Performances from Brown belts Calum Welsh and Caroline Skeen outshone their more experienced black belt mentors in the second Bermuda Arts and Fitness Academy tournament at the Bermuda College gymnasium on Sunday afternoon.

Welsh, a constable with the Bermuda Police Service and also an avid rugby player, placed second to Skeen in the brown belt adult forms but placed first with a tenacious display in the kumite competition.

Meanwhile, Skeen was head and shoulders above Welsh and the rest of the brown belt field in the forms division as her deftly precise movements gave her the nod from the judges.

Other notable performances came from juniors Vere Jones, Jecoa Burrows and Hakim Astwood.

Burrows, the overall junior grandchampion, placed first in the over 14 brown-black belt forms and third in the junior weapons division while Jones placed first in both the 12-15 green-purple belt forms and fighting.

Meanwhile, Astwood took a fourth place in the over 14 brown-black forms and first in the purple-black junior weapons. He also teamed up with Andrew Araujo to win the junior Bunkai competition.

The Uechi Ryu Karate team won the junior synchronised forms competition and the Japanese Karate Association took the adult title.

Among the girls, Melissa Zimmerman won the 8-9 kumite while Rickell Smith placed first in the 10-11 category.

Freeman Smith won the black belt kumite over his training partner Wesley Trott while Bermuda Sanuces JuJitsu chief instructor Arnold Allen and shodan Zachary Nesbitt won both the Bunkai Adult and self defence portions of the tourney.

Tournament organiser Sifu Al Wharton said he was pleased with the way the more than 100 participants displayed their various arts.

"We learn from year to year and we work through and learn from the mistakes of the previous year,'' he said.

Grandmaster Ker Jen Wu conducted a seminar all day on Saturday that was well attended and he also performed two exhibitions of self defence during the tournament.