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Staying up to date

Posted on March 23, 2026

Club coaches have been busy updating their knowledge. Kev, Craig and Tony all attended sessions on the new Dan grade syllabus. Tony also recently attended a weekend katame no kata course, obtaining his level 1 certificate.

All coaches are required to attend a number of revalidation events every year, as well as keeping their first aid and safeguarding certificates up to date. This ensures that coaches are up to date with developments in judo, and maintains their professional insurance cover.

The club maintains a list of current valid club coaches, this can be checked against British Judo’s list of coaches.

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Easyfundraising breaks the £1k barrier

Posted on March 23, 2026

The club smashed the £1,000 barrier earlier this year on Easyfundraising. That’s over £1,000 that has been contributed FREE to the club as a result of club supporters shopping online.

These contributions help to subsidise hall hire, keeping mat fees down for everyone. For more details of how Easyfundraising works and how you can help the club, visit our fundraising pages.

Thank you again!

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Could you become a Court Lane Judo Club legend?

Posted on January 24, 2026

Court Lane Judo Club historically has a proud competition record, with numerous medallists at County level, as well as county, national and international success – including a Commonwealth gold medallist and IJF world tour appearances.

We’d love to see a strong club presence again at the Hampshire Championships – the entry form is available now at the Southern Area Judo website. Results at the County Championships and attendance at Hampshire squad will be used to determine selection for the Hampshire team at the Southern Area team tournament on 10 May – the club has provided many players for this event in the past – Brett Caswell, Andy Gould, Lewis Dolman, Isla Savellis-Fry and Chloe Lymer to name a few.

The Southern Area Judo calendar is your go to resource for events in Hampshire, Sussex, Surrey and Kent. For details of events across the country as a whole, check out the calendar on the British Judo calendar.

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Where’s Tony?

Posted on June 27, 2025

Tony is really sorry that he hasn’t been at the club anywhere near so much as he would like, since starting a new job in April 2024.

He has been working on the implementation of a new software system for a national care home provider, that has seen him travelling across the country. For the next weeks, he is working in Scotland. (The picture above definitely is NOT Scotland….).

Tony hopes to be at the club far more regularly from September onwards, after the final phases of the rollout.

In the meantime, big thanks to Kev and everyone else for keeping sessions rolling!

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Have you got your entry in for the Hampshire Closed yet?

Posted on February 21, 2025

Hampshire Closed medallists 2005 – Owen Jones, Ben and Joe Garside, Lewis Dolman

Don’t forget to enter the 2025 Hampshire Closed – entry is open now via the Southern Area website.

Court Lane has a proud record in the Hampshire Closed, Chloe Lymer being our most recent medallist in 2023. We also won medals in in 2022 (Chloe and Lewis Hook, with Michael Churcher just missing out in the seniors).

Isla Savellis-Fry was a silver medallist in 2018.

For further inspiration check out Jack Rogerson’s 10 fight epic, Azhar Baree’s bronze medals in 2014 and 2015 and this update from the archives.

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Computer said NO!

Posted on February 13, 2025

Apologies for the website downtime.

Naively we thought we had unlimited webspace, but it turned out this was not the case! Who would have thought that cyber space had limits?

It appears that we exceeded our maximum allowance and have had to buy additional space as our site has expanded.

It has however encouraged us to think about how we manage and maintain this site, so you may see further changes shortly.

We were however able to maintain our FaceBook page and group and WhatsApp communications, we hope that any inconvenience was kept to a minimum

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Jonty mentioned in despatches

Posted on October 8, 2024

Jonty Bassil gets a mention in the Royal Navy Judo Association’s contribution to the British Judo 2023-4 Annual Report, for his part in the National Teams.

This is not the first time the club or associated players have got a mention in BJA publications – the Club was featured several years ago when it received the Sport England Clubmark. Photos of Brett Caswell at the GB World Cup were also used in an annual report, Brett also got several mentions in The World of Judo.

Please ask Kay if you would like to see the 2023-4 Annual Report.

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Name the referee….

Posted on June 20, 2024

Put your hands up if you recognise this referee spotted undergoing her practical exam at the Southern Area Development Competition! (Pleased to say she passed).

Referees are a vital part of any sport, keeping the action moving, keeping players safe and awarding points and penalties as required.

Undertaking a refereeing course is a great way to learn the rules, that will help you as a competitor, and gives you a chance to give something back to Judo

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Overheard…

Posted on February 7, 2024
Photo by Andrea Piacquadio: https://www.pexels.com/photo/man-in-red-polo-shirt-sitting-near-chalkboard-3779448/

I overheard an interesting conversation whilst walking the dogs the other day that got me thinking.

Three joggers were puffing their way along the road, and moaning that an event was offering wooden medals…

Personally, I thought the idea of a wooden medal was quite different and I would be quite intrigued by it. It also made me wonder, what is the motivation for entering the event in the first place? Is it just in pursuit of medals – these were hardly elite runners. Or should you be entering for the experience, the chance to see if you have improved your time, that you have bettered your self?

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Looking to get into competition?

Posted on January 30, 2024

If you are thinking of getting into competition – firstly make sure you have an BJA membership.

Details of competitions within the Southern Area (Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex and Kent) are published on the calendar of the Southern Area website.

The Southern Area website also links to the main British Judo events page, detailing courses and competitions across the country.

As most entries are now online, we no longer print and circulate entry forms.

Details of smaller, club based events may be circulated locally.

Always check with the Club coaches about suitability of an event before entering.

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