Nanaimo Judo Club

Congratulations to Nanaimo judo athletes at BC Provincials this past weekend
S***a Takekawa U10 Gold 🥇
Tori Guevara U12 Gold 🥇
Ayaka Takekawa U12 Gold 🥇
Marcello Ossa U12 Gold 🥇
Silas Vieaux U12 Gold 🥇
Masato Takekawa U14 -50kg Gold 🥇
Sofia Lundman U14 -40kg Silver 🥈
Jordan Dafoe U14 -33kg Silver 🥈
Sofia Lundman U16 novice -40kg Silver 🥈
Royce Crowther Senior novice -66kg Silver 🥈
Masato Takekawa -50kg U16 Bronze 🥉
Ezekiel Moes U18 -55kg Bronze 🥉
Clare Boulding U18 -52kg Bronze 🥉
John Kruger U18 -66kg Bronze🥉
Thank you to Victoria Judo for hosting and to all the Volunteers who helped out. Good work everyone!

Big promotion for John Kruger last night to ikkyu! Best of luck to him and isabella as they head out to compete at Quebec open this coming weekend!

Peak international results from this weekend!
Masato gold -46kg U14
Jordan silver -33kg U14
Mike silver -42kg U14
Silus silver U12
Ezekiel silver -55kg U16
Ayaka silver U12
S***a bronze U10
Sofia bronze -40kg U14
John Bronze -66kg int senior

Thank you to special guest Olympic Bronze medalist and World Silver medalist Catherine Beaucheminpinard for coming by the dojo and teaching some great technical!

Hi everyone,
Tonight is the final night for judo registration; please come by the club from 5:30-7:30 if you wish to register for the upcoming season.
We look forward to seeing you!

Registration for the 2022-23 Season will be Sept 6-8 5:30-7:30 PM
Classes start Mon Sept 12

Congratulations to Cheyenne Fiandor on winning gold in -57kg seniors at pacific international.

A big thank you to tonights special guest Vincent and Andréa. Always a joy to have new guest, come visit again soon and good luck in the rest of your travels!!

Last week nanaimo judo club said goodbye to a special addition to our njc family. Thank you Saskia for all the good qualities you brought to our dojo. Safe travels back to Germany and you will be missed!

Youth provincial this weekend produced some outstanding results with a total of 3 gold, 5 silver and 4 bronze leaving nanaimo at a 3rd place finished for over all medal standings.
Hardware for the tournament included:
Birinder Kahlon gold +90kg newaza 🥇
Marcus Potts gold -66kg u21🥇
Kipling Szasz gold -63kg u18🥇
Trinity Fosterson silver -44kg u14🥈
Kipling Szasz silver -70kg u16🥈
Ezekiel Moes silver -46kg u16🥈
Clare Boulding silver -48kg u16 🥈
Jordan Dafoe silver -33kg u14🥈
Masato Takekawa bronze -42kg u14🥉
Isabella Greene bronze -57kg u21🥉
Sayjah Vieaux bronze -57kg u16🥉
Nathan Eby bronze -73kg newaza 🥉
Competitors to also compete included, Jennifer Moes, John Kruger, Bridget Hann and Mike Marck.
A big thabk you to Saskia for the actions shots featured below
Well done everyone 👏
Next up Pacific International on April 16th-17th

Happy holidays from nanaimo judo club. Some pictures from our overnight December Island training.

Good luck to Marcus who is currently in Tahiti for the Air Tahiti Nui International Judo Challenge! Also wishing luck to the rest of our island island Boys.