Monday 28 December 2015

Geof Gleeson

For those of you who have been involved with Judo for any length of time will know of the late great Geof Gleeson he was a frequent guest lecturer for the International Budo Federation UK at The Young Judo Club Sittingbourne in the early 1980's







Wednesday 12 August 2015

Junior Judo and Senior Sambo Tournament October

Sunday OCTOBER 18TH



Warriors Grappling Academy

Junior Judo and Senior Sambo Tournament

Swale Martial Arts Club 

127 East Street Sittingbourne ME10 4BL




Dear Friends

The Warriors are organising a small tournament at SMAC a small venue for an Intimate small competition. It will be for juniors and seniors, Male and Female.

JUDO
Judo will be for juniors only. (5 years up to 15 years old)

The cost is £10 per person. All junior players will be matched according to weight on the day.

Under 8s will book in at 9.30am

The divisions are Boys & Girls 8,9,10 – Boys & Girls 11 to 15. All Book in at 11.30am.

Sambo
Young Person 16, 17 and 18 and Master over 35 will be matched on the day.

Adult Sambo will have the following weight group’s u60 u70 u80 u90 and o90 book in at 1pm.

As you can see there are different times for age groups to book in. This way one group will be finished before the other groups start and this will stop overcrowding in the dojo.

For this to be a success we will need to have your entry with money by 10TH October 2015 to John Clarke 118 east street Sittingbourne Kent ME10 4RX (cheques made payable to JOHN CLARKE)

NO LATE ENTRIES WILL BE ACCEPTED 

So please fill in the form below and fill every section especially your email and Mobile number.


Name

Age

Grade

Club

Email

Phone Number


Many Thanks
John Clarke
Master of Sombo



5th Dan Judo

Sunday 19 July 2015

Spitfire Open Air

Spitfire Open Air Judo Championships

Saturday July 18th 2015

Capel-Le-Ferne

Coach Colin Carrott organises this event every year and each year it gets better then ever this year it was run in conjunction with Capel-Le-Ferne Village Fete. Many of us forget hundreds of years ago village fetes would included Wrestling, Boxing, feats of strengths and Sporting events, some parts of the UK still do this I.e Cornwall and the Scottish Highlands. Sadly this is not the case in Kent that is until Colin and Spitfire started it again, Colin tells me next year he will have two mats and will include Judo, Combat Wrestling, Sport Sambo and Kent Belt Wrestling
Coin Carrot referees Oleg 


The Fete had the usual stalls plus a Farmers Market and re-enactment of British Soldiers from the Napoleonic wars which made the Judo interesting especially when they had a Musket Volley

This year there was 80 entries which were spread from over the Country it was pleasing see that 19 year old Adam Dodds had taken over from his father Russell in supporting the event he and the Bedford Grappling Academy were very supportive of this event. We also saw Darren Richardson travelling up from the West Country, Oleg Siblov who runs the Mixed Style Sambo Club brought many fighters from his club in London to try for the first time Judo in which they done extremely well. His club proved that you can do several styles of Grappling and still succeed. Oleg came to the UK 15 years ago and has now become a British Citizen and will be competing in the World Masters Sambo for GB in October, he also won the Judo Masters in style. Oleg Club is like the United Nations he had players from Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia and Canada. Although I am against immigration into this Country these lads proved that by interrogating into local events you become accepted by the local population which these guys done. Oleg has even got the British Sense of humour stating he arrived in a Container, he certainly fits in with the IBF/BCSA family

The throw famous by Van De Walle Olympic medallist is banned from new Judo



I would like to thank all the officials especially the referees who chose to use the old rules of Judo and rather then hand out loads of penalties they would stop the Contest and explain the infringement. The referees just wore their normal summer clothes which made the event less pompous and more informal which went down well with the audience and judoka

Good Judo from the Girls

Warriors/Young Judo Club Senior Gold



Ofcourse you are the winner
No that is not allowed

get down on it

Who's Throw?

Will from the YJC wins again

Wednesday 6 May 2015

Sambo Training in Sittingbourne

Sambo Training Tuesday Night

Warriors Grappling Academy

Swale Martial Arts Club

Sittingbourne

If you want a hard nights training in Sambo come along Tuesday of Thursday
Contact John Clarke  07825 224940











Tuesday 5 May 2015

Judo/Sombo and MMA/Combat Wrestling Tournament

Warriors Grappling Academy

Judo/Sombo and MMA/Combat Wrestling Tournament

Swale Martial Arts Club 

127 East Street Sittingbourne ME10 4BL

Sunday MAY 24TH

Dear Friends

The Warriors are organising a small tournament at SMAC a small venue for an Intimate small competition. It will be for juniors and seniors, Male and Female.

Judo will be for juniors and all senior Kyu grades.

Sombo is only for 15 years and above

The cost is £10 per person but any adult can enter all the events for £15 if they wish. All junior players will be matched according to weight on the day.

Under 8s will book in at 9.30am

The divisions are Boys & Girls 8,9,10 – Boys & Girls 11, 12. 13, 14.All Book in at 11.30am.

Young Person 15, 16, 17 book in at 1pm.

Adult judo/Sombo/MMA Combat Wrestling will have the following weight group’s u60 u70 u80 u90 and o90 book in at 1pm.

As you can see there are different time for age groups to book in. This way one group will be finished before the other groups start and this will stop overcrowding in the dojo.

For this to be a success we will need to have your entry with money by 18th May 2015 to John Clarke 118 east street Sittingbourne Kent ME10 4RX (cheques made payable to JOHN CLARKE)

NO LATE ENTRIES WILL BE ACCEPTED 

So please fill in the form below and fill every section especially your email and Mobile number.


Name

Age

Grade

Club

Email

Phone Number


Many Thanks
John Clarke
Master of Sombo
5th Dan Judo



Thursday 30 April 2015

Faversham Open Judo

FAVERSHAM OPEN JUDO COMPETITION
On Sunday April  26th 2015 Faversham Judo Club held its Annual Open Judo Club at Abbey Sports Hall, Abbey School. The sports hall is an ideal Venue for a tournament like this, it is big enough to have two Judo size mat areas with plenty of spectator space in fact at a push 3 mats could be used. It has been suggested that the IBF Multi Nation Judo Championships maybe staged at the School in 2016/17, this would a great coup for the Faversham Club who ran an exceptional competition and I am sure they would be a great host for the International Tournament.
Young Ladies Action

The Faversham club is well over 40 years old and has recently seen a revival of Judo in fact all IBF Clubs have seen increase in Judo membership which is great for the sport

Faversham Coaches Sue Tanner-George Holbrook-Trevor Davies

The main organisers for this event were Trevor Davies, George Holbrook and Miles Brown and I know they would want to thank all the helpers. With over 200 people present it had to be run just right and it was. The event started at (.30am with a demonstration of Kime No Kata by Greg Garside 4th Dan and Tim Thomas 3rd Dan and the whole event finished at 2.30pm.

A happy Winner

There was many good fights during the Day and it was good to see more Judoka acting as referees but I would like to see the return of a referee and 2 judges rather then 1 referee, Miles tells me he will be running a Referees course in the near future so hopefully this will change. Another pleasing thing was that they used Old Judo rules i.e. rules that were used before the recent International rules were imposed by the IJF. These rules have been very controversial and many believe they have been to the detriment to Judo as a whole
Finals Kyu Grade Open Referee Miles Brown 


The next Competiotion at Faversham will be in October and I expect it will be bigger and better



RESULTS

UNDER 8 BOYS
     U25 (group 1)
LUKE GREEN                                                                                 GOLD                      YOUNG JUDO CLUB
LEO MONTAGUE                                                                        SILVER                    FAVERSHAM JUDO CLUB
HARRY WILLIAMS                                                                     BRONZE                 BEXLEY YOUNG JUDO CLUB
    U25 (group 2)
AMARA GRIGGS                                                                         GOLD                      YOUNG JUDO CLUB
SAM BELLERBY-BROWN                                                        SILVER                    FAVERSHAM JUD0 CLUB
DYLAN TOLMAN                                                                         BRONZE                 SPITFIRE
    U25 (group 3)
EDWARD BROOKER                                                                   GOLD                     FAVERSHAM JUDO CLUB
OAKLEY                                                                                             SILVER                   SPITFIRE
JOSEPH BOLTON                                                                          BRONZE                BEXLEY YOUNG JUDO CLUB
    U30 (group 1)  
WILLIAM BRICE                                                                            GOLD                     YOUNG JUDO CLUB
KYLE GRACE                                                                                    SILVER                   BEXLEY YOUNG JUDO CLUB
BEN WHITE                                                                                     BRONZE                SPITFIRE
    U30 (group 2)
ZAC POLLARD                                                                                GOLD                     SPITFIRE
BENJAMIN REID                                                                           SILVER                   FAVERSHAM JUDO CLUB
CHARLIE TURNER                                                                        BRONZE                FAVERSHAM JUDO CLUB
    U30 (group 3)
LIAM KEMP                                                                                     GOLD                     YOUNG JUDO CLUB
DYLAN FARNES                                                                             SILVER                   FAVERSHAM JUDO CLUB
JAYDEN CROSSINGHAM                                                          BRONZE                BEXLEY YOUNG JUDO CLUB
UNDER 12 BOYS
    U30
OWEN COULSON                                                                          GOLD                    DEAL
MITCHEL CROSSWELL                                                               SILVER                  YOUNG JUDO CLUB
BEN SMITH                                                                                       BRONZE               BEXLEY YOUNG JUDO CLUB
 
  U35 (group 1)
DANIEL STRINGER                                                                       GOLD                     LYMINGE
THOMAS ASCOTT                                                                         SILVER                   FAVERSHAM JUDO CLUB
FRAZER FENTIMAN                                                                     BRONZE                FAVERSHAM JUDO CLUB
    U35 (group2)
CAMERON FENTIMAN                                                                 GOLD                   FAVERSHAM JUDO CLUB
CONNOR LINK                                                                                 SILVER                 FAVERSHAM JUDO CLUB
CAMERON HUGHES                                                                     BRONZE              SPITFIRE
    U45
LUKE TANNER                                                                                  GOLD                   FAVERSHAM JUDO CLUB
GIL BARKER                                                                                      SILVER                 FAVERSHAM JUDO CLUB
ALEX MEARS                                                                                     BRONZE              BEXLEY YOUNG JUDO CLUB

UNDER 15 BOYS
    (group 1)
KIERAN HADLEY                                                                              GOLD                  FAVERSHAM JUDO CLUB
ELLIS HOLIDAY                                                                                 SILVER                FAVERSHAM JUDO CLUB
HARRY SMITH                                                                                   BRONZE             FAVERSHAM JUDO CLUB
                                                          (group 2)
THOMAS GOLDSMITH                                                                 GOLD                  FAVERSHAM JUDO CLUB
ETHAN KING                                                                                     SILVER                SPITFIRE

GIRLS
                                                          U25
AVA WESTPFEL                                                                                GOLD                  BEXLEY YOUNG JUDO CLUB
LEIA GREEN                                                                                        SILVER                YOUNG JUDO CLUB
ANNA BARNES                                                                                  BRONZE             FAVERSHAM JUDO CLUB
                                                          U30
GRACE VICKERS                                                                               GOLD                  FAVERSHAM JUDO CLUB
CHARLOTTE EVITTS                                                                        SILVER                FAVERSHAM JUDO CLUB
ISABELLE BARNES                                                                           BRONZE             FAVERSHAM JUDO CLUB
                                                          U40 (group 1)
ELLA CUTTING                                                                                   GOLD                 FAVERSHAM JUDO CLUB
OLIVIA CROSSWELL                                                                       SILVER               YOUNG JUDO CLUB
JAMIE POULTNEY                                                                            BRONZE            YOUNG JUD0 CLUB
                                                          U40 (group 2)   
EVY WILLIAMS                                                                                  GOLD                 BEXLEY YOUNG JUDO CLUB
CHLOE LINK                                                                                        SILVER               FAVERSHAM JUDO CLUB
CORA GOODMAN                                                                            BRONZE            FAVERSHAM JUDO CLUB
                                                          U45
BETHANY POULTNEY                                                                     GOLD                 YOUNG JUDO CLUB
AMELIE NEWIES                                                                               SILVER               FAVERSHAM JUDO CLUB
FRANKIE JACKSON                                                                          BRONZE            BEXLEY YOUNG JUDO CLUB

GIRLS UNDER 16
FRANCESCA ASPEY                                                                          GOLD                 SPITFIRE
BEA WEADON                                                                                    SILVER               BEXLEY YOUNG JUDO CLUB

YOUNG WOMEN
FRANCESCA ASPEY                                                                          GOLD                 SPITFIRE
CONNIE LAWRIE                                                                              SILVER               YOUNG JUDO CLUB

 YOUNG MEN
FERGUS HAMILTON-JONES                                                        GOLD                 WARRIORS GRAPPLING ACADEMY
BRANDON SPRINGETT                                                                  SILVER               WARRIORS GRAPPLING ACADEMY

MEN
                                                          U74
DOMINIC GOODMAN                                                                   GOLD                 FAVERSHAM JUDO CLUB
MICHAEL MONTAGUE                                                                  SILVER               CANTERBURY JUDOKWAI
                                                          U82
ANDREW BUXTON                                                                          GOLD                 CANTERBURY JUDOKWAI
GRAHAM ALSTON                                                                           SILVER               MEDWAY PARK
NATHAN JOHNSON                                                                        BRONZE            LYMINGE
                                                          U100
CHRIS COULSEN                                                                                                 GOLD                 DEAL
DARREN QUESTED                                                                          SILVER               FAVERSHAM JUDO CLUB
DAVE PALING                                                                                    BRONZE            BEXLEY YOUNG JUDO CLUB
                                                        

     O100
RYAN SYLVESTER                                                                              GOLD                 SPITFIRE
ROWAN TUTT                                                                                    SILVER               CANTERBURY JUDOKWAI

MENS KYU GRADE OPEN
BRANDON SPRINGETT                                                                  GOLD                 WARRIORS GRAPLING ACADEMY
FERGUS HAMILTON-JONES                                                        SILVER               WARRIORS GRAPPLING ACADEMY
DOMINIC GOODMAN                                                                   BRONZE            FAVERSHAM JUDO CLUB

MENS DAN GRADE OPEN
RYAN SYLVESTER                                                                              GOLD                 SPITFIRE
CHRIS COULSEN                                                                                                 SILVER               DEAL
GRAHAM ALSTON                                                                           BRONZE            MEDWAY PARK