Kim and Abigail took bronzes in both Nage No Kata and Ju No Kata at the national Kata Championships held at High Wycombe Judo Club today.

Zviad has taken gold in mens 100+ category.

Held at Samurai Judo Club on Sunday 19th July 2009, 3K’s again had several pairs competing in three disciplines: Nage No Kata, Katame No Kata and Ju No Kata. a last minute withdrawal will mean it is the first Rebecca and Charlotte have competed together.
Kim and Abigail will also demonstrate Nage No Kata along with Rebecca and Charlotte. Jasmine and Charlotte will perform Katame No Kata and finally Kim and Abiagail will be up against Rebecca and Jasmine in Ju No Kata.

Sunday 14th December 2008 and several juniors took to the mats at University of Wolverhampton Campus in Walsall for the Midland Area Commemorative Event, an event that honours and remembers those members of Midland Area Judo that are no longer with us.

Adam and James enjoyed their trip to Turkey for the World Junior Kurash Championships. The Tournament included players from Uzbekistan , Kazakstan , France , Germany , Japan , USA , New Zealand , Hungary , Greece  and  Turkey and numerous other nations. The standard of competition was as expected very high , Adam competed in the U-100 kgs and faced a South African player and despite a hard fought bout was beaten , unfortunately it was a knock out competition with no repecharge so Adam went out of the tournament but gave a good account of himself. James met a Kazakstan player in the U-73 kgs and was also beaten ,but again fighting hard against a player from the region where Kurash is a highly practised sport . Both players did the 3K’s and Great Britain proud with their efforts. They managed to absorb some of the culture on offer and Adam managed to absorb a great deal of the local cuisine , unfortunately James had to watch his weight so couldn’t join the fray until he finished his competition. Photos to follow soon

3K’s player Adam Dobbinson was awarded a bronze medal in the under 100kgs category at the British Championships held at ICE Sheffield on 12th October 2008 . He had four hard fights during the day but was successful in bringing back his first medal from a national junior tournament.

3Ks competed in the National Kata Championships at High Wycomb on Sunday 14th September 2008. Teams competed in both Junior and Senior Nage-No-Kata and Ju-No-Kata.

This year saw record entries for the event and a variety of kata demonstrated for the panel of 5 judges. Rebecca G and Zanna S took gold in a competitive Nage-No-Kata contest which saw them finish with 154 points, a record for the junior kata and a further demonstration of the continual improvement of all the entrants. Second place went to Rachel and Sally M from Samurai, while not 3Ks members are very welcome guests on our kata training nights. Our esteemed coaches Paul and Steve took bronze in the Ju-No-Kata. Other pairing competing were Abbie G and Kim B in Nage and Ju-No, and Jasmine C and Charlotte B in their first National Nage-No-Kata event.

Senior results from the Heart of England. This was held on Sunday 7th September 2008 at the NIA, Birmingham. 3K’s had two entries in the mens seniors: Jack Webb and Adam Dobbinson.

Jack took silver in the mens under 66kgs category losing by a koka to Raphael Santos of Croydon.

Adam was fifth in the senior mens under 100kg group after going through the reperchage and losing by Ippon in the bronze medal contest to Mark Cocker of Urmton.

Full senior results are currently available for download from here