Street Fighter 2 event

Had a great day out at the Street Fighter 2 event at Dartford Judo Club on Sunday; two students competed on the day, Charles and Ali and Charles came away with a gold in his weight division and a silver in the absolute division.  Charles is the epitomy of Old Man Jiu Jitsu, aged 58 years and fighting people young enough to be his sons and grandsons!

Ali was making his competition debut and had a really good first fight and succumbed to an arm bar four minutes in to the fight; what makes this fight more remarkable is that Ali is profoundly deaf, so he really is on his own out on the mats, yet he fought really hard and pulled off a few things we've been drilling in class and he's only been trying for ten weeks, so lost more to come this remarkable young man.

I made my debut at black belt after a long lay off from competing against a seasoned competitor and sadly things didn't go my way, but it felt good to be back competing and look forward to competing again in the near future.

All in all, a good day out, a few medals in the bag and another great training camp under our belts, where everyone has improved, so it's time to go back to the drawing board, take on board things that happened in our fights and work hard to correct the mistakes we made and look forward to the next competition.

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