#ThrowYourselfIntoJudo Groundwork every Thursday!

From tonight onwards we are pleased to offer a groundwork only session at St Marys Leisure Centre, Southampton, Hampshire.

cropped-southampton_judo2.pngThis will be a regular session and anyone with an interest in improving the groundwork skills is welcome to come along (BJA, BJC, BJJ, all means all).

To mark the first session we have created a little event on our facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/events/429753383894504/

Please come along and let us know if you’ll be coming down!

More Guest instructors!

We are pleased to announce that we have more Guest instructors joining us over the coming couple of months!

ThrowHTC1On Sunday September 20th, Peter Boniface (Winchester University Judo Club) is going to take the session and on Tuesday September 22nd Gary Hill (Southampton University Judo Club) will be in charge.

Both these instructors are friends of the club and we have enjoyed competing and training with them and their club members in the past. We will be spending more time with them during the next academic year; so this is a great chance to learn from a new course and to get to know their faces for when you meet them at local competitions or events.

 

#ThrowYourselfIntoJudo Groundwork with Danny Murphy

We are very fortunate to be able to announce that Danny Murphy (5th Dan) will be taking two groundwork sessions for us on October 10th and 22nd.

IMAG0069Danny is a well known and highly regarded Judo coach and also has a background in BJJ, so is ideal for our new ne-waza focussed Thursday sessions.

Danny has been Hampshire squad manager, as well as a coach at the London Budokwai.

We would like to thank him for accepting the invitation to come and improve our groundwork. Be sure to tell your friends and if you have friends in BJJ these would be ideal sessions to bring them along to as Danny has great skills in BJJ as well as Judo groundwork.

Thursdays! Kata! Gradings! Food and more!

As regulars will know our plan to build up the numbers in advance of the students sports fair has been successful. We are now working with a full tatami every session, in fact we are so full that we are almost at maximum capacity already!
1614616_758417067510910_978256728_o So it is great news that we now have a new Thursday, 8pm-10pm session.

This session is the brainchild of the team that travelled to London to visit the Budokwai and is a mainly groundwork session.

Ne-waza (groundwork) is ideal for our adult novice players as it involves little (if any) falling from throws. It is also a very intense workout. Abs of steel may be the result of all the groundwork. The session is open to all; so let your non-judo friends know that there is a session they can come along and just have a wrestle on the ground.

Our new Sunday 2pm session continues; this will be for Kata until the kata championships in October. But then will host a new 4 week beginners course aimed at the new students joining us after the September 24th sports fair.

Sunday September 27th (3pm-5pm) will be our kyu grading; that people have been working towards. This again although primarily for our members is open to all Judoka looking to do their kyu grading. Please contact us if you wish to attend.

Lastly, following the success of our last Japanese meal evening, we are planning another one for Saturday October 17th; most likely at Nara again (although we may try somewhere else). So please put these dates in your calendar.

Speaking of calendar, we are now keeping our events schedule on a Goggle calendar ( https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=t48hpmr61e84qhkharsapsvn6k%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Europe/London ). So you can always see what we have planned. I shall be incorporating our regular sessions soon.

Lastly, we shall be having some guest instructors again at the club soon, so stay tuned for news on which experts we will be coming down to share the mat with us.

 

Great return from the Summer break

IMAG0163 This week is the start of the “new term”, schools have gone back and the summer holidays period is pretty much over.

It was great to see so many people on the mat tonight! Our little dojo had a great little atmosphere going. The bad music (from coach) and the great work from the all that trained was fun to watch. And it looked like everyone was having a fun time; despite sweating profusely and breathing heavily.

We hope to announce extended training times to cater to the larger participation numbers and also to prepare for our annual influx of university students, so stay tuned!

Don’t forget to join our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/SouthamptonJudo and our university student club page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ssujudo/

 

Kata Sessions, Sundays 2pm.

KimeNoKataWe are pleased to be able to hold Kata specific session at the club in the lead up to the British Kata Championships (October 4th).

From this week onwards, those interested are invited to attend our 2pm-3pm session on a Sunday at St Marys Leisure Centre. We will mainly be training the Kime no Kata as we want to have a couple of couple compete.

The sessions are open to all, club members and also visitors from outside the club.

So, put it in your diary, Kata 2pm Sunday, before our regular 3pm technical session.

 

Hi everyone, as announced in this afternoons session we will be holding a kata specific session on Sundays at 2pm.We…

Posted by Southampton City Judo Club on Sunday, 30 August 2015

#ThrowYourselfIntoJudo Judo in Southampton restarts today!

Judo in Southampton is back!

cropped-20131030-073728.jpgAfter our short two week break, we get back into the swing of things today at 8pm down at St Marys Leisure Centre.

As ever our sessions are open to novices and experienced players in our dojo upstairs, where as well as air conditioning we have a water cooler.

The plan for the next two  months is to ensure that everyone is graded appropriately before the Southampton Solent University freshers fayre; which is where we normally gain a large number of beginners.

Also, many clubs in Hampshire are closed in August, so we often have visitors looking to train during the summer; so expect some new faces over the next month or so.

 

Summer Break – Next session August 4th.

The Budokwai visit was a great success and seems a high note to cap off the hard work everyone has been putting in recently.

We shall be closed for a couple of weeks, reopening on August 4th.

Have a good break and bring a friend to that first session on the 4th. It will mark the build up to the Freshers Fayre at Solent University; which is where we normally get our largest boost in new members each year. This year we want to attend enmasse (Late September), and do everything we can to build a strong team to compete in BUCS and other events.

A big thank you to all those who have supported us over the past few months and to those who have attended sessions and events.

London Budokwai Visit #ThrowYourSelfIntoJudo

This Saturday we will be travelling up to London to visit the historic London Budokwai Judo club. We have been invited to train at this the spiritual home of Judo in the UK. The Budokwai has been central to development not only of British Judo but also of the European Judo Union and International Judo Federation.

We will be travelling up by train. Catching the 12:13 train from Southampton Central to London Victoria. Returning on the 18:32 train. Please be at the station at 12:00 with your ticket so we can all meetup and travel together.

The London Budokwai is at 4 Gilston Road London SW10 9SL

The Budokwai is situated in the heart of Chelsea, just off the Fulham Road. Closest tube stations are either South Kensington or Fulham Broadway, and we are a 10-15 minute walk or 5 minute bus ride from there.
Directions from South Kensington Station:
By Walking- Turn left out of the station and walk down Onslow Place till you reach Fulham Road. Turn right onto Fulham Road and carry on walking (aprox 10 minutes) till you walk past Fulham Road Cinema. Gilston Road is the next turning on the right.

We are guests at the club so please make sure your Judogi is clean. Please also make sure that you personally are well presented, short nails, clean hair, etc.

I’m hoping we have a strong turn out and we can one day host the Budokwai at our dojo in Southampton!

#ThrowYourselfIntoJudo “Inner Improvement”

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Our partners at SportSolent posted this picture today as some “Monday Motivation”.

It is a quote from Pierre de Coubertin, father on the modern Olympics.

For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.

Judo was founded by Kano Jigoro; who was am member of the International Olympic Committee. He was very much a believer in Judo and sport as a way of improving people and society.

In our club, we practice Judo as a sport; not just because it is a brilliant sport; but also as sport is a great method for self improvement. We are currently working hard on both technical skills as well as physical development. Specifically, we are working on posture (shizenhontai) and on flexibility (especially in reference to good posture).

As well as improving our technique, by developing ourselves physically we help our day to day life by decreasing the damage that sitting at desks all days and being inactive can have on us.

So come on down to the dojo at St Marys Leisure Centre on Sundays at 3pm or Tuesdays at 8pm and find inner improvement via the sport of Judo.