Heavyweight, Gavin Rush Heavyweight and Tomas Takacs Heavyweight in what should be a very tough event with fighters from Sweden, Spain, Bulgaria, Russia, Kuwait, Holland, Germany, Belgium and hopefully South Africa attending.
13th September 2008
Tilgate Recreation Centre Open Day - Inter Club Tournament
The Dojo hosted its 2nd Inter Club Clicker event as a way of raising funds to assist the club competitors who have travelled abroad to compete this year. We invited last years winners Docklands and also Westcroft from south west London to take part in this Round Robin event wiith teams awarded points for wins and draws.
This year Crawley came out the overall winners. Also we had individual categories with under 16 Pee Wee, under 160cm, over 160cm, cadet, senior low grade and senior high grades.
Not only was it a very successful day for the club but it also was excellent experience for all the young karateka preparing for the National Clicker Championships in late November. Photo's will be added to the gallery shortly.
Photo of all competitors and Officials
27th July 2008
Swiss Open Kata Championships
Darren Stringer took the Mens Individual and team title with Janine and Chris Davies in Willisau. To make it a double for Crawley Charlie Venes was also first in the under 18 and team events.
11/12th July 2008
2nd World Children and Cadet Championships - Berlin
Charlie Venes took part in the cadet event but unfortunately an injury incurred prior to his trip meant he was unsuccessful in the first rd against his swiss open who was carrying an extra 10kg in weight.
The under 16's from GB won the team and both individual titles.
21st June 2008
Regional Knockdown
Darren Stringer took 2nd place fighting for the first time at middleweight and also won the most spirited fighter. Thomas Takacs who joined us from Hungary took 2nd place in the Heavyweight with Tom Silver gaining 3rd in a very successful event for the Crawley Dojo.
24th May 2008
Shihan David Pickthall took a Great Britain team of 4 fighters to the 2nd Yamburg International Knockdown in Novy Urengoi near the artic circle in Russia. The event sponsored by Gazprom saw 12 countries flown into the region by the company to take part in this bi-annual event.
Crawley's Darren Stringer to 3rd Place in the Lightweight category and Wai Cheung from Crystal Palace also took 3rd Place and gained most spirited fighter. Full report will be added to the Knockdown section and photo's in the Gallery.
26th April 2008
Alyse Madeley passed her 1st Dan at the Crawley Dojo. She now takes the rank of Shodan.
20th April 2008
Shihan David Pickthall hosted an Open Knockdown course at K2 for All Styles. Report in Special events section.
5 April 2008
England v Wales in Cardiff
Crawleys Charlie Venes won his bout as the Cadet team won but he unfortunately lost his bout in the senior team, the other Crawley members Darren Stringer won and Ian Hamilton drew as the Clicker team lost. In the Knockdown Tom Silver fought a hard earned draw as England ran out winners by 2 knockouts to 1.
1 Apr 2008
England v Wales Selections
Crawley will be well represented at this yers event in Cardiff as Darren Stringer and Charlie Venes will be taking part in both the Kata and Clicker. Ian Hamilton will also be be in the Clicker team and Tom Silver is taking part in the Knockdown team.
8 March 2008
British Kata Championships
Senpai Darren Stringer took the Mens Senior Title for the 6th year running and keeps himself in pole position to defend his World Title in Switzerland 2010. Senpai Charle Venes who is now 16 and also in the Senior category was an impressive runner up taking 2nd place and they both gained 3rd place in the team event.
In the junior section green belt Nathan Croke and yellow belts Jack Williams and Yusmin Khan took 3rd place in the low grade team event.
2 February 2008
Shihan David took a team of 11 fighters from the BKK to the French Open Shinkyokushin Knockdown Tournament. HW Ladies Kelly Balmer from Crystal Palace took 1st Place plus the fastest KO. Lia Howlett from Dunmow took 3rd Place, Alan Shnawa Crystal Palace was 2nd in the LW and Miguel Fernandez Dunmow gained 3rd Place.
3 November 2007
Sensei Neil Madeley was promoted to the rank of 4th Dan by Hanshi Steve Arneil. Also promoted were Shihan Dave Lund Regan 5th Dan Ynysowen, Shihan Maria Da Costa Docklands and Shihan Alan Davies Mountain Ash.
3 November 2007
Britsh Clicker Championships
Darren Stringer took the Mens Senior Black Belts title defeating old foe Stephen Davies from Mountain Ash in the final. In the cadets Charlie Venes took the title over Matt Bennett, both the Crawley boys also gained valuable experience in the adult section.
Josh Mays picked up another trophy in his young career in the high grade -160cm Boys and newcomer Jack Williams came 2nd in his division.
Results to follow
Jack, Charlie, Matt, Josh and Darren
29 October 2007
England Win the Severn Challenge
Josh Mays took part in his first Severn Challenge as part of an England team that saw off the Welsh, Swiss, Dutch and Irish teams. Also fighting in the event was Charlie Venes taking part for the first time using kyokushin rules for cadets.
15 September 2007
A Inter-Club competition was held at the dojo on the Tilgate Forest Open Day. Teams from Docklands, Gravesend, West Hill (Hastings) and Crawley participated in a under 18 Clicker event. Each team had 9 competitors who were also entered into individual categories. Each fight was allocated 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and none for a loss. Team and Individual points were added together to see which club had the most points.
The Mayor of Crawley was in attendance to present the medals to the PeeWee (under 10) category winners. Once all the points were added Docklands came out worthy winners. All results are posted on the Tournaments page.
The dojo also organised a BBQ and Raffle to raise money for equipment and we would like to thank everyone who donated prizes and food to make this event such a success.
18 August 2007
BKK Summer Camp
Darren Stringer passed his 3rd Dan Black Belt during the camp at Felstead Essex and now takes the rank of Sensei. Junior Josh Mays was awarded a prize for best boy student on camp.
3rd June 2007
Regional Knockdown Milton Keynes
Darren Chan took 2nd place in the MW category defeating his first two opponents by decision before losing to the impressive Simeone Kyurchiev from Crystal Palace when he withdrew through leg injury.
18th May 2007
Russian's Dominate in Samara
Darren Stringer was defeated by ippon in the Quarter Finals at the European Championships in Russia. In his first fight he was drawn against Artem Uzunyen the current russian champion which Darren managed to win by decision in the 3rd round 4-1. Then he came against Emil Djafarov of Russia Kyokushinkan and after a drawn first round Djafarov caught Darren with a glancing axe kick which dropped him to one knee and gave his opponent victory. In an event the was mainly Eastern Bloc countries the Russian IFK took 16 of the places 20 places with Russia Kyokushinkan getting two 3rd places and GB and Armenia taking the final two 3rd's.
Wai Cheung won the woodbreaking trophy with 12 boards from his 3 breaks. He needed a break off with a Russian HW where Wai successfully broke 6 boards with Enpi for the title.
17th May 2007
Darren Stringer is representing Great Britain in the European Knockdown Championships in Samara, Russia this weekend. Coach David Pickthall is taking a team of 9 fighters.
13th May 07
15 year old Charlie Venes and Beau Boulden aged 14 passed their shodan black
belts at the national grading held at Crawley Dojo.
21st April 07
England were successful against Wales winning 3 to 2 in the team events.
Charlie Venes was part of the successful junior team and Darren Stringer and
Matt Bennett were in the winning Mens Clicker team. Wales levelled the event
winning the Womens and Cadets categories before the Knockdown team coached by
Shihan David Pickthall won 4 - 0 with 1 draw.
16th April 07
Crawley boys Picked for England v Wales
Charlie Venes has been picked for the Junior team, Matt Bennett for the Cadet
and the Mens Clicker teams and Darren Stringer for the Mens team as well.
4th April 07
Darren Stringer is named Sportsman of the Month for Feb by the Crawley
News
You can see the article shortly in the Events - Special section
27th March 07
Success for Venes at the Pilatus Cup
Charlie Venes has come back from the Pilatus Cup in Switzerland on the 24th
March. Representing England he won the Kata event and came 2nd in the Clicker
fighting. Full report to follow
1st March 07
DIAMOND CUP
Shihan David in his role of Knockdown Coach took a team of 12 fighters with
the Welsh Coach Sensei Mark Goodwin to the Diamond Cup on the 24th.
Unfortunately Darren Stringer was ill and unable to fight due to a virus. Darren
Chan was entered into the Middleweight as he was over the LW category by a
couple of kilos. He started very brightly scoring 2 knockdowns with low kicks to
defeat his first opponent by waza ippon. In his 2nd fight his was unlucky to get
disqualified for an illegal technique.
The event run by the IFK and Shinkyokushin Organisations had entries from
Japan, Belgium, Germany, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, England and Wales that
also featured IKO and Ashihara fighters.
The team as a whole had excellent results -
Kelly Balmer HW Women, Wai Cheung MW and Kenny Jarvis HW all achieved 1st
Place and won Diamonds.
Petra Markova LW Women, Leon Lund Regan LW, Miguel Fernandez HW - 2nd Place.
Chrystelle Badoil, Charlotte Bijlani both MW Women 3rd Place.
Darren took the Mens Black Belt Category for the 5th time scoring 22.5 for
Sushi-Ho. He beat Andrew Lock from Ynysybwl who did the same kata but scored 0.3
less.
In the Junior Black Belt Category Charlie Venes took 2nd place in his first
attempt at the discipline.
Also the high grade boys team of Charlie, Beau Boulden and Josh Mays took 2nd
Place behind Chelmsford.
6th Feb 07
Darren Stringer and Darren Channagasubbay will represent the dojo when they
are part of a 11 fighter England Team taking part in the Diamond Cup (Knockdown
International event). See www.diamondcup.be
for details.
5th Feb 07
Charlie Venes has been selected to represent England in the Pilatus Cup on
24th March in Switzerland. He will compete in both Clicker and Kata.
4th April 07
Darren Stringer is named Sportsman of the Month for Feb by the Crawley
News
You can see the article in the Events - Special section
27th March 07
SUCCESS FOR VENES IN PILATUS CUP
Charlie Venes has come back from the Pilatus Cup in Switzerland on the 24th
March. Representing England he won the Kata event and came 2nd in the Clicker
fighting. Full report to follow
1st March 07
DIAMOND CUP
Shihan David in his role of Knockdown Coach took a team of 12 fighters with
the Welsh Coach Sensei Mark Goodwin to the Diamond Cup on the 24th.
Unfortunately Darren Stringer was ill and unable to fight due to a virus. Darren
Chan was entered into the Middleweight as he was over the LW category by a
couple of kilos. He started very brightly scoring 2 knockdowns with low kicks to
defeat his first opponent by waza ippon. In his 2nd fight his was unlucky to get
disqualified for an illegal technique.
The event run by the IFK and Shinkyokushin Organisations had entries from
Japan, Belgium, Germany, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, England and Wales that
also featured IKO and Ashihara fighters.
The team as a whole had excellent results -
Kelly Balmer HW Women, Wai Cheung MW and Kenny Jarvis HW all achieved 1st
Place and won Diamonds.
Petra Markova LW Women, Leon Lund Regan LW, Miguel Fernandez HW - 2nd Place.
Chrystelle Badoil, Charlotte Bijlani both MW Women 3rd Place.
Darren took the Mens Black Belt Category for the 5th time scoring 22.5 for
Sushi-Ho. He beat Andrew Lock from Ynysybwl who did the same kata but scored 0.3
less.
In the Junior Black Belt Category Charlie Venes took 2nd place in his first
attempt at the discipline.
Also the high grade boys team of Charlie, Beau Boulden and Josh Mays took 2nd
Place behind Chelmsford.
6th Feb 07
Darren Stringer and Darren Channagasubbay will represent the dojo when they
are part of a 11 fighter England Team taking part in the Diamond Cup (Knockdown
International event). See www.diamondcup.be
for details.
5th Feb 07
Charlie Venes has been selected to represent England in the Pilatus Cup on
24th March in Switzerland. He will compete in both Clicker and Kata.
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