Warsaw Judo Open, Poland

Next weekend I will attend the Warsaw Judo Open in Poland.  This is now one of the strongest events in Europe. Everything about this event makes it one of the events not to miss.  This year there will be a three day training camp after the competition.  This will be fantastic preparation for this years British Championships

Warsaw Judo Open

Sports Aid Funding

It was great to receive some funding from Sports Aid today.  This will help with the costs and enable me to attend more training camps over the next year.

Sports Aid

Welsh Open 2012

Only one week after the Heart of England I fought in the Welsh Open an Cardiff. I wanted to have a go at the -55kg weight group and see how I would do.  All four of the medalists from the Heart were down on the entry list but Danny moved up to the -60kg,

Harry Lovell Hewitt (Stroud) First Fight
Harry has dominated the Pre-Cadet age band and it was a tough first fight. The fight went all the way and I won with a wazari

Joshua Awiti (Enfield)  Semi-Final
This was the first time I had fought Josh and I found it difficult to get into the fight. Again the fight went all the way and I won by 2 shidos

Freddy Hendy (Polkeith) Final
Freddy was fighting really well and it was a tough final but I managed to score a yuko in Golden Score.

I was pleased to win Gold in the -55s but not with the way I fought. It was good not to fight well and still win the group.  I will next fight in the Warsaw Open in Poland and do a two day training camp after the competition.

Heart of England 2012

This is the first competition in the new age bands.  The 1996 players moved out to Junior and the 1998 moved up from Pre-Cadet.  There are some good players moving up and they give me a different challenge. I will still fight at -50 until after the October Nationals but want to have a go at -55 for the Welsh Open next weekend.

Jack Ferry (Edinburgh ) First Fight
It was a good start to the competition and I controlled the fight winning with a hold down

Oliver Harris (Osaka)
Oliver is a good fighter and I was pleased to catch him early on with my drop sode

Jack Murphy (Pro Judo)
Jack is always a tough fight but I was on good form and threw him for ippon with kata guruma

Joshua O'Connor (Gendros)
Josh is easily the top fighter moving up to cadet and he had some good wins on the other mat to reach the final. Still I controlled it well throwing him for Wazari and Ippon within 45 seconds.

Next weekend I will fight at the same age band but at -55kg

Link to the Results on Judo Technologies: Heart of England Results

Zantaraia Session

After a long hard ETD training Camp in Kendal I went down to Dartford Judo Club to do a training session with the amazing Zantaraia.  His judo is sick and I picked up a lot.  Watch out for some ninja moves coming your way very soon.