OBTKD Novice Tournament

Not even 10 minutes have the Kingston Taekwondo Team arrived into Overton’s Primary School to fight, yet had Crystal-jade Vaughan called up to fight a green belt. The first ten seconds ‘Cj’ scored three points with some rapid turning kicks. A referee reminded Cj to stop using headshots since two shots have been executed successfully but where not counted.
Many point deductions were introduced resulting in lowering points of the opponents. The fight was over in the first round by point gap, the score being: 9-2 winner being the green belt.

Evans Marshall faced a blue belt which also was a student of LLTKD. This fight was there for demonstration purposes.
White-belt Evans and blue-belt started off aggressively and ebbed in the second round after not managing energy successfully. Nevertheless the last 20 seconds being an absolute highlight, both exchanged blows and score simultaneously leaving the audience in awe guessing who would win. At last the 8-months trained Taekwondo student scored a last point resulting in a 9-8 making the gold medal his. Not to forget, Evans ended up with 2 medals, one gold and one silver by fighting a member of the TKD POWERHOUSE.

Brian Berends had an entertaining but fairly easy opponent.
He kept the enemy in good distance and landed some headshots several times keeping the audience entertained throughout the whole match.
As one would expect; he ended the match with a headshot causing the pointgap winning the gold medal.

Huw Swanborough was rewarded with a silver after facing a yellow-belt. Despite Huw’s injuries he had the spirit to prevail and to last until the end of the fight. The fight was down to earth and clean shots where exchanged with courtesy rather than brute force.

Manimaran Murugesapillai having to face an opponent from the powerhouse tkd. ‘Mani’ demonstrated smooth footwork. The fight ended in the first round as a 4-3 favouring Mani with the upper hand.
In the last second round the score was on a 5-5 keeping the audience guessing however in the last 20seconds Mani avoided attacking and avoided his opponents attacks escaping into getting himself the gold medal.

Femi Atewo fought a green tag and still preformed well.
The first round being every energetic resulted in a draw 2-2.
Still energetic but more aggressive shots were exchanged in the second round beating them selves into a 5-4. Femi placed second as silver medal was still happy.

Koushk Ryan Salehi-Bakhtiari