Radcliffe on Trent Zen Judo Club
Annual Budo Course 2007
Some of Sunday's participants
This year's participants, I cannot call them students as 75% are Dan grades in their own chosen style, came from Ireland, Manchester, Bognor Regis, Selsey,
Essex, Mansfield ,Grimsby, London and Nottingham
On the Saturday with 67 of us, we split into three groups , having two large matted areas and lots of floor space, starting with Judo and Wing Chung
Followed by Eskrima /Tai Chi /Aikido
As the weekend unfolded there were also classes in Ju Jutsu , Jo Work and
Spear and Sabre in the Tai Chi class.
The Judo classes composed of Traditional Zen Judo, The Gonosen No Kata,
a ground work Kata, arm locks and strangles and some exercises of moving smoothly with control from technique to technique whilst on the ground.
No injuries were reported to me all weekend which is good.
Promotions:-
Michael Reid from Belfast Zen Judo was presented with a well deserved
2nd Dan Grade honour
Two students from Manchester Shiro no Zen Dojo were presented with their 1st Kyu (Brown Belts)
Congratulations to all three.
On the Saturday evening 50 of us went for a meal
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