Finally we managed to beat Penang’s the old sukma medal tally of 1 gold 2 silver and 4 bronze. This time around our victorious team returned home with 2 gold, 4 silver and 2 bronze.
The medalist were:
GOLD: Chew Li Ying (Women under 70kg) and Ashley Leow (Women above 70kg)
SILVER: Chew Li Ying & Agnes Thong ( Women Kata) , Chua Jen Keat & Lim Zheng Jie (Men Kata), Goh Yiing Yuan (Women under 45kg), Chong Swee Hang (Men under 90kg)
BRONZE: Esther Tam (Women under 48kg), Sharon Tan (Women under 63kg)
List of Penang Team Members:
Magendrarajan PVM Muniandy (Team Manager), Hamabe Takeru (Coach), Md Nashriq (Coach), Justin (Technical Delegate), Ooi Way Loon (Referee), Mahendran (Referee), PLAYERS - Chew Li Ying, Ashley Leow, Agnes Thong, Esther Tam, Lee Pei San, Goh Yiing Yuan, Sharon Tan, Ooi Aik Thong, Chua Jen Keat, Lim Zheng Jie, Chong Swee Hang, Edward Loo, Koo Yi Jian and Tan Jing Woei.
Training in Vietnam in preparation for the Malaysian Games
0 Comments Published June 26th, 2010 in Activities.From 23rd May till 4th June, Budo Academy players representing Penang all went to Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam in preparation for the SUKMA Games. In Vietnam they had the opportunity to train with the Vietnam National Team and thus gained invaluable experience. Every day their training schedule were running in the morning plus cardiovascular training and 3 sessions of Judo training for the remainder for the day.
Here is Chew in action! Playing frog jumps
Training with the Vietnamese National team at the gym
Training at the National Judo training center.
In the end all of them gained much from the stint……friends!!!
BJJ will be formerly introduced to Penang at the Budo Academy in June 2009. Professor Julio Cesar will be conducting the classes. BJJ is a mrtial art which focuses on grappling especially ground fighting. First introduced by Sensei Maeda, a judo exponent to Brazil and made popular by the Gracie’s. BJJ has taken the world by storm and is an art trained in the US army especially the US Navy Seals. For a preview on BJJ please go to http://www.youtube.com/user/budoacademy to view some videos there.
sample of BJJ ground techniques in our Budotube
Please contact Justin 0164219009 or Melvin 0124336682 for more information on BJJ.
