Celebrating more than 75 years of serving the St Albans and Judo communities, we welcome all ages and abilities at our permanent Dojo (equipped with fully sprung mats and aircon) with classes Monday to Friday plus hosting events and courses.
Something for the Seniors, being held at our Dojo...Saturday 10th Oct, an afternoon training session for Veterans (o30s)Sunday 11th Oct, a Ne-waza (groundwork only) competition for o16s.More details in the attached post.🥋 A WEEKEND OF VETERAN/SENIOR JUDO 🥋Led by Herts & Beds Area, held at St Albans Judo Club!🔴 Saturday 10th October – Veteran training AfternoonLed by Ricky Cleevely 5th Dan⏰ 12pm–4pm, including a break💷 £10👊 All grades welcome – come along, train, learn and enjoy an afternoon on the mat.🔵 Sunday 11th October – Senior Newaza Competition🏆 Age 16+⏰ Booking in from 9am💷 £15🥋 All grades welcomeThe competition will follow a merge of BJC and EJU rules, to create a great competitive experience.📋 Full competition timings will follow shortly, including exact weigh-in times and the full contest rules, so keep an eye out for the separate competition information.📅 Entries close Friday 2nd October at 10pm.🔗 Entries are now OPEN!The same booking link can be used for both the Veteran Training Afternoon and the Senior Newaza Competition:forms.cloud.microsoft/r/Au1ze4Hax9?origin=lprLinkOrganised by the same team behind the Shizentai Rumble – great judo, great people and a great atmosphere.Come to train. Stay to compete. Enjoy the weekend. 🥋🔥 ...
Here’s our new Club logo, drawing on all the various past versions. It combines beautiful Kanji, hand drawn for us by a 4th Dan calligrapher in Japan, our traditional red edged Sakura dating back more than 50 years, and the more recent St Albans shield design. The circles reflect the inclusiveness of our Club Community as well as echoing the circles found throughout judo techniques, and in the wider Kyu Shin Do philosophy. Expect to see the new logo and variants popping up on swag soon! ...
This past weekend saw Sensei Jad, along with Samuel, Marcin, Bill & Jacob (& Daniel) head up to Warwickshire in order to deliver 13 judo tasters to a range of ages at the Festival of Sport.From the initial ad-hoc enquiries on Friday afternoon thru the formal sessions of Saturday & Sunday we worked with almost 200 children & introduced them to some judo basics. With each group we covered a few fun animal moves, Ukemi, a Throw & a Hold, and even had time to play a quick game.It was tiring, exceptionally hot (full sun all weekend)l & continuous hard work - Yet it was an AMAZING weekend, and we were absolutely delighted to have been asked to lead the sessions.@festivalsportuk #BritishJudo#BritishJudoCouncil ...
Well done to the small squad of club members who took part in the Shizentai Kata competition today, a great opportunity to demonstrate the hard work everyone's been doing.🥇 Stratty & Alex - Senior Nage-no-kata🥇John & Richard - Senior Itsutsu-no-kata🥇Finn & Emily - Junior Nage-no-kata🥉Emily & Finn - Junior Katame-no-kataAlso, well done to club member Patrick & his partner who were competing under Shizentai, who took Gold in the Junior Katame-no-kataAs always we've come away with more to work on as we prepare for the next event, but excellent efforts from everyone with improvements shining through for all pairs. 👍 ...
On Sunday a large squad headed to Hatfield for the Shizentai Rumble.Always an excellently run event & this year was no different, huge thanks to Shizentai Judo Club, and all the officials & supporters who helped make the event a great success.We finished up with 41 competitors on the day, from the tiniest of our 5 year old dragons, through to a couple of our "slightly" older adults 😃Everyone fought hard, and showed excellent determination and spirit. For several people this was their very first event, or their first in a new age band - really pleased to see how well people are progressing at all ages. 👍(Participation)🏅 - Caelan & Anna - Excellent performances, but in larger groups meant unfortunately no placing today for these.(Bronze) 🥉 - Elsie, Wan Yu, Emma, Marni, Maya, Asher, William S, Zachary, Finn, Sebastian, Jonathan, Thomas, Alexander, Tomas, Alfred, Barrack, Reuben, William B, Eryk, Lawrence, Vitorio, Lena, Isla D, Jaidan(Sliver) 🥈 - Melina, Valerie, Meadow, Bethany, Elisa, Max, Grayson, Daniel, Adam, Theo(Gold) 🥇- Emily, Danae, Lorcan, Darius, ElijahMany thanks as always to my admin team for logging everything, to Steve J for his coaching support through out the morning, and to all the kids & parents for supporting everyone so well, 👏----A couple of our primaries appear to have escaped the photo call, and we completely missed getting a photo of our over 16s! (Sorry guys!) ...
Best of luck to everyone entered for the Shizentai Judo Club Rumble today. Looking forward to an exciting day of judo. Very proud of you all for giving it a go. 👍🍀 ...
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