From:TheBahamasWeekly.com
Bahamians Take Gold at Florida Judo Tournament
By D'Arcy Rahming Jr.
Sep 26, 2014 - 12:05:39 AM
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Team Bahamas
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Three members of the Bahamas Judo team produced outstanding
performances at the Florida Yudanshakai (Black Belt tournament) held in
Orlando this weekend. Cynthia Rahming 20, won two golds in the womens
lightweight and middle weight divisions. Kentico Forbes 18, won a gold
and a silver in the Mens middleweight and heavy weight division and
Joshua Mcfall 18, won two bronzes in the mens lightweight and
middleweight divisions.
"I am particularly
pleased with Kentico's performance as he has only been training for 9
months." Said Coach D'Arcy Rahming Jr. "All three athletes trained in
Cuba over the summer. Cynthia also took what she learned from the
Commonwealth Games in Scotland along with her training with Olympians in
the US during the summer and turned in an extremely impressive
performance."
The Florida tournament was used
as a warm up to test some new strategies that will be used at the up an
coming major tournaments.The Bahamas Judo team is preparing for the Pan
American Cup which is a qualifier for the Pan Am games. The event will
be held in Barbados on October 4, 5 and the World Junior Champions which also be held in on October 23rd.
"We've
definitely crossed some barrier where we are now winning the majority
of our matches regionally. Now we need to translate this to wins at
world level tournaments. I believe this is due to high performance
training with new methodologies from the IJF Academy." Said Coach
Rahming who is a recent graduate of the level 1 course of the IJF
academy in Hungary. Persons interested in joining judo programs can
contact the Bahamas Judo Federation at allstarbahamas@gmail.com.
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Cynthia Rahming, 20 won two gold medals
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Kentico Forbes, 18 yrs, won a Gold and a Silver
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Kentico Forbes (center), 18 yrs, won a Gold and a Silver
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