Kiyokan Judo Club

The Kiyokan Judo Club is offering a free judo class to anybody interested in learning about judo. This class will take place on August 25th from 630-730pm. Please text Jeff at 506-343-3824 if you are interested in attending this class.

If you are unable to attend this class you can try a class for free once the judo season begins as well. Our Judo Season will begin the week of September 14.

Please note that the official 2026-2027 judo announcement will be posted soon!!

What a great day for the Kiyokan Judo Club!

Congratulations to Tori and Travis on receiving their black belts today. What an amazing accomplishment. We are so proud of you.

I would also like to thank their partners ( uki's) Maud and Billy for all the extra effort they put forth assisting our new black belts.

Great Job and I'll say it once more - So Proud of You Tori and Travis!

The Kiyokan Club invites all U-16 and older competitive females for some intense sessions of training with bias for Randori.

We will host three nights, July 28th and 30th from 7-9pm, and July 29th from 8-930pm.

Location is the Kiyokan Dojo, upstairs at the Peter Murray Arena on Dever Road in Saint John.

There is no fee required, but we do request you register with Jeff Porter by July 10th so we can tailor the nights to our attendees. Jeff Porter's email is [email protected]

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Le club Kiyokan invite toutes les femmes compétitrices de moins de 16 ans et plus à des séances d'entraînement intensives axées sur le randori.

Ces séances auront lieu les 28 et 30 juillet de 19h à 21h, et le 29 juillet de 20h à 21h30.

Le lieu est le dojo Kiyokan, à l'étage de l'aréna Peter Murray, sur le chemin Dever à Saint John.

La participation est gratuite, mais nous vous demandons de vous inscrire auprès de Jeff Porter avant le 10 juillet afin que nous puissions adapter les séances aux participantes. Son adresse courriel est [email protected].

Hi Everybody,

On Tuesday, June 16th we had our last class for this Judo Season and what a night it was. We had a lot to celebrate this season!

We started off welcoming our VIP's, Carrie and John. Carrie and John were the founders of the Kiyokan Judo Club.

Then Mateo, playing the violin, accompanied by singers Maria Scammell and Ronni Kinsella started our festivities with O'Canada.

Next was the Kiyokan World Judo Championships where we saw some amazing competition.

Our Kiyokan World Champions for the 2025/2026 judo season are:
Beatrix Chedore
Sam O'Toole
Juliet Rocca
Theo Vail
Simon Belding
Ben Tobin
Ronni Kinsella
Fletcher Chenhall
Nico Rocca
Connor Brideau

Next we passsed out grading certificates. We had 32 students who advanced to their new belt levels! Well done!

Then it was time to pass out some awards:
Outstanding Tiger Award - Octavia Cooper
Most Improved Student - Olivia Lowther
Most Promising Male - Chris McKiel
Most Promising Female- Juliet Rocca
Best Competitor- Mateo Bregel
Kiyokan Award - Theo Vail
Kano Award- Martine and Billy Chenhall

And finally we ended the night by celebrating with my homemade pizza that came in Domino's pizza boxes.

Now some Thank You's!

Thank you to all our volunteer instructors. I believe the Kiyokan Judo Club offers judo classes second to none because of you!

Parents and others who are responsible for getting the students to class - Thank you!

Students you made this year very rewarding for the Instructors. Your commitment and energy made it easy for us to stay motivated and look forward to attending the classes.

I would like to thank everybody who helped out this year. Your assistance makes the Club the success it is!

Shavon, thank you for being our Social Media person. You do an amazing job!

There is a saying that a picture is worth a thousand words. So I will sign off with a picture instead of my thousand words to illustrate what a great group we have at the Kiyokan Judo Club!

See you in September!

Sensei Jeff

What a great day today for the Kiyokan Judo Club!

We had 3 competitors competing today:
Theo went 2-0 for a gold medal.
Grace went 1-1 for the silver medal.
Monica went 4-2 for the bronze medal.

Coach Steve and Sensei Jeff were very proud of everyone who competed this weekend.

Congratulations Maria Scammell on getting your second place trophy in U14. You have made us proud!!

Great effort today at the Numa Cup in NS by Aiden McKiel in U8, Maria Scammell in U14, Nell Goddard in U18 and Chris McKiel in Veterans.

Tomorrow we have Monica Scammell, Grace Vail and Theo Vail all competing in the U10 category.

Sensei Jeff

Tonight we had our Kiyokan Judo Club East’s closing night for the school year. The night was celebrated with games, grading, and a pizza party! If you know anyone interested in this East side class, please let us know and we will add them to our fall class list.

Happy Long Weekend everyone! Maud will be competing at the National Judo Championships in Calgary on Sunday. Go Maud Go!

How cute are our youngest Judoka’s from the Kiyokan Judo Club?!?! These cuties competed last weekend at the Shimpokai Regional Kids Tournament. Did you know that even if you are a white belt you can still compete in competitions?

These youth trained really hard and they didn’t disappoint! Remember, today’s youth are tomorrow’s future and at Kiyokan Judo Club, we understand that by building up our youth we are setting them up for success in the future.

As always, like, share, and tag our photos. That’s how you help our club grow.