Titan Judo

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!

Mick Tausney Band play Titans 07 dance

This year we have managed to book the Mick Tausney band for our annual dance. The dance will be held again at the Napier Hall on Saturday the 13th of October (the evening of Clash of the Titans). We will be grateful for any donations that anyone can make towards our raffle this year, so get your thinking caps on and see what superb prizes you can get your hands on for the dance.

CLASH OF THE TITANS – CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS

On Saturday the 13th of October we are going to hold a Club Championships. After we will be holding the prizegiving for the year and hopefully for all of this we will have a few categories. Get on our forum and let us know what categories you think and how you think you’ll do.

New forum

Paul asked if we could have a forum on our site, so, may God have mercy on us, we now have a forum.

Titan Forum.

Go have a look, sign up, post some topics about whatever you like, just be sensible – no swearing, don’t give out names, addresses or phone numbers.
Try to keep the libelous comments and outright slagging to a manageable minimum too, eh?

7 medals for Titan Terrors

There were some fantastic performances by the Titan team at The West Side Judo Addict Open. Teams from Edinburgh, Motherwell, Glasgow, Falkirk and the Borders were in attendance to make this a tough tournament. All the boys fought extremely well with Lewis picking up the silver in his category and the rest winning Bronze medals. The new rules for under twelves provided some spectacular throws that were swiftly followed by some nifty ground techniques. Coach Paul said ” All of the boys fought out of their skin and made some moves towards being the Judo stars of the future, a bit more hard work on the mat and they’ll be unstoppable, I’m very proud of them all”.

The club would like to thank all of the parents and members who turned out to support the boys.

Good Luck to the Titan Terrors at the West Side Open

We have seven competitiors at this years West Side Open @ Drumchapels Donald Dewar centre. The competition will see competitors from all over Scotland competing for those gold medals.

In the Red Belt category we have:

Ross Wilson
Lewis Greig
Liam Milligan

And in the yellow / Orange category we have:

Liam Patton
Stefan Creran
Ben Timney
Nathan Hamilton

Good luck boys

If you want to support the Magnificent Seven, then come along on Sunday the 20th of May, fighting starts around 9:30am.

Western Area Kyu & Dan Grade Open

Stuart and Peter attended the Western Area Open in Kilmarnock last weekend.

Stuart took the silver medal in the blue belt category and also collected enough points to obtain his brown belt. He lost out in the final after suffering an injury to his wrist in an earlier fight. Stuart added another two scalps to his collection from rival Glasgow club Pro Judo winning all his fights convincingly by ippon scores.

Peter fought some of his best fights so far and took fifth place in the brown belt category. Peter had broken his toe earlier in the competition and reminiscent of “Daniel san “from Karate Kid fought on. In his pool they had all beaten each other and had to fight again, he progressed through collecting points for his Black belt and into the knockout stage where he had to compete against a much larger fighter (120kg).

The two players fought really well against some difficult opponents and represented Titan Judo very well.

Well done to both of them.