{"id":778,"date":"2010-04-03T16:31:54","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T15:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/?p=778"},"modified":"2010-04-04T23:12:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T22:12:19","slug":"vegas-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/?p=778","title":{"rendered":"Vegas News."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Day 1<\/strong><br \/>\nFirst report back from the USA Open is that<strong> Nigel Taylor<\/strong>, Welsh Bushi-Kai Kumite Coach, has won a Bronze Medal in the Veterans category. This means that Nigel has now medalled in tournaments in each decade since the 70&#8217;s ! \u00a0( His first medal being won in 1979 )<\/p>\n<p>Well done Nige.<br \/>\nOther news from Friday&#8217;s event in Vegas is that <strong>Jordan Harris<\/strong>, competing in the &#8220;Junior Olympic&#8221; category &amp; scheduled to fight at 11 am eventually got on the area at 7pm and was &#8220;unlucky&#8221; to lose early on to an American opponent.<br \/>\nTeam events will be taking place today ( Sat ) and the Individuals\u00a0tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Day 2<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Yesterday the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Welsh Bushi-Kai team<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"> were in action in Vegas and put in another outstanding performance. After making it through the earlier rounds, they finished with a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Top 5 placing<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"> after losing out to the USA National team for the Bronze medal. This achievement can be put into context when you realise that our team were the only &#8220;Club Team&#8221; present, the rest being National Squad teams.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><strong>Day 3<br \/>\n<\/strong>Today saw the individual categories taking place and our fighters once again did themselves justice by competing against some top quality opposition. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><strong>Anthony Bridge, Rhys Edwards and Jordan Hopkins<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"> all progressed into the last 16 of their categories before losing out. No medals ,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">but<strong> 3 top 16<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"> placings at one of the biggest events on the karate calendar is still a great result and demonstrates that our fighters can compete at the highest level. Finally, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><strong>Jordan Harris, <\/strong>the last of our fighters to compete today continued on from his fine performance in Turkey by winning the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><strong>Bronze<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"> in his event. Well done to everyone .<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 1 First report back from the USA Open is that Nigel Taylor, Welsh Bushi-Kai Kumite Coach, has won a Bronze Medal in the Veterans category. This means that Nigel has now medalled in tournaments in each decade since the 70&#8217;s ! \u00a0( His first medal being won in 1979 ) Well done Nige. Other [&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\/778"}],"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=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welshbushi-kai.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}