It's been a busy weekend for the club, with members taking part in 2 competitions on Saturday & the BJC National Kata tournament on Sunday.
Really well done to everyone that took part in all the events. And also, not pictured, to Samuel who donned his suit & tie to Referee at one of the competitions.

Results on Saturday:
NHC Orange & Under
Bronzes for Isla, Aillie, Emma & Ettiene
No podium place this time around for Max, Bethany, & Emily.
An excellent effort from everyone, in a tough competition and with several starting in new age/grade bands.

NLA Basho
Silvers for Archie & Patrick (Shizentai)
Well done to both boys for these great results.

And for Sunday at the BJC Kata it was a clean sweep of Golds across the team!
Snr Nage-no-kata: John & Marcin
Jnr Katame-no-kata (8-11s): Finn & Emily
Snr Itsutsu-no-kata: Richard & John
Snr Kime-no-kata: Bob & Ricky (Shizentai)
Snr Kodokan Goshin Jutsu: Richard & Ricky (Shizentai)

A brilliant performance from everyone! Particular shout out to our 2 youngsters in their first Kata competition, showing some excellent technique & control.

Busy day at the National Training Centre in Walsall for Zac, Theo & Jaiden along with coaches Jad & Samuel.

Well done for your hard work & focus, and our thanks to all the coaches & players for such a fantastic session!

Congratulations to our members who took part in the great training session run by Northern Home Counties Area at HWJC on Saturday.

Excellent effort & lots of hard work from Nok, Max, Emma, Tim, Grayson, Sebastian, Patrick, Jaidan, Lindsay, George, Henry, Etienne & Samuel. 👏👍

(With apologies to those group two, your camera operator failed you 🤣)

And just like that the Club's judo for 2025 comes to an end!

We finished off the year with a grading for our latest cohort of Adult beginners, who've all worked hard over the past 12 weeks, deservedly earning their 5th Kyu (Yellow Belt).
(With a couple more still to do in Jan who've already headed off for the holidays)

Welcome to the end of the beginning guys, and we look forward to you joining us at the wider club sessions in the new year 👍👍

🎉Well now that was CHAOS! 🎉
An absolutely 🎄brilliant🎄last night of the year for all our youngsters yesterday, with over 120 taking part across the 3 sessions. At our busiest point during the u13s session, we had 85 people on the mat - including a Dinosaur, and I don't mean me!

Huge, huge "thank yous" to everyone who supported the night both on and off the mat - herding cats has nothing on trying to organise 75+ extremely over excited kids! Admin, Coaches & Young Helpers - You Rock! 👍

In particular I want to give a really big shoutout to 🌟Liz🌟 for all her hard work both in advance and during the evening, sorting out all the food, preparing all the sweet cones for the kids, and just generally keeping the kitchen flowing for everyone.👏

It was also great to a visit from a couple of our older teens who left us for Uni this year, hope to see you back again in the next Holidays 🙂

Photos, from this other events this year, thanks to Valeria & Bill 👍

One last session for Adults tonight, including the wrap up of this terms Beginners Course, then it's time for a relaxing couple of weeks before everything zooms back into motion in January.

A huge 🌟Thank You🌟 to everyone who donated prizes for our Christmas Raffle.

In particular the top prize donations from:
Warner Bros Harry Potter Studio Tours (https://www.wbstudiotour.co.uk/)
Photographic Synergy (https://photographicsynergy.com/)
Gratitude Charity (https://gratitude.charity/)

Overall we raised £400 which will be split between our two chosen Charities
Cancer Research UK (https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/) & Youth Talk (https://youthtalk.org.uk/)

The winners have all been drawn, and prizes can be collected from the dojo during this evening's kids sessions, tomorrows adult session, or will be stored safely until January. 🎉