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."

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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