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A busy week or so of competitions and hard grafting was finished off nicely with lots of new coloured belts on the mat. Our grading weekend, and after a few extra grades given out, totaled 67 new U8, Mon and Kyu grades awarded across all our classes.
Lots of new beginners have started recently, so looking forward to bringing through the next generation of Wirral Judoka.
Keep up the great work everyone. 😊🥋💪

Wirral Judo Club have...
2 new Dan grades on their first attempt!
Massive congratulations to Jake and Joe, who were only graded to 1st Kyu in July, both won their line ups today to achieve the goal of 'Black Belt'.🥋

A great big well done to Sharon who had 6 tough fights against higher grades. No points today, but she is getting better every time she steps on the mat. The points will come and the new belt with it.
Keep working hard snd believe in yourself.👏🥋💪

Tonight's black belt of the day Alfonso Winston Churchill II

The 12th Earl of Waterloo

Alfie trains with the big boys so this is a chance to reward his efforts

Well done Alfie!!

Congratulations to both Olivia and Ed who have earned their Black Belts in Judo and BJJ respectively 🥋

🖤 OLIVIA is now a 1st Dan Black Belt in Judo liv.judo
🖤 ED is now a 1st Degree Black Belt in BJJ dredjudo

Once again, well done to you both. It’s a demonstration of how hard you work and the dedication you have to the sports 💪🏼
#judo #judoblackbelt #bjj #bjjblackbelt #britishjudo #BritishJudoAssociation #BJJLife #judolife #BJJLifestyle #judolifestyle #BJJFamily #JudoFamily #raystevensacademyjudo #RayStevensAcademyBJJ #raystevensacademy

A weekend of competitive Judo for a dozen MSMAS Judo Players of all ages and abilities

3 x Gold Medals ~ 1 each by first timers Lewis & Poppy plus one more to Marguerite …

3 x Silver Medals ~ 1 to first timer Dorothy and then two others to Bastien & Serafym …

6 x Bronze Medals ~ 1 to first timer Theo, then 5 more to Torin, Benjamin, Amy, George and Dan

In addition, both Amy and George won their first 10 x points towards their fully competitive BJA Black Belts !!

A great weekend out for all our Players, friends and families attending in support

Thanks especially to 'Little Chris'

William Dorosk has passed a series of exames over the last 3 months in order to obtain his USA JUDO Shodan promotion. Will is very competitive in judo and always eager to learn new things. We at Hollywood Dojo all congratulate Will on his first degree Black Belt after years of hard work. Well deserved!

Well done to Rylee and Neeson at the Nottingham open
Rylee took bronze at -55kg cadets then took a well earned bronze at senior men -60kg and more points toward his black belt won winning 6 or 7 of his 12 contests on the day fought very well may have won a few more on another day!

Neeson had not the best start to his day loosing 3 of his first 5 contests and missing out on medal but more than made up for it at senior men -73kg going on a run of 7 consecutive wins including the fastest contest of the day finishing the match within 3 seconds only to be denied the final on a wrong decision imo

Can your little judoka tie their own judo belt 🤔

That’s a very important skill for them to learn, so any help you can give them to learn that would be great. It will also help them get ready for our belt tying challenge coming soon.

Get them cracking on learning either of the two ways to tie their belt shown on this video and then see just how fast they can do that for themselves ⏱️ 😁👍

Last grading before our summer break! Well done guys! Awesome work today, well deserved green belt! 👏👏👏👏🙇‍♂️🥋 #judo #judoforlife #hajimejudoclub #martialarts

🌟Introducing your UEA Judo Committee '24/25🥋🌟

To wrap up our committee introductions, here is our President! Returning for her second and final year of presidency is our black belt queen, Nada! She has big plans for our club this year and is sure to keep us all in check 🫡👸

Great session last night. We had the pleasure of Carl blackbeltgooner and Richard visiting from lutonschoolofjudo . Massive thanks to Carl for taking the session and passing his knowledge on. Looking forward to seeing both again very soon. #BritishJudoAssociation #britishjudo #lutonjudo #stotfoldjudo #nhcjudo #britishjudocouncil

Summer Fun Day booked for Wednesday 7th August in Belton, 10am-2pm. Only 2 weeks away so get your name down ASAP.

£10 (£5 per sibling)

Bring a packed lunch, trainers and sun cream.
#summerfunday #dominickingjudoandmmaacademy

Tomorrow’s judo sessions in Belton will be combined for this week only (so 5pm-6pm instead) because I need to pick Ryan up from Heathrow later on in the evening and I was thinking it was Stansted 🤦🏻. Peter is off on holiday tomorrow so is unavailable too. It should work okay because it tends to be slightly quieter during holiday periods anyway, but if we do have a large number on the mat we will obviously keep the smaller ones safe alongside the seniors.

Apologies for the short notice. It’s my fault for not thinking ahead, but hopefully it isn’t a major issue for anyone.

CONGRATULATIONS ! To all our senior members who made their next grade promotions at our Senior Summer Grading - when we took over the Willow Studio @ Fresh ! 🥋

A new judo grade is an awesome achievement and represents each individuals learning journey and the hard work and effort they have put into their Judo !

We are double proud with all our members achievements and each grade was very well deserved and passed the high standards of club president Ray Taylor Sensei who completed some of the highest grade promotions on the day !

🟤🥋BEKZAT - 1st Kyu - Brown Belt
🟤🥋DASIY - 1st Kyu - Brown Belt

A couple of months ago, we hosted a seminar with my instructor Steve Campbell. We also handed out the clubs first black belt to Matt Wild 🥋

You can see the full video on YouTube 😎

https://youtu.be/gBM19Nv6N...

🎥 han.grapple
#bjj #brazilianjiujitsu #gi #bolton

After an amazing 1st half of the year, with all of our senior members demonstrating huge advances in their technical progression and gathering great success in compertion, Northampton Judo Club held their 1st belt grading ceremony of 2024

Congratulations to our team who have successfully graded up at the 1st half of our summer grading

Ewa & Artur 5th Kyu (Yellow)

Luke 4th Kyu (orange)

Charles & Constantin 1st Kyu (brown)

Steve 1st dan (black), who is also now a level 1 BJA coach

We look forward to seeing more well-deserved promotions later this month

#judo #judoka #northamptonjud

Silver medal for Connor in the seniors against some giants , unfortunately no points towards his black belt today.
Fantastic performances from all 3 players.
Well done.💪🥋

There is just over a week left to enter the summer Kin Ryu Competitions that are to be held on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th August.

On Saturday 17th we have groups for Youth players ages 14-17 and Seniors.
These will be split into White to Orange belt, Green and Blue belts and Brown belts (points scoring).
Everyone will be in groups designed to match people with their age and grade where possible. We will be aiming to give 1st Kyus as many chances to pick up points as possible.

On Sunday 18th will be our normal kids competition with groups for u8yrs, red belts and yellow/orange belts. Agai

We have had a fabulous entry for our competitions on August 17th and 18th.

Just a few spaces maximum left for our split grade youth and senior event on the 17th. We have 20 youth players from novice to 1st kyu and 35 Senior Novice to Green belts, 10 1st Kyu Men and 5 1st Kyu ladies.

Still spaces for the junior event but they are filling up fast!

Enter online at

Book your appointment with Kin Ryu Judo Club - Competitions / Gradings

That feeling when you get your new belt 🤩 #judo #martialarts

Huge thanks to Paul Ajala for coming along and delivering a brilliant session for our teen & adult members last night! 👍

White belts to Dan grades, everyone gave 100% effort and came away smiling, and somewhat sweaty, which is definitely the mark of a great judo lesson!

Well done to all that took part.

Well done Jack! 🥋
Hanley Judo Club’s latest black belt! #hanleyjudoclub #judo

Good numbers this evening, split class due to nine judokas taking their grades

Bottom picture left to right judokas who took their grades this evening
Left to right
Jack Hughes gets his 3rd kyu (green belt) Isaac Journeaux 8th mon, Arthur Chadwick 6 th kyu (red belt), Jude Hindson 5th kyu (yellow belt), Asha Ghafoor 5th kyu (yellow belt),Arsal Ghafoor 5th Kyu (yellow belt), Uzair Ghafoor 6 th kyu (red belt), Megan Klymowec 5th kyu (yellow belt) and Paul Marshall 6th kyu (red belt) well done all from everyone at RJC

New grades well done everyone 😊

Avienda 1 red tab.
Vahargan 3 red tabs
Slone 5 red tabs

Summer yellow belt
Miles yellow 3 orange tabs
Jack green 1 blue tab
Kingston green 2 blue tabs

Harrison 6 red tabs
Zack orange 1 green tab
David yellow belt
Benedict yellow belt
Henry green belt
Molly brown belt
Neil brown belt

🔥FIGHT NIGHT🔥

Join us for “Fight Night” at National Randori on Tuesday 30th July🥋👀

💷FREE
⌚️7-9PM
📍National Dojo | Wales | Cardiff

Open to Pre-Cadet and older (min grade - orange belt)
#JudoCymru #randori #cardiff

🎉It's Friday!🎉

We have a very special announcement! WE HAVE A NEW BLACK BELT AT THE CLUB!!!! 🥋 Many congratulations, movlaiev

Ismail started his Judo journey just three and a half years ago!

Describing his start in Judo Ismail said:
My first achievement was 3rd place in the Junior Ukrainian Championship.
After that, I was competing on men Ukrainian championship.
After that, I took 1st place in the regional championship, where I got my blue belt.

When I came to UK and it was quite difficult to find a judo club in my area, but I found our Chichester Ronin club.
I decided that I wanted to g

🚨RANDORI NIGHT🚨

But first, a huge congratulations to Martin for receiving his Black Belt!

In his own words, Martin said:

I'd never given judo it's credit, but after befriending 2 black belts, I started to see the benefits (ie, they'd dispatch of me fairly easily when we wrestled in the living room at home 😅)

I was previously a boxer, and what appealed to me about judo was that there was a gentle nature about it. You could protect yourself without the need to hurt another, even doing so compassionately. Turns out judo is an undiscovered gem in martial arts, so off I went to Chichester roni

🎉It's Friday🎉 Judo Time! 🥋

Last week, John, one of our Black Belt instructors, went on a visit to craigewersacademy while on his travels to Cardiff. CEA teaches BJJ, Judo, and MMA classes.

Here at Chichester Ronin, we would like to thank Craig and his team for their hospitality, and we're curtain John has some new tricks up his sleeves to share with us from his experience in Cardiff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🤝 and If you are in Chichester, CEA are always welcome to visit our club!

TONIGHT'S SESSION INFO ⬇️⬇️⬇️

All skill levels and ages are welcome.
Juniors class - 6:15pm
Seniors Class - 7:30pm
Location -

📣REGIONAL HUB DIARY MARKER📍

Regional Hub 28th Sept: Carmarthen
Regional Hub 12th October: Carmarthen

⌚️10am – 12pm Minor & Pre-Cadet
Min grade yellow belt

⌚️12:15-2:15pm Cadet, Junior, Senior & Veteran
Min grade orange belt

Registration opens soon!

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#JudoCymru

Big congratulations to Paul and Charlis on being awarded their yellow belts last night.

Always good having them on the mats as they are great training partners and just get stuck in.