Flinders University Judo Club

Congratulations to Lillee, Bobby, Liam and Brenton on tremendous efforts on the international stage! 👏🥋🥋🥋

Fun day today at the Australia Japan Association Winter Festival at Burnside Town Hall. We met some cool people at our stall and even put on a demonstration to help promote Judo in the community!

Many thanks to Jackson for organising the day for us! And also Wayne, Shay and Jhett for helping at the stall and participating in the demo. And Jarrah and Nathan too, for photographic support and work at the stall. A great team effort!! 🥋🥋🥋

We will have a stall at this event and will also provide a demonstration at 2:00pm. Drop by and say hi! 😃

Looks like the Senior events will be starting earlier than usual - around 10:15am. Kyu grades and Veterans from around 12 noon.

The ADELAIDE INTERNATIONAL OPEN is fast approaching!

JudoSA is excited to put on the largest competition event in Adelaide again this year, and we look forward to seeing you all there!

This year we are encouraging all our SA Judoka to come down and support their club mates, and fellow SA Judoka. Bring your friends and family to experience the highest level of Judo you’ll find in Adelaide.

If you cant attend in person, the link for our livestream will be available below; or through the link in our bio.

https://portal.judomanager.com/competition/2026_adelaide_open2026

Congratulations to Jackson, Paul, Shay and Jarrah who graded to San Kyu (Green Belt) on Wednesday night!!

A really good effort from each in preparing thoroughly for their grading over the last few months.

An interesting event for the over-35s!

This year is the 60th Anniversary of Flinders University!! And it’s also the 60th birthday of our Judo Club!

Remarkably, the Flinders University Judo Club was one of the original 9 clubs that formed the Sports Association (now Flinders University Sport & Fitness) in 1966. The other clubs were athletics, baseball, basketball, cricket, football, hockey, soccer and tennis.

The club was started by Rod Boswell, a young PhD student who had been training at Adelaide University Judo Club - AUJC under the guidance of their founder, Jo Revalk. Rod boldly decided to start a club at Flinders, despite just 4 years Judo experience and only holding the rank of Green Belt.

Rod tells of the very early days of training at the main Gym with around a dozen members. Amazingly this was before the club even had mats! Apparently there were quite a few bruises and a consensus was quickly reached to obtain proper mats. Rod was assisted by Dick Morrow, another physics PhD student (who had reached Orange Belt at AUJC), in successfully applying for a grant.

Rod, who is clearly a lively and enterprising individual, also was co-founder of the Empire Times student magazine as well as the Horseless Carriage Society. He went on to become an eminent physicist specialising in plasma propulsion and a Professor at The Australian National University. Thanks for getting us off to a great start, Rod!

Our Judo for Women sessions got off to a great start last night! It’s not too late to join in - we continue next Monday 6:00-7:00pm at Sturt Gym.

Come along and join in the fun!! 🥋🥋🥋

COME N TRY!

This week is a great time to come and try Judo! The new Semester has just commenced, people are looking to try new activities, and free sessions are on offer!!

Beginners are always welcome at Flinders Judo and this week we have the following sessions:

Monday 6:00-7:00pm Judo For Women Introductory

Monday 7:00-8:30pm General Session, Including Beginners

Wednesday 7:00-8:30pm General Session, Including Beginners

The first 2 sessions are completely free so you can see whether you enjoy Judo and our club 😀 Come along and see us at Sturt Gym and we’ll help you get started 🥋🥋🥋

We have a stall at Semester 2 Fair Day - drop in and say Hi!

We’re seeing quite a bit of interest so hoping to have a few new members join us in the next few weeks 🥋🥋🥋