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A big congratulations to our judoka at The Shizentai Rumble 2024! They all did extremely well and all medalled. It’s so great watching the younger judoka doing so well in class and that translating to the competitions. Keep up the great work!

Thomas Stacey - silver medalist
Shain Rickman - gold medalist
Seb Armstrong - gold mesalist
Edward miller - bronze medalist
#bjc #judokids #judotime #judoclub #JudoTeam #stotfoldjudoclub #shizentairumble2024 #strivetothrive

Good Luck to Matthew today competing at a BJC competition. 💪🥋

Great result for Matthew this weekend at the BJC competition. Where he won a silver medal 🥈. Well done Mathew all the hard work you are doing at training is working well. Keep up the hard work 🥋💪

Last Monday we said farewell to Sensei Tony as he’s moving to Chichester. He’s been involved with the club since 2013 coming out of retirement at 60 to bring his Granddaughter Ellie to learn Judo 🥋.

He shared with us his passion for Judo starting at his local school in Luton at 13. He trained every opportunity he had and gained his 1st Dan at 16. It took him 3 years of practice to obtain his 2nd Dan. All his grades were with the BJC where you had to take a line up. No toting up of points in those days (1969)😃 Because of his job and family life he moved to the Isle of Wight where he set up the

One of Brads fights from yesterday at the BJC national championship were Brad won Gold 👏

This Sunday, we will be starting our Randori Fixtures league at the BJC Cornwall Open Randori training. The event will be held at Penrose Judo Club in Helston. We wish our opening team all the best, and there's still room for more players to join. Invites are available on our Spond App.

For those who need transportation, a bus will be available and will depart from the Dojo at 8 am.

Well done to all our competitors at the BJC North London Area Basho yesterday 👍
We had 25 entrants across the day (sorry we didn't get a photo for the older section), and everyone gave great efforts & fought really well, showing that what we've been practicing is paying off.

🥉Bronzes: Emily, Ruairi, Ayyub, Finn, Younes, Sebastian, Oswald, Thomas, Archie & Jonas
🥈Silvers: Ellie, Lily, William, Valentino, Aneurin & Henry
🥇Golds: Aillie, Isla, Bethany, Alexander, Max, Arthur, Grayson, Ernest & Freya

Congratulations also go to Samuel who took his first steps as a Referee. 👏

And my huge thanks

Well done everyone. Special note for coaches Jo Crowley and Luke Davies for supporting the event by refereeing too. It was a positive experience, good CPD to stand on a different side of the tatami now and again. Thank you to the London Area for the opportunity.

London Youth Games held at uelsportsdock with over 400 competitors. Many World, European, Olympic and TeamGB judoka have fought at this event as a child/teen! Big shout out to our volunteers especially the coaches/players who helped out to referee to make sure this event went ahead ldnyouthgames britishjudo #londonjudo bjcjudo

This week we got the excellent news that long time member, previously coach, & always good friend of the club, Brenden Hill was awarded his 1st Dan (black belt) at the BJC Cromer Course. 👏

This is a fantastic & well deserved achievement for a young man who has put so much into his training over the years. (A far cry now from the diddy 6-year old who first came to us all that time ago!)

This coming week he is setting off to follow his long term dreams, moving to the USA to be with his Grandparents in Montana. Please join me, on behalf of SAJC, in both congratulating him on his grade, and wis

5 old judo buddies meet up in a pub in Bacup. Between them all they have contributed 311 years in judo L to R Warren Schofield (Rochdale Judo Club) Billy Hindle (Bacup Judo Club) Maurice Clarke (RJC) Brian Moore (BJC) and Jim Bridge (BJC) formally Nelson Judo Club

Congratulations to Kristian and Yan on winning the BJC championships at the weekend. 🥇🥇

Fantastic day for our three travelling competitors to the BJC Open Nationals today at Arena Sport Kettering!

Charlie won all three fights in a pool of 4 to take gold in his first appearance at this event making him BJC Open National Champion!🥇

Zac was in a pool of 5, stepping up a category from last year. He went on to win two of his contests and lost 2 (one of which was withdrawing through injury on medical advice). Zac placed third based on these results which is brilliant! 🥉

Jay won all three of his contests to take the gold! This is Jays third year in a row winning the gold in the Juni

Good luck to Stanley, Winnie and Dilyan fighting at the National BJC today🥳🥳🥳🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

Congratulations To Constantin & Andrian
Both Taking Gold In Their Divisions At The BJC National Championships Today
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Congratulations to Kristian and Yan on winning the BJC championships at the weekend. 🥇🥇

Fantastic day for our three travelling competitors to the BJC Open Nationals today at Arena Sport Kettering!

Charlie won all three fights in a pool of 4 to take gold in his first appearance at this event making him BJC Open National Champion!🥇

Zac was in a pool of 5, stepping up a category from last year. He went on to win two of his contests and lost 2 (one of which was withdrawing through injury on medical advice). Zac placed third based on these results which is brilliant! 🥉

Jay won all three of his contests to take the gold! This is Jays third year in a row winning the gold in the Juni

Good luck to Dylan, Elise, Hari , Josh, Shaina, Shain, Ralph, Lewis, Felix and Isabella today at the BJC open Championships in Kettering!

We hope you all have a wonderful time whatever the result and can’t wait to hear how it goes!

Had an incredible day at the BJC Open National Championships today. Well done to all of you.

8-9 year olds
Shain Rickman U24kg bronze
Isabella Andrews U36kg gold

10-12 year olds
Elise King U44kg gold
Ralph Mitchell U46kg bronze
Lewis Dixon U50kg silver
Felix Weston O55kg bronze

13-15 year olds
Hari Crowley U38kg silver
Shaina Rickman U40kg bronze
Dylan Corporal O73kg silver #britishjudocouncil #britishjudo #nhcjudo #stotfoldjudo

Good Luck To All Our Team Fighting At The Kettering BJC Today 💪🔥💯

Congratulations To Constantin & Andrian
Both Taking Gold In Their Divisions At The BJC National Championships Today
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Good luck to all our member fighting tomorrow at the BJC Open National Championships in Kettering!

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What an action packed day for our intrepid fighters who gave it their all today at BJC Open National Championships in Kettering.

With the support of coaches, family and friends and fellow competitors they all took it intense competition atmosphere in their stride and applied what they trained for. Hours of hard graft, sweat and muscle memory coming together for just a couple of minutes of complete focus.

In total Shudan bagged a total of 2x Silvers 🥈 ( Erin & David ) and 3x Bronzes ( Oliver, Oliver and Matt )🥉

Special mention to Phil who was competing for the very first time never stopped f

Congratulations to Kristian and Yan on winning the BJC championships at the weekend. 🥇🥇

🥋 Another excellent day out on Sunday at the BJC Open National Championships. 9 Competitors in total, although 3 of them seem to have escaped the camera!

A hard event for some, but all showed good judo, along with excellent sportsmanship, and great courage to step up to this level of competition.

Sadly no placing this time for Isla, Dan, Sam or Ben in their categories.
David & George M, both in large groups, made it through their initial pools with some good wins and progressed into the final crossover pool, but were unlucky in their bronze medal matches, so both came away with 5th place - S

Thank you to Kin Ryu Judo Club for another great end of month open session - our BJC juniors enjoyed it as always 🙏 🥋 ⭐️

Wishing the best of luck to these three competing at the BJC Open Nationals today!

Good luck Charlie, Zac & Jay!!!

Fantastic day for our three travelling competitors to the BJC Open Nationals today at Arena Sport Kettering!

Charlie won all three fights in a pool of 4 to take gold in his first appearance at this event making him BJC Open National Champion!🥇

Zac was in a pool of 5, stepping up a category from last year. He went on to win two of his contests and lost 2 (one of which was withdrawing through injury on medical advice). Zac placed third based on these results which is brilliant! 🥉

Jay won all three of his contests to take the gold! This is Jays third year in a row winning the gold in the Juni

Gold today for Ethan at the BJC National Championships - nice one mate!!! 😊😊😊

Fantastic result for Harry, who won a Gold Medal 🥇 with 4 ippons in Kidderminster at the Senior Men Kyu Grade competition. Daryl was in chair.
Harry is now well set along with our Kettering Premier Judo Team for The BJC Nations next weekend in Kettering at The KLV
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Just a reminder we have our Fighting Fit session tonight 6:45-7:45/8:15pm, this is moved from next week due to the Bank Holiday.

There is no Senior Class on Thursday 2nd May, (kids class running as normal) and there are NO classes at all on Friday 3rd May.

BJC Open Nationals is on Sunday, everyone that has weighed in on the list has been entered, if you are still thinking about it, I need to know today to get you entered!