Keisen Judo Club - East Grinstead

🥋 National Kata Championships🥋

In Wales today we had Braydon Robus, Amelie Hannah and Alex Hannah all competing.

Alex and Amelie competed for the first time in the Kime No Kata as father and daughter. They came 5th with constantly good scores against experienced DNA grades. Amelie was the youngest gest competitor in her group by some margin!

Braydon and his partner Mark took part in the Ju No Kata, the biggest group of the day. They didn't get a medal position unfortunately but they got great scores and learned a lot.

You can watch their great performances in the comments.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English Closed 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Results from Saturday's English closed:

Ethan Mason 🥇
3 fantastic hard fought wins for Ethan, making him the English champion for pre cadet u55kg! 🏆

What an amazing well earned achievement for all the hard work he has put in. Congratulations Ethan.

Bethany Riley ⭐
Another strong performance from Bethany. Some great throws and superb groundwork. No medals this time, but she is really starting to establish herself now as a national level cadet u57kg.

Also competing with other clubs:

Mikael Hussain (kin Ryu) 5️⃣
A very respectable 5th place in a large group and 10 Dan grade points!

Amy Watkin (Kin Ryu) ⭐
Picked up a well fought win in the strong cadet u52kg. Great effort.

Mia Smith (Westerleigh) ⭐
A great showing from Mia again at a national level event after only just coming back from injuries.

🇨🇭Grand Slam Lausanne 🇨🇭

Braydon Robus and Ethan Watkin took part in the inaugural adaptive grand slam this week. Taking to the same mat as some of the best in the world.

Both athletes worked exceptionally hard on the build up to this event and their judo was looking at its absolute best.

Braydon picked up a brilliant ippon and placed 7th. Ethan gave his absolute all, showing attacking, high tempo, judo but was unfortunately caught with a well timed footsweep.

An incredible experience for the pair of them. The first of many to come for these two talented athletes.

Thank you to the whole GB adaptive team for their incredible work.

‼️Brand New Classes at Keisen‼️

We are excited to announce that we will be running a new fitness conditioning circuit and open mat session every Friday.

Come join us for our fitness circuit featuring our brand new equipment, catering to all abilities and welcome to judo parents, family and friends as well (no BJA Licence necessary).

Following on from this we have an open mat session for judoka to attend giving them an opportunity on specific techniques tailored to their judo.

✴️Adaptive training morning✴️

Today Keisen hosted an adaptive training morning, inviting players from other clubs to come together and practice their judo.

There were two brilliant sessions led by our fantastic Braydon Robus, showcasing some of his techniques along with plenty of hard work and randori.

☀️ Camberley Summer Camp☀️

Well done to Ethan Mason, Bethany Riley and Marlon Afzali (and our friends from Kin Ryu) who have just completed a 4 day performance training camp Camberley Judo Club.

Plenty of randori and hard work on perhaps the hottest week of the year, putting the hard effort in over the Summer 💪.

Fantastic Saturday morning training!

Focusing on two sleeve gripping techniques.

Plenty of Nagi Komi and Randori as well.

Hard work being put in over the summer.

✴️British Adaptive championship✴️

Ieuan Hannah 🥇
British Adaptive champion!

Sophia Robus🥇🥇
Double British Adaptive champion!

Amelie Hannah 🥈

A massive 10 wins from our team of just 3 athletes!

Lots of great ippons, different throws and some fantastic groundwork from all of them!

Well done to Coaches James, Alex and Braydon for their help all day as well.