{"id":72996,"date":"2014-11-10T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/72996\/local-club-hosts-great-tournament\/"},"modified":"2014-11-10T11:42:34","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T09:42:34","slug":"local-club-hosts-great-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2014\/11\/10\/local-club-hosts-great-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Local club hosts great tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lambton&#8217;s Tebbutt Mixed Martial Arts Academy continues to produce impressive results at tournaments and competitions.<\/p>\n<p>The club held their annual two-day tournament on October 10 and 11.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;This was a big tournament, we had close to 400 participants enter this year,&#8221; said the club owner, Master Alex Tebbutt.<\/p>\n<p>Tebbutt explained that this year&#8217;s tournament was different to all the other tournaments they have hosted in previous years.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Previous tournaments have been good, but this year it was special; the club family stood together, everything ran smoothly, we received a lot of messages, calls and emails where people showed their gratitude and congratulated us on hosting such a great event,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Tebbutt showed a GCN journalist some of the messages received on his phone, from people who took part in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>A message from Claude St Arnaud read, among other things: &#8220;You put on a great tournament, please keep on helping the sport grow, thank you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was touched at the way the tournament panned out, people were already talking about next year&#8217;s tournament, and some came and told me that they are going to double the number of people they brought to participate,&#8221; said Tebbutt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am happy and thank everybody at the club for standing together and making it a special tournament.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Academy members also took part in the tournament and, after their hard work, commitment and focus they managed to scoop 87 trophies in total.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am proud of the members, they did very well, and I would also like to congratulate Hannah Wedel, as she received two Champ-of-Champs trophies; one for point fighting and one for continuous fighting,&#8221; explained Tebbutt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I also noticed an interesting element: the girls at the club always do extremely well at tournaments; I am exceptionally proud of my girls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The great achievement has, among other things, encouraged the club to go back to practise and prepare for upcoming tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have the Iron Man tournament coming up on November 22,&#8221; concluded 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='51323fbeb187597b76284f1e157bca7b'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tebbutt Academy&#8217;s tournament a success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":72997,"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":[979,1059,5507,2898,2995,2749,1119,1724,2148],"class_list":["post-72996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-germiston","tag-lambton","tag-local-sports-2","tag-mixed-martial-arts","tag-mma","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-sport-2","tag-sports","tag-tebbutt-mixed-martial-arts-academy"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["germiston","lambton","Local Sports","mixed martial arts","mma","Puleng Sekabate","sport","sports","Tebbutt Mixed Martial Arts Academy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72996","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=72996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}