HTCs Round 1 Report

ThrowHTC1Sunday 6th October saw the club compete in the opening round of the new Hampshire Judo Team Championships.

The mens team was short on numbers but after enlisted the help of James from AWE in the 90+ category we were able to compete albeit with a disadvantage of only having three players.

Sergei and Johny did well in this our opening competition of the year. We managed one contest win against Southampton University; 2 against Holbrook and 1 against Fleming Park. Only the Priory/Portsmouth University team managed to pull the “clean sweep” despite our diminished numbers (especially when Johny had to pull out injured).

Along with a big debt of gratitude to James; we owe our womens team a huge thank you for their spectacular result!

Jonela who joins us as a novice this semester performed well in her first competition; especially as she has only a week or so of Judo to draw upon. Her first contest was against Eastleigh Judokwai and she won it decisively by Ippon against one of last years regular competitors. Second contest was against club mate Laura… more on that later.
Third contest she beat  her opponent from Holbrook by Wazari. In her last match she competed against AWE and another regular from last year; she led all the way before being caught for Ippon with what was probably the throw of the day.
The two wins put Jonela in third place in the category and amazing result given her inexperience and an outstanding testament to her potential.

Laura also represented the club in the womens division and is new to the team this year, joining us as a 1st Kyu. Her technical skills were apparent and she dispatched all her opponents to be the overall winner on the day.
Her final contest of the day was against the AWE, who had won all her matches by Ippon until meeting Laura in the final contest of the category. It was a very close match with Laura winning by a mere yuko in the end!
This put Laura in the lead by 1 win and gave her 1st place!

This year the points system for the championships mean that for the men every match won, the club earns 5 championship points. A loss one point. In the female category; it is slightly more complicated in that the points awarded are based on the number of women in the category.

So on Sunday we collected only 4 points from our mens team; but the women collected 8 points. This gave us 12 points in total and third equal overall with Fleming Park. Last year’s champions Southampton University start the season in second place and Priory/Portsmouth University lead after the first event.

The next event is on the third of November and now we are getting class numbers back to normal levels we should do even better!

Thank you to all that attended on the weekend and thank you for Gary Hill from Southampton Uni for the great photo.

Hampshire Team Championships Round 1

This weekend marks the opening round of the new Hampshire Judo Team Championships, which our club is hosting again this year.

The championships is a kyu grade team event for men and a kyu grade round-robin event for women. Our club came third last year and we intend to improve on this in 2013/2014.

The event is at our home, St Marys Leisure Centre, 2pm on 6 October 2013. Members who wish to participate should have a current BJA license ( http://www.britishjudo.org.uk/join/ ) and bring three pounds entry fee.

Spectators are free, so if you are not playing this time, please do come along and watch. Our team will appreciate the support; also any volunteers who would not mind helping on the day would be appreciated.

 

Welcome Freshers!

A big hello and welcome to all the new students from Southampton Solent University who join us as the 2013 academic year starts. A big thank you to our existing student members who attended the university Sports Fair and helped encourage people to come along.

Our first session open to students is this Sunday at 4pm, which is our new regular Sunday timeslot for this year. The session is scheduled for two hours and is at St Marys Leisure Centre in the main hall. Sundays are going to be our regular Randori session, but for the next few weeks it will be lighter so new members can acclimatise.

New students please do join the Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ssujudo/ and say hello.

The first chance for you to compete is on the 6th of October, then two events in November and one last one at the start of December. So lots of chances to play! 🙂

Any questions, just ask.

Timetable changes

All, with the ongoing renovations at the hall and scheduling with the university we have changes in our timetable.

So this week no judo on Tuesday. Sundays session starts an hour earlier at 3pm.

I will update the site with updates.

We have our first competition at the start of October, so get in touch and come to training. Also there is the university sports fair on 28th if people to free to attend and promote the club there.

Lance

Training for a purpose!

league_poster_1Hi All, we are back in training today at 4pm at St Marys Leisure Centre and for good reason! The first round of the Hampshire Team Championships is on October 6th and we want a good start to the season so we can improve on last years third place!

 

So spread the word and invite your friends, Judo at St Marys, 4pm.

 

Welcome back!

On Tuesday September 19th (8pm), we will be holding our first session after the summer break (note our new training days and times on the training page).

It would be terrific if everyone could attend, even if you are not training as we shall be holding a planning meeting immediately afterwards to set out plans for the new academic year and Judo season.

This will include setting a date for a AGM to elect club secretary, team captains etc. Also setting our competition schedule for the year. And importantly getting a team together to promote the club at Freshers fair and in the community.

See you there!

 

Summer Break!

We shall be taking a break over the Summer, returning when the Solent University students return. This means that we will return the week of September 23rd 2013.

Enjoy the break folks!

For those of you keen for more we shall be arranging some one off sessions and also trying to attend some other clubs and also Hampshire squad training sessions. Stay tuned!

Garry Pike takes GOLD!

Garry who joined us just after the London2012 Olympic Games won his first gold medal at the Hampshire Splitgrade Competition on June 9th. The whole club is immensely happy with this achievement which has been hard earned by Garry.

Garry has competed for the club in the Hampshire Team Championships and has always performed well, this however is the first time Garry has won a Gold in an individual event.

It shows that an adult beginner can in a very short time achieve a good level of performance, if they train and study hard. If they gain the experience they need via some losses in competition and then persevere and compete again and again until they improve and win!

Congratulations Garry and thank you for being a member of the club!

Upcoming events.

Coach Wicks is back and the club calendar is filling up fast!

June 1st: Hampshire Area Mass Randori at St Marys (1-4pm Adults start at 2:30pm).
We again host a randori session for all comers, this was a well attended training session last time and we should all attend to make the visitors feel welcome and to get some new people to test our skills against.

£2.00 to the coach on the day.

June 9th: Hampshire Split Grade Competition at St Marys (all day).
This is a perfect event for our novice players. In this event you are grouped by grade and weight. So Yellow belts only compete against other yellow belts. Pools are grouped by weight; so the 5 lightest yellow belts compete against one another, then the next 5 and so on. In the adult categories it is restricted to red belts, yellow belts and orange belts only.

Entries are extremely limited and arte on a first come first served basis, so enter ASAP.

£18 online entry via https://www.onlineentries.co.uk/events/hampshire

 

Back to the action!

We are back in action from This Thursday (6:30pm April 4th).

We are also hosting and competing in the final Hampshire Team Championships event on the 7th. This is preceded by a workshop in our dojo on the new IJF contest rules.

Then on the 13th we will be hosting a Hampshire wide Mass Randori being run by County Squad Manager (and friend of the club) Danny Murphy.

The club is coming back from the Easter break with a roar! 🙂