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| 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) |
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| 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.... |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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Crawley Kyokushin Karate Kids NAS Final
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Crawley Kyokushinkai’s young fighting stars in action at the December NAS finals. |
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| The results of the day were:- |
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Yusmin |
| Points Sparring - 1st place. |
Points Sparring - 1st place. |
| Continuous Sparring - 2nd Place |
Continuous Sparring - 3rd Place |
| Forms/Kata - 3rd Place |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| 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! |
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| Lightweight Charlie Venes managed to take 3rd place in the Novice Category. |
| Severn Challenge Clicker Tournament October 2009 |
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| 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. |
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Crawley Kyokushin Karate Kids Clean Up at the NAS
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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. |
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Charlie Venes was first in the cadet points fighting and was asked to compete in one of the mens categories taking first again. |
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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. |
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