Patchway Juniors

Competiton

Historically New Star, (and particularly Patchway) has been a very competitive club, with John Bath having coached in excess of 25 British National medallists. We encourage players to enter competitions if they wish to, but we fully accept that many players are recreational players only and there is no pressure for anyone to fight in a competition.

Thanks to the experience of John's 30+ years of coaching (with admirable assistance from Luke, who has been one of John’s players since he was 5 years old) we have many young players who will soon be following in the footsteps of our National Medalists! The most recent National medallists are 2006, Rebecca Maslen, Gold U57kg National B Band & Sam Finn Silver u46kg National A Band.

Rebecca & Natasha Maslen were selected at the end of 2006 to be in the England squad. To be asked to join the squad you must have entered the two Annual ranking events, the Heart of England & the Nationals. Rebecca & Natasha both won bronze at the Heart of England and Natasha was 5th at the Nationals (which has points).

News Links* BBC Sport - Judo News Technical Links* 2 February 2008 Hane Goshi (Spring hip) Video of Hane Goshi on the Princeton Judo Club website princetonjudo.org 4 December 2007 De Ashi Barai (Advanced Foot Sweep) Video of De Ashi Barai on the Princeton Judo Club website princetonjudo.org 10 November 2007 Hiza guruma (knee wheel) Video of Hiza guruma on the Princeton Judo Club website princetonjudo.org Hiza guruma on the Judoinfo website www.judoinfo.com

Other Stuff* Why Judo is better than Karate... Brush up on your theory and pronunciation...

Notices

Gradings April 2008

• Sam Finn   12th Mon        
• Alan England   7th Mon        
• James Wright   7th Mon        

Club Theory April 2008

Congratulations to the following players who have passed the following club theory sheets:

• Competition Theory Holly Windows

Club Theory March 2008

Congratulations to the following players who have passed the following club theory sheets:

• Theory 4 George Phelps, Holly Windows, Lisa Oram
• Theory 3 Holly Windows, James Wright, Alan England & David Giles
• Theory 2 Kieran Peacock, Robert Sheppard
• Theory 1 Jules Smith, Jack Smith, Caitlyn Griffiths

Gradings February 2008

Western Area Grading Sunday 24th February, Kingsbridge, Devon

• Mollie Finn   8th Mon        

Club Gradings

• Sam Finn   18th Mon Theory         
• Alan England   6th Mon        
• Mollie Finn   6th Mon        
• James Wright   6th Mon        
• George Phelps   4th Mon        
• Aidan Woodman   4th Mon        
• Chloe Gibbs   3rd Mon        
• Caitlyn Griffiths   3rd Mon        
• Ben Guest   3rd Mon        
• Aidan Norris   2nd Mon        
• Holly Windows   2nd Mon        

Club Theory February 2008

Congratulations to the following players who have passed the following club theory sheets:

• Competition Theory Sam Finn
• Theory 5 Sam Finn
• Theory 4 Mollie Finn, Ben Guest
• Theory 3 Reece Peacock
• Theory 2 Alan England, James Wright, Cameron Borg, Lisa Oram, David Giles
• Theory 1 Robert Sheppard, Lisa Oram, Holly Windows, James Wright, Cameron Borg, Josh Duke, David Giles

Gradings November 2007

• Aidan Woodman   3rd Mon        
• Chloe Gibbs   2nd Mon        
• Holly Windows   1st Mon        
• Scott Bridgeman   1st Mon        

Gradings October 2007

Western Area Grading Sunday 28th October, Dorcan Centre Swindon

• Jack Smith   9th Mon        
• Kieran Peacock   9th Mon        
• Reece Peacock   8th Mon        

Gradings

Congratulations to all of you who have successfully graded recently:

• Josh Duke   6th Mon        
• Kieran Peacock   6th Mon        
• Reece Peacock   6th Mon        
• Mollie Finn   5th Mon        
• William Shaw   4th Mon        
• James Wright   4th Mon        
• Aidan May   3rd Mon        
• Caitlyn Griffiths   2nd Mon        
• Ben Guest   2nd Mon        
• Kieran May   2nd Mon        
• George Phelps   2nd Mon        
• Ian Leach   1st Mon        
• Robert Sheppard   1st Mon        
• Alex Williamson   1st Mon        

Useful Info

Judo Theory Sheet #3
Judo Theory Sheet #4
Judo Theory Sheet #5
Judo Competition Theory Sheet

The Mon Grading System

Players from age 7½ years upwards follow the BJA mon grading scheme. From 1st Aprl 2008 Novice to 18th mon are theory grades, these can be gained “in house” and tests are carried out by the coaching team.

• Red belt: Novice, 1st, 2nd & 3rd Mon.
• Yellow belt: 4th, 5th & 6th Mon.
• Orange belt: 7th, 8th & 9th Mon.
• Green belt: 10th, 11th & 12th Mon.
• Blue belt: 13th, 14th & 15th Mon.
• Brown belts: 16th, 17th & 18th Mon.

A player must be at least 15½ years before they can begin to fight for points for their black belt. Points can be gained at either gradings or “point scoring” competitions. For every Ippon win a player receives 10 points, depending on their age, depends on the number of points needed. Alternatively they can face a “line up”, this is where they fight 4 people consecutively, if they win all their fights they are awarded their black belt, 1st Dan. The process repeats through to 5th Dan.

Red & White belts 6th Dan to 9th Dan, these are awarded for services to judo.

10th is the highest, it is a white knotted belt, showing the full circle from the beginner belt through to the highest grade (this grade is very rare).