THE Marston judo family has thrown the generation gap out of the window.

Just one week after Andy Marston took a bronze medal at the British Veterans Championships, his daughter Frankie followed it up with a similar result at the British Young Junior Championships.

Now grandfather Mike, already a blue belt, is determined to follow in their footsteps and is getting into training for his own black belt and next year’s British Veterans.

Mike was the first of the family to start training at Kidderminster’s Samurai Judo Club just over a quarter-of-a-century ago.

Son Andy, 11 at the time, was already an experienced player and moved to Samurai.

He was twice British junior champion before leaving the sport with Mike also dropping out to focus on his business.

Years later, however, Andy’s daughter Frankie decided to take up the sport and they were soon reunited with old friends at the Samurai club.

Andy found himself keen to get back into judo and his breakthrough came at the Kent International in 2007 when he took bronze.

He went a stage further this year and took silver, as well as finishing a creditable ninth out of more than 50 players at the World Masters in Belgium and winning bronze at the British Masters in Walsall.

A week later, Frankie, 11, also won bronze at Walsall in the British Young Junior Championships.

She was also selected as runner-up for the girls’ stylist award with her skills praised by former Atlanta Olympian Joyce Herron.

Grandfather Mike, 60, has been busy helping the Kidderminster club with their project to build new premises, which recently gained planning permission, but he is also back on the mat training.

Another 60-year-old Samurai player, Mike Welch, was also a medalist at the British Masters, competing in the over 55 years category.

In the women’s section, Rachel Griffiths and Sue Hancocks both finished fifth.

In the younger men’s section, there was a welcome return to action for a Samurai founder member, Richard Davis, who has returned after an absence of 24 years.

Tony Leroux gained his first points towards his third-level black belt.

At the British Young Junior Championships, there was also a fifth place for Pippa Harper alongside good performances from Katie Griffiths and Ryan Humphries.