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Diary by Loren Harris –The competition.
Myself, Colin Macdonald, Aiden Moffat and JudoScotland Talent Development Coach John Buchanan, had an early start flying to Prague on Friday 21 April 2010, after a week of uncertainty as to whether we would be able to fly due to the volcanic ash cloud. On arrival we shared a bus with the Belgian team for a fifty mile road trip to Teplice.
Having been to Teplice last year I was looking forward to staying in the Hotel Panorama, but on arrival we were told that we were staying in Hotel Helena. It was very basic but still nice, it was also very ‘funny’ that the only person to have a T.V in their room was John!
We weighed in early on the Saturday morning as all three of us were competing on the first day. I lost my first fight with Eliza Dauti from Belgium who managed to get me into a sangaku. Aiden and Colin both lost to opponents from Georgia in the first round. Colin’s oppo- nent went on to win the tournament which brought him back in to the repechage where he beat an opponent from Azerbijian by a Waza ari and 3 yukos only to be knocked out by a German in his 3rd fight.
Congratulations to the medal winners at the Budo Nord Cup in Lugi, Sweden. Golds were won by Conall McGregor Carnegie JC in the Cadet U81kg, Arron Simpson Tayside JC in the Junior U55kg and a bronze by Dominic Laing SJC Alba in the Junior U90kg. Connal McGregor, also won a silver medal in the Cadet u81kgs in Bremen, Germany in March.
Read these two Diary excerpts written by JudoScotland Talent Development athletes, Loren Harris (16yrs) from Sportif and Colin MacDonald (16yrs) from SJC Alba about their recent trip to European Cadet Championships in Teplice, Czech Republic.
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Diary by Colin MacDonald – The training camp.
We only had a small squad with us in Teplice as some of the older cadets had exams, so we didn’t have anyone competing on day two of the event. Instead Sunday morning started with us going for a recovery run through Teplice town centre. We got to a fountain at the mid part of our run, which John said was “The fountain of Olympic dreams” and if we ran through it we would be assured Olympic success (I Googled it but I can’t seem to find it). Anyway, we did run through it and on the way back we got some funny looks as it must have looked like we had been training incredibly hard and sweating profusely!
Next morning the camp began, it was a great camp which had a lot of top class players. The sessions were two hours long with two on Monday and Tuesday and one on Wednesday. They consisted of a five minute warm up, ten minutes uchi komi, and 10 x 4 minute randories, normally 2 or 4 newaza and 8 or 6 tachiwaza. On the last session on the Wednesday we had a contest to see who could get the most ippons and any time we were thrown we had to stand back up and sing a song, very loudly. We all had a great time and worked really hard, I came back with mat burns all over my face, so you can guess how many times I had to sing a song. Overall it was a brilliant experience.
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