The WKU championship has turned out to be another successful competition for Kaizen Central once again. Starting off the day with a two hour trip up to Bristol seemed to go really quickly for me as I slept the whole way there, I can't even remember getting on the motorway. As soon as we got inside the competition had started. From our squad there were only six of us who went down. This event
was the first time we could have a men’s team because it was 16+. This team was made up of me, little John and Michael Burke. This was the strongest team in the category. Not surprisingly the team had come away with a Gold Medal which all of us had to pull out some great performances to do this. We also had a mixed team, which involved me, Kerry and little John. Again we were one of the favourite team to win again other than the WKU A team, which we had met in the final. But the team had pulled out another Gold Medal.
We had two competitors in the Kata, Michael and Keanu. Sadly Keanu didn’t come away with any medal in the kata but Michael once again took away the gold. Michael in my books is one of the best in England for his age in kata showing improvement every time he competes.
Jake Langley didn’t get a medal in this competition but he has shown great improvement winning earlier on in the year in the English championships. Keep it going Jake!
The 16 – 17 year old boys had three Kaizen Central squad members in the category, which were Keanu, Michael and I. I had to fight Keanu in the semi – final which is always awkward when fighting your team mate this time I had came out on top and got into the final. Then I found out who I had to fight in the final, another team
mate. At around 5 seconds on clock Michael had hit me with a beautiful spinning kick what slap me round the face. It was nice! So I look at the clock three seconds to go knowing I cant let him get away with that. So I come of the line and gave him one 
back just to let him know that it’s my kick. Great fight! Kaizen had done the one two and three, first second and third.
Kerry Gunn had got to the final but then she had came up against Sarah who she had to fight in the mixed team were she narrowly lost to her 3 – 2. This time she couldn’t pull out the win and had to settle for the second. She had already had Gold in the team, which another Silver added on sums up a good day for her.
Little John had work up to the final which he had he lost 2 – 0. Through out the day little John had performed well get two Gold’s in the team and Silver in his own category.
As for me I feel like that I had performed brilliantly in this competition as I picked up 43 points and only 4 points against me winning three Gold Medals. I am working on getting to the world championships later this year and I think I am on the right track.
I have to say many thanks to Sensei John who was running mat-to-mat to coach us all.
This prove how strong our squad if we only brought 6 people to the competition and came away with 8 medals. The coaches must be doing something right.
Results
John Anderson – Individual kumite Silver Men’s Team Gold Mixed Teams Gold
Kerry Gunn – Individual kumite Silver Mixed Team Gold
Keanu Mayhew – Individual kumite Bronze
Michael Burke – Kata Gold Men’s Team Gold Individual Kumite Silver
Jordan Thomas – Individual kumite Gold Men’s Team Gold Mixed Team Gold
Well done all!
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