The books should help your judo knowledge grow just as long as you turn up to class to try your new moves out

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

Make sure to have a look so you know when we’re on.

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.

Not bad going for the youngest (13) and smallest competitor in the category.

Well done!

Malky, Craig and Mark all fought for the first time in the yellow and red belt sections respectively, with Craig winning silver and Malky and Mark bringing home a bronze.

David, Peter D and Stuart all fought in the 1st dan section. Stuart narrowly missed out on a medal and David managed to bring home the gold, after seemingly trying to Uchimata everyone in Kilmarnock.

Everyone did well, and hopefully all took something from the day.

Video to follow.

Well done Stuart!

The Titan Dan Grades

Paul McGuinness 5th dan
George Goode 1st Dan
John Lipsett 1st Dan
Greame Holling 5th Dan
Mads Gabrielson 1st Dan
Gillian Gabrielson 1st Dan
David McKinnon 1st Dan
Alec McKendrick 1st Dan
Peter McMillan 1st Dan
Brian Torrance 1st Dan
Peter Doogan 1st Dan
Stuart Kennedy 1st Dan

The club still has a few players chapping at the door for their black belts so hopefully 2008 will yield some more, come on Barry, Peter and The Phoenix (you know who you are)

Tag Team Judo, invented by Paul down the pub one night, features teams of 2 or 3 fighting in a standard Judo match with no time limit and the option to tag out to bring a team mate in, wrestling style. It sounds stupid, and probably is stupid, but it works and is great fun.

After some great fights and some great throws, the championship went to the Titan Top Team of Paul and Craig, with an unbeaten run of 3 wins from 3 matches.

Silver went to the team voted “Best Looking in the Club 2007″, Malky, Peter and me, with 2 wins out of 3 matches.

Bronze went to Steven’s team of him, Barry and Stuart. Last and by all means least came that Titan OAP team of George, John and Graeme.

Special mention has to go to Steven, Craig and Malky for being stupid enough….er, brave enough to agree to take part in this, specially as they are all red or white belts and altogether only weigh about 10 stone. They all put in some great performances for their first try at any sort of competitive Judo.

1st Gregor
2nd Ben McK
3rd Eva
3rd Ewan W

1st Shaun
2nd Ewan N
3rd Max
3rd Jack B

1st Patrick
2nd Ryan
3rd Jamie
3rd Jade

1st Andrew C
2nd Ben McG
3rd Andrew F
3rd Jordan

1st Ross
2nd Stewart
3rd Liam M
3rd Charlie
3rd Miller

1st Nathan
2nd James
3rd Lewis
3rd Darren
3rd George

1st Marc
2nd Stefan
3rd Ben
3rd Liam C
5th Andrew
5th Iain
5th Joe

1st George
2nd David
3rd Peter
3rd Brian

Medals also go to (in order of most wins) Mads, Stuart, John & Barry.

Player of the Year prizes went to :-
Tiny Titan - Shaun Sweeney
Titan Terror - Nathan Hamilton
Titan - George Goode

Paul would like to thank everyone who competed at the club championships and had this to say about the day, “There were some fantastic matches and equally some spectacular throws. Marc, Ross, Andrew C and Nathan were all in with a chance of winning the Player of the year trophy and equally there were some great efforts and attitudes, James fought extremely well to win a silver and his brother George fought great in the same category but the person who stuck out the most for his fighting spirit was Miller Niven, he fought extremely hard on the day which just happened to be his first competition and did really well to keep up with the more experienced guys. In the senior category the story of the day was George Goode showing all the youngsters how to win at the grand age of 53, just goes to show you’re never to old to start. Well done to everyone again.”

You can find more pictures at our Flickr gallery.