At the weekend there was the Grading at Worthing. which Larry, Mark, Hayley, Tony, Gavin and James all entered in to.

Mark and Larry were the first two to be called up. Mark had 3 fights sadly lost them all, but put up a very good fight against them all and also had to fight someone that was 112kg, but he did get top green which was good. Larry had 2 fights and won them both, one with an ippon and the other with a strangle, resulting in him getting his brown belt.

Next up was Tony and Hayley which for Tony was his first try in a competitive environment, and for a first try it was a really good one. He had 2 fights lost 1 and won 1 with an ippon resulting in him getting top orange. Hayley went to change over to an adult license as well as going for her brown belt. Unfortunately there was only one other girl there for her to fight and because of this they had to do a randori style fight which she did very well against her opponent, pulling off some good techniques which resulted in her winning the fight and earning her 4th Kyu.

Last up to fight was Gavin and James and they were both trying for there black belts. Gavin had 3 fights won his first, drew his second and won his third which earn him a lineup. For the lineup Gavin needed to beat 3 opponents one after the other to earn his black belt and he did exactly that, beating each one of them to get his black belt. James had 3 fights lost the first and won the second and third fight. He won third fight with an ippon, unfortunately he won the second with a waza-ari, which wasn't a bad thing but it meant that he wouldn't be able to get a lineup. In the end he came away with 17 points towards his black belt.