Yokoso (Welcome!)
We are not sure
exactly when the club began as recent evidence has come to
light that it began not long after the Youth club opened in
the 1960's!
One of the secrets
of our sucess is that the coaches have come through the club
as players over the years.
The club is still
going strong, helping young people to learn judo, building
self confidence, self esteem & improving co-ordination.
The club was only the second in the whole of the South West
to achieve Silver Clubmark award.
The club provides
the opportunity for young people to make new friends and keep
active in a fun and safe environment. Best of all, family
& friends of judo players are welcome to take part in
all of the club activities & events.
Patchway Judo
club is committed to helping children reach their full potential,
whether they are competitive or recreational players, whatever
their ability; ultimately, to become happy confident young
people!
Professor
Jigoro Kano, the founder of Judo said, "Judo
is a teaching for life itself and with it we learn to overcome
the pitfalls and obstacles of everyday living" and
his words still ring true. A man of great vision, Kano summed
up Judo by saying "it is the way to most efficiently
use one's mental and physical strength. By training, one should
discipline and cultivate the body and spirit through the practice
of techniques of offence and defence, thereby to master the
essence of Judo. And, by these means, it is the ultimate goal
of Judo to build oneself up to perfection and thereby benefit
the world."
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Club News |
AUGUST- Training
Patchway sessions
continue through out the Summer.
Nice to see the
many visitors from other clubs we've already had this Summer.
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JULY - WEBSITE
Had a few problems
in July, which have now been rectified, normal service will
resume!
Well done to all
the players who competed or graded in July. |
June - Bristol County
logo Competition
Bristol County Judo
needs a logo - do you want to be the one who designed it?
click HERE
for more details and how to enter. |
6th June - Bedminster
Open
Second day at Bedminster, this time for the open. Big well
done to Amy & Ben for fighting two days on the trot;
Gold
- Tom J, David & Sam
Silver
- Cameron, Rachel, Domininc, Reece & Kieran
Bronze
- Amy & Myles.
Once
again the Patchway officials were there to lend a hand.
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5th June - Bedminster
mini mon
Well done to everyone who fought in the mini mon;
Gold
- Lucy "Vrum" England
Silver
- Josie Sparks, Ben Guest, Amy Oram, George
Phelps
Bronze
- Dan W, Cameron & Mollie
Attendance
medals to Finley & Ryleigh
Well
done to all our officials, Lisa, Alison, Mollie & Myles
was even mentioned on the BJA forum for his refereeing, well
done Myles! |
23rd May - Alison completes Technical Dan grade.
Alison attended a weekend Technical Dan Grading,
along with 14 other coaches from the Western Area. Congratulations to Alison who was awarded her 1st Dan black belt. |
16th May - Pete Murphy
West of England closed, 5 Area Champs 11 medallists 25 wins!
Congratulations
to everyone who fought, fantastic results from the 17 players
who entered.
Gold
medals and Western Area Champions
Ben G, Dominic, Myles, Reece & David.
Silver
medals Rachel, Dan W., &
Kieran P.
Bronze
medals Amy, Cameron & Sam
For
Nathan W. Ryleigh, Finley and Mumbles it was their first Area
closed, the last three doing very well loosing in the fights
for the Bronze medals. First over12's for Adriana and Aidan.
Thank you to everyone
who stayed to the end, so great for the whole club to support
each other. |
9th May - Patchway Interclub
and U 8
Congratulations
to everyone who competed to day - all the under 8's did very
well. Girls Hollie Shone, Charis Oram, Erin Mccolm, Maddison
Watts, Ella Riggall. Boys Tommy Dougall, Harvey Hirst, Curtis
Owens, Matthew Pearce, Harrison Grove, Josh Springer, Aidan
Fletcher, Oscar Norton, Ian Taplin, Alex Ymficev.
Inter
club competition
Gold
medals to Connor Wiltshire, Cameron Nelson, Lucy England,
Adrianna Giles and Chris Field.
Silver
medals Finley Norton, Josie Sparks, Dan Wiltshire,
Ryleigh Jefferies, Amy Oram and Ryan Guest
Bronze
medals to Kieran Rose-Owen, Nathan Wiltshire, Stephanie
Button
Well
done to all, for many it was their first competition.
Nice
to see so many children from school clubs at the competition
Huge
THANK YOU to all the volunteers who helped - brilliant to
have so many people on board. Proving that "Many hands
do make light work". |
May - Reminder re Theory
sheets
Theory
sheets are available on the Mini and Junior pages. These sheets
were devised by Alison to help all the players progress through
their grades. They can be done at anytime through out the
year, don't need to be completed in one go. The sheets will
help the players learn the English Japanese translations;
which in turn will help them with their grades. The grading
syllabus is also available on the pages. Next gradings will
be happening over the coming weeks, please help your child
by showing them what they need for each grade. |
25th April - Midland
Area U16 Green belt and below. - 3 Golds 1 Silver, 2 Bronzes
Congratulations
to everyone who fought today. Only 6 players as British Medallists
weren't allowed to enter, being an U16 event we didn't enter
some of the younger players.
Amy
& Adriana were first up. Amy, at only 9, she was the youngest
in her group, this didn't stop her winning both her fights
with Ippon, in 4 and 6 seconds. Adriana, despite holding her
own against the other girl in their group, lost both fights
receiving the bronze. Cameron, had 8 in his group and at the
end of the crossover in his pool, they were level and all
had to fight again! He fought well and went on to win the
bronze, again he is only 10 so did very well in U16 comp.
Myles, making the weight by the skin of his teeth, was up
next winning 3 of his 4 fights, two of them were so quick
they were missed by the camera, to win the Gold! Reece was
then called, winning 4 fights, which won him the Silver. David
was fighting in fighting in U81's and U73's, he won both his
fights, winning the Gold. Very early finish we all left at
2.30pm. |
24th April - Another
Yellow!
Congratulations
to Mark Owen for completing his yellow belt. Three Seniors
this month! |
17th April - Double Yellow!
Congratulations
to Patchway's newest yellow belts! Lisa Oram and Giles Norton
who both completed their yellow belt gradings. Hopefully they
will inspire other Seniors to grade! |
10th April - Double Dan!
Congratulations
to Bristols newest Dan grades - Natasha and Rebecca who both
completed line ups to achieve their black belts- Rebecca's
lasted 40 seconds in total! Natasha only needed 20 points,
but went for a line up anway completing hers in 1 min 40 seconds;
this hot on the heels of her becoming one of the youngest
National C referees!
Well done
to the girls, who continue to be fantastic role models and
an inspiration to all the younger players. |
Easter weekend - Patchway
Girls step out in style
What
an energetic and tiring weekend Lucy England & Adriana
Giles have taken part in the
Sharon Phillips School of Dance biennial show. This year's
theme was “Our Favourite Things”.
Adriana
was in three dances – “Nutcracker” – ballet, “In the Navy”-
& “Can Can” - modern.
Lucy
was also in three “The Doll Dance” from Chitty Chitty Bang
Bang – modern, “Witch Doctor”, Modern & “Yankee Doodle
Dandee” tap.
It
was a grueling weekend with dress rehearsal Good Friday from
11 till 2.30 then Easter Saturday 9-1pm, meaning
no Easter egg hunt for the girls, followed by the first show
5.30 – 9pm .
Easter
Sunday & Monday two performances a day, starting at 1.30
pm and finishing at 9pm, giving no time for chocolate eggs
and no chocolate to be allowed back stage
All
money raised from the show is for CLIC
– last show raising
£4,000. Let's hope it does as well this time.
Well done girls for all your hard
work, you looked great, & thank you to anyone who bought
tickets and came to watch |
3rd April - Easter Egg
Hunt
.Don't forget to bring clothes to
change into - judo suits aren't great for egg hunts! |
28th March - Women's
and Girls Competition Kidderminster.
Originally
it was 5, but due to injuries and other things on the calendar,
only Amy and Rachel made it to compete!
Alison went up to
coach and Mollie went along to give her support, Pete was
the girls driver and Rich the co- driver!
Amy was up first,
in the yellow belt and below category, the first opponent
was about 5' 6"! Despite losing that fight Amy went on
to Ippon her next three opponents winning the silver medal.
Rachel, having recently
graded to orange, was in theU16 open competition, she was
the youngest and lowest grade, fought well and despite being
a yuko up in her last fight she lost, she deserved her
bronze. The Gold medallist was a blue belt in the England
squad!
Well done, be nice to see more girls
at the next one! |
21st March - Tora
judo competition
Well done to players
young, and older, who took part in Sundays competition.
Medal role;
Golds to Chris M,
Dominic, Reece & Natasha
Silver to Luke,
Myles & Reece (yes he got two)
Bronze to Kieran,
Finley and Amy
Well done to Rachel and Josie |
20th March - British
School Championships - Sheffield
Congratulations to Myles who after
winning all his fights in Sheffield became the 2010 British
Schools Champion! |
************COMPETITIONS
- important please read.***************
Details of competitions
are on the right hand side of this page - please see Lisa
(or in her absence Emma or Alison) if your child wishes to
attend a competition.
Please note that
it is important for competitive players aged 8-15 to enter
the Western Area Closed 16th May in Kingsbridge Devon. Last
year we had 6 Area champions, lets see what we can do this
year.
It is Important that you speak to the
right person at the club to deal with your query - if you
are not sure than see the job descriptions on the website
or in the cupboard on the wall at Patchway. Or just ask someone
and they will point you in the right direction. |
14th March - Devon
Mini mon - Kingsbridge.
Only four brave
souls made the trip south to Kingsbridge on a sparkling Sunday
morning and first on the mat was Lucy M. She fought bravely
in her first fight, losing to a hold-down. She Ipponed her
second opponent and was unfortunate to have to retire injured
from the third with a strained shoulder. Lucy's performance
ensured she came away with the silver medal. We now know that
poor Lucy has a broken collar bone - get well soon Lucy and
well done for being so brave.
Next up were Amy
and Rachel. They were the only entrants in their respective
categories and faced each other in a best-of-three bout. Rachel
outclassed her opponent to win two straight fights, each by
a hold-down and came away with the gold medal. Amy got a consolatory
silver.
Last up was Chris F who had a cracking
tournament until he too was forced to retire. He won three
straight fights, the first by a hold-down, the second by an
Ippon and the third by a Wazari and a Yuko. During his fourth
fight (which was for the gold medal) he fell awkwardly, slammed
his face onto the mat and felt unable to carry on. Nevertheless
head done enough to win the silver medal. |
11h March - NEW
TROLLEY!
Huge thank you to
James and Mike W for the new trolley, which has industrial
wheels, allowing the additional mats to be pulled easily in
and out of the cupboard!
Need a name for it now - might hold
a competition for the kids to come up with ideas! |
10th March - Funding
for your club course - at last - SILVER here we come!
After waiting for
nearly two years Emma & Mark T finally got to attend the
final course we need for our next level, Silver Club Mark.
Unfortunately we won't be the first in South West as South
Brent have already achieved theirs, congratulations to them.
Now it is all hands to the pump to
collaite the portfolio and finish the development plan! Then
we can plough on with Gold and see if we can get there first! |
6th March - British
Judo Women's & Girls Inaugural Conference
About
35 women attended the conference, three of them were Alison,
Rebecca and Mollie!
Interesting day,
with talks by ex World Champion Joyce Heron and IJF referee
Elaine Down.
The afternoon there was a session lead
by World Champion Loretta Cusack and then an introduction
to Judocise, which was excellent - watch this space for it
comin to clubs. |
28th February - Seamills
Under 8 and Interclub!
There were some great
performances in some hard fought contests. But we showed
some good Judo with 3 gold, 3 Silvers and 5 bronzes.
Connor
Wiltshire, Bronze Won 2, Lost 2. Ryleigh
Jefferies Bronze Won 1, Lost 2
Lucy
England Gold Won 3, Lost 2. Josie
Sparks Bronze Won 2, injured 2.
Adrianna
Giles Gold Won 2. Finley
Norton Bronze Won 1, Lost 3
Cameron
Nelson Silver Won 3, Lost 1. Mumbles Silver
Won 1, Lost . Lucy
McGuiness Silver Won 1, Lost 1. Steph
Button Bronze Lost 2. Chris
Field Gold Won 2
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20th-21st February -
North West Open - Myles 1 second IPPON!
A long weekend -
congratulations to all who fought and well done to all who
went along to support - Silver for Kieran and Bronzes for
Natasha, Myles and Dominic, Natasha only losing out to a youth
olympic bronze medallist!
Myles had the fastest
IPPON of the competition (or of all time!) with a one second
IPPON, you could hear the cheer across the other side of the
hall.
A great effort from Sam who won his
first 2 fights but was forced to withdraw from his 3rd (quarter
final) due to a calf injury - hope its not too serious Sam,
and good luck for a speedy recovery. |
6th February - Bristol
Classic Open
Nice local open
so not too far to travel!
Well done to all our players, congratulations
to our medallists, Golds for Rachel, Ben & Sam, Silvers
for Amy & Reece, Bronze medals for Adriana, Dominic, Tom,
Alan, Kieran, David & Lucy. Well done to Cameron, Myles
and Connor, all fought well in a hard competition. |
30th & 31st January
2010 - Midland Area Open - mixed results
Very long weekend.
Well done to all those who fought this weekend. Mixed bag
of results, execellent silver for Natasha, taking out some
well known players on the way. Bronzes for Kieran, Myles and
Dominc. Reece, Sam and Tom winning fights loosing out in the
repecharge, Cameron lost out on a hand tei.
Thank you to coaches and supporters! |
17th January 2010 - Inaugural
Bristol County Mini mon
First Bristol County
Minimon - 130 entries! Some players had four pool sheets in
their weight categories! All our players fouhgt extremely
well. All scoring at least points!
Golds
going to Ben G, Rachel & Tom
Silvers
to Rachel (2 weight groups!) Cameron
Bronze
medals to Josie, Mumbles, Amy & Chris
Attendance medals
for their hard work and effort to Finley, Connor, Ryleigh
these were the large groups, Fin came 3rd in his group, Connor
came 2nd in his Ryleigh lost for a bronze coming 5th over
all.
Well done to all
our officials.
Very pleasing that
all the table officials were Bristol County and all but three
of the referees were Bristol County too!
All the profits have gone to the County,
to the benefit of all our players! |
January 2010 - Happy
New Year welcome back
2009 was a very busy year for us all,
including Patchway's 30th Anniversary. For upadates
and information check out the website and the Patchway
Judo Club facebook page! Good luck to everyone for whatever
they want to achieve in their judo during 2010 - lets hope
for some more British Championship medals! |
6th December - Long Ashton
Inter club and under 8 training
Our players were out in force.
All players doing extremely well. Some wining all their fights.
Coming home with a host of medals. |
November - Bristol County
Team win 2 golds and a bronze!
Well done to the
Buffallos, Bulldogs, Butterflys and bears, you made your county
proud!
U16 and U12 boys
both wining gold and the U12 girls winning bronze.
Thank you to all the offficials. |
1st November
Bristol County Area team selection
Well done to the
following players who have been selected for the Bristol teams,
and to Mollie, Reece and Rebecca who have been asked to be
Team Managers.
Bristol County Squad Players
Team
Managers
Mollie
Finn U12 girls, Reece Peacock U12 boys, Rebecca Maslen U16
boys
Boys
U12
Cameron
Nelson U34, Tom Jenkins U38, George Phelps U42 & Alan
England
Dan
Wlitshire U46 & Ben Guest over 50's
U16
Myles
Nelson U34, Dominic Nelson U38, Sam Finn U55, Kieran Peacock
U60,
reserves
Reece Peacock U55 and O66 David Giles
Girls
Lucy
England U25, Josie Sparks U36, Rachel Bennett U44 with
reserve Adriana Giles
Amy Oram
U48 U12 |
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18 October - Plymouth
Open - Squad of 17, 14 medals, 4 gold, 5 silver & 4 bronzes,
1 Mumbles mascot!
Well done to everyone
who fought. Thank you to the supporters and coaches.
Luke is writing
the report which will be posted as soon as it is received.
NB if any supporters would
like to submit a report for any of the competitions, please
feel free to do so. Not
all players who fought are in the photo as some players had
left before it was taken |
15th October - England
Squad call up letters received!
Kieran and Dominic join an elite group,
Rebecca, Natasha and Sam, in receiving their England squad
invitation letters! Well done to both of them. Between the
5 of them they have 2 gold, 2 silver and 4 bronze British
Championship medals! An inspiration to all our younger players! |
11th October - 2009 British
Championships!
After a very long
day supporting yesterday, Natasha was up early to weigh in
for her first year in D band (ages 16-19).
Natasha did very well, despite
losing her first fight went on to win her second, unfortunately
lost her next one. Think everyone will agree that a win in
first year of D band is no mean feat! |
10th October - 2009 British
Championships (boys) 21 fights, 10 wins, 5 Ippons - 2 medals!
After a very long
journey north, seven of our players, their families,
supporters and coaches arrived in Sheffield on Friday night.
Early start for
our C Band boys, weigh in at 7am! Luckily our hotel was across
the road, so the supporters and B Band boys got to stay in
bed a little longer! Just after 9am, before the mats were
laid at Patchway, Sam was called to fight, big task in front
of him 33 players in his group C Band U55kg, all was looking
good winning his first two fights with Ippons! His third opponent
was the eventual Gold meddallist, Sam lost by a yuko. Dropping
down into the fight for Bronze, he lost his next fight and
was out of the medals. Dominic was up next, C Band U38kg,
6 in his group he won 3 fights, one with an Ippon, to secure
his place in the final! Congratulations to Dominic on his
SILVER medal! Next was David C band U81kg, his first Championships,
always daunting,10 in his group he was the lightest. David
lost two fights, did much better in his second. Up next were,
Reece - B Band U55kg, 21 in his group and Myles B Band U34kg,
12 in his group. Reece was winning his first fight, got caught
with 12 seconds to go. 2nd fight started the throw but was
unfortunately countered. Myles lost his first fight, which
was hard, pulled back to win the next two, sadly lost his
fourth narrowly missing out on the medals.
Kieran was the last
to be called, 12 in his group, losing his first fight meant
it was now a longer road for a bronze medal, but he was ready!
Winning his next fight he was fired up and ready to go all
the way to the bronze! After that there was no stopping him,
winning the rest of his fights to get to the fight for bronze.
Here he was faced with the player who had beaten him in the
first round. Kieran knew what he had to do this time - with
his 2nd Ippon of the day, he won in less than a minute, leaving
the boy & his coach stunned and Kieran with a bronze medal!
Well done to all
the players. HUGE THANK YOU to all the supporters and coaches!
GOOD LUCK and fingers crossed for Natasha,
who is our only girl fighting today as Rebecca is injured. |
12th September - Western
Area Trials for British Championships
Fantastic news, all 8 entries into
the trials, hosted by Bristol County and held at City Academy,
qualified for the British Championships! Congratulations to
Myles, Reece, Kieran, Dominic, Sam, David, Natasha and Rebecca!
Good luck in Sheffield. Well done to the coaches for entering
the right players to the trials - watch out there will be
more stars shining through next year! |
6th September - Bristol
Half Marathon and Heart of England - shiny silver for Dominic
What a busy day! Bristol, Luke and Robert were limbering
for the half marathon, Kieran, Reece, Myles, Dominic, Sam
& David were travelling to Birmingham!
The judo day was
longer! Luke ran an amazing 1 hr 53 mins and 58 sec and Robert
did very well (remember Luke is slightly yonger!) coming 20mins
later (haven't got exact timings) Well done and HUGE THANK
YOU to both of them; if you haven't got any sponsor money
for them yet -it's not too late!
Meanwhile up on Birmingham 900 competitors
were fighting! see attached for full report! (coming soon-
when it is received) |
Sunday 12th July 2009
- Western Area Open - Swindon
A late start for
a change, we headed along the M4, for a long day! The first
group of Under 12's weighed in at 9.30am, but had a long wait
before they fought. The girls, Adriana, Rachel and Amy, were
called first, but Cameron started fighting first! After not
being successful they all agreed they'd give the next weight
group up a go! With very happy results, Rachel winning silver,
and Adriana and Amy winning bronze, all won a fight. Amy beat
the gold medallist in a stunning 27 seconds, but was beaten
by the other girls.
Dominic, Myles,
Reece & David all had good fights. Sam withdrew through
illness; which left Kieran, again, our only medal hope! Kieran
was only beaten by the silver medallist, winning a well deserved
bronze!
Total medal total, 3 bronzes and a
silver! Well done to everyone. Thank you to Lisa who was,
unusually, our only competition official today. |
Sunday 5th July 2009
- Bedminster U 8 and Interclub
Small squad of players
entered this local event, that didn't mean a small number
of medals.
All the under 8's
worked hard, well done to Finley, Tommy, Ryleigh, Liam &
Oscar.
The over 8's all
fought well, with Gold medals won by Josie, Amy, Cameron &
George. Silver for Rachel and bronze for Oliver T.
Thank you to all
the officials, our representatives were Referees
Natasha, Alison, Sam, Dominic, Reece, Myles and Table Officials
Rebecca and Lisa.
Thanks again to the Photography team,
Giles, Robert, Rich & Emma over £200 of photos sold
today! Look
at photo sales if you missed a chance today and still
would like to buy some! |
Saturday 27th June 2009
- Kieran is our Star!
After a very long
journey, Friday for some, Saturday for others, a team of 11
of our players arrived at Crystal Palace - the hottest place
in the country!
A very long day,
one of the hardest competitions in the Country.
Kieran was our only
medallist, winning a very deserved bronze. Losing only to
the gold medallist, an England cadet! There were lots of cadets
in all the weight groups. Reece & Sam both lost in the
fights for bronze medals. Well done to Rachel, Adriana, Mollie,
Tom L., Tom J., Myles, Dominic & David.
Natasha was refereeing again, did so
well has been talent spotted. |
Friday 26th June 2009
- Alison passes UKCC level 2
Just in time for Kent, Alison heard
she had successfully completed the UK Coaching Certifcate
level 2 - the new coaching pass came in Friday's post. Alison
was one of 11 Western Area coaches (the only female!) to complete
the first UKCC held in Western Area in Devon. |
Tuesday 9th June 2009
- Star Volunteer - from UK school Games to FA National Young
Leaders Camp!
It was a double
good day for our Star Time Keeper Dan P. His cage was removed
from his leg and he heard the news that he had been selected
as the South West representative at the National Football
Association Young leaders camp in July.
Dan passed his exam to be a Timekeeper
last July and then went on to be a judo official at the UK
school games last August. Since then he has gone to volunteer
at judo events and other sports events. It is because of Dan's
commitment to volunteering that he has been selected - Dan
we are all really proud of you! |
Sunday 7th June 2009
- Bedminster judokwai Open - 13 entries 14 medals!
Day two at Ashton
Park Sport Centre for many! A tougher competition today for
everyone.
Our only Gold
medallist was Dominic winning the very last fight of the day!
It was his second medal as he had already won the bronze in
a higher weight group!
Ben G. also won
two silver medals, one in the U12 & the other in U16,
bringing his medal total to 4 in one weekend! Tom was our
other silver medallist, in a hard final. For the rest of our
players, amongst the injuries secured 9 other bronze medals
between them, well done to Amy, Rachael, Mollie, Cameron,
Myles & Alan in U12 and Reece, Kieran & David in U16's.
Tom L withdrew with an injury, we wish him well.
Total 25
medals over the weekend - pretty good result from
our Squad.
Our officials
were active again; Table officials Rebecca, Lisa, Dan, Mollie
& Reece and Referees Natasha & Alison.
Chris made recovery
after yesterdays injury to return today as one of our Photographers!
Once again a HUGE
THANK YOU to the Photography team, who worked tirelesly
over the weekend. Photographers Giles, Steve & Chris and
sales Richard, Emma, Phil & Simon - over the weekend we
took £250 in photo sales.
Thank you to Paul
and Bedminster Judokawai for their support with the Photographs.
If
you would like to purchase any photos please click on photosales
on the left hand toolbar. |
Saturday 6th June 2009
- Bedminster judokwai Mini mon - 12 medals for 10 Stars! Plus
two new refs!
A nice local competition,
so not too early a start!
The day was off
to a great start with Josie, Rachael & Cameron up first
all winning their first fights and going on to all be unbeaten
- 3 golds in the bag from the stars! Next up was Amy, despite
losing her first fight, went on to win the rest, going on
to take the silver.
Next up were Ben
G & Dan. Ben was in two groups, which got confusing. Winning
5 fights altogether, just losing won, he took the Gold in
one group and the silver in the other. It was Dan's first
competition, he did very well taking the bronze in te group
where Ben had the Gold!
We then had Mollie,
with Rachael in her second group of the day. Mols took silver
and Rachael did very well to take the silver.
After a long wait,
Tom J., Myles & Tom L. got to fight! Tom J seem to have
a pattern of winning his in 15 seconds, winning the Gold.
Myles was pretty speedy in winning his fights too, there was
another Gold! Tom L. had a silver sandwich, losing his first
and last fights, but winning the middle one, securing the
silver medal! Total of 6 Golds, 4 silvers and 2 bronzes! Chris
Field was injured but was still awarded a bronze medal - we
wish him a speedy recovery!
Whilst this was
all taking place, Myles & Reece were taking the practical
part of their referee exams! Both did very well, impproving
through out the day, passing to make 6 Junior refs
in 3 families!
Natasha and Alison
were also refereeing, Lisa and Mollie were table officials.
Huge THANK YOU to the PHOTOGRAPHY TEAM,
who sold over 20 photos - we have now hit our first £1,000
on fund raising for the NEW DOJO! |
*******Change of training
times from June************
As from 2nd June
training at Patchway on a Tuesday evening moves to 6pm-7pm,
this is because the Youth club will now be used from 7.30pm.
Setting up will
be from 5.45pm and we need to be cleared up and out of the
building by .15pm - this change is until further notice.
As from June, Judo will be at Seamills
on Mondays and Wednesdays with no more training at Ashton
after 28th May. |
Sunday 24th May 2009
- Competition Officials refresher training, Ashton - New Junior
refs the club!
On Sunday Mike held
a training session to bring everyone up to date with the new
competition rules.
During the day Reece and Myles took
their level 1 referee exams, passing with 100% & 95%!
Well done boys; that brings the total of junior referees to
6! |
Sunday 17th May 2009
- Western Area Closed - 6 Area Champions!
An early morning
for some, and a nice night away for others! A team of 14 of
our players joined 4 other clubs from Bristol County to make
up a team of 24.
The day started
slowly but thankfully picked up!
All players fought
very well and many won fights despite not winning medals.
Congratulations
to all our medallists. Our new Area Champions are Rachael,
Mollie, Ben G, Dominic, Sam & David, our bronze medallists
are Amy, Adriana, Tom & Myles.
Well done to Connor,
Cameron, Reece & Kieran who were all unlucky not to be
in the medals.
In total Bristol
County had a total of 12 Golds and 6 bronzes, coming 3rd in
the Area, Devon coming 1st.
Our Officials were Lisa, Natasha
& Alison. From Bristol County, Mike G. Mark M & Derek. |
Friday 8th - Sunday 10th
May 2009 - 10th Anniversary Western Area judo camp - Brean
Twenty families from the club
travelled south to Brean to attend the 10th
Anniversary. Sadly Luke couldn't be with us, for th first
time since 1999, leaving John and two others who had been
to all the camps!
Gerogina Singleton, European &
Commonwealth Gold medallist 2002, was our Coach for the weekend
- see Brean 2009 page for photos and more details |
Sunday 26th April 2009 - Kidderminster Green
belt and below & Kyu grade
Hot off the press
the story so far (11.30am!) Amy has won gold in the Under
44kg girls and is going to fight in the U48 kgs! Well done
Amy!
Click
here for full report |
April 2009 - Important
changes to Western Area Judo camp!
Due to coaching
commitments with the National Squad, Kate Howey will unfortunately
not be at Brean for the 10th Anniversary. Kate has however
found us an excellent replacement - Georgina Singleton, Commonwealth
and European Champion.
We look forward to welcoming Georgina
to Brean. |
April 2009 - Important
changes to selections for British Championships
The BJA has reverted
to the old scheme of area selections for entries into the
British Championships.
Selections will take place 12th September
at a competition to be held at City Academy, Bristol. The
top four for each weight & age band will be entered into
the British Championships. Further details here. |
4th April 2009 - Kidderminster
Green belt and below - Our Boys in Bronze hat trick!
Cameron, Myles, Dominc and Reece all
went to Kidderminster for a lunch time weigh in, accopmanied
by an injured Kieran and his pink cast! Caneron was first
up, unfortunately was knocked out before the medals. Myles
& Dominc were in the same weight group and both came away
with bronze. Reece had a little wait and was a yuko up in
the fight for the final and lost by a wazari in the last 10
seconds; he completed the hat trick of bronzes! Well done
all of you. |
15th March 2009 - Tora Judo Kai Open - Birthday Bronze
for Luke!
With a squad of 21 players, we
went to Ashton Park school to take part in the Tora Judo Kai
open.
It was a tough competition,
all our players held their own, with large groups we managed
a total of 17 medals!
One gold in particular
was very special, Alan England won his first over 8
Gold medal! Alan was the over 8 from the club to win
a gold! Further Golds went to Tommy and Mumbles. Silvers won
by Vrum, Ben D, Dominic, Cameron N & Mollie, which leaves
9 Bronzes won by Liam, Rachel, Adriana, Myles, Tom J, Reece
P, Kieran, Ben G and our birthday boy Luke!
The rest of the
squad Amy, David, Tom L & Chris fought well, (Amy even
beat the bronze medallist in her group). For several of the
players this competition means they will now be presented
with their club squad polo shirts.
Well done to everyone. |
Sunday 1st March 2009 -
Golden Girls secure the team trophy!
A team of 15 players
went to the Pyramid club in Filton to take part in their Under
10 & Under 16 low grade competition. Having won the team
trophy last year, hopes were up for winning it for a second
year!
Off to a flying start was "Vrum"
who was the first player of the day to win Gold! It was a
a bit strange for our players who as some of the rules were
a bit different; main one begining taking the grips before
the referee called Hajime! It was a very successful day, all
the girls won Gold medals, Lucy E, Rachel, Amy, Adriana, Lucy
M (after a very long weight! - it was worth it!) and Mollie.
Finley, Mumbles, Dominic S & Ben D, won silver, Elliot
won a bronze the rest of the boys winning Golds Ben G, Myles,
Cameron N & Chris F. Excellent first competition for Chris,
winning his ifrst fight with a 5 second Ippon. With 10 Golds,
4 silvers and a bronze, for the second year,
we won the team trophy - well done all of you, you made your coaches
and parents proud! Thanks to all the supporters! |
Saturday 28th February 2009 -
Ashton Under 8 trg & - medals presented by Natasha
- see her news below
All the under 8
players trained hard and competed very well in their training
fights.
Well done to everyone
who took part.
In the Interclub, we had 8 entries. Everyone had at least 2 fights, all fought well, we
saw some lovely Ippons from our young players. Golds going
to Chloe, Adriana, Tom L, & Ben G. Silver to Josie, who
was in the same group as Chloe. Bronzes to Amy, Cameron N
and Stephanie.
To add to the ever
growing number of officials we have at the club, Sam passed
his level 1 referee exam, brining the total number of Senioir
& Junior officials to a dozen!
John annouced that
Natasha has been called to trials for the Under 20 squad for
the Europeans! Well done Natasha, we are all have our fingers
crossed for you!
Thank you to everyone
who organised the competition and who helped on the day.
Thank you to all the officials from,
New Star, Bedminster judokwai, Yate Star, Bristol Judo Hartcliffe
and Long Ashton judo club. |
Saturday 21st & Sunday 22nd
February 2009 - North West Age band
On Saturday Sam
was our only player at the competition. It was a
9.30am weigh in, 1st time in 3 years Sam went up a weight
group, to Under 50's. There were 14 in his weight category,
he was due to fight at 12.30pm. He made friends with Gareth
from North Wales, who was there next to the mat supporting
Sam until he was called to fight in u66's himself.
Sam's first fight
went to Hantei, his first ever, he won with a unanimous decision,
proving all Sam's fitness training had paid off! Next fight
was a bit quicker, drop Seoi nage win in 20 seconds; well
he'd already had a 6 minute fight! Third fight went to golden
score, Sam swept his opponent and went straight in for the
hold down. Fourth fight, Semi final, it was all even, then
Sam's opponent came in for drop seoi, Sam blocked it - video
evidence, but then rolled, the other player was awarded Ippon.
Sam then had to fight for bronze. Sam through his opponent
with a drop seoi for a wazari, then finshed in style with
a Te Guruma! Sam won bronze, not bad for his first U50 competition.
The Maslen's and
the Curtis's travelled to St Helens on Saturday ready for
the competition the next day. At 8:30 Jay Curtis, from Yate
Star who trains at New Star on Thursdays and Natasha Maslen
weighed in. Jay ended up fighting U55s and Natasha U63s, both
in C band. At 11:00 they were both called to the mats.
Natasha had 13 in
her weight group, which is a lot for girls. She fought her
first fight and won by ippon, in under ten seconds. Her second
fight was unfortunate by losing to a competitor from the England
Talent Squad. But came firing back by winning her next two
fights, again both in under 20 seconds with ippon. Lastly,
she fought and won the fight for the bronze against another
girl from the Talent Squad.
Jay had 20 in his
group. Unfortunately he lost his first fight but made a remarkable
come back by winning his second fight against a boy from the
England Squad, by a hold down. After a long hour and a half
wait he had his third fight. Due to controversial refereeing
he lost by a yuko.
They both fought really well and did
their clubs and the area proud. |
Click here for earlier news items
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Training
Patchway Judo Club map
Patchway Youth Centre, Coniston Rd
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| Tuesday |
6pm-7pm |
From 6 1/2 yrs to 15yrs |
| Saturday |
9.30am - 10.30am |
from 5 ys to 8 yrs |
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10.30am - noon |
from 7½ yrs - 15yrs |
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noon - 1pm |
14yrs + Green belts & Adults session |
Contacts
Alison Finn
(07974 105179)
alison@nsbjc.com
Patchway Newsletters
Western Area Newsletters
Diary
Please Note:
Patchway parents forum meeting
Saturday
July 24th 2010 10.40am - all parents /carers welcome.
We have a policy that everyone may have a say.
Fundraising:
Tuesday
22nd June 2010 Avon orders to Emma, if you can't
get them to judo then email your order to Alison
who will pass it to Emma
Demos/Displays:
If you would like a display at your
school fayre or a lesson in your School Sports Week speak to Emma
or email Alison - NB. Schools normally plan at least 6 months in
advance.
19th
June 2010
Westbury-on-Trym
School, Channel Hill
2.15pm
3rd
July 2010
Charborough Road School
1.45pm.
Competitions:
Please let Lisa know as soon as possible if your
child wishes to attend a competition. - details are below or on the noticeboard and newsletter.
5th
September
Heart of England Midland Area Open
National Indoor Arena
Suitable
for Experienced Competitive players B band orange belt and above
Details here
17th October
Plymouth Junior Open
Details here
Suitable
for all grades of Competitive players
Plymouth
Senior Open
Details here
Suitable
for all grades of Competitive players
Kitto Centre, Honicknowle Lane Plymouth PL5 3NG
County & Area Training:
County
training - cost £3 per session:
Juniors, Youth
& Seniors
Calendar
Western
Area training
TBC
Womens
& Girls Training
Gradings:
Next gradings
May / June 2010
Kano
& mon gradings - see Patchway Mini & junior pages for grading
requirements. Please note club theory sheet requirements. - Theory
3 for yellow belts
and above, theory 4 for orange
belts and above.
NB. Not all players
will grade every time a grading is held - coaches
will let your child know if they are grading; decisions are made
on ability, attendance, attitude and the completion of the relevant
club theory sheets.
Social.
Annual outing - watch
this space
Saturday 18th December
2010 Patchway
Christmas Party 10am-12.30pm
Links
Steve Griffin MSc MCSP
£35 per session,
£30 for Patchway members
Mob: 07761022033
Western
Area Judo
Bristol
County Judo
The British Judo Trust
aims to raise funds to directly support the development of the sport
of judo within the UK.
A judo magazine just for kids!
Field
to Podium ethical sports clothing who support Sports aid
Youth
Club Saturday pm at Patchway Youth Club
Your Space 2pm-4pm school
years 5 & 6
Speak out 4.30pm - 6pm
school years 7 & 8
click
here for more information
www.stokelane.com
Stoke Lane AFC is a Community
Chatered Standard Football club, highest club accrediation award
through the FA.. They run teams from boys u6 and girls under 11
through to Ladies and mens.
As a RFU Seal of Approval
Level II accredited club, North Bristol RFC's Junior Section is
charged to nurture, develop and inspire young players for adult
sport to the highest level possible. In the case of our less competitive
players, happy confident young people!
Looking fo new players,
contact Phil Wiltshire at: pddn.129@blueyonder.co.uk
Wesport is the West of
England Sport Trust which is a network of organisations across Bristol,
Bath & NE Somerset, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset working
collectively to increase, promote, support and celebrate lifelong
participation in sport.
A Child Exploitation and
Online Protection centre education initiative.
Disability Sport in Bristol
& South Gloucestershire
Objectives:
To promote sporting opportunities
for all disabled people
To share local best practice
and promote networking
To attract resources to
disability and inclusive sport
Devon
County judo
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