The medals include 16 gold, 21 silver and 16 bronze.
Students participated in numerous events, including traditional kata and kumite, sport martial arts points and continuous fighting, grappling and MMA light, Japanese weapons, high kicking, extreme kicking and tile breaking.
The way these classical and traditional Goju Ryu Karate classes are taught differs vastly from most karate schools, making the students fully capable of competing in almost any competitive martial art arena while maintaining its traditional Okinawan karate and kobudo roots.
The medalists are: Siobhan Thompson (gold - grappling, silver - kukite, silver - tag team, silver - continuous fighting, bronze - points fighting fighting); Nemo Roelofse (silver - grappling, Bbonze – points Ffghting); Karla Oosthysen (silver - kata, silver - kumite); Benjamin Roode (silver - kata, gold - kumite, bronze - tag team fighting); Lozia Pisonic (silver - kumite); Aiden Trahms (gold - kumite, Ggld - kata); Mandla Mantungu (gold - kata, silver - MMA light, bronze - tag team fighting, silver - grappling); Joshua Nel (gold - kumite, gold - points fighting, bronze -high kicking, bronze - continuous fighting); Nikita Roelofse (silver - high kicking, silver - extreme kicking, gold - continuous fighting, bronze - points fighting, gold - kumite, silver - tag team fighting); Nemo Roelofse (silver - grappling, bronze - points fighting); Noah Chatz (bronze - tag team fighting, gold - kumite); Stephanie Linder (bronze - kata, gold - traditional weapons, gold - creative weapons); Yvonne Linder (bronze - kata, bronze - kumite); Marcus Roelofse (silver - points fighting, bronze - continuous fighting); Nadine Patterson (silver - kata, gold - kumite, silver MMA light, bronze - breaking tiles, gold high kicking, gold - extreme kicking, silver tag team fighting); Morgan van Nooy (bronze - tag team fighting, bronze - kumite, bronze - continuous fighting, silver - grappling, silver - MMA light, silver - points fighting); SHheldon van Kersen (silver - kumite, gold - traditional weapons, silver - kata).
From left: Mandla Mantungu, Ben Roode and Morgan van Nooy after their tag team fighting event.
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