From: Christine
Title: Annual Club Championships
Posted on: Sunday, December 17, 2006, 13:26 PM
Once again we have just held our annual Club Championships, in our new venue - The Stanway School, with great success.
We were able to include our very new beginners who only started in September 2006.
The team event went down very well and was enjoyed by all.
Several judoka won their first ever gold trophies/medals.
In particular, George Hindle and Jacob Sowman did extremely well in their groups as 7 year olds - both winning gold.
Our Judoka of the Year was Matthew Steward who, whilst winning gold in his individual group,
could not take part in the team event because of a broken collar bone (due to playing rugby the day before!)
Both Matthew Steward and Sunil Abeyasekera have been put forward for their Junior Assistant Judo Instructor awards,
which is very pleasing as they both started judo with us as novices. Sunil has also achieved his 6th kokyu grade this year.
Thank you to the parents and judoka who have supported the club throughout 2006. Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year.
We look forward to your return on Friday 5th January 2007.
From: Christine
Title: Grading Results
Posted on: Sunday, December 3, 2006, 15:06 PM
Well done to all the judoka who entered the grading on Sunday 3rd December. Especially, congratulations to
Sunil Abeyasekera who gained his junior brown belt and his Junior Assistant Judo Instructor award.
From: Christine
Title: Competition Results
Posted on: Sunday, November 5, 2006, 17:57 PM
Here are our results from the 'Novice to Orange' Open competition held at Highwoods Sports Centre on 4th November.
We had a clean sweep, with all eight of our competitors winning medals against players from as far away as Bedford.
GOLD - 32kg Callum McLaughlin, Open Alexander Humphrey.
SILVER - 25kg Conner McLaughlin, 28kg Lewis Bardell, 32kg Bradley Cotton, Open Alex Whitaker.
BRONZE - 28kg Adam Turner, 40kg Matthew O'Reilly.
From: Dale - Sensei
Title: Grading
Posted on: Monday, July 10, 2006, 11:10 AM
Congratulations to everyone who took part in the recent grading.
I hope to see you entering competition events in the near future.
From: Christine
Title: IMPORTANT INFORMATION on CHANGE OF VENUE
Posted on: Saturday, June 10, 2006, 11:18 AM
Please note that we will be moving to a new training dojo in September 2006.
Philip Morant School will no longer host evening activities from July this year.
This means that we have had to find a new dojo.
After much searching, we are pleased to announce that our new venue will be:
The Gym at The Stanway School & College, Winstree Road, Colchester, Essex CO3 0QA
Click here for location map
The car park and entrance to the gym is at the rear.
We shall continue to train on Friday evenings and at the same times.
Either Dale or I will let you know the exact date that the September term will start.
Meanwhile, we continue as usual at Philip Morant until our last training night on Friday 21st July.
From: Christine
Title: AJA National Open Results
Posted on: Sunday, May 14, 2006, 20:27 PM
Stanway Judo Club now have a 'home grown' national champion - Matthew Steward - who stormed through to take a gold medal
with an impressive series of ippon throws. Matthew started judo at the age of 9 in 2001 and he proudly wears a green belt.
Five club members took part, all of whom won medals. The full list is:
25kg Anil Abeyasekera Silver,
28kg Lewis Bardell Bronze,
40kg Catlin Rice Silver,
45kg Matthew Steward Gold,
60kg Mike Warren Bronze.
The event hosted clubs from all over the UK and is the first AJA national competition to be held in Colchester for nearly ten years.
From: Christine
Title: AJA National Open
Posted on: Saturday, May 6, 2006, 11:22 AM
Our next event is the AJA National Open competition. It will be held at Highwoods Leisure Centre on Sunday 14th May.
From: Christine
Title: AJA South East Area Team Championships
Posted on: Saturday, May 6, 2006, 11:22 AM
The AJA South East Area Team Championships were held last weekend at Highwoods Leisure Centre and Stanway Judo Club came
away with an impressive haul of medals. The event consisted of local teams and some from Norfolk with both Juniors under 16
and Seniors taking part. Stanway's results follow.
Juniors under 9 lightweight: Silver - Conor McLaughlin, Anil Abeyaskera, Lewis Bardell.
Juniors under 9 heavyweight: Silver - Callum McLaughlin, Joseph Rice, Matthew O'Reilly.
Juniors over 10 middleweight: Gold - Sunil Abeyaskera, Michael Rice, Jennifer Gallifent.
Juniors over 10 heavyweight: Silver - Jennifer Gallifent, Nathan Holliday, Joseph Davey.
Jennifer bravely entered the heavyweight event as well to make up the numbers
and really deserved her medals won against boys in the other teams.
