Little Diamond Martial Arts Academy host 5thannual tournament

Oct 02, 2011 Sports

The Little Diamond Martial Arts Academy hosted is 5thannual Kyokushinkai martial arts

Students and instructors of the Little Diamond Martial Arts Academy take time out for a photo following their exercise.

tournament on September 25 celebrating the academy’s 9th anniversary.
Shiyan Nazim Yassim who is the founder and chief instructor of this full contact martial arts academy in Guyana and a 7th Dan chinkairu black belt,3rd Dan Black Belt; Karate. The academy has a total of 35 students in three branches around Guyana and will soon have another in Linden.
The tournament was a smashing success with seven (7) categories namely traditional kata, kobudo weapons’ kata, sword kata, free form kata, kumite (fighting), sword kumite, weapons vs. karate kumite.
The judges for this year tournament are all from the Guyana Karate Masters Association namely Christopher Nervily, na 8 Dan fudoshin jujitsu black belt, Eustace Cuffy a 6 dan fudoshin jujitsu black belt and Sensei Steven Roberts a 3rd Dan fudoshin jujitsu black belt.
The results of year’s little diamond martial arts academy’s championships are as follows:
Traditional kata
9 to 12 category
1st Sandy Boodram
2nd Naresh Sukhram
3rd Surindar Motilal
13 to 15 category
1stHutaskhanBhimsain
2ndSeosankar Singh
3rdVickramShansoondar
16 to 19 category
1st winner Parsuram Arjune
2ndShivrajRamtahal
3rdHsankarPuran
20 and over category
1st Kelvin Walcott
2ndshankarpuran
Kobudo Weapons kata
13 to 15 category
1st winner Shivraj Ramtahal
2ndParsuramArjune
3rd Shankar Puran
16 to 19 category
1rst Shivraj Ramtahal
2nd Parsuram Arjune
3rd Shankar Puran
Female weapons kata
1st winner Rachel Yassim (long staff)
1stAyanaMcrae (tompha)
1st Marcel Raphael (sword)
Sword kata
20 and over
1st winner Micah Milson
2nd Dwayne Mitchell
3rd Kevin Williams
Kumite 13-15 division
1st Marlon Ignatius, 2nd Seosankar Singh, 3rd Romario O’Connor
16-19 division
1st Shankar Puran, 2nd Parsuram Arjune, 3rd Bisram Ramnaraine
20 and over division
1st John Roberts, 2nd Kelvin Walcott
Female Kumite
1st Marcel Raphael, 2nd Ayanna McCray
Sword Kumite 1st Micah Wilson, 2rd Kevin Williams, 3nd Dwayne Mitchell
Grand champion Micah Wilson 20-over, Parsuram Arjune 13-15 and 16-19
Branches of the Little Diamond Academy that walked away with the most trophies were:
Wales branch 11 students winning 20 trophies
9 1st places, 6 2nd, 3 3rd and 2 grand champions
Enmore branch 5 students 11 trophies
4 1st places, 4 2nd, 3 3rd
Guyana Hindu college 9 students 9 trophies
2 1st places, 4 2nd, 2 3rd
Persons winning the most trophies
Shankar Puran (Enmore) 5 trophies
Parsuram Arjune (Wales) 4 trophies
Micah Wilson (Wales) 3 trophies
Females
Ayanna McCray 2
Marcel Raphael 2
The Little Diamond Academy is also hosting a training session in the Botanical Gardens today to show case the Kyokushin fighting style and to educate the public on the importance of self-defence and the discipline of martial arts.