Heavyweights are go!

After having had a lack of heavyweight men in the past; the club has recently had an influx of adult beginners.

In part this is thanks to our close relationship with Southampton Solent University and the great “Sport Solent” team.
This relationship has meant that as the university’s American Football team’ season came to a close; some of the players have come to us for something different.

The skill set and physical attributes of American Football and other contact sports like Rugby match nicely with Judo.

This matching has meant that these novice adults are progressing very rapidly in Judo and their work ethic is helping with this too.

“It’s been great to see how fast the Redhawks have taken to Judo. ” commented coach Lance Wicks after a recent session at St Marys Leisure Centre in central Southampton.

Training at the club continues throughout the summer. Beginners and experienced players are always welcome; especially on the Thursday night Randori.

For more information please email lw@judocoach.com

Judo back this week!

Judo is back at St Mary’s this week.

Thursday 6:30pm: Randori
Saturday 3pm: We host the 2nd Hampshire team champs trial competition event
Sunday 5:30pm: training

Easter break.

Please note that there will be no Judo on Thursday 5th April, Friday 6th April or Sunday 8th April 2012.

Please enjoy the Easter break and come back on April 12th rested and full of enthusiasm. 🙂

5 new yellow belts

Congratulations to the 5 young people who tonight gained their yellow belts as part of the Fighting Chance project.

Tonight was the last night in the worthwhile and successful “Fighting Chance” project that we gave been involved in.

For sometime now, club instructor Lance Wicks has been introducing Judo to the young people of Milbrook on Friday evenings.

The project, is a collaboration between the BJA, Hampshire Constabulary, Southampton City Council, Southampton Football Club, Hampshire Judo Academy, Southampton City Judo Club and the Fighting Chance project.

Tonight saw the first batch of young people gain their BJA yellow belts. In May another batch of young people will have the opportunity to participate in the scheme.

Interested organisations interested in referring young people to the project should contact Lance ( lw@judocoach.com ).

Judo during spring break.

During the students half term break, we will continue to train.

It’s a perfect time for you to return or come along for the first time as our numbers will be a little lower.

Thursday 6:30-8:00pm is Randori.
Sunday 5:30-7:00pm is technique.

Contact us for more information.

Silver at BUCS Championships!

We are very proud that our young club earned it’s first national medal on March 17th 2012.

Ilya Kalugin, part of our Southampton Solent University Judo Club programme fought through injury to claim the silver medal at Britians highest student competition. Ilya’s grit and determination was on display as he powered his way into the final; spending all his time between fights with an icepack on his rapidly swelling knee.

In the closely fought final, Ilya was unfortunate to take a knock to his spine which cost him the advantage… his Russian opponent took the moment and caught Ilya for Ippon.

Ilya was joined by team mates Ken Iizuka and Elly Tiburco at the event.
Ken fought very well in the -73kg category with Ilya. This 60+ strong category was very tough and Ken was able to make it into the knock out stages before losing to a talented fighter from Anglia Ruskin University who was tipped as a favourite for the final.

Elly fought in the -57kg category and improved fight on fight, finishing her day with a wonderful Taio Toshi. Unfortunately, this was still not enough to make it out of her pool and into the knockout stages.

 

This is the first BUCS championships the club has been involved in and the great performances were beyond what could have been expected when the academic year started.

The team would like to thank Johny Watch and Sport Solent for their support in making it possible for the players to be at the event and compete.

Thanks also to the friendly players and coaches and to the officials on the day who helped the club enjoy it’s first visit to the BUCS championships

 

Welcome to 2012!

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/

 

Fighting Chance project.

On December 19th 2011, Southampton Judo Club formally joined a partnership programme to bring the benefits of Judo to the youth of Southamton via the “Fighting Chance” project.

This project which will start in late January 2012, will provide weekly free Judo classes to young people referred to the project by the Police, Southampton City Council and other organisations.

The club is very proud to be part of this worthwhile project and is looking forward to bringing these young people into the Judo family!

Thursday Training Sessions!

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!

Judo Open Evening – Sunday October 2nd, 5:30pm.

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.