THE Sunshine Coast Open took place on September 18 at the UniSC Sports Stadium, after being postponed in March, with teams coming from as far as Nepal.
Beerwah’s San Training Centre entered its own team with 15 students fighting in the open aged competition, securing a total of six gold, five silver and three bronze medals on the day.
San Training owner Cameron Taylor told GC&M News it was a great effort by all of his students, including five-year-old Chloe who was in her first competition, and teenager, Maverick, who only started competing last year.
“Maverick had his first win in a competition, he came to competing later, he didn’t start until he was 15 which means you have to learn while doing head kicks, which is a tough way to learn,” he said.
“He only had one other person in his division but you kind of get that with the red belt and black belt divisions… but they tend to be quite skilful fighters and novices.
“Our entire team did a great job and represented our club skilfully.”
The styles of fighting the San Training team participated in included sparring and poomsae, which is a similar discipline to sparring, however only one fighter from their team competed in poomsae.
Their next competition, which will have a smaller team, will take place in the first weekend of December in Bendigo.