SUS 2008 - Club Prez takes Silver

Vice-President Iain, President Adam and Secretary Rory pose with Adam's first medal at SUS 2008

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This Semesters grading has been provisionally scheduled for Friday 4th December at 7pm in the Gannochy Studio. If you're grading for the first time, you'll need 2 passport photos along with your affiliation and grading fees (should be £20 affiliation and either £15 or £20 for the grading, but Sensei Niall will confirm nearer the time). Those of you who need to re-affiliate (you should know who you are) will just need the money.

17th October(better late than never)

 - just a quiet night in Dunblane/Stirling!

Now that almost everyone's over the dreaded Fresher's Flu, it was spontaneously decided to resurrect the pub crawl. Plan is to meet at the Railway Station for 7:30, get the first train to Dunblane, hit a few pubs then get the last train back to Stirling. Anyone left standing by this point will struggle through a few pubs in Stirling - the one in the old Post Office for starters :-)

16th September - Gannochy Sports Hall

Not a bad turnout from the current members - even Myland made it eventually. Thanks to everyone for turning up, even those who fell asleep later (you know who you are). Thanks also to everyone who showed some interest in the club - hope to see you at training on Tuesday - if you can't make it to the 'Meet the Members' night in the MacRoberts Bar (see below).

As a follow-up to Club President Adam's success at last year's SUS 2008 we sent a 5-man team to SUS 2009. The result? 4 (count them 4) medals including a silver and 3 bronze. All of this without the support of Sensei Niall and Sempai Lex (who had prior appointments at the Sensei's wedding to former club member Lindsay). Well done lads, congratulations Niall & Lindsay!

Roll call:

Chris Myland - silver; junior level kumite

Adam Pritchared - bronze; intermediate kumite

Sam Parsons - bronze; intermediate kata & kumite

Commiserations to Rory and Iain, better luck next time guys!

The Spring grading went ahead as planned on Friday 8th May, with all participating achieving the grade they were aiming for. Well done to everyone. For the Roll of Honour click here

Well, even though James (last year's President) didn't make it to SUSF 2007, we nevertheless had a presence. Pictured below is Exchange student Rachel Pallis, who was with us for the Spring Semester and was keen to try competition in the UK. Surrounding Rachel is her 'fan club' consisting of most of her American friends, plus club members Adam and Rory - that's them on the left! (both of whom should be competing in SUSF 2008 and also take up committee posts for the coming Academic Year).

Rachel, who is used to American competition, found the UK to be just a little different. She accepted the challenge and performed admirably. Overall, the competition was enjoyed by all who attended.

More medals than last year!!

In the third and most successful SUSF entry for the current club, three medals were secured at the annual event, held this year at Edinburgh University (home ground of the now infamous and event-winning Edinburgh Shuko-Kai). Well this time they didn't get as many medals as usual, due to the excellent efforts of Stirling University Tenshinkan.

A huge WELL DONE to EVERYONE who took part on Saturday April 24th.

Special congratulations to Zoë who took Gold in Junior/Intermediate Ladies Kumite for the 2nd year running, Anna for taking bronze in the Senior Ladies Kata and last but not least Jonny for taking bronze in Intermediate Mens Kumite.

Club members and instructors may like to know that more than one of the WKF referees attending made a point of letting us know just how highly they thought of all the Stirling talent (and these guys see a LOT of talent).