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2006

JANUARY

The following people were selected on to the KUGB England Squads for 2006.

Kelly Hodkinson, Lee McLeod, Elliott Reynolds, Holly Sterling,  Jason Plumb, Samantha Plumb, James Wood and Lyndsey Hodkinson

FEBRUARY

At the Grand Slam, Holly Sterling took gold in the Senior Female Kata and Lee McLeod took bronze in the Junior Kumite (18-20)

MARCH

Some of our members took part in the Karate England National Championships as part of the KUGB England Team.  Congratulations go to :


1st Junior Female Kumite 18-20 yrs (- 53kgs) Holly Sterling
3rd Junior Male Kumite 18-20 yrs (-75kgs) James Wood

3rd Female Senior Kumite Team KUGB (Holly Sterling​​

On 25th March, at the KUGB's Black & Brown Belt Course in Bath, Sharky Austin-Coskry, Eric Austin-Coskry and Callum Charleston successfully passed their Shodan grading.

MAY

At the 40th KUGB National Championships, Chelmsford won the following medals :

1st Senior Male Kata - Stuart Gordon (yes we know he was competing for Salford Academy, but he'd trained with us for almost 15 years before that! and we are still very proud of him)

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Chelmsford were responsible for two demonstrations at this Championships, the first was Holly Sterling with the bunkai of kata Unsu.

2nd Senior Female Kata - Holly Sterling

4th Adult Team Kata - Kelly Hodkinson, Lyndsey Hodkinson, Samantha Plumb

2nd Boy's Kumite Over 5;5: - Elliott Reynolds

June

At the 39th KUGB National Championships we won the following medals :

​Male Kata - Stuart Gordon.  Although Stuart was competing for the University of Manchester, he had been training continuously at Chelmsford from the age of 5, so we don't feel bad for taking some of the credit for this.

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Female Kata - Holly Sterling took 3rd.

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Boy's Kumite Over 5'5" - Elliott Reynolds joint.3rd.

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Chilren's Kata 3rd Kyu and above - Elliott Reynolds 2nd.

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Chilren's Kata Kyu Grades - Mike Jeffery 3rd.

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Chilren's Team Kata - Chelmsford 1st (Sharky Austin-Coskry, Elliott Reynolds and Callum Charleston)

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Chilren's Team Kata - Chelmsford on the rostrum.

JuLY

At the KUGB National Youth Championships we won the following medals :​

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Male Kata - Lee McLeod 3rd

Holly Kumite

Female Kumite - Holly Sterling 3rd

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Female Kata - Holly Sterling 1st

Elliott Kumite

Boy's Kumite Over 5'5" - Elliott Reynolds 1st

Sharky Kata

Boy's Brown Belt Kata -Sharky Austin-Coskry 1st, Eric Austin-Coskry 2nd

Niamh Donoghue 3rd
Team Kata

Girls Kyu Grade Kata -Niamh Donoghue 3rd

Children's Team Kata -Elliott, Sharky, Callum 4th

AUGUST

Holly Sterling represented KUGB England at the Grand Slam taking silver in the Senior Female Kata and 1st in the Junior Female Individual Kumite.

SEPTEMBER

The Shotokan Cup is the KUGB's National Individual Championships and we are always well represented.  Our results were as follows:-

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SC Lee Kumite

Junior Male Kumite (18-20) - Lee McLeod 1st

SC Lee Kata

Junior Male Kata - Lee McLeod 3rd

SC Kelly Kumite

Female Kumite - Kelly Hodkinson Jt 3rd

SC Holly Kata

Female Kata - Holly Sterling 1st

SC Elliott Kata

Boys Kata - Elliott Reynolds 3rd

SC Elliott Kumite

Boys Kumite 5'5" and nover - Elliott Reynolds 3rd

OCTOBER

Sensei Jane passed her Yondan grade at the Special Dan Grade Course in Egham.

NOVEMBER

Chelmsford entered the Students Championships and came back with the following medals :

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Male Brown Belt Kumite - James Wood

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Female Team Kumite - Holly Sterling, Samantha Plumb, Rebekah Rose 2nd

 

Female Team Kata - Holly Sterling, Samantha Plumb, Rebekah Rose 2nd

 

Female Black Belt Kata - Holly Sterling 1st, Samantha Plumb 2nd

 

Female Kyu Grade Kata - Rebekah Rose 2nd
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Chelmsford was represented at the ESKA European Championships in Wroclaw, Poland, but Sensei Charlie who, as President of ESKA, was officiating.

 

Two of our members, Holly Sterling and Lee McLeod who both came home with medals.Holly won the Junior Ladies Team Kumite with team mates Caroline McGrath and Kelly Perry as well as bringing home a bronze in the Individual Kumite event.Lee McLeod took bronze in the Junior Men's Team Kumite event with teammates Christopher Cray, Anthony Duffy and Damian O'Donnell.

DECEMBER

At the final Black & Brown Belt Course of the year, Chelmsford members Kelly Hodkinson, Christopher Coe and Elliott Reynolds all passed their 2nd dan gradings,

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