Titan Judo

Western Dan & Kyu grade open results

We had a team of seniors travel through to Kilmarnock today to compete.

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.

Another new Black Belt

Stuart Kennedy was awarded his 1st Dan last Sunday, despite carrying a back injury. Stuart narrowley missed out on a previous line up for his first dan, a great performance and a well executed Ko-Uchi-Makikomi for ippon got the points he needed to become the clubs 12th Black Belt.

Well done Stuart!

The Titan Dan Grades

Paul McGuinness 5th dan
George Goode 1st Dan
John Lipsett 2nd Dan
Greame Holling 6th 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)

Titan Judo end of year Tag Team championships

The Playdrome yesterday was witness to some high octane action in the form of our Tag Team Championship.

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.

TITAN CHAMPIONS

Starting from the Tiniest of Tiny Titans thru to the Titan seniors, here are the results from Clash of the Titans.

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.”

August 2007 Dan Grading pictures

You can find more pictures at our Flickr gallery.

Graeme Randall and David Somerville visit photos – update

Some people may have been having some problems accessing the Titan Judo MySpace page, so I’ve uploaded all of our photos from Graeme and David’s visits to our Flickr Gallery.

You can freely download your pictures in a variety of sizes from there.

Please let me know if there are any problems with them.

June 2007 Junior Grading Pictures

Congratulations to everyone that took part.

Kai grades.

Mon Grades.

Junior grading – 24th June

We are holding a junior grading tomorrow, the 24th, in the Playdrome.

Under 8’s check in with your blue book or license form at 11am and 8+ years check in at 12.30pm with same.

It will cost £10 for -8 and £15 for 8+.

If this is your first grading, please speak to your coach for details of what to do.

Good luck!

Judo Summer Camp

During the 4 weeks of July, Titan Judo and Clydebank College are running a free Summer camp in the Kilbowie Road campus of the College. The first day is Monday the 2nd of July and it runs Mon-fri until the 27th of July.

If you wish to take part, please contact Paul and book your place. We will be having Judo sessions from World Champion Graeme Randall, World medallist John Buchanan and Olympian David Somerville.

Titan Judo members are getting first choice and if you like, you can bring some friends, but try to get them booked in if possible.

To book, email Paul.

Summer News

The last Judo session before the Summer break is Saturday the 30th of June.
Classes start back on Wednesday the 1st of August.

Seniors will be training as normal on Wednesday nights. Starting a little earlier, at 7.30. There will hopefully be some club visits during this time, keep your eye on the Forum for details.

Have a great Summer!