Titan Judo

BUPA Grand Prix results

Good results for Titan this weekend at the Bupa Grand Prix.

A great performance from Roland in the -34kg, some great fighting and collected his first win in style.

Gavin excelled in his first -38kg and came away with the silver medal. Some great fights with some awesome seoinage throws.

Next up was Summer, she came up against some good competition, there were laughs there were tears and that happened when she won and lost. Some superb fighting to earn herself a bronze.

Luke was next, in a baptism of fire into the world of strangles. Didn’t take him long winning some great matches with a really positive attitude and judo to match. Another bronze for Titan.

Emily was in the -57 and this was a tough category with some experienced competitors. Only losing once to Scotland’s no1 and a fantastic ippon score to clinch the silver for Titan & Genki judo club

Last up was Stefan, topping the grand Prix table for the year. Stefan kept his winning ways going and walked away with the bronze.

Thanks to all the parents and their kids for coming along to support the players and thank you to the other coaches who gave up their own time to look after ALL the players.

GO TITAN

Another temporary schedule change

Next Saturday, the 12th of March, the West Dunbartonshire Sports Show will be taking place in the Playdrome.

This means that all of the Saturday classes will be held up at the Antonine.
Times are:

10 to 11 – 4 to 8
11 to 12 – 8 to 14
12 to 1 – 14 and Seniors

We will have a stall at the Sports Show, and will be doing a Judo demonstration at some point during the day. Volunteers to help out during the course of the day would be greatly appreciated, so if anyone wants to get involved, speak to Paul.

Christmas Party

We are holding this years Christmas party in the Playdrome on the 17th of December, from 6.30 to 7.30.
All members are invited.

Paul is in top secret negotiations with Judo Santa about a personal appearance as we speak.

Club Grading

Next week, we have a club grading for all of our Titan Terrors.
It is being held in the Antonine Centre

The times are:
7 and below – 10-11.30am. Cost £12
8 and over – 11.30am – 1pm. Cost £15

If your child has never been graded, you will need to get a Judo Scotland membership form from Paul, or from Judo Scotland. Cost for yearly membership is £12 for 7 and under and £19 for 8 and over.
Please bring the completed form and cash or cheque for the amount on the day.
You do not pay anything else for taking part in the first grading.

If you child has graded, it is essential you bring their blue license book, their judo suit and the correct fee.

Club Grading

Congratulations to everyone that took part today.

It was great to see everyone showing how well they’ve done, and those new belts are well deserved!

Titan Judo Camp 2009

Paul has put together a two day judo event in Clydebank on the 6th and 7th of August. It’s aimed at youths and seniors and is more about hard work. There are six scheduled sessions, three purely randori and three will be taken by John Buchanan, Graeme Randall and Tony Penfold.

The camp is priced at only £25 which is snip when you look at who you are getting, so please try and get the first Titan Camp off to a flyer and support it. It is situated nicely a few weeks before some big tournaments so if we get the numbers then it will be great training for all who attend. Remember we’re all trying to encourage more club players to get involved so please encourage them to book as well as any performance players who may be interested.

If you need more info please don’t hesitate to get back in touch, contact details are on the registration form.

Junior grading – December 2008

Congratulations to everyone who graded.

There were some great performances and those new belts were well earned.

Gary Clarkson has sent me copies of the 2 group photos he took of the class. He has high resolution copies of these, if anyone wants one.

Scottish Age Bands video

Paul put together this video of the boys fights from the recent competition.
It did originally have music in it, but Youtube said we were in breach of copyright because of it, so, no music now. Sorry.

Anyway, enjoy. There’s some nice Judo here.

Titan Judo – Scottish Age Bands 2008

Scottish Age bands 2008

Well done to Darren, Stefan & Nathan who all fought extremely well at the Scottish Age Band Championships. They competed in the -42kg, -55kg & -38kg categories. Against some tough opposition the boys performed well by attacking and fighting like champions. The star of the day was Nathan, winning all of his contests by ippon in record time. He eventually lost to get a place in the final by a more experienced player from Aberdeen but shook off the defeat to go on and win his Bronze medal fight in all of 5 seconds.

Well done to all and congratulations to Nathan on the Scottish Bronze medal.

June 2008 Grading

Well done to everyone who sat their grading last week. Everyone’s promotion was well deserved.

Gary Clarkson took quite a few photos of the grading contests, which I’ve uploaded to our Flickr gallery, but heres a few of them.