Club News
British Judo Awards Volunteer of the Year 2024
British Judo volunteer of the year 2024 was our own Club Chair, Zoe Locke!
Zoe joins the Patchway hall of fame of volunteer award winners, along with the whole club winning club of the year 2024 (and 2012).
The clubs volunteer ethos is passed through out the club, Locke family we can currently boast three generations of volunteers, Zoe’s father in law, husband and children all volunteering at our club.
Zoe works tirelessly in the background in numerous ways, supported by a great team and ensuring the clubs ethos of being a family club to develop players to be the best they can be! Not just about medals, it’s also about personal development!
Our young volunteers are inspiring, all of the role modelling to younger players. Amelia was shortlisted to last three of the national young volunteer award, at just 12 she has written a judo grading system for our under 5 players, along with supporting our mini session and in particular Millie, who has been bling since birth; she even made her a braille birthday card!
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Masterclass with Olympian Lele Nairne
Great to be able to host a second Master class with 2024 Olympian Lele Nairne.
Lele put players through their paces, with skills and drills. Giving players aged 7 to 69 a chance to do randori (free practice) with her.
Lele is an inspiration to all players, many of whom have also had the chance to be coached by Lele several times at the annual Western area judo camp.
Lele gave out star of the day award to Millie on our minis session and Chase and Anna were awarded judoka of the week certificates on our junior session.
Not just for boys!
40% of our players are female!
Three of our eight coaches are female!
Four of our seven junior coaches are female!
Five of our seven officials / referees are female!
Let Their Dreams Begin !
An Olympic Games is the perfect opportunity to inspire a life-time love of judo.
Below you will find a link to download the above Olympic Booklet, which allows judoka to keep track of the medal winners and answer questions each day!!
For once it’s a time to get the kids in front of the TV!
Print the booklet and share it on your socials.
The booklet lets judoka
– know when the judo is on
– know which weight divisions fight on which day
There are prompts to get judoka thinking and learning
– can they spot different throws?
– which was their favourite contest of the day?
– who was the champion who most impressed them and why?
And space to record the results
– fill out the names of the eight medal winners each day
– write down their thoughts on the day’s judo
Many thanks Koka Kids for putting this together
BJA Interview
Hear about the great work going on at Patchway Judo Club that led to the club being named Club of the Year at the 2023 British Judo Awards
Annual Easter Egg Hunt
60 players and their siblings took part in our Annual Easter egg on Easter Saturday!
Thank you to everyone who helped and to Amelia for her Easter egg judo painting!
Parents Session
Absolutely blown away by the number of parents who attended our first parents night! Well done to all receiving your Kesa Gatame certificates!
Great work by our Kanji coaches who helped take the warm up! #teampatchway #cluboftheyear2023!
We even made it on to the British Judo website ! Click here
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Latest Dan grade !
Balaz completed his Dan grade theory last night and having won his “line up” he achieved his 1st Dan the day before his 16th birthday! At the other end of the journey Megan received her sho 8 (black tag) in minis grading. Sho 9 is red belt.
Congratulations to them both and Happy 16th Birthday Balaz!
Midland Area Open and Schools
Very successful day for #teampatchway at Midland area open and schools Gold for Sam, Alice and silver for Lani! In the open Gold for Balaz and Alex, silvers for Alice and Charlie, Bronze for Lani and 7th for Mack. With Alice winning her first 10 points for her Dan grade.
Balaz won his line up and achieved the points for his 1st Dan grade 🥋now has to do his theory!
Steve won 20 points and is 10 points away from his 1st Dan! 30 points towards his Dan grade for Nathan. Josie won 20 points towards her 2nd Dan. 20 points for Mack towards his 2nd Dan. 10 points for Alex and Sasha towards their 3rd Dan’s!
Call up for GB at U18 2024 European Kata Championships!
Hot on the back of Patchway Judo Club Bristol coach Jeremy Robinson receiving his Kata coaching award at the British Judo Awards, his protégés Lani and Alice have received their selection letters to represent GB at U18 2024 European Kata Championships! These will be held in June in Bosnia!
The Girls were U16 British Champions (three categories) in 2022, and 2023 they competed in Senior category and won a silver and two bronze medals. We are extremely proud of all three of them! The club will be paying their entries and registration (as although they are representing GB there isn’t any funding!)
Obviously there are lots of other costs involved so we need to support them with fundraising. If anyone would like to sponsor / support the girls on their journey please contact Patchway Judo Club Bristol or Jeremy.
Well done girls and of course to our award winning Kata coach Jeremy Robinson.