{"id":57694,"date":"2014-04-16T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/57694\/academy-bags-ekurhuleni-colours-and-grading\/"},"modified":"2014-04-16T09:44:24","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T07:44:24","slug":"academy-bags-ekurhuleni-colours-and-grading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2014\/04\/16\/academy-bags-ekurhuleni-colours-and-grading\/","title":{"rendered":"Academy bags Ekurhuleni colours and grading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tebbutt Mixed Martial Arts Academy hosted a tough and intense grading session on April 5, at their club, in Lambton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gradings are never easy; they require a lot of focus, training and determination,&#8221; said the owner and master of the club, Master Alex Tebbutt.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>A total of 60 members of the club were graded; they all passed and have progressed to their next level belt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have always been proud of my club members, especially in competitions; they put in a lot of effort, which is one of the main reasons why they always perform well, they never disappoint,&#8221; said Tebbutt.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The club has also seen eight members participating in the WAKO Kickboxing Trials, that were recently held at the Brakpan Sports Centre.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It gives me great pleasure to say congratulations to all those who took part in the trials; they did exceptionally well and received Ekurhuleni colours,&#8221; said Tebbutt.<\/p>\n<p>The members who received colours will head for the WAKO Kickboxing Championships, on May 2-3, in Pretoria.<\/p>\n<p>Tebbutt told the GCN that the club continues to grow in numbers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When looking at our growth, I could say that the Tebbutt Academy grows by the day; more and more people are joining our club, which is also one of our highlights for the year thus far,&#8221; added Tebbutt.<\/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='4b9ef0c61196d0ca7fe417623c7ddfd1'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ekurhuleni colours, grading and growth for local club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":57696,"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":[1003,979,1439,2898,2749,1119,1724,2148,3296,3297],"class_list":["post-57694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-martial-arts","tag-mixed-martial-arts","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-sport-2","tag-sports","tag-tebbutt-mixed-martial-arts-academy","tag-wako-kickboxing","tag-wako-kickboxing-championships"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["Ekurhuleni","germiston","martial arts","mixed martial arts","Puleng Sekabate","sport","sports","Tebbutt Mixed Martial Arts Academy","WAKO Kickboxing","WAKO Kickboxing Championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57694","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=57694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}