POLLET'S Martial Arts Bathurst enjoyed a special ISKA Australian Open CCP tournament on Sunday with leading club honours and many individual placings at the Liverpool tournament.
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The club already has its eyes on the World Championships in Australia next October and this event was one of the many lead up tournaments Pollet's will be using to gauge their progress.
If CCP is anything to go by then they're on the right track.
Isabella Torresan led the way again for the Bathurst club with her six victories while several of the younger members got themselves to the top of the podium.
Hanshi Ian Pollet said the club should be proud of the results, especially finishing top of the standings as a group, against the best Australia has to offer.
"The CCP is a big tournament in the lead up to the World Championships next year. There was over 600 competitors and some stiff competition," he said.
"Our guys from Bathurst are very talented and we had a lot of people finishing in first place. Isabella, who does this level of competition all the time, finished with six first placings. She's an amazing young lady.
"We had four boys who won first place in their divisions. They all placed well in the competition and one the day we had amazing talent from across Australia competing on the day."
The club are already eyeing off their next event, and it's one they'll be determined to perform well in considering where it's at.
That's because the event takes place in Bathurst next February.
"It's going to be a very exciting lead up to the World Championships, and the CCP was an example of the amazing talent that we have in this country," Pollet said.
"Our young martial artists in Bathurst have been training well and getting great results in competition.
"Whatever they do they seem to do very, very well. We have a broad spectrum of levels we train under and we're becoming quite successful at it."
Pollet said there were many memorable moments for the Bathurst group at CCP, and he'd love to see those performances carry over throughout the next 12 months of competition.
"Isabella was a real standout. She's won so many things now from karate to muay thai to jiu jitsu. It's not easy to be that talented," he said.
"There's a lot of our younger guys who, in the future, I can see becoming world champions and that's a great thing for Bathurst.
"When you look at the talent we've got in this town and where it could take them, you'll end up seeing a lot of them on the big stage."