Tuesday, February 03, 2015
Sittingbourne WGA/YJC Awrads night
Young Judo Club Sittingbourne
est. 1957
Warriors Grappling Academy
Sittingbourne est. 1986
Spitfire Judo/Sambo Club
Folkestone
Annual Awards Night
Saturday January 31st
2015
Judd Foley Hotel Faversham
The three clubs once again
came to together to honour some of their members, the event was organised by
Sittingbourne’s John Clarke 5th Dan and Folkestone’s Colin Carrott 4th
Dan.
The Young Judo Club was
founded by Margret and John (Nobby) Clarke in 1957
Warriors Grappling Academy
was founded by there son Martin in 1986
Spitfire Judo/Sambo Club
Folkestone founded 1980 by Colin Carrott
This event has become an
annual Black Tie event and all those who have been presented with an honour are
listed on the Honours board, this is something all members wish to appear on.
As per usual with this event
the first portion is the Comedy Awards, this where some one in the club makes a
howling bloomer through the year and taken to task. They are awarded special
certificates and made to drink Chilli Vodka and eat Chilli Cheese
Then we moved on to the
awards, the organiser of this years event was lead Coach John Clarke. John
stated that the club had 2800 juniors and 1330
seniors attending session in 2015 The Presidents Cup
of Sambo, one of the most prestigious events of 2014 in the Word of Sambo had 6
players from the clubs as part of the GB Team a team that consisted of 9
players, Also we had three Commonwealth Sambo Champions plus several
medallists. The clubs also saw several members become Black Belts and many
courses and competition were organised at the two venues
Below are the Sittingbourne Awards;
it is interesting to see we have a Scotsman and Latvian in the Awards list plus
for the first time in some years we have Female winner. The Clubs are becoming very cosmopolitan we
have French, Latvian, Scots and Polish training with us, it just shows that
people can integrate. The Awards have been an on going thing since the 1980’s
Margret (Oma) Clarke Award –
Keith Brown
Young Judo Club Award –
Hayley White
Warriors Grappling Academy
Players Player– Paul Garvie
Club Person of the Year –
Paul Garvie
Warriors Grappling Academy Coaches
Player – Juris Lescenko
Further information can be
gathered at www.youngjudoclub.co.uk
or ibfbcsa@gmail.com
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