DESPITE the difficulties of travel and securing competition, the UK’s elite squads have been getting international experience where they can. Scotland have completed a camp in Ukraine that finished with an 11-bout team match, that the Scots won 6-5. “That’s exactly what you want when you’ve been out for so long. So it was good to get that fight under the belt,” Matthew McHale, the Scottish 57kgs, said. “It was a proper bout. It was in their gym, no spectators or anything but it was in their gym with a proper referee, judges. We had a decision at the end of it as well. It was great. It was good to wipe away that ringrust and get back to doing what we love.”
‘IT WAS GOOD TO WIPE AWAY THAT RING RUST AND GET BACK TO DOING WHAT WE LOVE’