We have been talking about hosting a Friday night, female
randori night for a little while and finally we are ready to go.
Details are:
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Date: Friday 9 August
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Location Big Judo Dojo, St Martins Church Hall,
Corner of Sandringham and Mt Albert Roads
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Time: 7 pm
In summary:
·
Nellie will run the session. Nellie has been
doing Judo for more than thirty years and in her prime was one of our top Judo
players. Competing at the Commonwealth Games. She also lived and trained in
Europe placing in European competitions. She is also very well respected
in the BJJ and MMA community having won many competitions in these disciplines
on top of her Judo success.
·
She is tough and committed to developing women’s
Judo i.e. it will be a safe, supervised, social environment and there will be
no bad or unsafe behaviour.
· Nellie knows how tough it is for women and girls
to keep up their Judo. With a small pool of people too often females are small
minority in a club and either have to train with men or the same females all
the time.
· So we wanted to provide an opportunity for a
fun, safe randori session. We aren’t going to teach technique (that’s up to
coaches) but we do want to provide an opportunity for females (of all ages) to
get together and do Judo.
· The aims are:
o Network
i.e. meet other women doing Judo
o Practice
with women
o Have
fun
Be great to see you there.
