Court Lane has a proud history of players being selected to represent Portsmouth or Hampshire teams – Brett Caswell, Tiffany Caswell, Andy Gould, Andy Read, Lewis Dolman, Isla Savellis-Fry to name just a few.
We are delighted to announce that Chloe Lymer has been selected to represent Hampshire again in the forthcoming intercounty tournament against Surrey, Sussex and Kent. Chloe has taken the u48kg slot in the girls’ heavyweight team.
Congratulations Chloe!
The Easter break was bookended by excellent competition results.
Chloe Lymer regained her Hampshire title at the Hampshire Closed held in Eastleigh at the beginning of the holiday. Three straight wins saw her comfortably secure the gold medal.
Chloe has upped her training regime, and is now also training at the renowned Camberley Judo Club.
Connor McCormack and Harry Webb made their competition debuts at the red and yellow belt event organised by Holbrook Judo Club. Connor came within a hair’s breadth of securing gold, but eventually had to settle for silver. Harry Webb secured a well deserved bronze medal.
Well done everyone!
Tony Twining 26 April 1955 – 25 January 2023
Tony and Kev had the honour of representing the Club at the celebration of the life of Tony Twining, held at The Oaks in Havant on Tuesday 28 February. Tony passed away at the end of January.
Tony was a keen judo player, starting his judo career with Percy Sekine at the London Judokan before gaining his black belt with us. Tony had some great ashi waza and a devastating hip throw. He was key in Tony Brown gaining his Level 2 coaching award, being his uke for the day. He was also present when the BBC’s Jon Cuthill came to the Club to record a piece for his show on Radio Solent.
A coach himself, he introduced his daughters to judo as well as supporting many other players – and always had a story to tell!
Tony was also a former governor of Court Lane Junior School.
Although not present on the mat for a while, Tony was a familiar sight around Cosham, walking his beloved dogs, and will be much missed by all who knew him.
Our thoughts are with his wife Bernie and daughters Anna, Beckie and Sophie.
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!
Congratulations to the following players who have successfully graded during November and December:
1st Sho
2nd Sho
3rd Sho
6th Sho
1st Mon
2nd Mon
3rd Mon
4th Mon
10th Mon
We got so excited rolling out the next round of gradings (congratulations to all those who passed last week) that we forgot to mention that British Judo have finally processed the gradings we caried out back in June/July – hopefully everyone has received confirmation of their grade!
Belated congratulations therefore are due to :
1st Sho
2nd Sho
4th Sho
5th Sho
2nd Mon
3rd Mon
9th Mon
5th Kyo
The 2022 Commonwealth Games start this Thursday!
The Judo competition will run from 1-3 August. There will be extensive coverage via the BBC and iPlayer, as exclusive host broadcaster. The first session – knock out and repechage in the men and women lightweights – starts at 10am on Monday 1st, with the medal fights being held later in the day.
The home nations of England, Scotland and Wales will do well, possibly a medal for Northern Ireland. Australia and Canada are also sending some big names. You can never rule out a surprise result from India or one of the African countries either!
Did you know that Court Lane Judo Club has links to the Commonwealth Games?
Brett Caswell was training partner for Team England’s Sophie Cox in the run up to the 2002 Manchester Games.
The 1×1 metre mats that we use every session came from the same edition of the Games – they were used in the warm up area.
Outside of the Commonwealth Games, there is also a Judo Commonwealth tournament, which now features Junior and Veteran divisions. Court Lane’s Brett Caswell won the inaugural Junior Commonwealth tournament in 2006.
After a break caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the Hampshire Open was back for the first time since 2019. This year’s edition was held at Fleming Park Leisure Centre on Sunday 17 July.
Three Court Lane players attended – German, making his British Judo debut, Chloe and Michael.
German had a bye in the first round, and won his 2nd round fight convincingly with maki komi. HE had the misfortune to come up against the eventual gold medal in his next fight, and was caught with a perfect standing seoi nage for ippon.
Dropping into the repechage, German was held down in his bronze medal contest, to finish 5th overall.
Michael continues to grow into a capable adult player. He won his first quickly, throwing for ippon. His next fight was against the eventual gold medallist (who today won gold at the World Police and Fire Games…). Michael was footswept on the second attempt, for ippon. Michael bounced back to win his next fight, again with a clean throw for ippon, but was thrown himself in the next contest.
Chloe was a late entry, after some heroic contests at the recent Kent International, where was unlucky not to come higher. Ina pool of four players, Chloe lost her first two fights but won her last, to score a third place and bronze medal.
Congratulations to Chloe who was promoted to 10th mon (green belt) last night.
Since joining us as as a yellow belt, Chloe has won a number of medals and represented Hampshire in the Inter County tournament. This is the next step on Chloe’s judo journey, we are very proud of you Chloe – well done!
Chloe will be competing at the Kent International this weekend.
Belated congratulations also to Hani, who was awarded 1st Sho at the end of May.
