Team Bahamas

Three members of the Bahamas Judo team produced outstanding performances at the Florida Yudanshakai (Black Belt tournament) held in Orlando this weekend. Cynthia Rahming 20, won two golds in the womens lightweight and middle weight divisions. Kentico Forbes 18, won a gold and a silver in the Mens middleweight and heavy weight division and Joshua Mcfall 18, won two bronzes in the mens lightweight and middleweight divisions.

"I am particularly pleased with Kentico's performance as he has only been training for 9 months." Said Coach D'Arcy Rahming Jr. "All three athletes trained in Cuba over the summer. Cynthia also took what she learned from the Commonwealth Games in Scotland along with her training with Olympians in the US during the summer and turned in an extremely impressive performance."

The Florida tournament was used as a warm up to test some new strategies that will be used at the up an coming major tournaments.The Bahamas Judo team is preparing for the Pan American Cup which is a qualifier for the Pan Am games. The event will  be held in Barbados on October 4, 5 and the World Junior Champions which also be held in on October 23rd.

"We've definitely crossed some barrier where we are now winning the majority of our matches regionally. Now we need to translate this to wins at world level tournaments. I believe this is due to high performance training with new methodologies from the IJF Academy." Said Coach Rahming who is a recent graduate of the level 1 course of the IJF academy in Hungary. Persons interested in joining judo programs can contact the Bahamas Judo Federation at allstarbahamas@gmail.com.

Cynthia Rahming, 20 won two gold medals

Kentico Forbes, 18 yrs, won a Gold and a Silver

Kentico Forbes (center), 18 yrs, won a Gold and a Silver