{"id":72084,"date":"2014-10-30T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T09:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/72084\/youngster-bags-three-gold-medals\/"},"modified":"2014-10-30T14:41:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T12:41:03","slug":"youngster-bags-three-gold-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2014\/10\/30\/youngster-bags-three-gold-medals\/","title":{"rendered":"Youngster bags three gold medals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Purcell is a young jutsuka (jiu-jitsu athlete) from Sunnyridge, who recently took part in the South African National Championships.<\/p>\n<p>The championships were held at the Kempton Park Indoor Sports Centre, where Joshua represented Eastern Gauteng.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Competing in the junior division, Joshua managed to bag three gold medals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He did extremely well at the championships, we are all very proud of him,&#8221; said Joshua&#8217;s father, Gary Purcell.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;He got three gold medals, for Random Attacks (self-defence), Ground Fighting and Kumite (stand up full contact), and he is the South African junior champion in all three.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Among other accolades, the pair, together with Joshua&#8217;s sister Rebeca Purcell, represented South Africa at the 22nd United Nations of Jiu-Jitsu World Championships in October, last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We brought home seven medals; I got one bronze, Rebeca and Joshua each got three silver medals,&#8221; explained Gary.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua and Gary are members of the Tonkinkan Jiu-Jitsu Martial Arts Club, run by fourth Dan sensei Shaine van Niekerk.<\/p>\n<p>They train at the Edenvale Bowling Club on Mondays and Wednesdays, from 6pm to 8pm.<\/p>\n<p>The Purcell father-and-son are preparing for their brown belt grading, that is scheduled to take place in November.<\/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='9f6ae95fd6ee0f0ee771e440abfcb2f2'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local resident a Jiu-Jitsu SA Champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":72085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[2888,979,5340,5335,5336,1906,5344,5343,5341,2749,5342,5339,5337,1119,1724,1380,5338],"class_list":["post-72084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-eastern-gauteng","tag-germiston","tag-ground-fighting","tag-jiu-jitsu","tag-jiu-jitsu-south-african-national-championships","tag-ju-jitsu","tag-kempton-park-indoor-sports-centre","tag-kumite","tag-kumite-stand-up-full-contact","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-random-attacks","tag-random-attacks-self-defence","tag-south-african-national-championships","tag-sport-2","tag-sports","tag-sunnyridge","tag-tonkinkan-jiu-jitsu-martial-arts-club"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["Eastern Gauteng","germiston","Ground Fighting","jiu jitsu","Jiu-jitsu South African National Championships","ju-jitsu","kempton park indoor sports centre","kumite","Kumite (stand up full contact)","Puleng Sekabate","Random Attacks","Random Attacks (self-defence)","South African National Championships","sport","sports","sunnyridge","Tonkinkan Jiu-Jitsu Martial Arts Club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72084","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=72084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}