{"id":1750,"date":"2012-03-06T01:17:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T01:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2012-03-06T01:32:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T01:32:51","slug":"tournament-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/?p=1750","title":{"rendered":"Tournament News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend saw members of the Welsh Bushi-Kai Squad in action in Gloucester and in Lodz, Poland.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Karate Shito-Kai England (KSE) Invitational Tournament &#8211; Gloucester.<br \/>\n<\/strong>A small selection of our fighters travelled up to KSE Event last sunday, accompanied by our Kumite Coach, Nigel Taylor.<br \/>\nThis was the first Tournament of the year for us, and the first opportunity to experience competition karate under the latest revision of the WKF Rules.<\/p>\n<p>As always our fighters adapted well and returned home with a tally of \u00a05 Silver and 3 Bronze Medals.<\/p>\n<p>Iestyn Williams, Jack Jones and Amy Nicholas won Bronze in their categories whilst Megan Taylor, Morgan Phillips, Tom O&#8217;Leary, \u00a0and Jordan Harris earned Individual Silver, with the U18 Team ( Jordan Harris, Amy Nicholas and Josh Lewis) also winning Silver.<\/p>\n<p>Well done, a great start to the year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8th Harasuto World Cup, Lodz, Poland<br \/>\n<\/strong>Two of our Senior Squad, Mark McMahon and Holly Carey, travelled out to Poland last weekend to compete at the Harasuto World Cup event.<\/p>\n<p>This high profile tournament, held in the Malachowsiego Sports Hall in the city of Lodz attracted 1525 entrants from across Europe as well as th Malaysian National Squad.<\/p>\n<p>Holly, following on from her recent success in Belgium, gained a well earned Bronze Medal after narrowly losing to a Slovakian opponent and Current European Silver Medallist.<\/p>\n<p>Mark, after losing out initially in the first round, came back through the field in the repercharge and came close to the Bronze medal. \u00a0A last second victory over a Polish Fighter saw Mark nearing the repercharge Final before losing \u00a0to another fighter for Slovakia. Mark can still be extremely pleased with his Top 8 Placing.<\/p>\n<p>A great experience at International Level for both fighters and a first chance to see the new WKF Kumite Rules in action at the highest level.<\/p>\n<p>Great performances by both fighters who once again represented the Association, and Wales so well and it demonstrates yet again the ambition of the Welsh Bushi-Kai in sending competitors to first Class European Karate events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend saw members of the Welsh Bushi-Kai Squad in action in Gloucester and in Lodz, Poland. Karate Shito-Kai England (KSE) Invitational Tournament &#8211; Gloucester. A small selection of our fighters travelled up to KSE Event last sunday, accompanied by our Kumite Coach, Nigel Taylor. This was the first Tournament of the year for us, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1753,"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions\/1753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}