Stuart Wade – Silver at the ISKA World Champs, Alicante

Stuart writes:

Hey people,
 
It’s been a while since I posted in here, just thought I’d let you all know how it went in Alicante, Spain at the ISKA (International Sport Kickboxing Association) World Championships. I went out to Spain full of confidence after my win in Rome at the European Championships last year, despite having only competed once before the worlds this year (due to various injuries and generally being skint haha). I took to the mats on the second day of competition, into what was one of the largest categories and highest quality – pretty much everyone in there was world class. Due to my win the previous year, I was seeded second last in the running order, in front of a German guy I beat at the Euros (he was seeded last as he got the silver medal in the previous world championships). I got through to the finals in which the four highest scoring competitors had to go up again with a clean slate on the scorecards. After a well fought campaign in the finals I ended up placing second, which at the time I was very disappointed with (I still am to some extent). I went to the tournament with my eyes on gold and viewed anything less as a failure. Although with hindsight, considering the size of the category and the quality of competition, second place was a very good achievement – and I will beat the guy who won the next time I’m against him! If anyone is interested, you can view my performance on Youtube (just type in my name and ISKA World Championships 2010).
 
Now back to the injury updates (lol), since coming back I’ve damaged my ribs in sparring again, in exactly the same place as a few months back, and two nights ago whilst on a hill sprint session I went over on my ankle in a pothole resulting in a really bad sprain/potential break which I can barely stand on! Oh the joys of being an injured athletelol. I’m off to see the doctor tomorrow to get an idea of the extent of the damage in the ankle, looks like I’m going to have to do a fair bit of adaptive training for a while until it’s healed up .
 
Keep on kicking folks,
 
Stuart