Results etc. Newsworthy happenings.
Court Lane supporters playing the Portsmouth Lottery have hit a groove, selecting winning numbers two weeks in succession.
A weekly prize of £25,000 is up for grabs, with a percentage of the ticket price coming back to good causes who have signed up to the Lottery. Bonus prizes are also offered – currently a £1,000 B&Q voucher is up for grabs.
Congratulations to Connor McCormack, who has successfully completed the examination for promotion to 3rd Sho.
Details of all grading schemes, and how to apply for your membership to access the grading system, can be found on the British Judo website.
Due to the pandemic, it’s been a while since we had any competition results to celebrate.
Even when clubs reopened, competitions were a way behind, with players being asked to evidence so many hours of practice beforehand.
Two players associated with the Club have ventured back out onto the competition circuit, with great success.
Jonty Bassil, representing the Royal Navy, won gold at the Samurai club in Kidderminster in October, and picked up points towards his black belt – well done Jonty!
Chloe Lymer joined a team from Holbrook Judo Club to take part in a competition at another Samurai Judo Club, this time in Southampton, returning with a well deserved silver medal.
Congratulations to both players! We hope to see more players returning to competition next year as we continue to come out of the pandemic.
We are delighted to announce our latest new grades. Some of these are long overdue, having been delayed by the club’s enforced shutdown.
Congratulations to:
All grades have been registered with the British Judo Association, hopefully formal acknowledgement will not be too delayed!
Congratulations to the following players, who all successfully completed their promotion examination:
Looking forward to more players achieving success next week!
Congratulations to the following players who graded successfully last week:
Mon and kyu gradings will be held this week. Good luck everyone!
We are delighted to announce that this summer, for the first time in many years, judo will continue over the school break.
Saturday morning classes will run from 24th July to 28th August. Classes will be scheduled from 10.00 to 11.15, and will be available to all players, regardless of which session they normally attend on a Tuesday or Thursday. Normal mat fees will apply.
PLEASE support this initiative, we have been desperately keen to re-secure summer sessions for a long time.
Our final Thursday evening session will be Thursday 22 July, with our autumn timetable recommencing from Tuesday 7 September (school will still be shut on Tuesday 31 August, Thursday 2 September is an inset day)
Congratulations to the following players who successfully completed their Judo Kids grading this week:
We will hold a Mon grading in July.
We are delighted to announce that we have recently secured a sponsorship deal with leading double glazing firm Window Workshop Hampshire.
Based in Waterlooville, the family run business offers all types of double glazing installations and solid conservatory roofs across Hampshire, West Sussex and Surrey. Also providing double glazing repairs (right down to adding a cat flap), Window Workshop is your one stop shop for all your double glazing needs.
The sponsorship deal offers the club a much sounder financial base than we have enjoyed for some time, and allied to our other fundraising efforts means that we can approach our post-pandemic recovery with increased confidence.
We are very grateful to Steve and Lisa at Window Workshop for making this commitment to us, and look forward to working with them.
Following the successful resumption of Tuesday night training at the end of April, Thursday sessions will resume after half term.
The first session will be on Thursday 10th June.
Session times will remain as normal, 6pm and 7pm, and Covid requirements remain in place.
We hope this will encourage more players to return to the club, for whom Thursday may be the only option, as well as doubling training opportunities.
