Two posts in quick succession as I trained two nights
consecutively this week.
The title may seem a little odd considering I always attend
the senior session at Dorking Judo club, however just recently the numbers have
started to swell so thought it was worth a particular mention. When I look back
at my first ever post I was actually the only student present, with two
instructors. Since then people have come and gone but really it’s since some of the under 16’s
have joined the senior class that the number of actual seniors has slowly
started to increase. Last night there were four dan grades on the mat, one of
whom was a 3rd dan who was returning to Judo. Then among us kyu grades
there were 2 brown belts, 2 blue, 3 green, 4 yellow and two white belts, which
is encouraging and gives us all lots of different people to practice with. For
my own personal development it’s nice to have a couple of bigger guys train at
the club now. One thing that takes me a while to get used to when I train at
Yoshin Ryu is being out gripped, especially with a high collar grip as there
just aren’t any big guys at Dorking who can do this to me. This has changed
with Russ starting to train here, from Witley Judo Club and also 3rd
Dan Neil.
Something else I wanted to mention was that Jadon had received
his brown belt from Guidlford Police Judo club which means I might have some
company next time I attend a dan grading event. Well done Jadon, it’s well
deserved.
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