On Sunday was the Senior Kyu Grade, Dan And Master Competition and we had 4 members take part in the competition which were: Larry, Mark, James (Farley) and Tony.

Tony was first up, he had four fights and won them all; one of them with a nice Tomoe-nage and came back with his first gold from his first competition!

Larry and James were called up next. James had 2 fights; one of them being against Larry as they both had been put in the same group.

He ended up losing to Larry but put up a good fight. After that fight James had to pull out due to injury and missed out on his last fight but came back with forth bronze.

Larry had 3 fights including the one with James. He lost the other two fights but was happy with his performance as he was giving away about 20kg to his opponents, but with his win he had earn 't another 10 points towards his dan grade and got third bronze.

Mark had 2 fights; lost one and won one with a lovely drop Ippon-seoi Nage and came away with silver and his first 10 points towards his dan grade.

Tony and Mark then both got called back up as they had both entered the Masters part of the competition.

Tony and Mark both did really well and held their own in the fights. They both had 2 fights and lost them both, but fought a first dan and second dan each. Mark didn't come back with anything for this part of the competition, but Tony ended up getting bronze as he had lost to silver and gold medallist.

On Sunday was the annual Class Master Christmas Judo Event and we had a massive 14 members attend the competition which were: Amy, Christie-Rose, Harry (Chandler,) Herculas, Andries, Sophie, Casey, Cameron, Alex, Harry (Farley,) Andrew, Tom (Hillyard,) Ben & Tom (Farley.)

Amy had 3 fights, won two of them and lost one and came back with a well disserved gold from her first ever competition.

Christie-Rose also had 3 fights, lost her first and then came back and one her second, but sadly lost her last fight but came back with bronze.

Herculas had 3 fights, sadly lost them all but came away with a bronze medal.

Harry (Chandler) had 3 fights, won his first, lost his second fight but went on to win his third and final fight and came away with a silver medal and was presented with the Spirit Of Judo award for his group.

Andries had 3 fights, lost his first and then came back and one his second, but sadly lost his last fight but came back with bronze.

Sophie had 3 fights, sadly lost them all but came away with a bronze medal and was presented with the Spirit Of Judo award for her group.

Alex had only 2 fights, sadly lost them all but fought really well and hard and came away with a bronze medal.

Casey had 4 fights, lost her first fight, went on to win her next fight but lost her next one and finished up with a win for her last one, coming away with silver.

Cameron had 3 fights, fought very well and hard and won all of his fights coming away with gold.

Harry (Farley) had 3 fights, won two of them and lost one and came back with a well disserved gold after a brilliant performance in all his fights.

Andrew had 3 fights, fought very well and won all of his fights coming away with gold.

Tom (Farley) had 3 fights, sadly lost them all but came away with a bronze medal after a brilliant performance.

Tom (Hillyard) had a massive 5 fights, won the first four but sadly lost the last one and only just missed on the gold medal by a couple of points and came back with a well disserved silver.

Ben had 3 fights, sadly lost them all but came away with a bronze medal and was presented with the Spirit Of Judo award for his group.

The host country for the 2009 International Special Needs and Disabled Judo Championships, was Wales with the host city being Cardiff. The Championships was held at the Welsh institute of sporting excellence, in Sophia Gardens Cardiff on Saturday 31 October 2009.

After some very hard fought matches, against both heavier and higher judo graded athletes, Liam Duhig won a BRONZE medal. Liam Duhig was at 56kgs the lightest athlete in his pool, with Nicholas Schafer of Germany being the heaviest having weighed in at 77kgs.

The following Nations entered Judo Athletes in to these championships:- England, Scotland, Wales, United States of America, Holland, Hungary, Germany and Brazil.

Terry Duhig

On the 31st of July was the Special Olympics which was held for the first time in 20 years Leicester. We had twelve members attend this competition which were Greg, Holly, Thomas (Search), Jacob, Thomas (Farley), Peter, Daniel, Alex (Reich), Oliver, James, Liam and Emma.

Greg had 3 fights, won one and lost one and came away with silver.

Holly also had 3 fights, won them all and came away with gold.

Thomas (Search) had 3 fights as well, but sadly lost them all coming away with a bronze.

Daniel was put in to 2 groups for this fights. In his first group he had 3 fights, won them all and came away with gold for that group. In his second group he had 4 fights, lost one but won the rest and came away with a silver for that group.

Alex had only one fight and with this being his first competition as well won his fight and got gold.

Oliver, Liam and James were put all in the same group along with one other person and they all had to fight each other.

Oliver won all his fights and came away with gold.

Liam sadly lost all his fights but came away with forth bronze.

James won two of his fight and lost one resulting him coming away with a silver.

Afterwards was the team events.

Group 1: 3rd Bronze

1st East Midland, 2nd Scotland West 'B', 3rd South East 'A' - Oliver, Daniel and Alex, 4th South West.

Group 2: Gold
1st South East 'B' - Emma, Holly, Peter, 2nd Wales, 3rd Northern 'A', 4th Lothian 'A'.

Group 3: Gold
1st South East 'C' - James, Liam, Thomas (Search), 2nd Scotland West 'A', 3rd Northern 'B'.

Group 4: Silver
1st Lothian 'B', 2nd South East 'D' Jacob, Gregory, Thomas (Farley), 3rd Northern 'C'.