DayGroupCoach
Sunday 10am Juniors – Under 6Will Mallard: Brown Belt
Sunday 11amJuniors – Under 12Brian Conway
1st Dan
Sunday 12pmTeenagersMina Isihara:
Black Belt
Sunday 2pmAdultDerek Conway: 1st Dan
Wednesday 6pmBeginners: ChildrenJohn Creaven: 2nd Dan
Wednesday 7pmTeenagers – Under 16John Creaven: 2nd Dan
Wednesday 8pm – 10pmAdultDerek Conway
Brian Conway

Judo

Meaning (“gentle way”) is a modern martial art and combat sport created in Japan in 1882 by Kano Jigoro. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the object is to either throw or takedown one’s opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue one’s opponent with a grappling maneuver, or force an opponent to submit by joint locking or by executing a strangle hold or choke. Strikes and thrusts by hands and feet as well as weapons defences are a part of judo, but only in pre-arranged forms (kata) and are not allowed in judo competition or free practice (randori).

The philosophy and subsequent pedagogy developed for judo became the model for other modern Japanese martial arts that developed from koryū (traditional schools). The worldwide spread of judo has led to the development of a number of offshoots such as Sambo and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Practitioners of judo are called jūdōka.