Titan Judo

All new class starting thursday 26th January in Paisley

Paul is starting a new class in Paisley at Mossvale Community Church hall at 60 Greeenock Rd, Paisley. PA3 2LE. All Titan members are more than welcome to come along and join in these new beginners classes and they are open to any new members interested in joining. Times are 5-5:45pm for 4 to 7 year olds and 6-7pm for 8-12 year olds.

Saturday Antonine on the move

With immediate effect Saturday class at the Antonine has been moved to the Playdrome in Clydebank. Please check out the timetable page to see the times for the Playdrome. Classes at the Playdrome are age banded so the children get to practice with a lot of other children of similar size and age.

Please contact Paul with any queries.

Temporary schedule change

Theres a slight change to the schedule for the next 2 weekends.
Due to events being held in the Playdrome, the Saturday classes will move up to the Antonine.

Classes on the 19th and 26th of February will be held in the Antonine.

Times are:
10-11 for 4 to 8 years.
11 – 12 for 8 to 14.
12 – 1 for 14+ and Seniors.

World Champion joins Titan

Graeme Randall joins the Antonine kids with the Titan T

WEDNESDAY 8TH DECEMBER

Judo will be on at the Playdrome tonight, the council has kept the building open and as of 2:30pm it is still on. Please give the Playdrome a quick call on 0141 951 4321 before leaving the house.

See you later

Highland Open

Four of our more experienced players travelled north to Fort William to compete in this years Highland Open.

Stefan Creran and Ross Hepburn, who are now part of the West of Scotland Talent Development Squad fought in the morning, with Peter Doogan and Stuart Kennedy, two of our seniors competing in the afternoon.

Ross was first up for the team and started really well competing hard against what seemed to be much larger opponents. There was some excellent techniques shown with a fantastic tate shiho gatame hold for ippon against an east coast player which was rewarded with a bronze medal in the 60kg+ category.

Stefan was next up competing in the -60kg category which was undoubtedly the category for the craziest hairdo. Stefan started slow but really came on to a good performance by controlling his opponent with his gripping skills. There was no medal here but definately a good start to the competitive calenar.

The two senior players won their first fights of the day by the skin of their teeth. This was against the weigh in scales! Once on the mat Stuart was first up and started of with a throw for ippon. Stuart kept up the performances and won match after match by ippon all the way to the final. In the final Stuart fought well but was caught with a good throw for Ippon by, would you believe “Mr Mcguinness”, no it wasn’t me it was an english player who was part of a large team from Newcastle who had travelled north to compete.

Well done Stuart on an excellent silver in the -90kg category

Peter fought in the -81kg and his first fight was against a frenchman, there was some good exchanges in this match but Peter was caught on the ground and could not escape hi opponents grip.

Next up was a match against the eventual winner of the tournament. Peter attempted a nice seoi nage, but again was caught on the ground. Not the result Peter was looking for but gives us a starting point for the next competition.

Well done to all of the guys who fought.

Titan Scottish Silver

Competition season has started well with three of our players fighting in the Scottish Mini Mon championships.on the 8th of May.

Roland Smyth, Lewis Christie and Summer Cranney all took part in this years event which would have been their first judo tournament. All three did the club proud with some fantastic fighting and gritty performances. Roland started off the day with an excellent win by Ippon but unfortunately Lewis got caught cold early in the fight. Both of the boys fought well and came away with some valuable competitive experience and their heads held high. In the afternoon Summer started her first tournament well by winning her fights mostly by Ippon all the way to the final. Her performance in the final was fantastic and up against a more experienced player pushed her opponent to a golden score situation. Summer nearly had the gold as she had her opponent in a hold twice but she had managed to escape. It came to a referee decision and this time it went the other way. Summer came away with the silver, not bad for the first attempt.

On the 9th we held a club competiton which provided the crowds with some fantastic judo. Players from all of our classes from Tiny Titans up competed in some hard fought battles.

Well done to all who fought and keep up the hard work for the grading in June. Above is a picture of the medallists from the club competition.

Summer 2010 training camp

Summer 2009 proved a great time with the younger kids enjoying a totally free 4 week summer camp. Our coaches put on some great entertainment and judo practice for our members to enjoy during the summer break. This was possible due to generosity of to parties, Clydebank College for providing the venue and funding and also “Awards for All” for providing the club with a grant to purchase great quality GEEMAT from Fighting Films.

With this year in mind Paul had said “I’m trying to sort the kids programme but at this point due to the current financial climate we are unsure if the college would be able to support the summer camp, worse case is we can put on a watered down version for the kids”. Paul added ” Regarding the training camp, I’m trying to obtain the services of the countries top competitor at the moment to provide our big name for the summer, following last years big guns Graeme Randall, National Coach and Former World Champion and John Buchanan, National Talent Development Coach and World Bronze medallist”.

The club would again like to thank the afore mentioned parties in their valuable contribution to services we provide.

NEW TIMES FOR FEBRUARY

From February we are adding a new class to each of our days for the younger kids. Please have a look at the timetable page and see the times which suit you and your kids.

Nathan Wins Silver in Sweden

Nathan travelled to Sweden recently to take part in the annual Lugi training camp. The camp is one of europes best with competitors from all over the world.

All the players who take part in the camp compete in its annual tournament and in his category Nathan picked up the silver after a great fighting performance.

Well done Nathan