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SorGan

hey lads,
ive deceided to take on a bit of judo, and wonder if anyone can reconmend some clubs.
city centre (ish) would suit fine,
also can anyone advise me on what to expect traditional wise?
cheers:)

Nothingcompares

Not many clubs training in the city centre.

Tradition wise? At the beginning of the class most clubs line up in order of grade, black belts and one end, white belts at the other. They then bow and begin class. At the end you return to this line, usually kneeling and then bowing. Usually before beginning randori (sparring) you bow to your opponent.

Morse

http://www.irishjudoassociation.ie/clubs.asp?County=Dublin

Hope this helps you find a club.

Tradition wise, well its more or less like Nothingcompares said, except Portmarnock Judo where I like to say "if Carlsberg held Judo classes....."

ie, we retire to the bar for a de-briefing over ice cold pints of Corporation vodka (water......... )

SorGan

Morse wrote:

http://www.irishjudoassociation.ie/clubs.asp?County=Dublin

Hope this helps you find a club.

Tradition wise, well its more or less like Nothingcompares said, except Portmarnock Judo where I like to say "if Carlsberg held Judo classes....."

ie, we retire to the bar for a de-briefing over ice cold pints of Corporation vodka (water......... )

cheers lads,
my question of traditions came from seeing some two man keta, it suprised me that a sport would have it.

Nothingcompares

Yeah, kata exists in judo, don't expect to see it until I couple of months down the line at least.

Morse

Nothingcompares wrote:

Yeah, kata exists in judo, don't expect to see it until I couple of months down the line at least.

And only for grading after your green belt. It won't be a major thing, I wouldn't worry about it.

john kavanagh

andy ryan, one of the best competitive judo players ireland has seen told me he learned his kata a couple of hours before his grading....and forget them again a couple of hours after. but put a gi on and he'll throw you on yer head

sbg northside and sbg southside both have judo programs. andy coaching on the northside and one of the best 81kg players here, julien delorian, coaches in my place

sbgmembership@gmail.com for details

Roper

I reckon Judo must be back in. I'm planning to get a bit of Judo going fairly soon!

Nothingcompares

I did kata for my oranage and I think yellow too. Could be wrong. As John says, usually no club has enough time to teach kata and teach the other parts of judo so usually, the kata is learned on the day of the grading or a class before. All of the different parts of the kata should already be known to the student but just putting them altogther and the choregraphy takes a while. If you really really really didn't want to do any kata you wouldn't find it difficult to avoid it. But it's there! Lurking!

LukeyJudo22

I honestly learned my kata after i won all my fights at my black belt grading. Me and my coach both concentrated on just training for the fights and not even worrying about the kata.

While I was demonstrating the kata I was literally throwing my partner through the air and whispering 'whats the next one?'

Needless to say I haven't done any kata since...

Very unusual for any competitive club to do kata for more than half an hour... per year.

Coolmine judo club is in Dublin 15 behind the blanchardstown centre if your interested OP

NeiloMac

Hey Guys

First Post,

Yeah, think in the past 2 years i have done about two hours worth of Kata, Although I would like to be good at it,

As for clubs, Coolmine and portmarnock are good for an old scrap, Cabra is supposed to be good as well, Others are better to work on skill and Technique,

Im a bit of a Judo Whore, Ill train anywhere

Nothingcompares

Same as meself Neil. You should try get in a few Lusk sessions on your travels. TOmmy's judo is currently "off the hook" (Mark Leonard 2006).

NeiloMac

Yeah Lusk is very good, Trained out there when i was younger, Tommy is unbelivable at the min, He took the Gold in Heart of England. Big well done to him

RFP

Hey lads,

Good to see some of the Judo heads have managed to tape up their fingers enough to post here! And agree totally, the clubs' being promoted, Coolmine, Lusk and Portmarnock have to have the toughest and best randori in the country. Really high level coaching and competors and always extremely welcoming to anyone who wants to give judo a try.

Well done to all the irish player's at the Heart of England.

Rob.

RFP

Hey lads,

Good to see some of the Judo heads have managed to tape up their fingers enough to post here! And agree totally, the clubs' being promoted, Coolmine, Lusk and Portmarnock have to have the toughest and best randori in the country. Really high level coaching and competors and always extremely welcoming to anyone who wants to give judo a try. And if julien has started coaching at SBG that should be a great place to train.

Traditionwise, we used to go for a pint on Thursday nights after training.

Well done to all the irish player's at the Heart of England.

Rob.

Roper

john kavanagh wrote:

julien delorian, coaches in my place

Hmmm, what happens if he goes up to 88 miles per hour?:o Terrible, terrible joke, I just can't help myself sometimes...

Nothingcompares

hehehe i likez roper i likez