Competition Blog
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
Western Area Judo Association International Open
What a day!
Great day Western Area Judo Association International Open! Every player won a fight!
Gold – Sasha Foxon
Silvers – Sam and Alex Bright
Bronzes – Matthew, Isla, Adrianna, Eloise, Daisy, Lani, two for Alice (cadets and seniors!)
Alice won points for her 1st Dan and Sasha points for her 3rd Dan!
Alison and Oliver officiated from 8am-6pm! Thanks to all coaches, parents, siblings and grandparent for their support! Next year is Saturday 26th July University of Bath
Westcountry Green Belt and Below
Competition organised jointly by Patchway and Kingsley school Judo.
Just over 100 Judoka from all of the West Country, Wales and London took part in the event.
Alison was Tournament Director and Mercedes was Time Keeping, after the event has now completed all requirements for her Time Keepers award. Eloise refereed, along with two other junior referees from Kingsley school.
Players all fought well, thanks to Toddy for coaching, as well as Kanji coaches, Sam, Matthew and Daisy.
Silver medals for Megan and Daisy. Bronze medals for Mila, Mercedes, Eloise, Sam and Toby.
Looking forward to next year, hopefully we will take even more players!
European Judo Championships Kata 2024
We are so proud of Alice and Lani entering their first European Kata Championships.
They came 9th, both of them and their coach, Jeremy Robinson, were extremely pleased with their first performance on the European stage! The girls were the youngest in their group and had put in an incredible amount of training and practice!
Interclub Competiton and U8 Festival Results
We ran U8 Festival in the morning, with seven clubs taking part.
Festival has a combination of games and “fights” to help prepare younger players to compete once they turn 8 years old. All the players did themselves proud. So lovely to see so many of our “minis” (ages 4-7) taking part; 20 of the total 34!
Competition had groups of red belts and mixed groups of yellow and orange belts. 16 clubs took part from far and wide, a total of 75 players; we would like to thank them all for supporting the event.
For some of our club players it was their first time competing!
Our own players;
Golds for Tyler, Andy, Megan, Mja L & Chloe
Silvers for Abdul, Daniel, Chloe, Amelia and Daisy
Bronzes for Toby, James, Mila, ELianna, Maja F and Mercedes.
The majority of the officials were our Junior players, following the Kanji award programme, supervised by other officials from the club. They all did a sterling job, proving once again what excellent role models they are.
Two of the five referees were “home grown” too, with our experienced referee Eloise along with Oliver, who was under examination on the day, along with Tayler from Yate Star. They both passed.
Amazing support from parents, coaches and older players.
Next event we are hosting with Kingsley School 22 June in Bideford.
The results are in:
Katana Judo Competition Sunday 22 April!
New squad T-shirts had their first competition outing, with great results!
We literally had a team of Golden girls! Boys winning Golds, silvers and bronze medals between them!
Great support from club members throughout the day! #teampatchway 🥋
Bedminster Competition
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.
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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!
U8 Christmas festival at Kingsley School
Some of our junior players were there to put their refereeing and officiating skills into action.
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Cadet British Championships
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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