Chungdokwan Nationals - 08/03/08 Report
Report By: Charlie Gosnell (6th Kup, Blue tag, Age 13)
At 7:05 the minibus (driven by Mrs. Gibbs) pulled up at the cannons leisure centre, Mitcham, to collect the Chung Yong competitors. We were all a bit tired but none the less in good spirits for Chung Yong’s first fight of the year.
We arrived at Bracknell around 8:00am and as usual took up as many seats as we could, before we went to weigh in at around 8:45am.
For Chung Yong the day started very successfully in the patterns competition when
Kayley’s outstanding performance left us with the first gold of the day as she successfully completed Taegeuk Sam Jang and Taegeuk Sah Jang beating her 2 fellow competitors.
Around an hour later we moved on to the women’s black belt patterns, where Katherina despite being pregnant completed Taegeuk Pal Jang and Taebaek extremely well beating her fellow 3 competitors winning another gold for Chung Yong.
Through-out the day, (before the fights) we caught a glimpse of the new adidas electronic body armour, that was used in a test fight; the body armour is designed to automatically count the points scored to the body, meaning corner judges will only be there to count head-shots. They may be brought into WTF taekwondo in the future.
We also got a chance to see Mr. Murray, and his partner Sylvia along with their new baby Maya, who is just 3 months old.
And of course we did some valuable warming up in preparation for our fights.
Finally at 2:30pm the fighting started, (Chung Yong has been here since 8:00am)
Our first fight of the day was Clirim who done extremely well in his fight winning 3-4 gaining his last point within the last 20 seconds. Meaning he was put through to the final. In his final again he did extremely well but lost 2-4 winning silver for the club.
Connor won with ease with a direct 0-7, seven point rule, winning gold.
Thomas had an amazing first fight against a black belt where the black belt threw the towel in; Thomas won with three points to one. Thomas then went through to his final where he was beat 0-5 but won silver for the club.
Wayne beat his opponent 9-2 again the seven point rule, 2 amazing axe kicks from Wayne, the second one could have been harder though. Wayne won gold.
Jay gave a great fight with strong and powerful kicks and won 0-7 again seven point rule. Winning gold for the club.
Elliot gave a good effort but was beat 0-7 but still won silver for Chung Yong.
Charlie gave an interesting fight with 2 good headshots beating his opponent 8-1 yet again the seven point rule; Charlie won gold for the club.
Andy was beaten 0-7 but still won silver for the club. He gave some good strong kicks, just a shame they didn’t score.
After we’d all beaten some people up Matthew’s first opponent must have got scared as he didn’t turn up meaning Matthew got put into a final, where he tried hard but was beat 8-1 winning silver.
Roger was our last fight of the day. For his first fight he did very well, with good kicks and effort. He won silver for Chung Yong.
It was the end of a very long day but for our first fight of the year Chung Yong did extremely well winning 6 gold’s and 6 silver’s.
A big congratulations to all competitors’ Poomse and Kyorugi,
Keep up the good work.
Charlie.
At 7:05 the minibus (driven by Mrs. Gibbs) pulled up at the cannons leisure centre, Mitcham, to collect the Chung Yong competitors. We were all a bit tired but none the less in good spirits for Chung Yong’s first fight of the year.
We arrived at Bracknell around 8:00am and as usual took up as many seats as we could, before we went to weigh in at around 8:45am.
For Chung Yong the day started very successfully in the patterns competition when
Kayley’s outstanding performance left us with the first gold of the day as she successfully completed Taegeuk Sam Jang and Taegeuk Sah Jang beating her 2 fellow competitors.
Around an hour later we moved on to the women’s black belt patterns, where Katherina despite being pregnant completed Taegeuk Pal Jang and Taebaek extremely well beating her fellow 3 competitors winning another gold for Chung Yong.
Through-out the day, (before the fights) we caught a glimpse of the new adidas electronic body armour, that was used in a test fight; the body armour is designed to automatically count the points scored to the body, meaning corner judges will only be there to count head-shots. They may be brought into WTF taekwondo in the future.
We also got a chance to see Mr. Murray, and his partner Sylvia along with their new baby Maya, who is just 3 months old.
And of course we did some valuable warming up in preparation for our fights.
Finally at 2:30pm the fighting started, (Chung Yong has been here since 8:00am)
Our first fight of the day was Clirim who done extremely well in his fight winning 3-4 gaining his last point within the last 20 seconds. Meaning he was put through to the final. In his final again he did extremely well but lost 2-4 winning silver for the club.
Connor won with ease with a direct 0-7, seven point rule, winning gold.
Thomas had an amazing first fight against a black belt where the black belt threw the towel in; Thomas won with three points to one. Thomas then went through to his final where he was beat 0-5 but won silver for the club.
Wayne beat his opponent 9-2 again the seven point rule, 2 amazing axe kicks from Wayne, the second one could have been harder though. Wayne won gold.
Jay gave a great fight with strong and powerful kicks and won 0-7 again seven point rule. Winning gold for the club.
Elliot gave a good effort but was beat 0-7 but still won silver for Chung Yong.
Charlie gave an interesting fight with 2 good headshots beating his opponent 8-1 yet again the seven point rule; Charlie won gold for the club.
Andy was beaten 0-7 but still won silver for the club. He gave some good strong kicks, just a shame they didn’t score.
After we’d all beaten some people up Matthew’s first opponent must have got scared as he didn’t turn up meaning Matthew got put into a final, where he tried hard but was beat 8-1 winning silver.
Roger was our last fight of the day. For his first fight he did very well, with good kicks and effort. He won silver for Chung Yong.
It was the end of a very long day but for our first fight of the year Chung Yong did extremely well winning 6 gold’s and 6 silver’s.
A big congratulations to all competitors’ Poomse and Kyorugi,
Keep up the good work.
Charlie.
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