November 5th & 6th 2010 saw close to 700 competitors descend upon the Dartford Judo center to take part in the ‘English Open 2010′.

Hosted by Carlson Gracie HQ, the event is the largest tournament in Europe outside of the official IBJJF European Championships.

22 Students from BlueWave took part in the 2 days of intense competition.

There were some great performances in the massive white belt divisions (some up to 55 competitors in a single bracket!), with Chuck Wadell taking a gold medal in the masters <100.5Kg, Iain Mackintosh coming through 5 matches to win silver in the masters <82Kg and Maz Upson taking silver in the womens <58Kg category.

Sunday saw the blue belts take to the mats with a good performance from Jack Lister (<70Kg) and a silver medal for Josh Palmer in the <94.3Kg division.