Competition Blog

Great day at the Bedminster Bedminster Annual Championships Golds for Isla, Sam and Danny Silvers for Freddie, Adrianna, Mila, Eloise, Chloe, Ralph & Lani. Bronzes for Noah B, Noah G, James Mc, Mercedes, Daisy, Nick and Harrison!

Officials, Alison, Sasha Foxon & Oliver!

Coaches, Alex, Luke & Toddy!

Thank you to Mike, Zoe, Mark, Sam, Luke, Sasha and me for putting our club mats back after.

Some of our junior players were there to put their refereeing and officiating skills into action.

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Balazs won four fights, also gaining 10 points towards his black belt.

He finished 7th over all! He joined Patchway when he was 8 as a yellow belt having moved from Hungary! We are very proud of him.

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Silvers for Sam and Mercedes, bronzes for Amelia and Matthew. Tough fights, great judo and great attitudes all round – Eloise complimented on her refereeing for second week running… 🥋

So proud of our players and our club referee today!

After much persuasion Sophie agreed to give the competition a go! She did so well, winning bronze medal! First competition for Theo and Sam was his coach, Theo made it very hard for his opponents, he won bronze. Freddie fought hard, was held down and escaped twice! He won bronze. Sam fought in two groups, total of 7 fights altogether! He won both of his first group fights in seconds, gold medal secured. He then fought in a heavier group, losing his first in golden score and going on to win the next two. Pool resulted in a three way tie – Simon decided to give all three gold medals. Eloise refereed all day! She was excellent, confident and really knew her stuff!

Alice and Lani entered Senior Kata Championships this year as Alice is too old to be a junior. After being Junior Kata Champions they worked really hard leading up to the Championships. The girls practiced three different Kata’s.

Coach Jeremy, Former Kata World Champion, was hopeful that the girls would medal, was over the moon with their results!

Senior ju-no-kata; bronze
Senior katame-no-kata; bronze
Senior nage-no-kata; silver!

This year so the biggest entry ever (31 senior pairs across 6 kata) and a much higher standard than last year. Jeremy, along with all the other coaches and club are Soooo proud of the girls.

British Schools Championships!

Seven  Judoka from Patchway Judo Club competed at the British Schools competition in Sheffield, representing seven different schools!

#teampatchway had a great result gaining one silver, two bronzes and two 5th places. Well done all.