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New Signing ✍️🔵🌕

The Club are delighted to announce the signing of Goalkeeper Liam Stickley!

Having spent the last 4 seasons at Barton Athletic, The 35 year old joins manager Dan Tyler on his rebuild of the WBB squad! Liam is an experienced goalkeeper who possesses great technical ability and leadership skills that will be vital to the back line!

Welcome Liam!!
#theclaymen 🔵🌕

Is it the Xmen? .....nooooo

Is it the England football team?.....nooooo too many medals

Is it the cast of Star Wars in full make up? Maybe!!!

Actually it's a bunch of medallists from the SKK Judo Club competition over the weekend.

All fought very well and we are very proud.

Williams Returns! ✍️🔵🌕

The club are delighted to announce that Ant Williams has decided to re-sign for the club!

12 months after leaving for Buckfastleigh, Ant has decided to return to Abbrook to strengthen Dan Tyler’s squad and help them gain promotion back to the prem!

A strong, versatile & vocal defender with great passing ability, Ant gives our defence strength and confidence to play the type of football the new manager desires!

Welcome back Ant!
#theclaymen 🔵🌕

https://youtu.be/-6u1W8kzn...

A short study about a rare O Soto Gari variation and a unusual, but very effective gripping tactic that one of the best modern-day judokas Shohei Ono likes t...

Round 2 of our colouring comp
Well done to Skye, last weeks winner.
Again send a photo of your picture by 10pm tonight on ither of our fb page or messenger

Due to the fire this morning in Houston Ind Est the surrounding roads around Craigswood sports centre have been closed by police.

We will post at 4pm if Judo sessions will be on tonight or not.

Join is on Monday 26th August for our Bank Holiday Open Mat with Silviu Nastasa!

We will be open from 11am to 2pm, the sauna will be on and there will be general good vibes all round 😎

We also have a special £10 drop in rate running this Bank Holiday Monday, or if it’s your first time rolling with us, your session is FREE!!

So, grab your friends and come on down, it’s set up to be a wonderful morning and afternoon of rolls 🤙🏼

silviunastasa
#bjj #BJJLife #BJJLifestyle #BJJFamily #BJJRolls #BJJOpenMat #BJJClasses #BJJTraining #BankHolidayMonday #AugustBankHoliday #FreeSession #FreeClas

Week 2 of summer class... Paper plate Judo and beanbag breakfalls 😄 Another fun session yesterday morning, hope you all enjoyed it! Ahh, what will we do next week?! 🤔🥋 😆

Don't forget everyone on August 8th a family fun day will be taking place at Bowersdale Park in Seaforth, our club will be there with a stall and some mats along with plenty of other stalls so come down and give it a look!

🥋 JUDO FOR ALL! 🥋

Looking for a sport which supports physical and mental health and improves concentration?

Thought about judo? 🥋

We have opened up our beginners judo sessions for September, but space is running out!

•⁠ ⁠Beginners - Friday’s - 📍Pinewood Judo Club, Wokingham RG40 3AQ
Judo Kids aged 5-7 https://portal.nestmanagem...
Judo for Juniors 8-11 https://portal.nestmanagem...
Adult beginners, 14+ https://portal.nestmanagem...

We are at the Bowersdale fun day in Bowersdale park seaforth today, 12-4pm, why not come down and say hello and have a go at throwing one of our coaches 🥋

With the school summer holiday fast approaching we wanted to share our revised summer Saturday session times.

From Saturday 27th July to Saturday 24th August,

All juniors are to attend at 10am.
All seniors are to attend at 11am.

Please note there will be no Judo on Saturday 31st august as the sports centre have asked us to close for the hop festival.

Normal sessions will resume on Saturday 7th September.

Well done to all of our guys who attended the Masters Kyu & Dan Grading at the weekend!

Everyone showed good understanding of what we learn at the club, points were earned towards their next grade and there was loads of positives all round 👏🥋

Friendly invitational event at United Judo this morning. Well done to all our Fighters today, for most it was their first experience of Judo outside our club, we are really proud of how you conducted yourselves and the amazing Judo you displayed. A Massive thanks to Dave Quinn and his team at United Judo, a very well run event and a great atmosphere 👏👏👏.

Gold 🥇
Thomas
Houda
Ava
Percy

Silver 🥈
Juno

Bronze 🥉
Adam
Leon

Well done to you all 😀

It’s now just two days to go until the excitement of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games begins, and it’s so great to see the strength of judo across the Commonwealth nations.

Just look at this short reel from the Commonwealth Judo Association to see how many Commonwealth judoka have qualified to compete at this summers Olympic Games 😁👍
#ParisOlympics2024 #Paris2024 #CommonwealthGames #commonwealthjudo

Meet the team... Head coach
Steve Coles

He has stepped into the role this month. But has been in Drake Judo for many years now running our Par classes! To introduce him to you all we have got him to answer some questions ❓❓

Feel free to also ask yours!

1. What inspired you to get involved with judo?

When I was a child, my mum decided to take my older brother and me to a local judo club because we were constantly fighting at home. She hoped it would help channel our energy in a more positive direction.

2. How long have you been involved with and supporting the judo community, and what k

It’s almost time 😁

Judo at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games begin tomorrow, 27 July, with Chelsie Giles taking to the mat first at -52kilos, for Team GB on Sunday 28 July

Good luck to all those taking part and especially to our Team GB fighters 🥋👍😁
#britishjudo #ParisOlympics2024 #Paris2024 #walderslade #Medway #chatham #thisgirlcan

Well done to all our new starters. Judo is a great way to keep fit & learn a new skill 💪 Good luck to our 26 competitors on Sunday - enjoy the experience & have fun! 💕 #Fordjudofamily

All set up and ready for the start of our MedwayGo summer judo camp at White Road Community Hall earlier today ✅ 😁🥋
#MedwayGo #walderslade #chatham #britishjudo #waldersladejudo #MedwayMums #Medwaysport

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The Nanka Judo Yudanshakai Fall Development Tournament will take place on Sunday September 22, 2024 at Westminster High School Gym, 14325 Goldenwest St. Westminster, CA.

Congratulations to all our juniors who earned promotions in our recent grading. The hard work and effort is paying off Keep up the good work.

Having fun, being active, eating well and celebrating the Olympic Games 😁🥋 with MedwayGo and Medway Sport #Medwaysport #MedwayGo #waldersladejudo #olympics2024

From next week (Mon 5th) until Sept 9th we will open at 7pm instead of 6pm
Our 1st & 2nd mats will be combined temporarily
See you at 7pm next week! 💪 #Fordjudofamily

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

Another brilliant day on the MedwayGo summer camp with Medway Sport and Walderslade Judo Club 😊

With the Olympic Games fully under way, what better way to spend the day than learning the fantastic Olympic sport of judo and showing our support for Team GB with Walderslade Judo Club 😁👍🥋

Tomorrow we are looking forward to lots more;

➡️ Fun
➡️ Physical activity
➡️ Laughter
➡️ Healthy eating
➡️ Building friendships
➡️ Confidence building

Book your MedwayGo summer activities here;
https://go.medway.gov.uk/b...

Or book a FREE first judo lesson with us by emailing Walderslade Judo Club

And so we finish another brilliant #MedwayGo summer camp with Medway Sport and Walderslade Judo Club 😁

Healthy food from #forksandcorks and great coaching under the watchful eye of our own super coach, Caz Rawlings 🥋

✅ 2024 Commonwealth Masters Judo Champion
✅ 2022 US Open Masters Judo Champion
✅ 2018 Medway Sportsperson of the Year Silver Award Winner
✅ and 2018 World Masters Silver medallist

What else could you ask for 🤔 well, and obviously lots of;

➡️ Fun
➡️ Laughter
➡️ Physical challenges
➡️ Building friendships
➡️ Growing confidence
➡️ Developing resilience
➡️ Keeping activ

We thought you might like to look back at some of the highlights from the mini club championships we held just before the summer break. We were so proud of everyone that took part and how well they competed and what excellent sportsmanship they all showed 😊🥋 and we were very grateful for all the help our adults gave in order to help run the event 😁👍 thank you 😊

We were proud to show our special guests Monica Lennon MSP & Councillor Helen Toner our FabLittleBag and have some interesting discussions around how important it is to create a period positive environment, particularly in sports clubs 🙌🏻
JudoScotland

Hello everyone. We are very much looking forward to hosting our Annual Rumble competition this coming Sunday. It looks set to be a cracking day with approximately 225 entrants (over 3 mats) from age 4 to veterans. We have gone through all entries, and for any size/experiance anomalies, we have emailed coaches. Most of these relate to 7yr old kinders who due to size or experiance, we will likely move up to contest with our 8yr old primaries, a category where in most other competitions, they would contest in anyway. However we pride ourselves in providing a really positive contest experiance

Good luck to our judoka at Shizentai Rumble on Sunday!