World Champs Team Members Join PaulM Training Session

Canon 7D, 85.0mm, 1/160s, f/3.2, ISO: 1600

Local Auckland members of the Junior World Champs team, together with a few out-of-towners who are training this week in Auckland during school holidays, joined in a club training session with Master McPhail and Mr Steve Pellow tonight.

Out of towners included Amy Reeder from Whangarei, Shane Black and Kara Timmer from Tauranga and Gisborne students Michael and Simon Davis.

Master McPhail had the team members perform their patterns in front of the club students and parents, giving advice on areas to focus on while Mr Pellow had the club students perform some of the world champs team training routines.

A highlight was performance of a number of the male and female team patterns which are looking good.

Here are a few pictures....

World Champs Training - Palmerston North

Thankyou Andrew Legg for taking some photos of one of the World Champs Saturday morning training sessions held in Palmerston North every week. It's nice to show something of what you guys are doing as I can only really cover Auckland trainings and some of the Taupo camps.



And the rest of the images....


All photos by Andrew Legg. Thanks heaps Andrew!

Nationals Patterns Pick of the Pix

Canon 30D, 37.0mm, 1/200s, f/3.5, ISO: 1250

Auckland North male team patterns gold medal winners caught getting some mid-air action.
Jeremy Hanna, Chris Broughton, Carl Van Roon, Cam Snelling, Mark Trotter

Canon 30D, 37.0mm, 1/200s, f/3.5, ISO: 1250

Carolina Dillen vs Chris Morton (background) in female 1st dan patterns adult. Carolina won Gold, Chris Bronze.

Canon 30D, 40.0mm, 1/200s, f/3.5, ISO: 1250

Jeremy Hanna vs Richard Lavin (background) in male 3rd dan patterns adult. Richard won Gold, Jeremy Bronze. Jeremy learned a valuable lesson in making a wrong move after focusing too much on how Richard was performing against him. Better to learn that at the nationals rather than the world champs in November Jem.

The next three images are of Kris Herbison vs Cam Snelling (background) in male 4th dan+ patterns. Mark Trotter won Gold, Cam Silver and Kris Bronze. Typically my favourite patterns images are those that capture a nice composition of the two competitors in action against each other...

Canon 40D, 40.0mm, 1/125s, f/3.5, ISO: 1250

Canon 40D, 40.0mm, 1/125s, f/3.5, ISO: 1250

Christing Young (left) vs Sandi Galpin in female 4th dan+ patterns. Christine won Gold with Sandi taking Silver.

Nationals Pre-Arranged Pick of the Pix

Chris Broughton and Jeremy Hanna put on an impressive display winning gold in the Nationals pre-arranged sparring.

Here are a few of the best images I took from their performance...

Canon 40D, 85.0mm, 1/200s, f/2.0, ISO: 640

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And other pre-arranged pick of the pix images:



Christine Young and Kara Timmer





For anyone wondering, current world champions Luke Thompson and Mark Trotter didn't enter in this event.

Nationals Female Sparring - Pick of the Pix

And the rest of the female sparring picks...



Tomorrow, pick of the pix of pre-arranged...

Nationals Male Sparring - Pick of the Pix #2

Tim Couling gets a face massage.

And here's the rest of my male sparring picks of the pix images...

Nationals Male Sparring - Pick of the Pix

Canon 40D, 85.0mm, 1/200s, f/2.2, ISO: 1000

Clint King and Jeremy Hanna in the mens middleweight final. Jeremy took the gold leaving Clint with silver.





Hayden Stevens and Sam Soper. Hayden won gold in Mens Dan Hyperweight.

[Hey Doug, The mystery black belt that Hayden Steven's is sparring is Sam Soper from the SI (I'm fairly certain!) Cheers Ange (Angela Barltrop) - Thanks Ange]





Bruce Harrison coming down on Luke Thompson in Mens Dan Hyperweight Plus. Luke won gold leaving silver for Bruce. It was a tough match with plenty of power.



No doubt about this head punch connecting!



Richard Iotua on the receiving end in Veteran Mens Dan Heavyweight



More mean male sparring action....



















More coming tomorrow...