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