21/92/10 - Senior Kyu Grade, Dan And Masters Competition
On Sunday was the Senior Kyu Grade, Dan And Master Competition and we had 4 members take part in the competition which were: Larry, Mark, James (Farley) and Tony.
Tony was first up, he had four fights and won them all; one of them with a nice Tomoe-nage and came back with his first gold from his first competition!
Larry and James were called up next. James had 2 fights; one of them being against Larry as they both had been put in the same group.
He ended up losing to Larry but put up a good fight. After that fight James had to pull out due to injury and missed out on his last fight but came back with forth bronze.
Larry had 3 fights including the one with James. He lost the other two fights but was happy with his performance as he was giving away about 20kg to his opponents, but with his win he had earn 't another 10 points towards his dan grade and got third bronze.
Mark had 2 fights; lost one and won one with a lovely drop Ippon-seoi Nage and came away with silver and his first 10 points towards his dan grade.
Tony and Mark then both got called back up as they had both entered the Masters part of the competition.
Tony and Mark both did really well and held their own in the fights. They both had 2 fights and lost them both, but fought a first dan and second dan each. Mark didn't come back with anything for this part of the competition, but Tony ended up getting bronze as he had lost to silver and gold medallist.