In this picture we have the following:
Joe McCann - Marine
Reece McCloskey - Bruce Lee
Kevin Diamond - Chicken Kev
Colm McKeegan - farm boy
Dylan mcCloksey - dilly willy
Missing is Hollister 1&2. Thomas and Harry Currie.
Monday, 9 December 2013
Mini ZSNI Team
Sensei Alan and myself spent most of Sunday nick naming the junior Northern Ireland squad haha.
ZSNI Annual Karate Championships 2013
FIGHING TIME!!!
Well done to all those who took part in the ZSNI Annual Championships, I personally was dissapointed in the turn out on the day, but the show must go on.
A few of my own personal favourite moments on the day:
- Reece McCloskeys face in general
- Colm McKeegan's perfect ippon to the back of Thomas Curries Head
- Joe McCanns fiestyness
- Andrew Mills' off the mark attacks throughout his fights
Thank you to all the officals that make the day possible and thank you to fudoshin karate club in supporting the event.
Results are as follows:
5-8 White to Purple and White Belt Mixed Kata
1st Reece McCloskey ZSNI Coleraine
2nd Emily Kennedy ZSNI Ballymena
3rd Bradley Stirling ZSNI Coleraine
9-15 White to Purple and White Belt Mixed Kata
1st Adam Sherrad Fudoshin
2nd Colm McKeegan ZSNI Ballycastle
3rd Oisin O’Kane Fudoshin
5-15 Brown and Black Belt Mixed Kata
1st Dylan McCloskey ZSNI Coleraine
2nd Ryan Dobbin ZSNI Coleraine
3rd Emma Mullan ZSNI Limavady
5-10 5 –Step Sparring Mixed White to Purple and White Belt
1st Josh Kennedy ZSNI Coleraine
2nd Reece McCloskey ZSNI Coleraine
3rd Abi McDonald Fudoshin
5-10 Kihon Ippon Brown and Black Belts Mixed
1st Dylan McCloskey ZSNI Coleraine
2nd Ruairi O’Donnell Fudoshin
3rd Harry Currie ZSNI Magherafelt
5-8 Boys Kumite White to Purple and White Belt
1st Reece McCloskey ZSNI Coleraine
2nd Seamus McMullan ZSNI Ballymoney
3rd Ciaran O’Neill ZSNI Kilrea
5-8 Girls Kumite White to Purple and White Belt
1st Charlotte Niell Fudoshin
2nd Emily Kennedy ZSNI Ballymena
3rd Abi McDonald Fudoshin
9-11 Boys Kumite White to Purple and White Belts
1st Joe McCann ZSNI Magherafelt
2nd Oisin O’Kane Fudoshin
3rd Josh Kennedy ZSNI Coleraine
5-11 Boys Kumite Purple to Black Belt
1st Colm McKeegan ZSNI Ballycastle
2nd Thomas Currie ZSNI Magherafelt
3rd Ruairi O’Donnell Fudoshin
10-15 Girls Kumite Brown and Black Belts
1st Briegeen Sweeney ZSNI Coleraine
2nd Morgan Goligher ZSNI Portrush
3rd Emma Mullan ZSNI Limavady
12-15 Boys Kumite
1st Kevin Diamond ZSNI Maghera
2nd Cahir Boyle ZSNI Kilrea
3rd Ryan Stewart Fudoshin
Senior Kata
1st Andrew Mills ZSNI Ballymoney
2nd Zachary Geddis ZSNI Coleraine
3rd Aidan O’Boyle ZSNI Kilrea
Senior Kumite
1str Andrew Mills ZSNI Ballymoney
2nd Aidan O’Boyle ZSNI Kilrea
3rd Zachary Geddis ZSNI Coleraine
Special Awards
Junior Student of the Year: Kevin Diamond
Senior Student of the Year: Andrew Mills
Kata Competitor of the Year: Andrew Mills
Kumite Competitor of the Year: Dylan McCloskey
Senseis Bursary: Reece McCloskey
Best Competitor on the day: Colm McKeegan
Most Spirited Student: Emma Mullan
Most Supportive Parents: Currie Family and McKeegan Family
Most Improved Student of the Year: Thomas Currie
Oss,
Yasmin Geddis
3rd Dan
Saturday, 7 December 2013
LECTURE AND CHRISTMAS CLOSURES
ITS CHRIIIISSSSTTTMMMMAAAASSSSS
As you all know the festive period is upon us, so below you will find the list of club closures and reopenings. I, as a student and not an instructor, cannot stress enough how important training over the holidays is. This is the only real time in Karate that you get a break. However, Karate is one of those things that, when you stop doing it, it is extremely hard to get back into the swing of things.
I, myself, love nothing better than a week off karate, but in saying that, the next week during training is hell for me and I cannot get in the groove again, in the end up, it is not worth the hassell. Being in my house surrounded by karate means you never really get a rest anyway. Remember the grading is only around the corner, it will be an all day event and without regular training your full pass will turn into a temporary pass which is nearly impossible to shift before Black Belt, and your temporary pass will turn into a fail!
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Club
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Christmas
Closure
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New
Year Opening
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Ballysally
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16th
December
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6th
January
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Cookstown
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9th
December
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13th
January
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Millburn
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17th
December
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7th
January
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Garvagh
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11th
December
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8th
January
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Ballycastle
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11th
December
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8th
January
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Limavady
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19th
December
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9th
January
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Magherafelt
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19th
December
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9th
January
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West
Bann (Juniors)
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12th
December
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16th
January
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Portrush
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13th
December
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10th
January
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Kilrea
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13th
December
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10th
January
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Maghera
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13th
December
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10th
January
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Limavady
Juniors
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13th
December
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10th
January
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Coleraine
West
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14th
December
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11th
January
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Have a very Merry Christmas, and keep checking the blog for more of me talking about karate. Should have did a degree in it, Criminology sucks.
Oss,
Yasmin Geddis
3rd Dan
Thursday, 5 December 2013
ESKA 2013 - Portugal
Wednesday 20th November
After a connecting flight from London to Portugal, a crazy ride in a Avis Taxi and a redition of "Empire State of Mind" from Zachary, a very hyper ZSNI arrive at Axis Hotels Porta de Vassim, Portugal at 12.00am!!
First stop food as Zachary is always starving, 24/7.
Thursday 21st November
This is the only day ZSNI have off to relax and enjoy Portugal before the events start.
The day starts with a walk around town after Sensei Terry steals Yasmin's coffee, things are not going well in the resturant when Sensei Terry finds a piece of plastic in his meal and is trying to shout at the waiter using his dodgey forgein language impressionations. After that it is off to the local supermarket to stock up on essentials! Athlete essentials are as follows:
Zachary is even worse at tennis than he is at kata.
Training commences at 7.30pm - Since ZSNI is a small enough team, booking the big training hall is not practicle, therefore, we wait until everyone is gone and head to the top floor of the hotel and use the pre laid matts out. We always land on our feet in life!
Drills after drills after drills.
Once this is over, Zachary is on tomorrow so the preparation starts. Zachary heads to the bath to relax.
Friday 22nd November
Tournament offically starts at 2pm - with Zachary having gone into hibernation and not speaking to anyone for 2 hours prior to the compeititon it is all plain sailing, walking to the arena after a nice breakfast and being re-united with all the teams we seen at WSKA.
Kata first and Zachary is off to a good start having warmed up well in the preparation room.
Kumite is next and a tired Zachary is pumped and ready to go.
Having preformed to the best of his on day ability, the pressure of the day causes Z to fall at the first hurdle, although our side tells a different side to the refeeres desicion on points. Like always. Zachary is in good spirits afterwards and there is always next year. Train longer and harder now.
After the compeititon, Andrew is preparing for his category the next day. Andrew heads to the bath.
Saturday 23rd November
9am start, although Yasmin is up early to prepare the lads for the compeititon. Whilst running 10 minutes behind, team ZSNI needs to get a move on. But as always on the way to the compeititon, a mini van pulls up and offers ZSNI a lift - We always land on our feet!
Andrew is fully in the zone, with a tough matt he is preparing for kata while Y and Z watch from the sidelines.
Put out in the first round of kata, but not bothered Andrew moves on to his favourite target of the day. Kumite. With Sensei Terry on side pumping and blasting Andrew, his exciting time comes.
1st Round - Done
2nd Round - Done
The refeeres round up the competitiors to annouce those through to the final and Yasmin nearly collapses in the stands thinking that Andrew is the the European Finale. However, the refeeres made a mistake and the compeititors are asked to line up accordingly again for Russia and Northern Ireland to fight for a first place in the final.
The Russian (who had been ipponing opponents throughout the day) was the same height and build as Andrew and it was a tough fight with Andrew and the Russian fighting well and not letting either one dominate the matt. With time called after 2 minutes Andrew had lost this fight by half a point. He did his teammates and coach very proud on the day, this is the second time that such a thing has happened to Andrew in the quater finals. Dispite the shape of his face and karate suit afterwards he seemed to enjoy himself. Because of this great achievement Sensei Terry buys Andrew a brand new tournament Karate Suit.
After the compeititon, it is Yasmin's time to prepare, but she lets Andrew have a bath first as he is grumpy, tired and she just wants him out of the way.
Anyone who has been to a international championship will understand my feelings towards the opening cermoney. So I am not going to dwell on the fact that I dislike it so much. It would be such a boring paragraph.
Sunday 24th November
Again walking to the arena, Yasmin in total silence and Andrew dropping a banana all over the place, the mini van pulls along side of us and we are on route to the stadium. Having seen the draw on Wednesday, it is confusing why KUGB NI has been placed against KUGB ENGLAND. But Yasmin is up first in Kata against friend Holly Stirling from England, well we can all guess how that turned out, but ill get my kata sorted someday, I swear.
Next, having prepared fully in the warm up room with Zachary and Andrew by her side, Yasmin heads to the matt. She can see Sensei Brennan talking to her opponent as he is her coach.
Unfortunatly things don't go to Yasmins plan and she is defeated in a flag decision at full time. She is not very happy about this as she was looking forward to getting a new karate suit also :(.
Andrew is on in the Senior Mens Category against KUGB ENGLANDS top compeitior Joe Rawcliff, with a worthy fight and experience learnt, our ESKA 2013 Golden boy is defeated also.
With Sunday night upon us and we are just notified by sidekick Louise that we are up at 3am to catch our flight to London and then a 6 hour wait in London Airport until our flight back to Derry. ZSNI make the good decision to head to bed.
ESKA is a learning curve for the young and a pedastol for the old.
Through success first comes defeat and with constant training it will pay off.
You are only as good as the people around you and ESKA is where the best live and we are proud to be apart of it.
We are still the ippon champs.
SWITZERLAND 2014.
Yasmin Geddis
3rd Dan
Ps. we nearly killed eachother in the airport, Sensei Terry slept most of the time and sidekick Louise wore headphones for the first time.
Disclaimer: This post is the diary entry through my (Yasmin Geddis) eyes only and does not reflect the views of Sensei Terry, Zachary Geddis, Andrew Mills or Sidekick Louise.
After a connecting flight from London to Portugal, a crazy ride in a Avis Taxi and a redition of "Empire State of Mind" from Zachary, a very hyper ZSNI arrive at Axis Hotels Porta de Vassim, Portugal at 12.00am!!
First stop food as Zachary is always starving, 24/7.
Thursday 21st November
This is the only day ZSNI have off to relax and enjoy Portugal before the events start.
The day starts with a walk around town after Sensei Terry steals Yasmin's coffee, things are not going well in the resturant when Sensei Terry finds a piece of plastic in his meal and is trying to shout at the waiter using his dodgey forgein language impressionations. After that it is off to the local supermarket to stock up on essentials! Athlete essentials are as follows:
- Coffee
- Hairspray
- Deodrant
- Chocolate Milk
Zachary is even worse at tennis than he is at kata.
Training commences at 7.30pm - Since ZSNI is a small enough team, booking the big training hall is not practicle, therefore, we wait until everyone is gone and head to the top floor of the hotel and use the pre laid matts out. We always land on our feet in life!
Drills after drills after drills.
Once this is over, Zachary is on tomorrow so the preparation starts. Zachary heads to the bath to relax.
Friday 22nd November
Tournament offically starts at 2pm - with Zachary having gone into hibernation and not speaking to anyone for 2 hours prior to the compeititon it is all plain sailing, walking to the arena after a nice breakfast and being re-united with all the teams we seen at WSKA.
Kata first and Zachary is off to a good start having warmed up well in the preparation room.
Kumite is next and a tired Zachary is pumped and ready to go.
Having preformed to the best of his on day ability, the pressure of the day causes Z to fall at the first hurdle, although our side tells a different side to the refeeres desicion on points. Like always. Zachary is in good spirits afterwards and there is always next year. Train longer and harder now.
After the compeititon, Andrew is preparing for his category the next day. Andrew heads to the bath.
Saturday 23rd November
9am start, although Yasmin is up early to prepare the lads for the compeititon. Whilst running 10 minutes behind, team ZSNI needs to get a move on. But as always on the way to the compeititon, a mini van pulls up and offers ZSNI a lift - We always land on our feet!
Andrew is fully in the zone, with a tough matt he is preparing for kata while Y and Z watch from the sidelines.
Put out in the first round of kata, but not bothered Andrew moves on to his favourite target of the day. Kumite. With Sensei Terry on side pumping and blasting Andrew, his exciting time comes.
1st Round - Done
2nd Round - Done
The refeeres round up the competitiors to annouce those through to the final and Yasmin nearly collapses in the stands thinking that Andrew is the the European Finale. However, the refeeres made a mistake and the compeititors are asked to line up accordingly again for Russia and Northern Ireland to fight for a first place in the final.
The Russian (who had been ipponing opponents throughout the day) was the same height and build as Andrew and it was a tough fight with Andrew and the Russian fighting well and not letting either one dominate the matt. With time called after 2 minutes Andrew had lost this fight by half a point. He did his teammates and coach very proud on the day, this is the second time that such a thing has happened to Andrew in the quater finals. Dispite the shape of his face and karate suit afterwards he seemed to enjoy himself. Because of this great achievement Sensei Terry buys Andrew a brand new tournament Karate Suit.
After the compeititon, it is Yasmin's time to prepare, but she lets Andrew have a bath first as he is grumpy, tired and she just wants him out of the way.
Anyone who has been to a international championship will understand my feelings towards the opening cermoney. So I am not going to dwell on the fact that I dislike it so much. It would be such a boring paragraph.
Sunday 24th November
Again walking to the arena, Yasmin in total silence and Andrew dropping a banana all over the place, the mini van pulls along side of us and we are on route to the stadium. Having seen the draw on Wednesday, it is confusing why KUGB NI has been placed against KUGB ENGLAND. But Yasmin is up first in Kata against friend Holly Stirling from England, well we can all guess how that turned out, but ill get my kata sorted someday, I swear.
Next, having prepared fully in the warm up room with Zachary and Andrew by her side, Yasmin heads to the matt. She can see Sensei Brennan talking to her opponent as he is her coach.
Unfortunatly things don't go to Yasmins plan and she is defeated in a flag decision at full time. She is not very happy about this as she was looking forward to getting a new karate suit also :(.
Andrew is on in the Senior Mens Category against KUGB ENGLANDS top compeitior Joe Rawcliff, with a worthy fight and experience learnt, our ESKA 2013 Golden boy is defeated also.
With Sunday night upon us and we are just notified by sidekick Louise that we are up at 3am to catch our flight to London and then a 6 hour wait in London Airport until our flight back to Derry. ZSNI make the good decision to head to bed.
ESKA is a learning curve for the young and a pedastol for the old.
Through success first comes defeat and with constant training it will pay off.
You are only as good as the people around you and ESKA is where the best live and we are proud to be apart of it.
We are still the ippon champs.
SWITZERLAND 2014.
Yasmin Geddis
3rd Dan
Ps. we nearly killed eachother in the airport, Sensei Terry slept most of the time and sidekick Louise wore headphones for the first time.
Disclaimer: This post is the diary entry through my (Yasmin Geddis) eyes only and does not reflect the views of Sensei Terry, Zachary Geddis, Andrew Mills or Sidekick Louise.
KARATE NORTHERN IRELAND FIRST ANNUAL COMPEITION
RESULTS.
Please find below the results from the first ever Karate Northern Ireland Competition. As you will see the club had many success on the day:
Dylan McCloskey - Winning 3 Golds in Kata, Kumite and Team Kata
Yasar Bahar - Winning a Gold in Junior Kata
Zachary Geddis - Doing what he does best with nearly being diqualified for a perfect Mwashi-geri Jordan but also gaining 1 Gold in Kumite and 1 Silver in Kata
Andrew Mills - Surprise Surprise won both Kata and Kumite in the Senior Mens Categories.
Along with several other Zanshin Members Triumphing on the day, Sensei Terry was very pleased with the running of the compeititon and the success of the Zanshin Members.
Many Thanks,
Yasmin Geddis
3rd Dan
Please find below the results from the first ever Karate Northern Ireland Competition. As you will see the club had many success on the day:
Dylan McCloskey - Winning 3 Golds in Kata, Kumite and Team Kata
Yasar Bahar - Winning a Gold in Junior Kata
Zachary Geddis - Doing what he does best with nearly being diqualified for a perfect Mwashi-geri Jordan but also gaining 1 Gold in Kumite and 1 Silver in Kata
Andrew Mills - Surprise Surprise won both Kata and Kumite in the Senior Mens Categories.
Along with several other Zanshin Members Triumphing on the day, Sensei Terry was very pleased with the running of the compeititon and the success of the Zanshin Members.
KARATE
NORTHERN IRELAND 1ST ANNUAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
KATA EVENTS
Boys Kata 5-8 Years
WADO ‘A’
1.
Eoin Mackey OPHIR
2.
Conor Mc Laughlin KKI
3.
Daniel O’Boyle Larne UKA
Boys Kata 5-8 Years
WADO ‘B’
1.
Adam Rooney UKA
2.
Shorey McGunley
3.
Caoloan Mc Laughlin KKI
Boys Kata 5-8 Years
SHOTO
1.
Yashar Bahar Zanshin
2.
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3.
Callum Lynch Ventures
3. Conor Galloway Ventures
3. Aston Simms NIKA
Girls Kata 5- 8 Years
WADO
1.
Morgan Hughes KKI
2.
Beth Donnan OPHIR
3.
Amy McCambridge Larne UKA
Boys Kata 6-10 Years SHOTO and WADO
1.
Dylan McCloskey Zanshin
2.
Kevin Diamond Zanshin
3.
Thomas Currie Zanshin
Girls Kata 5-13 SHOTO
1.
Laura Diamond ZSNI
2.
Emma Mullan ZSNI
3.
Erin O’Kane ZSNI
Boys Kata 9-10 Years
WADO and SHOTO
1.
Karl Andreasson CARNALEA
2.
Ben Rylance CARNALEA
3.
Corey Hughes KKI
Boys Kata 9-10 Years
WADO
1.
Gerard McLean
2.
Rory Boyd KKI
3.
Brandon Barkley Larne UKA
Boys Kata 9-10 Years
1.
Chrisitan Boyles
2.
Brandon Barcley
3.
Mark McCambridge
Girls Kata 9-11 Years
WADO
1.
Eva Gallagher KKI
2.
Nisha Johnston KKI
3.
Katie Clayton Carryduff UKA
Boys Kata 11-13 Years
WADO
1.
Matthew McLaughlin NWKF
2.
Jack Healy Larne UKA
3.
Dean Miller CARNALEA
Boys Kata 11-13 Years SHOTO
1.
Darren McColgon VENTURES
2.
Corey Caurns VENTURES
3.
Cahir Boyle ZSNI
Girls Kata 11-13
Years WADO
1.
Racheal Flemung CARNALEA
2.
Lucy Ouldfield CARNALEA
3.
Erin Kerrigan KKI
Male Team Kata
1.
Zanshin
2.
CARNALEA B
3.
CARNALEA A
Female Team
1.
CARNALEA
2.
ZSNI
Cadet Boys 14-15
White to Purple and White Belt Kata
1.
Lewis Watton
2.
Fergus McMullan
3.
Jordan Knock
Cadet Boys 14-15
Brown and Black Belt Kata
1.
Charlie Roberts
2.
Craig Brashaw CARNALEA
3.
Sol Boyles
Junior 16-17 Brown
and Black Belt Kata
1.
Roan O’Neill
2.
Zachary Geddis ZSNI
3.
Scott McLean
Senior Male White to
Purple and White Kata
1.
Alex Lord ZSNI
2.
David Hughes
3.
Frankie Gallagher
Masters 40+ Kata
1.
Liam Haslam
2.
Tony McMenamy
3.
Alex McMullan
Senior Male Kata
1.
Andrew Mills ZSNI
2.
Dermott McFealy
3.
Steven Quantrill
KUMITE EVENTS
Boys 8 Years and
Under Kumite
1.
Luca Lafferty
2.
Luke O’Loan
3.
Scott McKenzie
Girls 8 Years and
Under Kumite
1.
Morgan Hughes
2.
Faith Hillis
3.
Ami McCambridge
Boys 5-8 Years Kumite
1.
Cormac Morrison
2.
Callum Lynch VENTURES
3.
Reese McCloskey ZSNI
Boys 9-10 Years
Kumite
1.
Bradley Montgomery
2.
Dylan Huston
3.
Ben Rylands
Girls 9-10 Years
Kumite
1.
Eva Gallgaher
2.
Katie Clayton
3.
Courtney Haslen
Boys 9-10 Years Brown
and Black Belt Kumite
1.
Dylan McCloskey ZSNI
2.
Harry Currie ZSNI
3.
Ruiari O’Donnell FUDOSHIN
Boys 11-13 Years
White to Purple and White Kumite
1.
Matthew McLoughlin
2.
Cahir Boyle ZSNI
3.
Niall Mooney
Girls 11-13 White to
Purple and White Kumite
1.
Racheal Flemming
2.
Erin Kerrigan
3.
Emer Mooney
Boys 11-13 Years
Brown and Black Belt Kumite
1.
Jack Healey
2.
Conal Donnelly VENTURES
3.
Thomas Currie ZSNI
Girls 11-13 Years
Brown and Black Belt Kumite
1.
Shannon Conn FUDOSHIN
2.
Morgan Goligher ZSNI
3.
Emma Mullan ZSNI
Boys 11-13 Years Team
Kumite
1.
NWKA
2.
Carnalea B
Junior Female Kumite
Brown and Black Belt -57kg
1.
Morgan Jonston
2.
Clare O’Connor ZSNI
Senior Female Kumite
Brown and Black Belt -60kg
1.
Antoinette Carron
2.
Levi Kane
3.
Imogen McCann
Cadet Female Kumite
1.
Effie O’Neill
2.
Calre Laverty
3.
Laura McCurdy VENTURES
Cadet 14-15 Years
Brown and Black Belt Kumite
1.
Craig Brashaw
2.
Ryan Campbell VENTURES
3.
Sol Boyles
Junior Male Brown and
Black Belt Kumite
1.
Zachary Geddis ZSNI
2.
Roan O’Neill
3.
Scott Mclean
Senior Male Kumite
White to Purple and White Kumite +78kg
1.
Christie Gallagher
2.
David Hughes
3.
Frankie Gallagher
Masters 40+ Kumite
1.
Liam Haslem
2.
Alex McMullan
3.
Frankie Healy
Yasmin Geddis
3rd Dan
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