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Venue for today
by Judo, Judo 08 Nov '21

08 Nov '21

Hello all, I’m afraid the venue change didn’t succeed for today so we’re actually still in Meeting Rooms 1&2. If you weren’t here last time and don’t know where that is, just enter the Union bar, go to the far end by the room they have for special occasions, and then go up the stairs to the first floor and it’s the door on the right. Regards, Nicolas

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Sign up sheets
by Judo, Judo 07 Nov '21

07 Nov '21

Hello all, As advertised, for tomorrow Monday 8th Nov, The sign up sheet for the beginner’s session: https://forms.gle/kwcXxjR9VBuqe7zJ6 The sign up sheet for the intermediate/advanced session: https://forms.gle/o5seuBiubNSc3ZsZ9 As before, if you’re able to fill in the sheet, you’re on the list. There is no confirmation email. Once it’s full the list disables. Additionally, here is the link to the club whatsapp chat. It’s not particularly active, but it may be more reliable if you need an immediate response to any querie, such as struggling to find where we are at a given time. https://chat.whatsapp.com/DvJvNxhu5QMKlWz1g4xUyH And again, remember to look into getting your BJA license! Let us know if there’s any issue! Regards, Nicolas

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Sign up sheets at 20:00 today
by Judo, Judo 07 Nov '21

07 Nov '21

Hello all, We will send round sign up sheets for tomorrow’s (Monday 8th Nov) sessions at 20:00 today. Tomorrow’s sessions will be: Beginners 20:00-21:00 Intermediate/advanced 21:00-22:00 I will confirm for sure tomorrow but the venue will be different from last monday. It will be Meeting Room 3, which is on the top floor of Union, right next to the lift, opposite the Union Gym. This will fix the whole mat set up fiasco we had last Monday. But again, I will confirm tomorrow. Don’t forget to buy a license under the BJA student voucher scheme if you haven’t already and you’re definitely interested in continuing coming to sessions. Once you have it, and the gi that comes included with it, you can start preparing for your first grading. Regarding the Sheffield Kyu Grade competition, at some point this coming week we’ll start coordinating with any of you who want to go, how we’ll get there, etc. If you’re graded it really is a good idea to go to these things. There’s no way to recreate the feeling of a competition other than doing competitions. When the bigger comps like BUCS come round, you’ll be far better prepared having done things like these. Plus it’s a chance for us to get together outside of uni. Regards, Nicolas

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LICENSE, KYU COMPETITION
by Judo, Judo 05 Nov '21

05 Nov '21

Hello all, To any regular beginners, we hope you’re enjoying the sessions! If you’re a beginner and you haven’t done so already, please now acquire a BJA membership to continue. As explained in a past email, the Student Voucher Scheme will give you a license, a grading, and a uniform, all for £30. At the rate the Union is taking to approve purchases, this will actually be the quickest way to start training with a gi anyway, but more than that you need to be insured to train Judo. Having the license, you can also train in any other dojo. To any graded kyu members, the Sheffield Judo Club is organising a Kyu grade competition on Saturday 4th December, a month from now. We’ll let you know what needs to be done soon, but if you’re interested make sure to keep that day free. If you’re not already on the whatsapp, go ahead and join so you can be in more immediate contact with the rest of us: https://chat.whatsapp.com/DvJvNxhu5QMKlWz1g4xUyH Regards, Nicolas

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Sign up sheets, and whatsapp chat
by Judo, Judo 02 Nov '21

02 Nov '21

Hello all, As advertised, for tomorrow Wednesday 3rd Nov, The sign up sheet for the beginner’s session: https://forms.gle/QiQNtn3cZNdSbefE9 At 16:00-17:00 Activity Space 1 The sign up sheet for the intermediate/advanced session: https://forms.gle/tpnP5KHFsdnByVZ9A At 17:00-18:00 Activity Space 1 As before, if you’re able to fill in the sheet, you’re on the list. There is no confirmation email. Once it’s full the list disables. Additionally, here is the link to the club whatsapp chat. It’s not particularly active, but it may be more reliable if you need an immediate response to any querie, such as struggling to find where we are at a given time. https://chat.whatsapp.com/DvJvNxhu5QMKlWz1g4xUyH Let us know if there’s any issue! Regards, Nicolas

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Reflections on yesterday, sheets for tomorrow released at 18:00 today
by Judo, Judo 02 Nov '21

02 Nov '21

Hello all, For those of you who came to yesterday’s beginner session, sorry about the set up issue. I’ll either change the room or find a way to set up the mats earlier in the day. Otherwise, not a bad session! It was pointed out to me that I advertised I’d be releasing the sheets for last night’s session at 12:00am. Ignorant that I am, that meant midday in my head, when it actually refers to midnight. So, I am extremely sorry to anyone who stayed up expecting an email. The sign up sheets for tomorrow’s (Wednesday 3rd Nov) sessions will be released at 18:00 today (Tuesday 2nd Nov). These will be, as last week, at 16:00-17:00 and 17:00-18:00 for beginners and intermediate respectively, in the Activity Space 1 (slightly larger room). Regards, Nicolas

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SIGN UP SHEETS
by Judo, Judo 01 Nov '21

01 Nov '21

Hello all, The sign up sheets for today’s (Monday 1st Nov) sessions. IMPORTANT CLARIFICATION. If you are able to fill out the sheet, that means you’re on the list, there are no confirmation emails. Once the list is full, it disables itself. REMINDER. If this is not your first session, please buy the individual session shop item on our union page. If you still owe for last session, please pay for that as well. If you’ve already done a few sessions and are going to continue, please buy a BJA membership soon to be insured. Beginner session Monday 20:00-21:00 Meeting Rooms 3&4 https://forms.gle/kbANUEMPgCho1TgX9 Intermediate/Advanced session Monday 21:00-22:00 Meeting Rooms 3&4 https://forms.gle/gHP2E2C91g3TQFb46 See the last email for venue details, or just ask at the union reception when you arrive. Regards, Nicolas

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MONDAY SESSIONS AND BJA MEMBERSHIP
by Judo, Judo 31 Oct '21

31 Oct '21

Hello all, Happy Halloween! MONDAY SESSIONS Tomorrow at 12:00am we will send out sign up sheets for tomorrow’s (Monday 1st Nov) sessions. We are in a new, smaller venue for the mondays; the Meeting Rooms 3&4. These are located in Beit, 1st floor, just beyond the Activity Spaces. The most direct route there would be entering the building through the door located to the right of the Union bar and going up that staircase. If you go through the main entrance to the lift area you’ll have to go through the Activity Spaces where there may be people from other societies. Since the room is smaller, we have to reduce numbers again to 12 people per hour. We’re not thrilled by this and are looking into getting another day in the week for training. Wednesdays will still be 16 people and in Activity Space 1. BJA MEMBERSHIP Getting Imperial Athletes is enough to be a member of our club for uni purposes, but to practice judo on a long term basis, say once you’ve done 2 or 3 sessions, you will definitely need a license from the BJA. This will provide insurance in the case of injuries and allow you to enter events and competitions, as well train in other clubs to compensate for the limited time we have at uni. The BJA runs a Student Voucher Scheme, providing university students beginning the sport with a 1-year membership, a judo uniform, and one grading for £30 (absolute bargain). This isn’t just for complete beginners, if you did judo as a kid that’s fine too, as long as you didn’t have a licence in the past two years. We realise that without the uniforms we haven’t been able to give a full taste of judo yet but hopefully it’s a good enough sampling that you’ll know soon that you want to continue. More info here: https://www.britishjudo.org.uk/clubs/initiatives-and-programmes/svs/ Regards, Nicolas

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Happy World Judo Day
by Judo, Judo 28 Oct '21

28 Oct '21

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Reflections on today’s session
by Judo, Judo 27 Oct '21

27 Oct '21

Hello all, Today’s (wednesday 27th) session went more than swimmingly. You all showed good spirit. I said in the email that I was only expecting a focus on groundwork but we were pleasantly surprised by the mats’ adhesion to the Activity Space floor and so we were able to get in some good standing randori as well. The number was also perfect for the space we had so we’ll be continuing that number for future signup sheets. A quick reminder that if today wasn’t your first session, please make sure you paid using the shop item on our page on the Union website. We do have names so we will know. We’re also not being greedy, we just need to keep the club affloat. For future sessions, we’ve been given the approval to store new roll-out mats. What this means is a much quicker set up time (it would entail moving 5 slightly heavy rolls plus a few rectangular mats to fill borders, instead of the 36 individual mats we had to move today) and no separation whatsoever (the rolls have velcro). So that’s promising for standing work in the future. That said, anything can happen from one day to the next. Fingers crossed, things continue as well as they’re looking at the moment. Anyone who came to our first Monday session will remember that we were double booked with boxing, leading to a venue fiasco. That fiasco has continued, we lost the room, but the Union have very helpfully managed to get us a replacement venue for Mondays to come: Meeting Rooms 1&2. If I remember correctly these are located just beyond Activity Space 2. Once we have roll out mats it will be no issue setting out mats in this venue, but if we train on Monday we will still have to use the conventional mats, and it will be a bit of a hassle to get them to the venue. We’ll keep you updated on that. Finally, the beginners for the most part still had to deal with no-gi techniques and wrestling. From a self-defense and all-round fighter point of view this isn’t too bad. However, the unique selling point and source of interesting tactics in judo is the ability to grab each other’s jackets. We’re still in the process of acquiring gis to lend for each session. They’ll hopefully be here soon. Till next time, Nicolas

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