Klaus Burton

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Grappling comp

Last Saturday I went to a grappling competition in Palmerston North to support my teammates who were competing. We had a great turnout and it was really inspiring for me.
I had originally planned to compete but with the staph infection and flu in the month before the event, I had only had 2 training sessions since then and I knew that wasn’t enough.
When I do compete I don’t need to be at 100% or anything, I do realize that it’s best to just get the first comp over with, but I don’t want to be entirely useless either.

Anyway here’s a vid of my GSW teammate Rob Laurent in the match that won him the gold medal in his weight-division: