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Aimed at 14 plus kyu grades! 🥋🥋
Jack is refereeing and Alison, Sasha and Oliver B are officiating!

Aimed at 14 plus kyu grades! 🥋🥋
Jack is refereeing and Alison, Sasha and Oliver B are officiating!

The Craig Fallon Cup 2024 - What an amazing day!

Watching from the side as the heroes vs legends event was on was truly captivating. All eyes were gazed on the mat as these young judokas had an opportunity of a lifetime to fight a Olympian.

Proud to see Laksh and Ryan get their first experience of table officiating.

Thank you to everyone that supported this event and created such a great atmosphere.

It’s not weak to speak, just reach out someone wants to listen.

Craig’s legacy will continue.

Aimed at 14 plus kyu grades! 🥋🥋
Jack is refereeing and Alison, Sasha and Oliver B are officiating!

Today it the turn for our younger dragons to compete. Good luck to everyone and have a fun day!

Roman
Romeo
Miron
Jesse
Alex
Kyle
Jack W
Henry
Jack WM
Dante
Bobby
Arun
James
Iaroslav
Abid
Alex
Mason
Leah
Lottie
Kiera
Zayna

As well as our younger players our junior officials will be out in force, good luck to Ajin, Kiera, James and Louie as they start their refereeing and officiating journey.

Check out Kirsty’s blog about her refereeing journey; from stepping on the mat at three years old at EdinburghJudo, to competing and refereeing where she built confidence, resilience and had lots of fun along the way.

In her own words, Kirsty Wilson reflects on her unexpected journey from judo competitor to referee, highlighting the personal and competitive benefits of officiating in judo. My judo journey began when I was just three years old. Little did my parents or I know that 13 years later I would be so invo...

What an exciting weekend! Our club members were busy officiating at both the British Masters and the British National Teams.

A huge shout out and heartfelt congratulations to Isaac for stepping up to represent the Midlands area against the best competitors from other regions. 👊

It was a long day, but Isaac's efforts paid off as he walked away with a well-deserved bronze medal!
You should be proud & Well done
👏 🥉 👏
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Results Catch-Up Part 3: Kent International last weekend.
2x 🥉 Seb & Freya superb judo!
⭐️ Max & Jamil (7th) in huge groups!
👨‍⚖️ Graham & Jamil refereeing
👨‍⚖️ Mum Officiating
👮‍♂️ Dad Competition Welfare Officer

Classes: Kids, 7pm Mon & Fri | Adults, 8pm Mon

Results Catch-Up Part 1: Southern Area Development event. Superb day.
2x 🥇 Precious, Frank
5x 🥈 Thomas, Fabien, Reuben, Freya, Phoebe
6x 🥉 Isla, Ella, Seb, Austris, Macy, Zac
👨‍⚖️ Matus passing Club Referee
👨‍⚖️ Mum Officiating + Tomas & Jamil Refereeing

Classes: Kids, 7pm Mon & Fri | Adults, 8pm Mon

Congratulations to Keith Merrick who was awarded a Diploma of Honour for his outstanding service as a referee at the Birmingham Junior European Cup

Keith will retire from international refereeing later this year
#judo #Officiating

Well done to our very own Keith! 👏🏻

Congratulations to Keith Merrick who was awarded a Diploma of Honour for his outstanding service as a referee at the Birmingham Junior European Cup

Keith will retire from international refereeing later this year
#judo #Officiating

CLYDE FESTIVAL

This weekend we had our interclub festival.
Well done to all the kids who participated we hope everyone had a fab day 🫶🏻
special shoutout to jessica who not only competed in her own under 8 group but also took the step up to compete in the over 8 group too 🌟
And a huge thank you to everyone who volunteered and helped out. And an extra well done to Bethany, Evan, Jamie and Blair who had their first go at refereeing and officiating and did an outstanding job 👏🏼👏🏼

CLYDE FESTIVAL

This weekend we had our interclub festival.
Well done to all the kids who participated we hope everyone had a fab day 🫶🏻
special shoutout to jessica who not only competed in her own under 8 group but also took the step up to compete in the over 8 group too 🌟
And a huge thank you to everyone who volunteered and helped out. And an extra well done to Bethany, Evan, Jamie and Blair who had their first go at refereeing and officiating and did an outstanding job 👏🏼👏🏼

Some very tough contests today at the East Anglian Fours.
🥇Eddy
🥉Max (still U12 fighting U16 age group)
🥉Abigail (first U16 event)
🥉Alex
🥉Cameron
🥉Ian
Abigail & Max got to experience contests against brown belts. Alex met blues & greens.
Max also fought a couple of 15 year olds (he is only 11!). Cam was surrounded by green belts & Ian met a 4th Dan.
Eddy, well he was in a league of his own. Three big ippon wins in less than a minute total for the three fights.
A shout out also to Jeff who spent the day officiating.

Refereeing and ‘The Youth Voice’

In early June, there is an opportunity to learn from Keith Merrick, one of the best referees in the UK and the BJA’s National Technical and Education Coordinator and Staff Lead for Technical Officiating and Refereeing.

Keith will be leading a course on how to referee through to qualification, and members can start from only green belt and 12 years of age!

All the information you need is here - https://www.nijudo.com/eve... and the course is completely funded and free for NIJF members and member clubs.

The Youth Voice:

The NIJF are

Refereeing and ‘The Youth Voice’

In early June, there is an opportunity to learn from Keith Merrick, one of the best referees in the UK and the BJA’s National Technical and Education Coordinator and Staff Lead for Technical Officiating and Refereeing.

Keith will be leading a course on how to referee through to qualification, and members can start from only green belt and 12 years of age!

All the information you need is here - https://www.nijudo.com/eve... and the course is completely funded and free for NIJF members and member clubs.

The Youth Voice:

The NIJF are

For those competing, officiating, refereeing, volunteering or spectating, enjoy the weekend

Sunday the 16th of July saw Drake Judo hold our 2nd Club closed competition of the year,

These competitions were created to be able to gently introduce some of our younger players to competition and to help train other volunteers in timekeeping, table officiating and refereeing,

We had over 60 Drake Judo members from Plymouth, Tavistock, Sherford and Par with Bristol conducting their own version last week with 25 Drake Judo members there...

A big thankyou to all the volunteers from all clubs who help to make it happen especially from our Par club and a big thankyou to Tournament Director C

English Open at the weekend. Top level event.
🥉Kaitlin: bronze in seniors.
⭐️Kaitlin: 5th in juniors.
⭐️Max: fought well, unfortunate not to place.
🫡 Gray: referee in charge.
👩‍⚖️ Mum: officiating all weekend.

Classes: Kids, 7pm Mon & Fri | Adults, 8pm Mon

Kent Closed yesterday. Well done all.
🥇 Seb & Freya; 🥈 Freya & Max;
🥉 Jamil & Andy; ⭐️ Matus in 5th
👨‍⚖️ Tomas passing Club Referee
👨‍⚖️ Mum & Gray (officiating)
🙋‍♂️ Dad (Volunteer)

Classes: Kids, 7pm Mon & Fri | Adults, 8pm Mon

Well done to Ben threw with some fantastic hip throws and Ashiwaza to take home a gold medal in his group.

Results:
Gold 🥇
Ben

Good luck to those who are entered, officiating and refereeing at our own event at All Saints School this Saturday 😊
#judo #dagenham #allsaintsjudoacademy #ippon #morethansport #continuousimprovement #buildingchampions #martialarts

Well done to Ben, Matthew and Sensei Beth who did a great job officiating last weekend at the NHC open. Matthew now joins Ben as a fully qualified BJA Time keeper the latest technical official from All Saints Catholic School 😊
#judo #allsaintsjudoacademy #dagenham #morethansport #buildingchampions #martialarts #cintinuousimprovement

Fantastic work over the weekend from Ben who won a Gold medal Saturday and Matthew who won a Silver medal on Saturday and a Gold medal on Sunday as well as officiating with team mates including young Piotr at the We will remember memorial championships at dartford JC we are so proud of you all! 😊
#judo #dagenham #allsaintsjudoacademy #ippon #morethansport #continuousimprovement #buildingchampions

We always encourage the junior members to get involved in the wider aspects of Judo be it volunteering, officiating or just helping at the club. Currently we have two amazing juniors who are now qualified officials. They are both being invited to help at lots of events including some of the bigger ones. This make us so proud and is also fantastic experience for them (looks great on a CV or Uni application too). We look forward to expanding their officials/referees qualifications and seeing them at more events in the future. Great work Millie and Isaac !
#judoteenager #fun #judofun #BritishJud

Bedminster Annual Championships Sunday 24 March 20024 entry is now live! Open to juniors novice to 12 mon and seniors novice to 1st kyu, level 2 not point scoring event. Full details and to enter can be found here https://www.britishjudo.or... If anyone is interested in officiating please email bjkchampionshipsgmail.com

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Bedminster Annual Championships Sunday 24 March 20024 entry is now live! Open to juniors novice to 12 mon and seniors novice to 1st kyu, level 2 not point scoring event. Full details and to enter can be found here https://www.britishjudo.or... If anyone is interested in officiating please email bjkchampionshipsgmail.com

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Well done to Ben threw with some fantastic hip throws and Ashiwaza to take home a gold medal in his group.

Results:
Gold 🥇
Ben

Good luck to those who are entered, officiating and refereeing at our own event at All Saints School this Saturday 😊
#judo #dagenham #allsaintsjudoacademy #ippon #morethansport #continuousimprovement #buildingchampions #martialarts

Well done to Ben, Matthew and Sensei Beth who did a great job officiating last weekend at the NHC open. Matthew now joins Ben as a fully qualified BJA Time keeper the latest technical official from All Saints Catholic School 😊
#judo #allsaintsjudoacademy #dagenham #morethansport #buildingchampions #martialarts #cintinuousimprovement

Fantastic work over the weekend from Ben who won a Gold medal Saturday and Matthew who won a Silver medal on Saturday and a Gold medal on Sunday as well as officiating with team mates including young Piotr at the We will remember memorial championships at dartford JC we are so proud of you all! 😊
#judo #dagenham #allsaintsjudoacademy #ippon #morethansport #continuousimprovement #buildingchampions

Today was what we are all about as a Police Sport UK community club, 88 juniors from across our classes came together for a club championships.

Our awesome coaching team worked hard to provide support and encouragement to the children, while they battled it out for medals .

Four of our older juniors , Jamie, Zoe, Emma and Long-Hei who are working on the new Kanji awards gave officiating a first ‘live’ try recording scores and running pool sheets . They were superb and made good use of then technology we have purchased with a grant from the BJA digital transformation grant

Parents Jenn