Judo in Southampton starts January 15th 2019

Welcome to 2019 everyone!

Judo is back! We start this week with Tuesday 15 January being the first session, with our regular schedule:

  • Tuesday 8pm, Tachi waza (throwing) randori
  • Wednesday 8pm, Tachi-Waza (no throwing) uchi komi
  • Thursday 8pm, Ne-waza (ground work) randori

If you have never been along, Southampton City Judo club is based upstairs at St Marys Leisure centre. We have a small dojo where we are free to play our music loud, work up a sweat and have a laugh together as we play.

Although we are unusual perhaps in that we teach kata regularly, we consider ourselves an non-traditional club focused on providing grown-ups a place to do Judo together for fun.

We have lots of university students and adult beginners. We are also a regular destination for friends from other clubs and for those people who did Judo in their youth and love the idea of trying again but are worried about it.

Every session we have a mix from black belts to complete beginners; everyone looks out for one another and we care more about enjoying Judo than competition medals.

We have Judo jackets you can borrow, we have showers and changing rooms. Each session is only £3 paid at the reception thanks to the partnership with Solent University.

Visit us next week or at anytime!

Regulars… can’t wait to see you back on the mat for an amazing 2019 Judo year!

End of year (2018)

Southampton City Judo Club is now closed until January 15th 2019.

Thank you to all that have visited the club in person or online. 2019 is going to be a big year for us with a dojo move planned for the first half of the year.

The hope is to grow the club and extend our activities into younger participants and to bring in more coaches to help grow the club.

We are currently looking for coaches and some volunteers.

  • Coaches – Any/All levels
  • Publicity/PR/Social media manager
  • Social Secretary
  • General Secretary
  • Competition Manager
  • Merchandising Manager

These are the roles we know we need, but there are others we know we need and some that we don’t know we need. If you would like to help and have a niche you think you would like to fill, please get in touch.

See you all on Tuesday January 15th 2019!

THANK YOU ALL!!

Judo in Southampton for week of October 15th 2018

This week regular coach Lance Wicks is away working at the IJF Junior Judo World Championships (under 21 year olds) as part of the live streaming team (you can watch it live at https://live.ijf.org ).

Training will take place as normal however, in fact better than normal with guests taking the sessions.

Tuesday’s tachi-waza session will be lead by our own Ethan Foster.
Wedesday Garry Clark will guide you through uchi komi and help our Uni student beginners progress.
Thursday Matt Batten has kindly agreed to teach some ne waza

Judo programme for Week starting 17 September 2018

Southampton City Judo Club has three session this week, before we go into a beginners course starting next week (26 September).

  • Tuesday 8pm. Tachi-waza Randori. We shall be balancing some ne-waza also.
  • Wednesday 8pm. Training session with David Elmore (Head coach Wolverhampton University)
    We are very please to invite anyone interested to train with David Elmore and EJU coach who has been involved in Judo for many years and whilst down in Southampton on work has kindly agreed to lead our training session on Wednesday. All welcome, please arrive early so that we get to take advantage of what David will share for as long a session as possible.
  • Thursday 8pm. Ne-waza Randori (with some tachi waza)

NB: There is no Sunday session at this time.

Judo classes in Southampton

Our sessions return to normal this week, with our regular 4 training sessions per week open to all.

  • Tuesday, 8PM : Tachi waza Randori (with some ne waza)
  • Wednesday, 8pm : Tachi waza uchi komi
    (Don’t forget there is also Shotokan Karate at 7pm)
  • Thursday, 8pm: Ne Waza Randori
  • Sunday, 3pm: Kata/Technical (currently exploring the Itsutsu no kata)

Our dojo is at St Marys Leisure centre where there is showers and changing rooms, along with air conditioning and a water cooler in the dojo.

Judo jackets (laundered after use) can be borrowed on request.

Grab a friend and come on down!

Judo is on this week!

Judo at Southampton City Judo Club is on this week!

  • Tuesday 8pm – Tachi Waza Randori
  • Wednesday 8pm – Tachi Waza Uchi Komi
  • Thursday 8pm – Ne Waza Randori

Don’t forget a water bottle, even though the dojo is air conditioned it’ll be hot. So bring a bottle for the water cooler in the dojo.