The next Hampshire squad session will be held on Sunday 19 March, at Holbrook Judo Club in Gosport.
The session will run from 1000 at Brune Park School, a £5 mat fee will apply. The session is open to ALL judoka, junior and senior, and is a great chance to meet and train with different players and coaches.
Your mum will overjoyed to spend two hours watching you train on the mat this Mother’s Day – so you’d better make sure you take her breakfast in bed first….
Entry is now open for this year’s Hampshire Closed. As usual, the Closed will form part of the selection for the team chosen to represent Hampshire in the Southern Area intercounty tournament.
This year’s event is an u16 competition only, and will be held on 2 April at Places Leisure, in Eastleigh. Online entry form can be found on the Southern Area Judo website.
We’ve just had our third winner in four weeks on the Portsmouth Lottery!
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Several players graded in late November / early December. This coincided with the go live date of the BJA’s new membership database. Some details were sent to the BJA for them to upload prior to the system going live, others were submitted directly into the new system.
Despite chasing, it appears that the grades sent to the BJA for submission prior to go live have not been processed – for which we can only apologise. We have therefore entered these grade details into the grading database ourselves and sent an email of complaint to the BJA.
Hopefully players will receive grading confirmation shortly.
There are still a couple of players with whom we have outstanding grading issues – due to transfers from other clubs, grading schemes etc. – that we will attempt to resolve over the next few days.
Tony, Craig, Kev and Steve travelled to High Wycombe Judo Centre on 12 February for a training session with multiple Olympic and World medallist and six time All-Japan champion Yoko Tanabe.
The day was split into two sessions – ne waza and tachi waza (i.e. ground and standing techniques).
Yoko presented a range of simple, basic but effective techniques that will improve the quality of your judo – techniques which we ruefully wish we had learnt years ago but will be incorporating into our own coaching and practice going forward.
The day was very well supported, with a wide range of grades in attendance.
Adult club player Chris Platts travelled to Kin Ryu Judo Club in Crawley to take part in his first competition, on Sunday 12 February.
In a group of 5, Chris came away with a well deserved bronze medal.
Congratulations!
We had another cash winner on the Portsmouth Lottery this weekend! That’s two in three weeks!
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The next Hampshire squad session will be hosted at Places Leisure in Eastleigh on Sunday 12 February.
The session will run from 1000-1200 and is open to all competitive players. The January session attracted over 40 players, so this is a great opportunity to maximise your training partners!
A £5 mat fee will apply.
Orders will also be taken Hampshire judo hoodies, to be supplied at the next session in March.
Please not that due to school staff holidays and planned redecoration works, we are unable to access the school over February half term. There will be no judo therefore on the following dates:
We have also been advised that due to cabling works we will not be able to run classes over Easter holidays.
Last weekend we had our first winner of 2023 on the Portsmouth Lottery, one lucky supporter scooping a £25 prize!
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