This afternoon was an enjoyable one, our Junior section though not large is growing slowly. We still need a few more secondary school aged participants to full the session.

Our senior section started on our next Kata; the Nage no Kata. This is one of the core Kata of Judo. It contains throwing techniques and provides opportunities to learn that are otherwise missed.

Afterwards, a group of us popped up to Bedford Place for a small social drinker together. We are hoping to grow the social side of the club so please do talk to others in the club about ideas for enjoyable activities we can do together.

Next session is our weekly tachi waza  Randori session on Tuesday at 8pm. Then our ne waza Randori seaaion on Thursday at 8pm. Before more Kata on Sunday

See you soon!
Novices are always welcome (we have quite a few at the moment) as are experienced players. We have been enjoying having a number of Dan grades helping raise the bar for everyone at recent sessions.

This Sunday (February 21st), there will be no Junior or Senior Judo session.

This is because of half-term and the British Universities Championships, where the club has 3 players competing. The two first two being Aleks and Victor; the third being Ignas who although being from our friends at Southampton University Judo Club (and actually representing Manchester University) does share the tatami with us so we count him as part of our family.

We had planned on having our senior session on Sunday; but it now seems impractical. So apologies for not being able to run the session on Sunday.

Southampton CIty Judo Club would like to wish our friend Robin Sadler of Sandbach Judo Club the very best recovery from the heart attack he had on Friday night.

Robin is an enthusiastic Judoka and once he is back up and fighting we will either have him visit us or we will visit him (Road trip anyone?).

Great to have such a busy start to the month, today saw our seniors competing in the Hampshire Team Championships in Eastleigh; results and report to follow.

We ended January with the Kodokan Goshin Jutsu celebration. January marked the 60th anniversary of the formalisation of the event. It was great for our seniors to go throw it from start to finish and for our Junior Bears to discover the kata for the first time via Nerf pistols!

We have also gained some fame, when a popular facebook group featured one of our photos to create a Judo meme image.

Our Junior Bears group is slowly growing (Sundays 2pm) and one of the members created this awesome little poster; please do share it.

Later this month our University student members will compete in the British Universities Championships. We will be holding a belt grading before this and also preparing for more competitions. After grading everyone; we will be choosing another Kata to explore so let us know what you like. We are also trying to decide if we go to Malta in March.

Unfortunately Lance is unable to attend tonight.

This morning the IJF in association with the Kodokan streamed a lecture by Naoki Murata about the history of Judo that is essential viewing for all Judoka.

https://youtu.be/jG9mSJrowQE

Here is one for our growing Sunday afternoon teen class, a free Judo T-shirt prize draw.

The good people at KokaKids magazine are running a competition that’s free to enter, just follow this link:

https://kokakids.leadpages.co/thankyou-ipponprizedraw/

It’s January 2016 and it’s time to do Judo!

Our first session of the year is on Tuesday January 12th!

If you are on Facebook, let us know you will coming along via the event : https://www.facebook.com/events/107758439604171/

We have plenty of beginners normally and expect many more in January especially; so if you have never done Judo before now is the perfect time to try it! Not been on the mat for a while (be it weeks, months or years), come on down on Tuesdays for tachi waza randori, Thursdays for groundwork and Sundays for technical work and in January the Kodokan Goshin Jutsu kata.

Sundays 2pm is when we have our new teen session for secondary school age students; it was just gaining momentum before Christmas there is still room for more new faces there!

Our club is right in the heart of Southampton and focusses on allowing members to enjoy playing the sport and game of Judo. Judo is and should be fun; so we work hard and sweat and have a great time.

If you know someone else who might be interested in doing Judo let them know about us and get in touch if you have any questions!

Thank you everyone for a great 2015!
Our young club has made some historic steps forward this year and 2016/is looking likely to be our best year ever.

The club is now closed until Tuesday January 12th, 2016.

Please enjoy the Christmas period, rest up and be ready for a great 2016.

It’s a great end to the year for us at Southampton Judo Club.

Our newly started teen section is growing steadily, with kids from several schools including King Edwards VII and Wyvern college participating. What is really great is that our numbers are split evenly between boys and girls at the moment. Perhaps having a female Blackbelt on the mat is helping?

Starting this weekend our seniors will be learning the Kodokan Goshin Jitsu kata on Sundays. Which will be a nice balance to their competing in the first of the Hampshire Judo Team Championships on December 6th.

We are looking at our final sessions being on the starting 14 December and recommencing on week starting January 11th. We will confirm those dates shortly.