Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Summer Camp 2015
IBF Summer Camp 2015
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| Nobby Clarke |
Times have changed when Nobby Clarke 6th Dan
founder of IBF UK started the First Camp at the St Mary’s Bay Schools Journey
Centre St Mary’s Bay New Romney Kent in 1966
in those early days it was fundamentally a British Judo council
supported event and stretched over 2 weeks, one week of Juniors and one of
Seniors. 100 Judoka on each week was not unusual.
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| Junior Week First Senior Week 2nd Senior week |
In the early 1970’s the Camp was closed to make way for a
housing estate. Nobby moved the Camp down the road to the Army Cadet Camp
Jefferstone Lane St Mary’s Bay. A smaller venue but was ideal for the Martial
Arts as no one else could use the facility. At this time he parted company with
the BJC and became the British Rep for the International Budo Federation led by
Dutchman Peter Schonewille an the course changed from just a Judo Course to a
Martial arts course featuring Judo, Sambo, Jiu Jitsu, Aikido, Karate, Tae Kwon
Do etc.
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| Marget Clarke-Ron Reeves-Peter Schonewille- Daniel De-Walle-Nobby Clarke ACF Camp 1982 |
The course featured many top Instructors from GB, Europe,
Japan, Canada and USSR and the Camp went to 4 weeks, 2 weeks of Juniors 2 weeks
of seniors and for many years there was 100 on each week. The highlight of the
Camp was the last Saturday where there was the Senior Grading in all Martial
Arts. There has been occasions when 40 people were taking various Martial Arts
Dan grading’s. The event attracted people from far and wide just to watch this
spectacular.
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| Instructors Summer Camp ACF 1990's Paul Sargent- Tony Benchley- Brian Woodhall- Brenda Jones-Steve Jacobs-Martyn Skipper-John Harris |
The grades were handed out after all the mats were picked up and
the Venue cleaned and tidied. After the presentation people would vanish to the
Pub to celebrate or commiserate but all got thoroughly intoxicated and the
party never finished till the early hours. The problem was at 8am the following
morning Nobby would up shouting time for lot to go home go on clear of, a
lovely wake up call after a heavy night.
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| 1990's ACF Camp |
Sadly Nobby had a stroke in 1988 he died in 1990 and his son
Martin took over for several years the Camp carried on as normal but time were
changing with more legislation and regulation coming with how to run Children’s
Camp the time had come to finish with the Junior side of the camp as it was not
no loner financial viable, this finished in the 1990’s. With foreign holidays
becoming more popular the idea of spending a week at a Martial Arts Camp
sleeping in dormitories became less attractive so by 2000 the Camp was just one
week of seniors and in the early 2000’s the ACF Camp was sold and demolished.
The camp then moved to a brand new ACF Facility in St Martins Plain Folkestone
and this lasted till 2011. The ACF told us we were no longer allowed to use the
facility as the Army were taking over the venue.
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| Dibgate Summer Camp 2000 plus |
So what to do that was the question to get a reasonable
priced facility with accommodation in August was impossible. John Clarke Martin’s
son came up with the idea of having a weekend Camp at the Swale Martial Arts
Club in Sittingbourne. Martin had his
doubts but as John said numbers at the last Camp was just 30 people and only
operated over 4 days, he also pointed out that people will not give up more
then a couple of days for their hobby.
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| Camp 2015 |
So the Camp is now a weekend in its 4th years I
sure Nobby would be disappointed but
also happy that it is still run and by
the 3rd generation of Clarkes
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| John Clarke Head to Head |
This years course was a great success with most of the
pupils sleeping overnight on the Tatami, well I say sleeping training and
partying till 5am is not always the best thing to do before a grading. Many
took the grading and three obtained various levels of Dan Grade Cyeanne Eaton was awarded of 1st Dan Judo,
George Loscombe 2nd Degree CombatSombo and Tim Thomas 4th
Dan Judo. It was remarked by the Examiners that they have never seen such a
perfect demonstration of Kime No Kata and John said his arm locks were
phenomenal
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| IBF Judo Panel Colin Carrott 5th Dan Trevor Davies 6th Dan John Clarke 5th Dan Greg Garside 5th Dan |
Full results of the IBF grading.
Mitchell crosswell
Orange 3 tabs
William Brice
Orange 3 tabs/Green Belt Sambo
Izzy Namey
Junior Brown
Connie Lawrie
Green
Francesca Mental Aspey
Blue
Juris Lescenko
Brown
Brandon Springett
Brown
Richard Seaman
Brown
Blake Southfield
Brown
Nathan Johnson
Brown
Fergus Hamilton-Jones
Brown
Cyeanne Eaton
1st Dan
George Loscombe
2nd Dan Combat Sombo
Tim Tomas
4th Dan
The standard was very high indeed, and all above well deserved their grades.
Well done
John Clarke
5th Dan
Mitchell crosswell
Orange 3 tabs
William Brice
Orange 3 tabs/Green Belt Sambo
Izzy Namey
Junior Brown
Connie Lawrie
Green
Francesca Mental Aspey
Blue
Juris Lescenko
Brown
Brandon Springett
Brown
Richard Seaman
Brown
Blake Southfield
Brown
Nathan Johnson
Brown
Fergus Hamilton-Jones
Brown
Cyeanne Eaton
1st Dan
George Loscombe
2nd Dan Combat Sombo
Tim Tomas
4th Dan
The standard was very high indeed, and all above well deserved their grades.
Well done
John Clarke
5th Dan
# posted by IBFBCSA @ 4:47 AM 
