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Irish Cup 2010
The Irish Cup took place over the weekend of May 29th & 30th with students from the club competing over the 2 days. As always the results and efforts of each and every student competing were excellent. On the first day the cadets and seniors were competing with Gracjan taking Gold in his sparring section in his first ever competition and Ashley taking silver, narrowly missing out on the Gold after the first round ended up a draw. Mark was very unlucky missing out on the Gold after looking certain of having done enough in the first round of the final but it went to a draw and then unfortunately lost out in the extra round. Day 2 was for the juniors and was a great day for the guys. Here Jonathan took gold in the yellow belt sparring section and bronze in the pattern section. A fantastic achievement considering the size of both these categories. Alex, continuing his preparation for his upcoming black belt testing took bronze in patterns and bronze in sparring. A fantastic display of courage from Alex having taking a nasty knock in his semi final decided to compete in his 3rd place playoff and won convincingly. In the green belt sections Hiba and Orla both took silver in their respective divisions having performed very well on the day.
Well done to all who took part including those whose results may not have reflected the great progress they have made in class over the recent months. There will be plenty more chances to compete in the future and every competition brings that added bit of experience. To see some of the photos from the 2 days click on the photos tab to view the album
