{"id":46307,"date":"2013-10-14T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/46307\/local-family-takes-on-ju-jitsu-world-championships-orlocal-family-makes-sa-proud-at-world-championships\/"},"modified":"2013-10-15T13:47:37","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T11:47:37","slug":"local-family-takes-on-ju-jitsu-world-championships-orlocal-family-makes-sa-proud-at-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2013\/10\/14\/local-family-takes-on-ju-jitsu-world-championships-orlocal-family-makes-sa-proud-at-world-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Local family takes on Ju-Jitsu World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Purcell, of Sunnyridge, together with his daughter and son (Rebeca and Joshua), competed in the 22nd annual United Nations Ju-Jitsu World Championships, on October 4 and 5.<\/p>\n<p>The championships were held at the Barnard Internal Arena, in Kempton Park.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Ju-Jitsu, also known as Jiu-Jitsu, is an ancient martial art used by the Samurai warriors of war-torn Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The art itself consists of punches, kicks, throws, ground-grappling and weapons.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Ju-Jitsu techniques rely heavily on leverage, so you don&#8217;t have to be extremely strong to train.<\/p>\n<p>The Purcells and some of the other members of the Tonkinkan Ju-Jitsu Club, based in Edenvale, represented South Africa at the championships.<\/p>\n<p>Gary, Rebeca and Joshua all participated at blue belt level and did exceptionally well.<\/p>\n<p>Gary, defeated by his daughter, received a bronze medal in the random attacks green to blue belt category, which placed him third in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The two siblings also put on outstanding performances at the two-day world championships and collected the following medals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Rebeca: silver medal (second in the world) &#8211; pairs kata green-blue belt; silver medal (second in the word) &#8211; Random Attacks green-blue belt; silver medal (second in the world) &#8211; ground fighting (women).<\/li>\n<li>Joshua: silver medal (second in the world) &#8211; ground fighting (men); silver medal (second in the world) &#8211; kumite (full contact); silver medal (second in the world) &#8211; random attacks green-blue belt.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other achievements the family has racked up in Ju-Jitsu are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Gary: SA colours; provincial colours two years running; two bronze medals in the Gauteng Provincial Championships.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Rebeca: SA colours; provincial colours two years running; three gold medals for Gauteng Provincial Championships; one silver medal for SA Championships; one bronze medal for SA Championships.<\/li>\n<li>Joshua: SA colours; provincial colours two years running; one gold medal for Gauteng Provincial Championships; one bronze medal for Gauteng Provincial Championships; two bronze medals for SA Championships.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Currently on blue belt level, the family unit is training to move to purple belt level.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='39183d4b26c4bb6f1a69b8040cfc8960'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local family makes SA proud at world championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":46308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Puleng Sekabate","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[1907,1909,1411,979,1906,1908,1724,1380],"class_list":["post-46307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-22nd-annual-united-nations-ju-jitsu-world-championships","tag-barnard-internal-arena","tag-family","tag-germiston","tag-ju-jitsu","tag-provincial-championships","tag-sports","tag-sunnyridge"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["22nd annual United Nations Ju-Jitsu World Championships","Barnard Internal Arena","family","germiston","ju-jitsu","Provincial Championships","sports","sunnyridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}