St. Albans Judo Club

After a fantastic day with our Dragons at the U8s event yesterday, we're back at Bishops Stortford today with a small group of Yellow & Orange belt Tigers & Wolves for the Green and Under competition.
Good luck everyone 🍀

Good luck today to a squad of U8s taking part in the Judo Festival at Bishops Stortford. The chaos of the warmup is done, on to the Randori pools. 👍🎉👍

Today we were busy at the BJC Open Nationals.

A great day of judo for our members, all showing great development & personal growth, many stepping out into this level of event for the first time.

Today wasn't the day for Danae, Nye & Muhammed, but all fought really well, and showed some good attacking judo.

Sadly we'll never know if Tim would have made it through his round one pool and into the final block as he had to withdraw with an injured foot after his 2nd fight, with 1 win already in hand.

Next we had🥉Bronze 🥉 medals for Anna, Halid, Isla, Maya, Archie & Alexander, lots of positive judo, great scores & some good wins.

Then finally we are delighted to have 3 new BJC National Champions at the club, after some excellent fights leading to 🥇Gold 🥇 medals today for Max, Elisa & Henry (Hatfield).

Well done everyone for your brilliant work today & for representing the club so well your behaviour & attitude on & off mat. I'm really proud of all of you.

Thank you to all the parents for bringing them & staying to offer great support to all our team. It was really lovely to have so much support right through to the final groups.

Finally thank you to Samuel for coming along with me & running about to make sure everyone had lots of support whilst they fought.

I love days like this, which show ongoing the growth & development of the club, and the hard work everyone is putting in. (I also get to catch up and chat with old friends 😀)

All the best to Zac & Jaidan who are taking part in the East London Adaptive Competition today!

We met a monkey, who's a lot bigger than ours!