Bernardo Karate

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Day 3 WKC Dublin, Ireland
World Karate Championships - Day 3 Our final day of competition before the finals! Our Bernardo Karate student's results:

Adults: Forms: Linda Williamson and Christina Easterbrook will be competing in the Gold medal finals for the Women's 35+ (years) Traditional forms division. Christina will also be advancing to the Gold medal finals for Traditional weapons and the 35+ (years) Creative Weapons. Tracy Trotman did an amazing form with her Tonfas and will also be in the finals with Chris in the Traditional Weapons division. Henry Law and Roger Hyde will be in the Gold medal finals for the men's 35+ (years) Traditional weapons and Henry will also be in the finals for the 35+ (years) Traditional forms division. Well done ladies and gentlemen! Your hard work in the dojo is definitely paying off and we look forward to your finals on Wednesday.

Our Men's Team Fighting: Sempai Tom Roberts, Eric Vidicaire, Robbie Lavoie, Marc Monsour and Cody Desbourg crushed the Irish Team and are advancing to the Gold Medal finals tomorrow against the USA Team. Should be a good Team fight as the USA Team boasts quite a few men from the heavier weight classes.

Our Women's Team Fighting: Candace Thody, Cassie Desbourg, Connie Baker, Stephanie Jones and Florence Enns are taking home the Bronze medal after fighting down to the wire against Team Italy. Every lady on the Team competed and fought hard for Team Canada.

Girls: Continuous Light Contact Kickboxing: Alexa Littleton had more tough fights today, particularly against an English competitor who had very heavy hands! Alexa finished the girls 13-17 (years) -55 kg division with a bronze medal. Well done Alexa! Fatima Mohammed will be fighting for Gold in the girls 13-17 (years) -65 kg division against an English Competitor who likes to push forward with non-stop punching and kicking. Fatima outsizes her competitor and will use her slight height and reach advantage to keep the pressure on this fiesty English athlete. We will be cheering Fatima on to win the Gold medal tomorrow!

Boys: Point fighting: Nasrudeen Muhammed fought a south-paw Irish competitor with amazing kicks! The Irish athlete got ahead by a few points right off the bat and Nas finally figured out how to get around his leg but ran out of time before he could surpass him in points. Nas fought hard and we are very proud of his efforts!

Tomorrow: All finals are on Wednesday, November 4th. It will be a very long day but when it is all said and done, Canada should be on top once again in the Medal Standings. Hopefully I will be able to post an approximate medal count by the end of the day!

The athletes are carb-loading for dinner and heading to their rooms early for a restful night of sleep!

We are extremely excited and proud of all of our Bernardo Karate students and Team Canada. Our students have been very respectful athletes to all of the competitors and judges and we have definitely left a very good impression with all of the other Country's Presidents, Coaches and Officials.

We are all cheering loud for all of our athletes and you can feel the excitement in the air for tomorrow's finals.

Be sure to visit the official WKC website at www.worldkickboxingcouncil.com for pictures from today's competition and also a list of all of the finalists and who all of the athletes will be competing against. Thanks again for checking in on us......one more day to go!

Sempai Tammy