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.

Congratulations to Bethany Salvi and Kobe Spinney Dibble who won their respective titles at the national tournament. Charlie Denton also took 3rd place.

Charlie Denton 3rd place	Beth Salvi 1st place	Kobe Spinney Dibble 1st place

Well done to the Junior boys team of Robert Salvi, Kieran Long, Bart Chaisrisud, Kobe Spinney Dibble and Charlie Denton came 2nd after drawing 2-2 with Mountain Ash they lost a sudden death fight off. The Pee Wee team of Ashley Black and Aaron Phillips also took 2nd place.

front row 1st left Ashley Black, 3rd Charlie Denton, 5th Kobe Spinney Dibble and 1st right back row Bart Chaisrisud

Crawley had four juniors selected to be in the England team selected to travel to Ireland to compete against Wales, Ireland and Switzerland.

Bart Chaisrisud was in the junior team who fought well but were defeated.

Pee Wee’s Kobe Spinney Dibble, Charlie Denton, and Ashley Black were the victorious team. Also in the individuals Kobe won and Charlie came 3^rd

Crawley had six fighters in the tournament with Blake Collins, Tomasz Werczinski and Alec Bianes in the Novice categories and Dawid Ozga, Darren Chan and Richard Casella in the Open categories.

Blake won the Middleweight defeating Davydd Duprey of Ynysowen in the Final. Tomasz Werczinski came second in the Heavyweight with Alec Baines also coming 3^rd.

Blake Collins 1st Place

Tomasz Werczinski 2nd place, Alec Baines 3rd place

In the Open Category Heavyweight Richard Casella lost to KWU bronze medalist Roel Noordman of Holland in the first round.

Both Dawid Ozga and Darren Chan got to the quarter finals and lost to Russian opponents after drawing their bouts they failed the woodbreaking so were eliminated.

Crawley lightweight Dawid Ozga took part in the -70kg category for Great Britain in the KWU World Chmpionships. He defeated his first opponent Timur Chitanava from Abkhazia by waza ari with a punch then fought three tough rounds against Afghanistan fighter Hojat Samehzada. In the final round the judges had the fight level 2-2 so the referee decided the winner and  Samehzada went through to the semi finals 3-2. Since the event Samehzada has been disqualified for doping violations.

Crawley Club took part in the Dunmow 30th anniversary event and the Greg Hitchins Cup. The A team captained by Blake Collins took 1st place with the B team taking 3rd place.

In the individuals the juniors had lots of success in their categories

Pee Wee Low Grade
1st Mikolaj Zabawa
3rd Alexander Sproston

Pee Wee High Grade
1st Charlie Denton

-150cm Low Grade
1st Bart Chaisrisud

+150cm Low Grade
1st Bethany Salvi
2nd Robert Salvi
3rd Madsion Sproston

Richard took part in the So-Kyokushin Openweight Tournament. He defeated his first opponent by 3 round decision then dropped his semi final opponent with a chudan mae geri for ippon. In the final he lost to the South American champion from Chile on a judges decision.