Winners: Martial arts team enjoys success
MARTIAL ARTS enthusiasts who train in Bodmin have scored successes at the PUMASouthern Championships held in Plymouth.
Two members of the Bodmin school of New Wave Martial Arts, which is affiliated to PUMA (Professional Unification Martial Arts), became Southern champions, and many others came away with medals.
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Bodmin martial arts medal winners, from left, back row, Morgan Stevens, Tracy Fanson, Sophie Parton and Eleanor Dunstan. From left, front, Leah McNary, Ripley Fanson, Joshua John Lobb, Tegan Fanson and Jacques Necker.
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Sophie Parton and Morgan Stevens with their medals. BOID20120215B-002_C
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Team photograph of Bodmin New Wave Martial Arts, associated with Puma. BOID20120215B-001_C
Morgan Stevens, a first degree black belt and Sophie Parton, a second degree black belt, both won the technical patterns event and Eleanor Dunstan gained a silver in the musical pattern event.
The Bodmin martial arts school also attracts youngsters aged from 4 to 7 who are known as Little Pumas. They performed a bully-stranger drill, a high-kicking event and a quickdraw challenge.
The school trains on Wednesdays and Fridays at Bodmin College and the first four lessons are free.
Instructor Mark Bishop said his Bodmin school now has 45 members.
"It's all about gaining self-confidence, which martial arts training gives people," he said.
For more information, please see www.newwavemartialarts.co.uk
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