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On Saturday the 14th of August four boys from the IJC (Tom Martin, Charlie Pearce, Kienan McGuckin, Aaron McGuckin) entered a very competitive Eastern Area Open Age Banded Championships. This was a competition of a very high standard with players from Newberry, Kettering, Vale, Harrow, Belgium, Blackdog and some of the other top Suffolk clubs. The boys were not out classed but simply lacked that competitive edge, which only comes from experience of days like this. So, whilst none of the IJC players came away from the competition with a medal, they did all come away with vital experience that will stand them in good stead for the future. So a very well done to all the boys that took part and also to the coaches that came along to help the boys or referee.

On Saturday the 15th of August a contingent of players from the IJC traveled to Thetford for the EA Open Randori session. This was a very tough three hour session for both Junior and senior players. It started with a detailed warm up and then straight into tachi-waza and ne-waza. As there was a number of junior grades within the senior players the coaches decided to have a twist and let the looser stay out front. This was a good opportunity for all the players to mix with the players that had traveled from Belgium for the previous day’s compilation and seemed to help everyone relax. All the players who took part thoroughly enjoyed themselves and it was good to see Dave working very hard as a student, rather than running the training.