A busy couple of weekends have seen Pinewood fighters competing in the Dartford Red Yellow and Orange Belt Competition and the Annual Devizes Open Championship.
Dartford Report
At Dartford Judo Club a group of our younger members fought exceptionally well to take away a medal each with some great individual performances the medals were as follows,
Gold Medals to Lottie Stickland, Phoebe Deacon, Dan Franklin, Noah Jones, Charlie Cole, Terri Gough, Jonny Northover, James Ferre.
Silver medal to Olly Young and a Bronze to Callum Jones.
Devizes Report & Photos
Last Sunday 21st September the club made it’s annual pilgrimage to the Devizes Open Tournament.
Having won the top club trophy for 38 consecutive years, this was our first attempt to win it since the sad passing of our Sensei Don Werner, earlier in the year.
We felt the hand of history was laying heavily on all of us!
This trophy was particularly important to Don as the format of the competition allowed for representation of a club across all age and grades and was, he felt a good indication of the strength of the club.
With 8 year old red belts at one end and 57 year old 4th Dans (or crinkles as he preferred to call us) we managed it again.
A great club spirit was evident with many of the young ones and parents staying behind long after they were finished to cheer the older ones on.
This year was special in many ways and it was fantastic for all of us to see our own ex World Champion Karen Roberts return to the mat, taking a Gold in the over 70kg division and scooping the ‘Top Woman Judoka’ award.
As Don might have said….. a satisfactory effort!
