The club had some great performances with victories at all levels from Pee wee to Veterans in the Clicker and Kata. The club won all the team events plus eight of the thirteen individual divisions.

Crawley fighters results below

1st Pee Wee Team
1st Junior Team
2nd Junior Team
1st Adult Team

Kata

Junior Yellow and Green belt
1st Charlie Denton
3rd Robert Salvi

Junior Red belt

1st Reece Reeve

Adult Black and Brown belt

1st Blake Collins
2nd Tom Bradley

Veterans

1st Colin Spriggs
2nd Roy Salvi
3rd Tom Frith

Clicker Individuals

Pee Wee

1st Denis Sorokins
3rd Ryley Bosher

Under 150cm

1st Kobe  Spinney Dibble
2nd Charlie Denton
3rd Jack Edwards

Over 150cm

1st Bethany Salvi
2nd Ame Sorge

Adult Black and Brown belt

2nd Balke Collins

Veterans

1st Tom Frith
2nd Roy Salvi

Dawid had a tough five round fight in the WFKO title fight in Novy Urengoy, Russia. The bout was very even with neither man gaining a significant advantage but the Russia judes scored it unanimously to their fighter Evgeny Solomennikov

Cadets Tom Bradley, Olivia Pickthall and adult Blake Collins along with BKK Invictus Alan Shnawa represented England in the Eurasia Cup in Antalya, Turkey.

The event set in the Kremlin Palace Hotel had 11 countries and a very large Turkish contingent with over 175 participants.

Tom took Gold in the cadet kata and 2nd in the -65kg contact event. After a gruelling 3 round semi final he was very tired and was put under pressure in the final with his opponent gaining a waza ari. Tom came back really well and was taking the fight to his opponent but was unable to recover the point.

Olivia had the misfortune of having her bag lost by the airline so had to borrow a gi and all protection but still fought really well and won her semi final by 3 round decision and lost the final also by 3 round decision to also gain 2nd place. For both the cadets it was invaluable experience.

Middleweight Blake, took 2nd in the adult kata losing on count back after a tie for 1st place. Stepping into his first adult international equate himself very well and had a gruelling quarter final picking up an injury around the knee. This was too affect him in the semi where his opponent kicked him across the knee and although an illegal technique the GB coach Felix Ntumazah rightly advised the judging panel Blake could not continue but it wasn’t due to the knee kick but previous damage.

Alan Shnawa also took 3rd place losing out on a 3 round decision in the lightweight category.

Teams from England, Wales, Ireland and the hosts Switzerland took part in Contact fighting for U18 and Points fighting and Kata for U16 last weekend in Kriens.

Tom Bradley took the -68KG U18 title in style winning his first two fights by Waza Ippons with Ushiro Mawashi Geri and Jodan Mavashi Geri, then he received a bye where his opponent withdrew. In the final he defeated the talented Robel Schonenberger of Switzerland by judges decision 4-0.

Crawley also had Bart Chaisrisud and Kobe Spinney Dibble in the U16 event. Both fought well and reached the quarter finals before being defeated in the points fighting division.

Top far right Tom. Bottom row far left Bart and third along Kobe pictured with the Welsh and England teams

Crawley had eight students and two teams in the tournament this year and took 2nd places.

Our senior team of Senpai’s Blake Collins, Ryan Morter and Tom Bradley came close to retaining the title but were pipped by Cardiff for gold. Individually they all performed well but narrowly missed out on the medals. Blake was in 4th place with Tom 5th and Ryan 6th.

Mo Bahrami took 2nd place in the blue and red belt individual category.

The other participants Madison Sproston, Robert Salvi, Bart Chaisrisud and Reece Reeve all performed very well.

Dawid 1st, Blake 3rd, Olivia won

The club had three participants in the Scottish Open at the Arc Gym, Glasgow on Saturday and they all produced top displays.

First up was cadet fighter Oliva Pickthall, who had one match against Aiofe O’Grady-Cocoran of Ireland. Olivia controlled the match catching Aiofe early with a head kick and then worked her opponent round the mat with strong punch and low kick combinations for 5-0 victory.

Both Dawid Ozga and Blake Collins were in the open mens middleweight.  Blake was in the top half of the draw in his first open adult event. He won his first bout with an ippon with two jodan mawashi’s to the head stunning his opponent. Then he lost a decision to the more experienced Luke Baldwin (Wales) in a very good fight.  In the 3rd place fight off he controlled the bout dropping his opponent for ippon with a strong body punch.

Dawid who normally campaigns at LW, earned a quick decision against his dutch opponent and then winded both his next two fighters with body punches for waza ari.

In the final against Luke he started very sharply and after about a minute scored waza ari for a punch to the body and took the decision at the end of the round.