Club News December 2001

  Competition News

Clacton’s Second International Judo Competition went extremely well.  All competitors and Officials seem to have a great time over the two days.

A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL WHO HELPED TO MAKE THIS EVENT SO SUCCESSFUL. 

Here is a picture of the layout of the Leisure Centre 2001

Medal winners were: -

Gold

Jade Gay                                U30kg

Kirsty Adams                         U40kg

Scott Price                             U55kg

Gemma Page                         U44kg                    

Dan Ritter                              U90kg

Silver

Eleanor Nunnen                   U30kg    

Nick Stojic                           U66kg

Russell Moody                     U81kg

Steve Gready                       U90kg

Ruth Salter                          U63kg

Bronze

Sam Ballard                          U32kg

Bethany Guille                      U48kg

Michelle Page                       U36kg

Jennette Stiffell                    Plus 57k

Mark Smith                          U73kg

Mark Salter                          U90k

Matthew Saunders               U60k

Ben Page                              U60k                      

On the Saturday evening the club hired the swimming pool for an evening training session: Plus Disco for all.

All members worked really hard.

Events Coming Up

We are holding a Belt Banded competition on 3rd February 2002.  Anybody interested in competing please see Ray Goodey for details.

MERIT BADGE

A Merit Badge event was held on the 6^th October at Green Lodge.

The results were

Red

Michael Hewett, Amy Simson, Adam Jackson, Rachel Jackson, Jake Sawford, Elizabeth Hale,

White

Abigail McCarthy, Faye Walton, Alexander Stewart, Wade Garrett, Callum Woodrow, Jake Lawrence, Georgina Dickens, Richard Hale, Jack Pennell, James Tucker, Ruairh Cronin, Orla Cronin

Yellow

Danny Bradshaw, Jordan Wood. Jonathan Hewett, Kurtis Thorne

Orange

Rebecca Hawkins, Eleanor Nunnen, Stacey Cranmer, Robert Tucker, Kyle Cutler, Austin Thorne, Adam Gardiner, Danny Bradshaw

Green

John Vince

Blue

Clare Mc Keown, Jasmine Vince, Mark Cranmer

Second Brown

Michael Pedder, Grant Bird

1^st Extra High

Rebecca Wilkinson, Sam Ballard, William Nunnen

Merit Awards   (8 years)    Girl                 Orla Cronin

Merit Award    (8 years)     Boy                Johnathan Hewett

Merit Award  (5/6 years)                           Kurtis Thorne

Merit Award  (9 years)                              Eleanor Nunnen

We would like to say a big thank you to Elaine Down for undertaking the training day for the referees and for presenting the merit badge medals.

Elaine is the Chair Person of NHC and also IJF International Referee 

CONGRATULATIONS

Congratulation to the following people on passing their Area Referees exam,

Paul Nunnen, Deniz Alp, Dave Parkin

 Also congratulations to Ruth Salter on passing her Senior Controllers exam and her written paper for Area Referee.

  General Rules

Just a reminder that when doing judo no metal must be worn – earrings, hair clips or bands, jewellery 

 No shoes to be worn on the mat area.

Many thanks to Lorraine Adams for her help in producing the clubs news letter. Ta Ray

Webmaster E-Mail- Ray.Goodey@cadet-in-sight.com