Tonight was another great week of training at the club; Sunday’s Technical session, Tuesdays 7am workout and tonights well attended Thursday night workout. It’s good to still be getting new faces joining us and that the female portion of the club is growing.

And this weekend we get to see how the training is working. This weekend we shall participate in the fourth round of the Hampshire Team Championships. This series of events that started in October last year is a great series of informal competitions that we have participated in since the initial trials.

Sadly, in the last event in December we slipped out of the top 3 into fourth position in the county. So this weekend we are hoping for a good performance to try and get back into the top slots.

The event starts at 1:30pm on Sunday, we are hosting so even if you are not competing, please come along and spectate. We could do with any and all help to lay out the contest area and to make the visiting teams feel welcome.

Afterwards we shall hold our regular 5:30pm training session, which will be and ideal opportunity to review what happens on the day and learn from the experience we gain competing. It is also fantastic preparation for the Hampshire Individual Championships on March 16th.

See you on Sunday!

Dear All, entries for the Hampshire Championships (Hampshire Closed) are now open. Anyone with a BJA License (we all have one) with Hampshire on it can compete! The competition is being hosted by us at St Marys on March 16th, so if you are not competing, consider yourself conscripted as a volunteer!

Details on the event are on the Hampshire Judo website: http://hampshirejudo.org.uk/competitions/hampshire-championships-closed/ and entries are being taken until March 9th via the online entries system at https://www.onlineentries.co.uk/events/hampshire/20130316.php

Get your entry in early as there are only 150 total entries available across both Junior and Senior divisions.

P.s. don’t forget that we are also hosting the Hampshire Team Championships on February 3rd and March 3rd. These are perfect warm-ups for the Hampshire Championships!

Summary of this today’s 7AM training:

Uchi Komi on the following throws:
* O soto gari
* Taio toshi
* Ippon Seoi
* Yamarhi
* Makikomi
* O uchi gari
* Turnover (wrist grip)

This was interspersed with:
* Star jumpers
* Calf Raises
* Superman(s)
* Crab Crawls
* Lunges
* Fire Hydrants
* Pushups

Once again, not a bad turn out for the first session. Nice to see our colleagues in the basketball team training too. Next week lets have more people and try and be there for 7am (i.e. be there early so we can make best use of our time).

See you all on Thursday.

Lance

As a result of the clubs training planning meeting last week, we have booked some Tuesday morning training sessions for those preparing for competitions (or just looking for a great workout to start the day).

Tuesday sessions are at 7:00am at St Marys. The sessions will be mainly uchi komi and nage komi and drills. All are welcome but the focus is on competitive preparation so be ready to sweat!

If you would like to indicate that you are coming, and you are on Facebook, please take a look at the events page for our sister club Southampton Solent Judo Club: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ssujudo/events/

 

Sessions will be January 15, 22 & 29.
£3 at reception.

We will book more sessions if numbers and enthusiasm justify it. 😉

After a great Christmas break we are back!

Sunday January 6th, 5:30pm at St Marys Leisure Centre. Then Thursday at 6:30pm.

See you there, lots of fun coming! Hampshire Team Champs at the start of February. BUCS in late Feb for students and Hampshire Championships mid March! Busy busy!

Thank you to everyone who has attended and or supported the club this year!

Tonight was our final session of 2012 and it was great to have two new faces with us even on our last night!

We wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

See you on January 6th 2013.

Training schedule:
13 December – Training
16 December – Training
20 December – Training
23 December – NO TRAINING
27 December – NO TRAINING
30 December – NO TRAINING
06 January – Training returns to normal.

Iain Muir 95 kg, of Southampton City Judo Club Lifted a Bronze medal in the men’s heavy weight division at the Samurai Judo club open tournament on Sunday 11th of Nov 2012; he narrowly missed silver on points.

The tournament had 134 players, 2 mats, and a very large number of spectators showing lots of support, the tournament was really well organised and everyone had a fantastic days Judo, the standard was good and there was a very pleasant family vibe.

 

So our mat continues to be busy, with more newcomers joining us again this week!

We were joined by new novices and experienced players this week, which is great for our development as a club. Strong numbers on the mat making for busy, cheerful sessions of people working hard  and getting a great sweat on!  Not only is the club full of new faces; we are full of faces from different nations. We have people from Algeria through Zurich on the mat and that is great.

This is all excellent for our preparation for events coming up.

On the 24th, the University Students of the club will be going up to London to compete in the London Universities Open. On the 2nd of December we host round three of the Hampshire Judo Team Championships and all members of the club can compete in that. Hopefully regaining our number one position!

Our Thursday session remains a harder work session with mainly Randori. Sunday is lighter and more technical. It is where we will be working on technique and on technical assessment for gradings.

There is still plenty of room for more, so if you live in or around Southampton come on down and say hello!

Today (November 4th), we participated in the second round of the Hampshire Judo Team Championships. Last month we topped the table, this month our fortunes were reversed and we came last on the day and have slipped to Third on the overall standings table.

Match 1 versus Fleming Park.

Last month we won a close 3-2 match against Fleming Park, this month they beat us 5-0 in the opening match of the day. The Fleming Park team manage to rack up five Ippon wins in a row.

Match 2 versus Southampton University.

The “derby match” proved to be unsuccessful for us, we were unable to repeat last months 4-1 victory and everything was reversed with Southampton University making it a mirror image and winning 1-4

Match 3 versus Holbrook Judo Club.

Our last match was against newcomers Holbrook Judo Club (from Gosport), this was our closest match of the day it turned out. Holbrook took an early lead, then we won one, they took the third and use the fourth. Sadly (for us), Holbrook took the last match leaving us with the wooden spoon after a 3-2 defeat.

 

Despite the losses, a good day was had by all and some great performances put in by the team. The level of the Team Championships is rising and the numbers growing making it more competitive. We suffered from a few of our regular players being absent who could perhaps have changed some of the results. We hope that everyone will ne back for the third round on December 2nd at St Marys Leisure Centre (3pm).

But it is not all doom and gloom, we stil hold third position on the overall table for the championships, which looks like this:

Hampshire Judo Team Championships Standings (16+ Years).
(After two rounds, pending confirmation)

1. Southampton Uni (27)
2. Fleming Park (12)
3. Southampton Solent (7)
4. Holbrook (6)
5. AWE (1)