As announced in a recent post, our final session will be on Thursday 21 July (school closes Wednesday 20 July).
This will be a 90 minute session, commencing at 6.oopm, to which all players – junior and senior – are invited.
This will be one of our famous Bring a Parent nights – mums, dads, nans and granddads, brothers and sisters are all welcome on the mat. Everyone is welcome for a £1.00 mat fee.
Hope to see you on the mat!
Lewis Dolman is guest coach at tomorrow’s Hampshire squad session.
Lewis started his judo career at Court Lane, progressing through the Hampshire Squad system to represent England.
As well as many domestic medals to his credit, Lewis represented England in the 2012 Commonwealth Judo Championships and is currently captain of Nottingham University’s Judo club. Nottingham have enjoyed considerable success at the British University Judo Championships over the past few years.
The session will run at Brune Park School, Military Road, Gosport from 7.30 – 9.oopm. There is a £5.00 mat fee. All competitive players aged 8+ are welcome.
There is still time to enter the Hampshire Split Grade competition on 31 July.
Competitors are split by grade and weight, with both junior and senior events running on the same day. For adults of 1st kyu and above, this is a points scoring event.
Full details can be found on the Hampshire Judo website.
101 Judo Ippons 2013
Fighting Films have announced a massive clearance of DVDs, from as little as £5.00 each for the famous 101 Ippons series. Other titles include coaching videos by legends of modern Judo such as Adams, Briggs, Koga, Inoue, Huizinga and Quellmalz, Olympic and World Championship competitions…
These DVDs will not be available again, as Fighting Films move across to digital downloads only.
Summer break may nearly be here – but there is a lot of judo to still squeeze in!
We will announce details of summer training activities shortly.
Please note that there will ne NO Judo on the above date, as the hall is in use for the Year 6 summer show.
Craig returned to the competition mat on Sunday when he competed in this year’s Kent International.
Craig had trained hard in the build up to this competition, and gave a strong account of himself in his pool. Unfortunately on this occasion, it wasn’t quite enough, Craig losing out to the eventual gold and silver medallists.
Entry is now OPEN for the Hampshire Split Grade Open, to be held at Eastleigh’s Fleming Park Leisure Centre on 31 July.
The competition features both senior and junior categories, split by grade and weight. For those seeking points for their black belt, the 1st kyu and Dan grade section is point scoring.
The entry form can be downloaded from the Hampshire Judo website. Entries can also be made online, details can be found on the Hampshire website.
Andy Read started his journey towards his black belt today when he attended his first Hampshire Dan grading.
He returned with a well earned 10 points.
It’s now a race between Kev, Craig and Andy as to who gets their black belt first!
Club Dan Grades
Hampshire training session
The first Hampshire training session under the management of Paul Vella and Tony Brown was held last Friday, with guest coach Joph Spencer. Kieron Eagles and Craig Jones were also on the mat.
A number of Court Lane players were among the 35 present – Jonty, Jack, Sam and Jacob all played an active part in the session.
The next session will be held on Friday 15 July, with Court Lane’s own Lewis Dolman as guest coach.
