Six junior fighters and one adult fighter from the Grimsby strike team travelled to Boston with a number of supporters to compete in the first tournament of 2011 and came back home with a total of nine trophies and two medals! In the pee wee points section was Leo Collins who fought extremely well through his first two rounds to get into the final where he met a seasoned fighter from sleaford gym, Impact. Collins put up a great fight and came away with a 12-7 final count giving him the second place! Bailey Colbeck and Ethan Noton were up next in the -4ft 4″ points category where the competition was very tough. Colbeck came away with a runner up position after being narrowly beaten in the first round. Noton was fast off the mark with his blitz techniques to the head which scored a lot of points and once he started to use his legs to attack he went straight through to the final where he took the gold convincingly. Evan Balch fought in the -4ft 8″ advanced points section for the first time and after the nerves settled he started to fire in his side kicks to score following up with some nice backfists which took him to the final and continuing to score over his opponents with his leg techniques and eventually winning the gold.

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