Jack on medal podium
Jack Rogerson added to his burgeoning medal collection with another determined performance at today’s Hampshire Open.
Fighting at -38kg, Jack was one of nine players, split into two pools. He started strongly against an Osaka player, but was thrown for ippon when he was caught off-balance by a strong counter attack.
He bounced back to score three consecutive ippons, transitioning smoothly from tachiwaza to newaza in each case. Jack finished 2nd in his pool and moved into the knockout stage, to face the winner of the other pool.
This was a tough match against a player from Summit. Jack did well to block two strong uchimata attacks before being caught for waza-ari with tai-otoshi. Jack was fighting his way back into contention when he was caught for ippon with uchimata, to finish in bronze medal position.
Many thanks to everyone who has already signed up to the new Portsmouth Lottery and nominated the Club as their beneficiary, your support is much appreciated.
The Portsmouth Lottery is now up and running!
As with previous years, we will be running summer fitness training sessions every Tuesday evening during the summer break, commencing from 26 July.
Lewis Dolman is guest coach at tomorrow’s Hampshire squad session.
There is still time to enter the Hampshire Split Grade competition on 31 July.
Summer break may nearly be here – but there is a lot of judo to still squeeze in!
