{"id":8044,"date":"2013-07-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/8044\/tebbutt-academy-still-shines\/"},"modified":"2013-07-23T11:16:11","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T09:16:11","slug":"tebbutt-academy-still-shines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2013\/07\/18\/tebbutt-academy-still-shines\/","title":{"rendered":"Tebbutt Academy still shines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lambton&#8217;s Tebbutt Academy continues to produce quality mixed martial artists.<\/p>\n<p>They recently competed in the South African Mixed Martial Arts Championships and brought home 63 medals (38 of them gold).<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The tournament had approximately 400 competitors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a tough competition, because there were kickboxers, Muay Thai people, etc.,&#8221; said Master Alex Tebbutt.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>At the time of going to press the club were still waiting for confirmation on which of their fighters have been selected to represent South Africa at the world championships, in Italy, on October 29.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tebbutt Academy will host a tournament of their own on October 4 and 5, at the Springs Civic Centre.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They invite all dojos to take part, as there will everything, including full contact fighting, points fighting, weapons, traditional kata, traditional kumite, grappling and tile-breaking.<\/p>\n<p>Dojos which are interested can contact Tebbutt on 082 925 9751, or Eva Duvenage on 082 829 6510.<\/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='5588902a8054f6e22ed3484c140ffc62'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tebbutt Academy keeps producing champions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":8045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Cyril Lehong","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[1254],"class_list":["post-8044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-tebbutt-academy-mixed-martial-arts-sport"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["Tebbutt Academy; Mixed Martial Arts; Sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8044","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=8044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}