Southern Championships 2006

Students from the South Hams Taekwon-do clubs took part in the first Professional Unification of Martial Arts (PUMA) Southern Championships held at Torbay Leisure Centre on Saturday. The 25 students from Lesley McGhie’s schools took home an impressive 24 medals between them.

The students knew they were going to do well when the results were given for the very first 5 event rings of the day, as 4 out of the 5 gold positions were won by South Hams juniors and Little PUMA’s TM (the 4-6 yr old martial art programme).

Events included traditional patterns, sparring, junior high kicking, junior blocking, adult destruction and bo-staff patterns. The South Hams students took medals in all of the events making the competition an all round success for the club.

Results:

Totnes:

Darren Luker: Gold, junior high kick.

Martin Luker: Gold, junior black belt sparring.

Hannah Henderson: entered junior high kick and junior patterns.

Daniel Henderson: Gold, junior red belt patterns.

Tamzin Dawkins: Gold, ladies red belt patterns, gold, ladies blue/red tiles destruction.

Leah Bell: entered junior high kick

Sam Osborn: bronze, Little PUMA™ patterns.

Charlie Osborn: entered junior white belt patterns and junior high kick.

Corinne Ellis: silver, ladies yellow/green sparring.

Bob Janes: Gold, mens blue/red board destruction; gold, mens blue/red tiles destruction; gold, mens blue/red brick destruction.

Claire Roughley: bronze, ladies black belt sparring.

Kiera James: entered junior white belt patterns and junior high kick.

Cameron Hard: entered junior yellow belt patterns and junior high kick.

Ben Beer: entered junior green belt sparring.

Liberty Daly: entered junior high kick.

Kingsbridge:

Sophie Barnett: Bronze, ladies blue belt patterns.

Sam Barnett: Gold, junior blue belt patterns; gold, junior high kick.

Yanni Barnett: Gold, Little PUMA™ patterns.

Medea Creed: Gold, ladies blue belt patterns; gold, ladies blue/red tiles destruction; silver, ladies blue/red sparring.

Corinne Sriwadada: bronze, ladies black belt patterns; bronze, ladies black belt sparring; bronze, ladies black belt bo-staff.

Roxanne Winzer: silver, junior black belt sparring.

South Brent:

Sion Park: entered junior high kick and junior white belt patterns.

Joseff Park: entered junior high kick.

Dartmouth:

Georgie Chadfield: Bronze, junior white belt patterns.

Jordan Thorpe: entered Little PUMA™ patterns and high kick

The following day South Hams students also attended the coloured belt grading held in Totnes. Chief Examiner, Master Ray Gayle, 7 th Degree made the trip from Bristol to grade the students from South Hams and Torbay.

Students were graded on technical ability, sparring, theory and attitude. The students all performed well, with some outstanding students achieving credits and grading awards.

Coloured belt grading results:

Kingsbridge & Malborough: Charlotte Sullivan, 2nd kup; Tilly Durant, PUMA grade 2, Melchor Purchase, PUMA grade 1; Yanni Barnett, PUMA grade 1 with credit and grading award.

Broadhempston: Leah Bell, PUMA grade 1; Liberty Hale, PUMA grade 1; Chloe Harrison, PUMA grade 1; Rebecca Lee, PUMA grade 1; Rose Maclachlan, PUMA grade 1, Padraic Whelan, PUMA grade 1.

Dartmouth: Polly Bailey, PUMA grade 2; Georgie Chadfield, PUMA grade 2; Oliver Dove, PUMA grade 1; Elliot Reeves, PUMA grade 1; Sam Smale, PUMA grade 1, grading award.

South Brent: Leon Bailey, PUMA grade 1; Levi Dow, PUMA grade 1.

Totnes: Richard Giddens, 2nd kup; Charlotte Levy, 3rd kup, Hannah Henderson, 6th kup; Zoe Heron, 6th kup; Alec Drew, 8th kup; Stuart Heathfield, 8th kup; Georgia Scrase-Vallance, 9th kup; Libby Daly, PUMA grade 1; Jo Eaton, PUMA grade 1; Oskar Farrow-Jones, PUMA grade 1; Joshua Lindon-Emms, PUMA grade 1; Tom Mahy, PUMA grade 1; Hugo Malin-Clegg, PUMA grade 1; Grace Tabb, PUMA grade 1; Connor Taylor, PUMA grade 1.