Catalana

L/SE 5 man team match in Catalana, Spain,

Chris Chea 75klo total 266,
Luke Dorn 85klos total 263
Perry Tully 90klos total 245,
Richard Williams 94 klos total 292,
Andy Rugg 118 klos total 277,

5 lifters made 4 or 5 lifts,

5 lifters did personal best totals, age group 21 to 26,

Mike Pearman


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From the point of view of Woking we are happy that Chris Chea, after a
period of disappointments, made a PB total and a PB C+J incompetition.
On the same day his young bro, Chi, did PB Snatch, PB jerk and PB
total in winning the British under 18s at 15 years old.


Brian Hamill

BWLA Intro to Resistance Training Course

There is be a BWLA Introduction to Resistance Course running on October 14th/15th at Woking Leisure Centre.

Click here for further details and the application form

Recent Updates

The London Spring Open, run by Keith Morgan was a great success with a huge entry, As far as Woking is concerned the outstanding performance was from Chi Chea, age 15, with 61; 81 at 57.11.  He missed 83 jerk having cleaned it.

Other Woking lifters included the two older Chea brothers, and three newcomers of whom Shaun Joffe was the best placed with three PBs. The interest in Weightlifting is growing thanks to two factors: the Olympic games and the interest of other organisations: Crossfit; FK.UK  and the UK Strength & Conditioning Association. I hope our clubs have the space and coaches to take advantage of this.

 

Woking will be focused on the Lift of the Quarter in June: this time around it is the Clean and jerk, with the jerk being from behind the neck. Results with age and bodyweight to Jim Smith, Longwood House, Shifford lane; Standlake; Witney, Oxon with 25p per entry.

 

This lift should be a natural for Olympic lifters. And will any club knock Woking off its perch as the best all round lifting club in UK? Vectis, on the Isle of Wight, is threatening to do so. What puzzles me is that FK.UK and the Crossfit clubs are not participating to any great extent at the moment.

 

University of East London

Giles Greenwood has done a great job preparing their Gym instructors for the BWLA Club Coach award, with Part 2 slotted for mid June. Some of them will be lifting in the LSE Masters. They are also preparing for the Southern Universities championship being planned by the University of Middlesex.

 

Zoe Smith  snatched 84 and jerked 110 in the European Youth Champs. For three PBs she will receive £75 from the Weightlifters' Supporters Fund: in fact she seems to win this in every international. There are others who could also win but they fail to claim.

 

St. Mary's University College also appear to be benefitting from the increased interest in Olympic lifting with two new faces at the London Open, coached by David Woodhouse

BH

MORI Poll

This poll is vital to help us all get better and more facilities and grants

We have to help ourselves! It takes 5 minutes to do.

 

http://www.ipsos-mori.com/weightliftingclub

 

This one is focused on real clubs.  The last one confused so-called health clubs and places with machines only with proper weightlifting facilities, and created the impression that there are 114000 weightlifters in England.  

BWLA insisted that the new survey was more specific to weightlifting with free weights, realeted to BWLA activity.

Thank you for your time.

BH

WCL Squad - The Rivals

Chris Chea has been selected as part of the World Class Lifting squad.  He has chosen the option of training in his club, but attending squads.

 

So the LSEW division now has two men in the squad: rivals Chris and Halil Zorba at 69 k. Currently Chris has been doing better in champs, but Halil is ahead on training lifts by virtue of a 160 k Clean & Jerk.

World Class Lifting Squad

Congratulations to Woking Centre of Excellence member Chris Chea, who has been invited to the World Class Lifting squad as a remote member. 

In this way, he will get grants and a variety of other services, plus attendance at weekly squads. Richly deserved!

Chi Chea at the British Schools

Congratulations to Chi Chea
British Schools 13 3 10:
BW 55.6kg
PB Clean and Jerk 80kilos!