Zanshin Shotokan Karate Club Report January – Feburary 2014
Every month I have to send a report of the recent months events to
the Coleraine Sports Council. I will then upload them to this page also to let
the parents and students have a read. Maybe you may see that the club does more
during one month than you actually realise!
The clubs year
ended on a high, with the 1st Karate NI championships being held in
Carryduff in November 2013, ZSNI is now proud to state that we have several
Northern Ireland Champions such as Zachary Geddis and two Northern Ireland
Grand Champions, Andrew Mills and Dylan McCloskey (Coleraine junior sports man
of the year).
December held our
annual ZSNI National Championships and we would like to take this opportunity
to thank the Jim Watt Sports Centre in Garvagh for the use of their facilities
on this date. It remained a success with over 100 of our students competing on
the day. This competition marks our Annual Awards Ceremony, which the coveted
awards of Junior and Senior Student of the year are presented, this year’s
winners were: Junior- Kevin Diamond Senior: Andrew Mills.
January 28th
- the WUKF World Open Championships were
held in Munich, Germany, where Andrew
Mills (20) was chosen to compete in after his outstanding performance at the
Karate NI championships in Carryduff, Zachary Geddis was also chosen but had to
refrain from competing due to injury. Andrew returned home to Northern Ireland
as double World Junior Open Champion, and World no.3 in Kumite (free sparring)
Senior Champion. The club are very proud of Andrew on this occasion.
Whilst Andrew was
away competing, his team mate Aidan O’Boyle was attending the Junior English
Squad Session in the legendary Liverpool Red Triangle; this training session is
regarded (by other students who have attended) as the most intense three hours
of a karateka’s squad experience. Aidan completed this session with a broken
thumb and a cast on up to his elbow!
Also during this
weekend the first ZSNI standardisation course was held in the Jim Watt Sports
Centre, which brought over 100 students in to prepare them for their grading
the following weekend.
The first grading
of the year was scheduled for Saturday 1st February in Greenvale Leisure
Centre Magherafelt with Sensei F. Brennan 7th Dan KUGB. As this
grading is early in the year, it means our students do not get much of a
Christmas break, but this did not deter them. With over 80 students completing
the 9 o’clock training session and 89 students grading throughout the rest of
the day, it proved a success.
ZSNI is now preparing
for its 10th Riverside Theatre Demonstration on Saturday 22nd
March.
Yasmin Geddis
3rd Dan
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