We had a small squad travel up to the West Midlands to compete in the UK open championships held by Paul Campbell and PC karate
not the best of days for us but still coming back with 6 medals 3 x 2nd , 3 x 3rd , 

We entered 2 teams under 10s kata and under 10s kumite
In the team kata our guys had to compete with under 16 yrs and coming 4th great effort from cory giles , aaliyah wiley and leah driscoll this being there first attemp at the team kata event , in team kumite we had isaac baxter , cory giles and ryan howells they again competeing for the first time in the tream event and getting to the final and picking up a silver medal , in the indivdual events KATA under 10s we had cory giles who got to the quater finals losing 2 - 1 and was very unlucky not to win , leah driscoll competing better and always improving but unlucky not to medal along with aaron baxter who is only 6 yrs of age and his brother isaac baxter both traveling away for the first time with the squad , in the under 12yrs we had jack seward having to perform a lower grade kata going against his plan for the day but still a great effort from him , also in the senior event we had paul green who does not seam to get much luck going out to alyx white the winner on the day but paul is showing great improvement as always KUMITE we had in the under 8 yrs aaron baxter fighting for his first time he was the youngest in the event and fought great for his first attempt but unlucky not to medal , under 10 yrs heavyweight  saw ryan howells great fight from him but going out in the first round and isaac baxter who was again fighting for the first time getting to the last 8 but again unlucky not to medal , under 10 yrs lightweight cory giles fighting in this divistion for the first time fighting the best to date getting to the final and unlucky not to win the event silver medal for him , under 12 yrs lightweight section we had jack seward trying to improve from his great fight at the last tournament fighting the reigning british champion and unlucky not to progress , 
in the senior kumite was our best day for 2 years with 5 fighters paul green in the lightweight weight section picking up a silver medal and only losing after extra time great effort all day from him his best comp to date , in the midleweight section lewis beven fighting after his bad injury at the last comp and only losing by a point lewis only a white belt this his 2nd comp already i am sure the good days will come for him , david green picking up a bronze medal getting to the semi finals not his best performance but achieving what he set out to do mission achieved for him , in the masters event goeffrey nesbett losing in the quater finals to the winner on the day unlucky draw for geof , and rob green getting to the final not his best of days picking up a silver medal ,
well done to all competers at what is turning out to be a difficult venue for us but we have now picked up 46 medals in 9 outings in 2011 not bad with only 1 dan grade in the squad , all the tournament league is now up to date along with the team league so check out your new club ranking , the next comp is on october 15th st pats closed kata comp and the 28th of november at western super mare WKU invertational for entry form ask at your club also the clubs medal table has been updated to have at look at this years events in full . 

sunday 28th august was the date for this years welsh open championships held at the national sports center , cardiff
we had a small squad of 15 competeters competing some for the first time ,
under 10 yrs kata 4th kyu and below / cory giles , aaliyah wiley , leah driscol
aaliyah unlucky as well as leah driscol going out in the first round good performances , but they did not have much time
to prepare for this event , cory the same getting to the 2nd round making a mistake but like aaliyah and leah not much time to prepare
under 10 yrs kata 3rd kyu + / cory giles , aaliyah wiley , leah driscol
all 3 students performing brilliant with leah and aaliyah getting bronze medals and cory winning the event
all 3 student performing kata well above there grade as all 3 are only 5th kyus
under 12 yrs mixed kata / jack seward , nadia liban , nimo liban ,
all 3 students going out in the first round but performing very well great effort by all 3 competitors
disability kata / sean ball , jordan allen , grace smith ,
grace and jordan picking up bronze medals great effort from both competers and sean going on to win the event
senior kata male / paul green
paul competing for the first time only a green belt performing a kata well above his grade , going out to the winner nick hopper ,
to add to his welsh closed tital well done to all 3 competitors
under 10 yrs kumite / dylan howells , ryan howells
both boys going out in thge first round against good opponants great effort from both
under 12 yrs , lightweight / jack seward ,
jack fighting for only his 2nd time very unlucky fighting his best performance to date losing 4-2 to the eventual winner
the best junior kumite performance of the day ,
under 12 yrs girls heavyweight / nadia liban , nimo liban
nadia fighting well but getting some body punches that were a bit to much for her i am sure she will were chest protection next time
nimo liban fighting a brilliant fight going out in extra time very unlucky to nimo
under 16 yrs lightweight , luke richards ,
luke fought brilliant getting to the quater finals going out to the british champion , but a great effort from him
male senior kumite / paul green , david green , lewis bevan
i have to say i was very impressed by all 3 competitors all lower grades fighting international competitors
paul was first up fighting a scottish international only losing by 2 points and this was his first fight ,
lewis bevan fighting the well known robbie scott , lewis was doing very well making it difficult for robbie scott
but robbie lost control of his face punches breaking lewis nose lewis won by robbie getting disqulified lewis
having to go to hospital and was unabale to continue , this was only his first fight
david green fight sean rhys a welsh international david only a green belt fought a brilliant fight only losing by 2 points
the future is looking very promising for our senior section ,
SO 6 MEDALS / 2 X GOLD ; 4 X BRONZE
our new welsh champions ; CORY GILES and SEAN BALL well done also to AALIYAH WILLIEY ; LEAH DRISCOLL  ; JORDAN ALLEN ;
GRACE SMITH ; also all the other competitors all your points are now on the tounament league , photos will follow 
next competiton dudley september 18th

well done to all our school club students that passed there grading the week of monday july 11th and friday july 15th also a great big congratulations to all the evening class students along with little samurai and disability students that passed there grading saturday july 23rd ,~
the next grading will be at the end of november this date will be in the newsletter at the start of september will done to everyone that passed