The 1st of our Inter-club Championships took place at Blantyre Sports centre on Sunday the 14th of March, 2010. This event is run twice a year and is aimed at letting the non-experienced student gain experience within the competition circuit.

This event attracted over 150 people out for the day, with over 80 competitors from Blantyre, Lesmahagow, Glasgow, Hamilton, Bellshill and Larkhall taking part. We also saw over 20 of our youngest members "AIMAA Panthers" who ranged between 3 and 4 yrs old take part in the pattern and sparring divisions.

This year we had many new students taking part for the first time, and they had a great time taking part in this controlled and friendly tournament. It was great to see all the smiling faces as young and old took part in this event, and everyone had a highly enjoyable day!

The competition started off with our pattern division and sparring divisions for Black Belts.  We had some excellent Instructors and students perform their patterns and some highly entertaining sparring within Black Belt division.  Mrs Tracey Belgacem took Gold in the Black Belt patterns, whilst her husband, Mr Karim Belgacem took Bronze in the sparring division.  The final within the Black Belt division saw brothers Mr John Kirkwood and Mr Ryan Kirkwood battle it out on the mats, with John Jnr winning the title!

From the adult black belt divisions we quickly moved onto the junior patterns, working our way up the belt structure. Our first division was the little panther patterns, followed by our lower grades up to 16 yrs olds! The determination and performance of all those participating was clear to be seen, as we saw many smiling happy faces, as they competed and won in their divisions. 

We also witnessed great technique within the team patterns, which sees students combine a team by synchronisation, technique and timing! The team divisions were excellent and both Juniors and adults done well in this event.

Master and Mrs Kirkwood would like to thank all the students and parents for taking the time out to attend this event, since it was held on Mothers Day! Also a big thank you to the Instructors, Assistant Instructors and parents who helped with setting up and for referring, time keeping and scoring duties.

In all the event was a great success, and we now look forward to the AIMAA European Championships in May, which is set to be a big one, due to committed attendees and associations entering.

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