🏆 Oxford Open/ICO Gala 🏆
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Over the weekend our team travelled up to Oxford for 2 days of intense competition. As expected it was a very well run event with a great atmosphere and great standard of teams. We had an awesome weekend!
It started out with Craig teaching an awesome kicking seminar to get the weekend started, then we moved onto the gala evening where we had some of our senior fighters competing for prestigious titles.
Maisie and Libbie continued to show how much of a great partnership they have developed by winning the girls tag team event. Way to go girls! 💚
Then it was onto the main events of the evening - the women’s and men’s ICO British pro am titles. In the ladies Caitlin fought her way to the final where she had an epic battle that went to sudden death but didn’t get the result, however she fought really well and it’s amazing to see her keep reaching finals and winning so many big competitions.
In the men’s Craig took home the gold but we have to give a huge shout out to Peach who is coming through as one of the best young male adult fighters the country. He again made it to the final of another tough division, it’s never fun to fight a student but to see them developing so well is amazing.
Both Caitlin and Peach went on the next day to win the men’s and women’s open weight divisions again!! 💚
Onto the Sunday where we were due to have 17 people competing but due to injuries and illnesses we were down to 13 on the day.
It was a mix of experience levels on the team with a few first timers which was amazing. Those guys did incredible and we are so proud of them, what a fantastic start to the journey.
Our regulars kept up their usual performance levels and continued to take steps forwards in their development. It was a superb standard on the Sunday with some fantastic teams in attendance and they all got to push themselves against great opponents.
We took home
🥇17
🥈15
🥉3
Every medal was hard earned and we were extremely proud of the team. There is always work to do, but if you are willing and determined nothing can stop you from getting to the top! 💚🥋🐊
As always a huge thank you to everyone who supports the team. We appreciate you all 💚