Pinewood Judoka were representing their Area last weekend at the National Team Championships Wade Muttit, James Widman and Declan Whyte were all part of the Northern Home Counties boys team despite strong individual performances they did not progress beyond the pool stage of the competition. Kiera Bateman Olivia Spellman and…
Last weekend a small but capable group of Pinewood fighters made the long trip to Bradford to compete in the Northern Area Open Championships, which, as a ranking event always attract a quality entry. Club mates Kiera Bateman and Holly Eccles split the honours in the final of the Cadet…
Last weekend saw an intrepid band of Pinewood Judo Club’s junior warriors on the hunt for medals at The annual Bedminster Judokwai Junior Competition. A group of 13 boys and girls had a very successful day on Saturday with everyone of them gaining a medal. This was a particularly good…
The Pinewood Masters (or crinklies as Don Werner preferred to call them) were in action over the weekend. In the Mantoken tournament Brisbane Australia Kevin Murphy took a Gold medal at the combined ~90kg +45 years category. This was a strong result for Kevin who weighed in at U80kg and…
On Saturday last weekend 2 Pinewood fighters Crissie Webb and Kiera Bateman traveled to Antwerp to take part in the Ippon Trophy Competition. This is a very tough competition with some high quality opposition that was always one of our late Sensei Don Werner’s favourites. Crissie Webb was…
Three Pinewood judoka set off on Friday to make the long trek North of the border to the Meadowbank sports centre in Edinburgh, for the acclaimed and very popular Sportif International judo championship. As this is one of the designated GB national ranking events for cadets (U18), and as all three of…
A small group of Pinewood Judo Club’s juniors were in action last Sunday in Zonhoven Belgium where they attended the annual Zonhoven Open Junior Competition. This is always a well attended event with weight groups decided on the day. Noah Jones, Oliver Young, Dan Franklin, Jay Bennett and Rueban Lord,…
On Saturday 29th March eleven of Pinewood Judo Club’s Novices attended the NHC Area Red Belt Competition and came away with a very creditable 10 medals. Phoebe Deacon at U36kg was on good form fighting her way to a Gold medal. Despite some great judo a small mistake cost Isaac…
A small group of Pinewood fighters traveled to Belfast at the weekend to for a mixture of experience,medals and national ranking points. On Saturday, just two fighters were in action in the junior age band (U21) competition, both fought well against tough opposition and managed to close out the day with…
A reasonably large group of Pinewood Judo Club fighters made a trip to the K2 leisure Centre in Crawley last weekend to compete in the South Of England Green Belt and Under Championship. It was a good day for the club, with an armful of medals taken home.With a total…
