Nottingham Open 2012 – Results

On Sunday 17 June Nottinghamshire staged the annual Nottingham Open competition at the Harvey Hadden Sports Centre. This event is one of the largest every held in Nottingham with over 200 competitors from 62 clubs from throughout the UK competing over three mat areas. Ethan Ward, Marija Beliukeviciute, Conor Humphreys ... More

Samurai Grade Band 2012 – Results

On Sunday 20 May Connor Tait, Ethan Ward and Conor Humphreys travelled to Kidderminster to compete in the Samurai Grade Bands. Connor was up first in the Red Belt section he had three other competitors in his group and needed three wins to take gold. In his first contest he threw his opponent for Ippon just before the ... More

Medal Hat-trick for Cobra Trio

On Sunday 9 April Ethan Ward, Jack Hopewell and William Humphreys travelled to Peterborough for the Thomas Deacon u20 Competition. Ethan was our first player to be called to the mat and he was in the Boys u34kg category which contained a total of 9 players. Ethan’s first contest was against a player he had lost ... More

Arunas secures final points and a Gold medal

On Sunday 15 April Arunas Beliukevicius travelled to Kidderminster with Paul to compete in the Samurai Senior Kyu Grades Open, his main focus was the final 20 points that he required to be gain the coveted Black Belt that many judoka strive to achieve. There were a total of 11 competitors in Arunas’s group the Senior ... More

Success at the Soeverein Judo Cup Belgium

On Friday 6 April at 6.00am two Cobra competitors (Ethan and Jack) began their eight hour journey along with the Nottinghamshire Squad to attend an International judo competition that was held in Lommel, Belgium; a trip that would eventually see the Cobra players earning two out the five total Nottinghamshire medals. On ... More

Nottingham Red Belt Rumble Results

On Sunday 18 March Nottinghamshire Judo held a Red Belt Rumble competition at the Bilborough Sports Centre. Over 140 competitors representing 30 clubs took part many of which it was their first experience of competitive judo. We had two students representing our club at the event, brother and sister duo Connor and Ellie ... More

Technical Grading Results

On Saturday 25 February at the Bilborough Sports Centre we held our first technical grading of 2012 at which 23 of our students attempted to increase their grades. From 10.30am - 12.30pm all of the students were examined Paul and Steve Wilkins who is also a qualified BJA coach. Well done to all of those that took ... More

Annual Presentation Evening 2011

On Saturday 11 February we held our presentation evening for 2011 at The Pelican, Nottingham. Thank-you to everyone that attended, I hope you will all agree it was an excellent evening with plenty of food, fun and games. Congratulations to all of our students that received an award on the night, however those of you ... More

Samurai High Grade 2011 – Results

On Sunday 13 November Arunas and William took part in the Samurai Senior High Grade Competition that was held at the Wyre Forest Glades Arena, Kidderminster. Both young men were in the Men 1 Kyu category which was initially split by weight into six pool sheets of four or five competitors. Arunas was drawn in the first ... More

Technical Grading Results

On Sunday 30 October at the Bilborough Sports Centre we held our third technical grading of 2011 at which 18 of our students attempted to increase their grades. From 10.30am - 12.00pm all of the students were examined by Paul, Chris and Steve Wilkins. Well done to all of those that took part and thanks to Steve for ... More