Hello everyone and welcome to 2012, the year of the London 2012 Olympic Games!

Southampton City Judo club is back into training with our sister club Southampton Solent University Judo Club. We are looking forward to a busy and successful year of hard training and competing!

Our schedule for the first quarter of 2012 includes attending the 2012 Commonwealth Judo Championships in Cardiff, the 15th USIST Competition and the Warwick Uni Champs and BUCS championships. Also on the list is the Salisbury Open and pending confirmation) some team competition within Hampshire!

To support this competition schedule we have secured a second session a week at St Marys. And are now doing our technical/grading work on SUnday evenings and our competition training on Thursday evenings.

Thursdays started at the tail of last year and the format of the session is proving poppular. We vary it for variety, but the basic format is a quick warm-up followed by approximately 7 ne-waza randori, then 7 tachi-waza randori. In this session in particular we like to work hard and invite visitors to come down and work out with us!

Remember, you need to be a BJA member to train with us; a BJA license is £37 and can be obtained online at http://www.britishjudo.org.uk/join/

With the growth in numbers in our Sunday evening training session, we, along with our partner club Southampton Solent University Judo Club; are please to announce our Thursday evening sessions.

We are now training on the following days:

* Thursday, 6:30pm
* Sunday, 5:30pm

Both sessions are held in the “Activity Room” at St Marys Leisure Centre in central Southampton (Just off the Jurys Inn roundabout, near the RSH Hospital).

Our mat fee is £3.00 per session and all sessions are open to adults and late teens.

Please contact us for more information, or just come along and say hello!

There is a FREE Judo training session available on Sunday October 2nd, 5:30pm at St Marys Leisure Centre.

The session is being run by our sister club “Southampton Solent University Judo Club” as a follow-up to their freshers fair on Thursday.

The open evening is a great opportunity for anyone in the Southampton area to come and try the Olympic Sport of Judo with other adult beginners. There are few opportunities for adults to get started in Judo, so if you are interested or know friends or colleagues who might be interested please let them know about the open evening!

The Southampton Solent University Judo Club has a Facebook event for the event HERE.

Please help spread the word.

Start Date: August 17th 2011 7pm – 9pm. (Last date 21/09/2011)
Duration: 6 Weeks.
Location: Southampton Solent University (East Park Terrace) Sports Hall . (**Free Parking)
Includes: 12 Hours of beginner lessons from fully qualified BJA coaches (Male and female). British Judo Association Grading and 12 month British Judo Association membership.
Eligibility: Males and Females aged 14 – 25 years.

Cost: £10 (Normal cost for this is £85)

Contact: Matthew Bishhop, 02380319277, matthew.bishop@solent.ac.uk

“Southampton City Judo Club” is the newest Judo club in Southampton.

This club is the partner to the existing “Southampton Solent University Judo Club” which is based out of St. Marys Leisure Centre, which trains at 5:30pm on Sundays.

Although the university club welcomes non-students, the The Southampton City Judo Club has been formed to help bring more non-students into the sport of Judo.

This starts with the adult beginners course starting on August 17th, 2011. The beginners course is being organised by SportSolent, as part of a “Sportivate” project.

For more information, please contact the club coach, Lance WIcks (lw@judocoach.com).