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Five Rivers Secondary was the host for over one hundred athletes at the TTKU National Karate Championship at the weekend.

And they all displayed their skills in Kata and Kumite style categories.
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00:00Frigate Newt West, Newt West, Newt West, Newt West.
00:01Oh, sounds good.
00:03I tell you what, everybody was kung fu fighting as Five Rivers Secondary was the host for
00:08over 100 athletes at the National Karate Championship over the weekend.
00:12And they all displayed their skills in kata and kumite style categories.
00:18Well, the Team Elite Karate was once again the standout as their 17 athletes bagged a
00:23total of 29 medals, with 18 being gold, along with 7 silver and 4 bronze.
00:30National athletes Chelsea and Christian Winter preparing for international events.
00:36Well, they were coaches this time around rather than participants.
00:39But their depth of talent, well, that still shone as six of their fighters took home a pair of gold medals.
00:46Dash and Durgu took the silver black belt division, 67 kg, in kumite.
00:51However, Jaheim Braun took the bronze in the same event, but landed the most resounding blue.
01:00And head coach Sensi Barry Winter was pleased with Team Elite's karate performance on their
01:06return to the event.
01:08TTK, you haven't had an event for a while.
01:11We now took a proper team since COVID to that event, so I was very happy about the results.
01:16Last year when we went, we took three kids only, because of the timing and scheduling, because
01:22they were only cancelling.
01:24And we won goal in all those events last year.
01:27And now this year, we took 17 people and we sorted out.
01:31Our ambition was to win national champion, national titles at the Chiangelo Karate Championships.
01:38And now we set on December 6th and 7th at the Waku Grand Nationals.
01:45So at the end of that, we will have national champions in both karate and national champions
01:50in sport martial arts.
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