Dragon mania rule National Open!

The United Freestyle Black Dragons went into action on Sunday at the Gloucestershire Open championships.
The squad of 8 strong returned home with twelve trophies and six first places.

Results:
Naomi Fox 3rd Japanese Kata Adult
Colin Muress 3rd - 75kg Light Contact Advanced men
Beth Allars 3rd -155cm Light Contact Advanced girls
Louise Nelson 3rd -155cm Semi Contact Advanced girls
Paul Mayfeild 2nd - 75kg Light Contact Advanced men
Rachel Coleman 2nd +60kg Light Contact Advanced Ladies
Jason Raddo 1st Novice Semi Contact
Beth Allars 1st -155cm Semi Contact Advanced girls
Louise Nelson 1st -155cm light Contact Advanced girls
Louise Nelson 1st Korean Patterns under 16 years
Daniel Allars 2nd + 165 Light contact Advanced boys
Pete Cook 1st Korean Patterns Adult
Pete Cook 1st Masters Open weight advanced men

All the above performed well and showed their ability against strong opposition with six of the squad that will be competing at the world championships doing well.

Naomi Fox and Jason Raddo competed for the first time both achieving good results well done to them.

Both squad members Louise Nelson and Beth Allars were on fire bringing home 5 trophies between them with excellent individual performances. Rachel Coleman had yet another war with European Champion Sharon Price taking the bout to extra time but losing out to a fair but close decision, both Colin Muress and Paul Mayfeild lost against former world champion Dan Gabb but gave him a lot to think about for the up and coming world championships. Lastly Pete Cook took two 1st places taking on the current World and European champion Steve Simmons in the finale of the Masters section winning comfortably.

Coach and Instructor Pete Cook said we went over for this tournament to gain ring experience for the world championships ending up with some valuable pointers for our training schedules we have eight students including myself who are competing in the world championships in Germany in November.