{"id":6883,"date":"2021-03-15T15:50:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T15:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/?p=6883"},"modified":"2021-03-15T15:50:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T15:50:50","slug":"martial-arts-champ-defies-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/martial-arts-champ-defies-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Martial Arts Champ Defies Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Luke-R.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6892\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Luke-R.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Luke-R-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Tae Kwon Do champion Luke Richardson in action<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Bridgnorth Endowed student, Luke Richardson, has refused to let the pandemic slow down his successful campaign as a top-level Martial Arts competitor in the Royal Air Force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After leaving school three years ago, Luke went straight into the RAF, where he was given the opportunity to pursue his passion for Martial Arts and boxing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently with 34 Squadron, based at RAF Leeming North Yorkshire, the 19-year-old is ranked \u2018Forces Number One\u2019 in Tae Kwon Do and is also rapidly working his way up in the boxing rankings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since Covid-19 hit, however, Luke has been unable to compete and has needed to adapt his programme to keep up the momentum and maintain his fitness levels through socially-distanced training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PE teacher, Mr Chase, commented: &#8220;Everyone at BES would like to congratulate Luke on his impressive achievements and we wish him every success in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-medium-font-size\" style=\"color:#c1002b\"><strong>Video highlights of Luke&#8217;s fitness training regime<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0MGwLzxp0g4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Bridgnorth Endowed student, Luke Richardson, has refused to let the pandemic slow down his successful campaign as a top-level Martial Arts competitor in the Royal Air Force. After leaving school three years ago, Luke went straight into the RAF, where he was given the opportunity to pursue his passion for Martial Arts and boxing. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/martial-arts-champ-defies-pandemic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Martial Arts Champ Defies Pandemic&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,66],"tags":[2,119,16],"class_list":["post-6883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-school-news","category-sports-news","tag-bridgnorth-endowed-school","tag-former-student","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}