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16th Karate Project - Venice Cup
 Alex Sell from Shuhari-Kai Karate Club represented Southern England Regional Karate Squad in the recent Venice Cup competition that took place in Noale, Venice, Italy on the 17-18th December 2005. The first day of the competition saw the team events and Kata
events take place. Alex was selected to form a team with Harry Cannon and James Witt in the Boys 13-14yrs section. The team cruised to the final and took Gold. Alex took part in the 13-14yrs Kata events and after wining a number of rounds, finally lost out in the final settling for
silver. The final day of competition saw the individual events take place. Alex took part in the Boys 13-14yrs U55KG event and like last year collected another Gold for the squad. The Southern Region ended top of the medal table with 10 gold, 7 silver and 7 bronzes.
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 1st Italy Karate Open Championship - Eurocup
Forget Noel Coward, Benny Hill and Michael Caine "You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!", forget three Mini Coopers trail-blazing a getaway and the "Self Preservation Society" blasting your eardrums, the 'Real' Italian Job was done by England's
very own three Mini Coopers, Aimee Sell, Alex Sell and James Witt. The mission was clear, the plan was formulated and execution was exquisite. In and out with as much gold as possible. Higashi's James Witt teamed up with Aimee and Alex Sell from Shuhari-Kai
Karate Club to form a small but extremely potent force to take on the rest of Europe in the 1st Italy Karate Open Championship - Eurocup. The tournament was held in Jesolo Lido, just outside of Venice in Italy, and was run over a weekend, the 10-11th December 2005...
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 TKO Invitational Tournament
Sunday 4th December 2005 saw a Shuhari-Kai squad of ten attend the Tournament Karate Association Invitational Tournament held at Newham Leisure Centre. We had never been invited along to this tournament before and didn't quite know what to expect but was pleasantly
surprised at the number of competitors, especially as no under 8's were allowed meaning we had to leave a few little ones of our own behind this time. The standard was pretty good too which meant the squad had to really work for their medals, as it should be. Although the invitation
was a surprise, it was more than welcomed as this, for many, was the last opportunity for them to compete this year...
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Harrods Display for Next Japan
 New Martial Artist specialist, Next Japan, invited Shuhari-Kai Karate Club to perform a demonstration at their London launch at Harrods in Knightsbridge. Saturday 3rd December 2005 saw Shuhari-Kai
Chief Instructor Richard Burridge take along Jodie Miles, Alex and Aimee Sell to help in the launch Next Japans range of Martial Clothing and equipment. Sporting their new range of authentic original Japanese Gi's, the squad performed a number of Kata displays, Kihons and Ohyo's
throughout the afternoon. The kids enjoyed the experience of demonstrating in front of the general public imparting some of their knowledge and experience along the way.
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 Havering London Youth Games Presentation
Updated with Jack Petchey Foundation presentation to Havering
Two members of the Shuhari-Kai karate club attended Havering’s, London Youth Games presentation evening on November 29th at Romford ice rink, they were Jordan Hodges and Jodie Miles.
Jordan was a reserve for the boys team at the youth games, but Jodie represented Havering in both kata and kumite, where she won a gold and a bronze medal...
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Shuhari-Kai break the 200 Medal barrier
A fantastic weekend of competition saw the Shuhari-Kai squad split into two with 14 students, many new and first timers, going the the EKKA BT Exact competition in Ipswich with 3 others taking on the Welsh amongst others at the Welsh National Championships in
Cardiff. Both squads did exceptionally well bringing home a wealth of medals.
6 Gold, 1 Silver and 7 Bronzes from BT Exact Competition...
5 Gold, 1 Bronze from Welsh National Championships...
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 Toyakwai International Open Championships
Sunday 23rd October 2005 saw over 600 competitors from 10 different countries come together to compete in the Toyakwai International Open Championships held in Goresbrook Leisure Centre, Dagenham, Essex. The Shuhari-Kai squad collected 6 medals with Golds for the two boys Jordan Hodges and Alex Sell with Jordan claiming top honours in the 10-11yrs Kumite event and Alex claiming a double Gold in the Dan Grade Kata and 12-13yrs Kumite events. More
medals were collected by Jodie Miles who claimed a Bronze in the Dan Grade Kata event, Dean Bannister who claimed a Bronze in the Cadets Team Kumite event and Alex Sell again who picked up his third medal, a Bronze, in the Junior Mixed Team Kumite event...
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 Meopham Open Junior Championships
Sunday 16th October saw Shuhari-Kai's second largest squad for the year travel down Meopham in Kent to compete in the Meopham Open Junior Championships which were being hosted by Ken No-Sen Karate. The squad of 11 consisted of some seasoned squad members down to
Luke Hudson who was competing for the first time. The squad of 11 certainly made a mark on this tournament as they walked away with 14 medals in total, 7 Gold, 5 Silver and 2 Bronzes....
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 England Junior National Championships
A small squad of four from Shuhari-Kai Karate Club, representing our association, Shorai Karate-Do International (SKDI) set off for Sheffield on Friday 23rd September for the weekend stay whilst attending the England Junior National Karate Championships
held in Ponds Forge. The squad did very well to come away with 2 Silvers and 1 Bronze despite suffering from a wealth of disqualifications for which none were really their fault...
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Next Generation Kids
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and sister Karate aces Alex and Aimee Sell have made a hit at the Next Generation Sports Club in Gidea Park recently when the club agreed to sponsor their endeavours on the Karate Competition circuit. The pair who are members of Shuhari-Kai Karate Club already have a number of National
and International titles between them and now hope the extra training they do at the Next Generation Club and the support the club offers will lead them to even greater success.
As well as an excellent outdoor pool to compliment its 25 metre indoor pool which they both regularly use, they also benefit from the under 14 years gym facility which the Next Generation Club offers. On Friday 9th September Sales, Marketing &
Membership Manager, Trevor Brennan, presented them with some branded Next Generation sports holdalls which they can use when attending training and competitions.
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Toyakwai Grand open Championships
Sunday 18th September 2005 saw a small squad of 6 travel to Clacton to compete in the Toyakwai Grand Open Championships. The squad came home with 1 Gold and 2 Silver medals.
The first events were Kata which were judged on one single round scored on points by three judges. The Mixed U16yrs 3-1st Kyu category saw Jade Lewis, Sophie Roberts and Aimee Sell all in action...
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BIKO British International Championships
 With four competitions being held on the same day plus the regional training sessions and selections, the hardest decision was which competition to attend. In the end it wasn’t really that difficult, “lets go to the closest one”. With
Shuhari-Kai Sensei Richard Burridge deciding to referee at the BIKO British International Championships too the decision was done and dusted. So off we trotted to Grundy Park Leisure Centre in Cheshunt, Herts, on Sunday 11th September for this international event. It was
surprisingly busier than we thought it was going to be given the glut of competitions being held simultaneously which was nice as it gave the squad more competition than expected. The squad of 9 did well with nearly everyone coming home with a medal and between them collected 3 Gold,
2 Silver and 6 Bronze medals...
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Wayne Otto OBE Seminar
 Seven times World Karate Champion, nine times European Karate Champion and newly appointed England National Karate Coach, Wayne Otto OBE, gave his first training seminar since his appointment to the students of Shuhari-Kai Karate Club on Sunday 21st August 2005. The students felt very proud to be given this honour and
repaid the honour with spirit and enthusiasm when training. Wayne is recently back from the Commonwealth Karate Championships which were held in New Zealand where he successfully coached the England squad to 12 Gold, 3 Silver and 5 Bronze medals, an excellent start to what promises to
be a fruitful coaching career.
Wayne passed on his valuable knowledge and experience during the 2 hour seminar teaching the students combinations, punching and sweeping techniques. Each student that attended received a signed certificate to commemorate the event at the end. The students thoroughly enjoyed the
seminar and are hopeful Wayne will return in the near future. The overwhelming opinion from the students was that this had been the best seminar so far. Well done Wayne and thank you. For photos of Wayne's visit click HERE. |
Seishin Open Championships
The Seishin Open held on 7th August 2005 was one or our local competitions only being about 20 miles away at the Grundy Leisure Centre in Hertfordshire. M25, A10, nice and easy. Given it was holiday season, the hall was packed with competitors and spectators making this seem like
one of the largest competitions attended this year. A lot of the categories were quite open and this made for a large amount of entries in some categories...
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Welsh Junior Open Championships
 Only three Shuhari-Kai squad members travelled to Cardiff to compete in the Welsh Junior Open Championships held on Saturday 6th August 2005. Between the three of them, Sophie Roberts, Aimee Sell and
Alex Sell they came away with 2 Golds and 1 Silver and a Bronze medal.
The Mixed Under 12 years Kata event saw 10 year old Aimee in action first. This was a heavily subscribed category with five rounds but the competitors were at least allowed to repeat their Katas...
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3rd Malta Open International Championships
 The third edition of the Malta Open international Karate Championships were held on 16th July 2005 at the Savio College Sports Centre, Dingli, Malta. The one-day event attracted large crowds of both Maltese and foreign spectators who came to support their respective countries.
There were over 200 athletes competing from 13 countries; Romania, Holland, England, Ireland, Germany Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Wales, Sweden, Israel, Italy and of course Malta.
Brother and Sister, Alex and Aimee Sell were the representatives from Shuhari-Kai Karate Club and between them came home with four Golds and one Silver trophy...
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 MEOPHAM
OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS
Seven Shuhari-Kai students travelled to Kent for the 2nd Meopham Open on Sunday 10th July 2005. The Kata events were first and in the mixed under 16 years 6th to 4th Kyu category we had 4 students. Billie Lowry was called up first
who performed Pinan Nidan and scored a well-deserved 21.1. Up next was Gemma Smith in her first ever competition and whom also performed Pinan Nidan. Gemma scored a creditable 20.6. which was a great effort...
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Mushindo Wado-Kai National Open Kata Championships
 It was an early start for Jodie Miles as she was the only student from Shuhari-Kai to enter the Mushindo Wado-Kai competition which was held at Wolverhampton on Saturday 9th July
2005.
After travelling for 2 ½ hours and arriving at the same time as the organisers, we were allowed in to take our seats and wait for Jodie’s categories to begin. This only took a little while as it was very well run with only 3 mats being used.
Jodie was called to area 3 for her Wado section, but while she was performing her first Kata they then called her to mat 2 for the Shito section too...
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Toyakwai Essex Open Karate Championships
Six medals from four squad members at the Toyakwai Essex Open held on Sunday 3rd July 2005. Jodie Miles, Jade Lewis, Aimee Sell and Alex Sell travelled up to sunny Clacton to compete in the
third of Toyakwai's open championships. With four mats running consecutively the competition ran along quite quickly, even though the peewee Kumite events took a while to complete due to the large number of entries...
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Wado-Kai England Open Karate Championships
Shuhari-Kai Karate Club squad came away with 6 medals from the Wado-Kai England Open held over the weekend of 25/26th June 2005. The competition, held at the Rivermead Leisure Complex, Reading, was held over two days,
Saturday being for Kata and Sunday for Kumite. Saturday was in that it finished quite early, 3:45 approx. Sunday wasn't too much later when we lest as we didn't have any senior team events to hang around for.
The first events to get underway on Saturday were the U11yrs events with Jordan Hodges competing in the Mixed U11yrs 4th Kyu & below category...
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 London Youth Games 2005
It was the hottest day of the year so far and the London Youth Games held at Crystal Palace National Sports Centre saw some of the hottest competition representing the London Boroughs in this years tournament. In the sweltering Summer heat, the competition was held on Sunday 19th
June 2005 and all the competitors representing the Havering Borough squad were trying to go one better than last year where both the boys and girls teams came second overall. Both teams consisted of the maximum 10 competitors and both teams had two competitors in the Kata events...
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 British Karate Federation National Youth Championships
Shuhari-Kai Karate Club has a new British National Champion, Aimee Sell, who took gold in the Girls Under 10 Years Kata event. Five squad members travelled to Sheffield for the British Karate Federation National Championships which were held over the weekend 11-12th June
2005. The majority of the squad was competing in the first days events with the exception of Sophie Roberts was competing on both days of the tournament...
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 United Styles Association Open Championships
After
a long day on Saturday, four students from the Shuhari-Kai squad made the early morning trip to Dudley on Sunday 15th May 2005. Vishaal Dovedi, Jodie Miles, Jade Lewis and Sophie Roberts and not forgetting our coach for
the day Lawrence Grosvenor.
Up first were Jodie, Jade and Vishaal, all competing in the mixed 10 – 12 years 5th Kyu and above Kata category and along with 35 other competitors...
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Toyakwai Capital Open Karate Championships
Four squad members travelled up to Clacton on Sunday 15th May to take part in the
Toyakwai Capital Open Karate Championships. Alex Sell was the first to compete in the Under 16yrs Dan Grade Kata event. Alex performed Chatanyara Kushanku scoring 7.5, 7.4 & 7.1 from the three judges totalling 22.0...
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 Ishinryu Summer Open
Ten squad members attended this local competition and came away with ten medals between them. The Ishinryu Summer Open was held at the Hornchurch Sports Centre, Harrow Lodge, on 14th May 2005. This is always a hotly contested competition and the standard was extremely high again
this year as always. First up for the squad was Jordan Hodges and Ali Ayerman in the Kata event...
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 Havering Games
Hornchurch Sports Centre hosted the annual Havering Games Karate Competition held on Saturday 7th May 2005. The games gave Havering Karate Squad coach, Richard Burridge, a chance to see the best and brightest in Havering in action. Based upon the days performances and past
tournament performances, Richard will be selecting the Havering Squad to compete at the London Youth Games which are being held on 19th June. All participants will be notified in due course. The games themselves went smoothly with everyone who competed enjoying the day. Amongst the
spectators at these games were the Mayor & Mayoress of Havering showing their support and a number of local sports reporters and photographers. Full results can be found on the Results page. |
 Golds Galore at EKKA Open
A small squad of five travelled to Ipswich on Sunday 23rd April 2005 to enter the EKKA open and all came away medal winners. Kata was first and Jordan Hodges was first up in the mixed 6th-4th Kyu event. Jordan performed Pinan Shodan and scored 7.0, 7.1 and 7.3 from the three
judges totalling 21.4...
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 Scottish International Karate Open
Three squad members did brave the trip to the land of the Bravehearts and all three, Sophie Roberts, Lawrence Grosvenor and Alex Sell, came away double medal winners. Sunday 3rd April 05 saw Kelvin Hall in Glasgow host the 1st Scottish International Karate Open
and a host of talented young stars turned out for this inarguable event...
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 Shuhari-Kai
Easter Competition
As scheduled the competition started on time at 2p.m.
with more peewees entering this year, which made it more interesting.
Kata was first with the peewee competitors, after all
performing Pinan Nidan and adding up the scores the outcome was Jonathan
and Scott collecting bronze medals, Hannah collected
silver, and the gold medal went to Daniel Libby...
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Super Sante Grabs Gold at TKA
Sante Moonie claimed Gold in her first open competition at the Toyakwai Greater London Championships held in Goresbrook Leisure Centre. She then went on to collect Bronze too after participating in the Womens Team event. The squad came away with 1 Gold, 3 Silvers and 5 Bronzes in one
hectic day...
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EKGB Senior Championships
Well done to Lawrence Grosvenor who took part in the Senior Championships held at Ponds Forge in Sheffield on Sunday 13th March. Lawrence secured Gold in the Cadet category beating Roding's Miachael Roache in the final after coming from behind to claim an excellent victory
and English Champion title. Well done Big G, we're all proud of you!
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MEOPHAM OPEN
Shuhari-Kai sent a squad of 9 to the Meopham Open in Kent on Sunday 13th March.
On arriving nice and early we set ourselves up and the competitors got changed and started warming up for the first event of the day which was junior mixed kata 15 years and below 6th to 4th kyu. Up first was Billie Lowry in her first ever Open competition
went out and performed Pinan Nidan and scored 20.5...
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 Children's Regional Age Group Championships
On Saturday 12 March the first ever Children’s Regional Championships were held at Ponds Forge in Sheffield. The competition took place after the seniors had finished the kata section of the EKGB Senior Nationals. The competing regions were
Northern, Southern and Midlands Regions. The Southern Region had only entered one team for Kata, the boys team from Ishinryu consisting of Mitch Scother, Robert Clark and James Cornish. The boys blew away the competition to capture the Regions first trophy and collect 6 points for
first place (with 4 for second and 2 for third)...
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England Karate-Do Ryobu-kai Open International Championships
What can we say!
The Squad of four set off to Worthing at 6.30a.m arriving nice and early and being able to go into the dojo and wait patiently for everyone to arrive.
The competition started with team kata, we didn’t enter this event unfortunately as bunkai was supposed to be performed by the winners but this was not done.
First up for our squad was Jordan Hodges or is it Gordon! Getting a first round bye he then went on to perform pinan shodan winning 2 flags to 1, which took Jordan straight into the final, and not to disappoint he performed pinan sandan and took
the same 2 flags as before, well done Jordan the 1st gold of the day...
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 National
Karate Association Open Championships
Sunday 6th March 2005 saw a squad from Shuhari-Kai Karate Club travel to
Newcastle-Under-Lyme in Staffordshire for the 1st National Karate
Association Open Championships. The National Karate Association is SKDI's
(Shorai Karate-Do International, our parent association) newest member and
our squad were happy to support their 1st Open Karate Championships...
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AMA International Championships
Shuhari-Kai Karate Club claimed a gold at both ends of the scale with
our youngest and oldest competitors from the squad both claiming their
International titles at the AMA International Championships held on
26-27th February 2005, in Nottingham. England squad member Lawrence
Grosvenor continued his wining streak whilst competing in the 17-18
years Cadets Kumite fighting event...
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 Cream
of the Crop at Southern Region Selections
Alex Sell from Shuhari-Kai Karate Club and Robert Clark from Grays &
Rainham Ishinryu, both pictured here collecting their runners-up
certificates at this years Havering Sports Council Awards, have been
selected to represent Southern England in the forth coming National Regional
Team Championships...
Havering's
Junior Sports Competitor Runner-up
Shuhari-Kai's Alex Sell attended the annual Havering Sports
Council Awards ceremony which were held on Monday evening 21st February in
the Upminster Golf Club. This was the second time Alex had made it into the
finals, he was a runner-up two years ago. He had opposition in the form of
Aaron West who specialising in Cricket and another Karate exponent Robert
Clark from Grays & Rainham Ishinryu. After the speeches the winner was
announced as Aaron West beating both boys from the world of Karate. This is
the second time that both Alex and Robert have been runners-up with Robert
being runner-up last year too. With two Karate exponents in the top three,
it firmly puts Karate in the spotlight within the borough. Well done guys.
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All
British Children's Championships
Shuhari-Kai Karate Club took 8 students to the All British Futures
Championships held in Dudley on Sunday 20th February 2005 and came home with
a horde of silverware. They collected 6 golds and 1 silver between them.
First gold of the day came from Aimee Sell in the Mixed
Peewee 9yrs and under Kata event...
Click HERE for gallery of
the tournament.
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 15th
European Junior and Cadet Karate Championships
Shuhari-Kai's Lawrence Grosvenor represented England National
Karate squad in the Junior and Cadets European Championships held in
Thessaloniki, Greece. After two weeks of intensive training at the Cyprus
training camp with he rest of the squad he finally flew to Greece for the
championships which were being held between 11-13th February 2005.
Lawrence's training didn't go without a hitch as he became ill and was
unable to train for a number of days. Lawrence recovered though just in time
for the championships itself. Fighting in day two in the Cadets +75KG event,
Lawrence was unlucky to loose out 5-4 to A.Hornez from France in a close
match. Unfortunately, A.Hornez failed to reach the finals meaning that
Lawrence's chances of making the repechage and any medal hopes were dashed.
The Cadet and Junior squad finished with 1 silver and 3 bronze medals. For
full results click HERE
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 14th North v
South Northern Ireland Open Championships
Our small squad of three, Sophie Roberts, Aimee
Sell and Alex Sell travelled to Belfast on Friday night 4th
February 2005 for the 14th North v South Open tournament which was being
held the following day. Let me stop there and say that we actually had a
lovely time in Belfast. The people we met were warm and friendly and the
city itself was buzzing. Saturday night out at Café Milan was absolutely
jammed packed with the cosmopolitan trendies who ensured the 30 minute wait
for a table at 7:00pm was worth it. The competition itself however, wasn't
really worth it...
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British
Karate Federation International Open
First competition of the year and the squad of five did
exceptionally well to come away with four medals. The British Karate
Federation's International Open is always a hotly contested tournament with
entries from Ireland, Norway, Slovakia, Belgium and Egypt to name but a few
making up the elite international opposition...
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 Lawrence
Grosvenor Selected for England
Shuhari-Kai's Lawrence Grosvenor was selected in the final
England selection and training session to represent England in the
forth-coming Junior European Championships. The final session was held on
Saturday 8th January gives Lawrence one month to hone his abilities as the
Championships are being held between the 11th-13th February 2005. The 32nd
European Junior & Cadet Karate Championships are being held
in Thessaloniki, Greece, and the official championships site can be found here.
And to celebrate Lawrence's selection, we've added some fun combat
games to the website. They can be found under the Fun & Games menu. We wish Lawrence every success as he represents his country. Well done
Lawrence.
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