Big Judo Adults Keep Growing

A photo of last week's Tuesday night class.  It appears that our philosophy of 'social' adult Judo is working well.

With our adults we are running classes focussed on newbies and non-competitive players.  We do heaps of ground work and controlled stand up (i.e. instructors making sure that the students work within their actual limits not what the student thinks is their limit). 

Taking this approach we have minimised injuries and are all enjoying our Judo.

Big Judo Pukekohe

The team is back on the mat at Pukekohe and looking forward to the competition next weekend.  We have had to put in a new class for beginners to keep up with demand for kids Judo classes.

Big Judo Back

Big Judo is back in action. Pukekohe kids were out in force on Tuesday night. Tracey and Geoff are back and raring to go. It was awesome hanging out with the kids. 

In town we had our first class on Tuesday nice sized kids class and really happy that Pia is around till April yay. Nelly also turned up and is keen to do some coaching this year. 

Merry Christmas

Hi Team Big Judo had its last session for 2015 this week.  We are going to take a summer break..

We start training again for 2016 on:

• Monday 1 Fenruary - Police
• Tuesday 2 February - Kids and Adults

On Friday 5 and Saturday 6 February there will be no training because of Waitangi Day,

Then in the second week of February we are back into regular training.  

Big Judo Big Visit to University Judo Club

 Big Judo Kids from both Central and Pukekohe held a training session at the University Judo in Epsom.  A nice class.  We did lots of Judo practice and finished with 'Batsugan'(informal) competition.

It was also a good chance for Ben and Jordan to catch up with Rick.  The 'dungeon', University Judo Club's dojo in Epsom, is where both Ben and Jordan learnt their Judo. Jordan's Dad also learnt Judo with Rick,

Everybody really enjoyed watching the kids because as well as being a great fun day it also let the kids see where our club's style of Judo started, learn  about their legacy and demonstrated that we are working to bring a new generation of Judoka onto the mat.

Another Big Saturday for Big Judo

This Saturday was really good day - the two kids classes were big and not to rowdy.  Nellie turned up again and enjoyed helping coach for three classes!

Pia from Germany had a great time with the kids teaching them good German technique. '

And I finally got a photo of Pia.   Here she is Pia Elisabeth Jahn from Jenna in Germany.  A great addition to our team helping us out not just with the kids but also with the adults. 

Then we a had a good strong adults class.  This class just keeps growing, We also had some women on the mat including a visitor from Tukaha BJJ, a big well respected BJJ club.  We know Pedro, Mike and Jonathan (instructors at Tukaha BJJ) from the olden days and really appreciated that one of their students has come to visit.

With Tracey, Nellie and Pia we have really good female instructors on the mat which is a huge bonus.

At Big Judo we pride ourselves on being an inclusive and safe training venue so are really pleased that as well as our gang of broken down old men and young kids we are starting to attract a nice group of women keen to learn Judo,

Great work team.

Big Judo Has A New Friend

At Big Judo we are pretty lucky to have had visitor from Germany - Pia Jahn.  Pia is a handy young Judo player who hails from Jena in Germany.

Pia used be a competitive Judo player but after injuring her knee decided to concentrate on coaching instead.  She is very good coach and has brought a lot of interesting ideas and techniques to the club.

Pia helps out with the kids classes and trains with the adults.  She has been wonderful to have on the mat as a coach and even though our adults class has a few large dudes in it she has thrown herself into that with gusto too.

If you want to meet Pia come down one Saturday.