Hyndburn’s young Ji Ju-Jitsu champions go head-to-head with UK and bag huge haul of medals

Young Ji Ju-Jitsu competitors came home with a huge haul of medals following their excellent performance at a competition.

Following on from their huge success in the GB Nationals last year, Hyndburn based Kuon Ji Ju-Jitsu sent their team down to Llanelli in South Wales for the Welsh Nationals. Team Kuon Ji won in total 12 Gold, 21 Silver and four Bronze.

Head Coach, Max Robinson, said: “It was a superb performance by the whole team especially after such an early start and long journey. For half of our junior squad it was their debut in a national competition so I was really impressed with them.

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“As well as the normal training nights, the Competition Squad have been attending additional special sessions just for competition work, and their hard work and dedication has certainly paid off.

“They were all brilliant, but I have to single out Poppy Aspden who just blasted her way to Gold and set the tone for the rest of the day, her opponents just couldn’t deal with her, and Tilly Holden who fought her way to two Golds, in what had to have been some of the best bouts of the day.

Hyndburn based Kuon Ji Ju-Jitsu sent their team down to Llanelli in South Wales for the Welsh Nationals where the team took home 12 Gold, 21 Silver and four Bronze

“The seniors were great, doing what they always do, fighting hard but fair, with our current GB National Champions Zac Robinson and Ryan McCaffrey once again coming away with Golds.”