Ruston Marconi Judo Club

We would like to remind everyone that the upcoming East Midlands Area Junior Gradings are now just a few weeks away:

🥋 East Midlands Area Junior Grading - Yellow Belts and Above
📅 Date: Sunday 28th June 2026
📍 Venue: Acorn Judo Club, Digby War Memorial Hall, North Street, Digby, Lincolnshire, LN4 3LY
⌚ Time: 12:00 midday
💵 Entry Fee: £7.50

This Grading event is for all Junior Club Members currently graded Yellow Belt or above. If your Child wishes to attend, the Coaching Team needs to know as soon as possible (no later than this Thursday 4th June). Please reply to this email to confirm their attendance. We will then help them prepare over the next 4 weeks to ensure they are ready for the grading.

This is an ideal local Grading event for our Junior Club members and should be considered by all.

Thank you

Over the last 6 weeks, all three of our groups have been working on attack transitions.

Attacking using an Ashi-Waza technique, that is successfully defended but allows Tori to take advantage of Uke's lost balance to attack with a much bigger throw. Once on the ground, Uki has taken a defensive position, Tori then continues the transition with a turnover into Osaekomi.

Our groups have all learnt some new turnovers that will hopefully help in the upcoming competitions and grading events.

We're excited to be hosting this years AJA East Midland Area Open Championships on Sunday 5th July.

Emails have been sent out to all Club Members outlining all the details, please get in touch if you have any questions and would like to enter.

Thank you

Today, RMJC club member Harley takes to the mat in Holland to compete at the Houvast Tournament. Good luck from everyone at the club, enjoy the experience, we luck forward to hearing how you get on.

The next event in the AJA Calendar is a double hitter. On the morning of Sunday 10th May, the East Midland Area will be running a training course for aspiring Referees and Timekeepers, this course is open to a wide range of club members and parents (even if you have never done judo but want to be more involved). In the afternoon, Novice AJA Members (Yellow belt and below) are invited to come along and take part in a mini competition to help the people who attended the course in the morning put their new knowledge to the test.

Full Event Details as follows:

EVENT: AJA EMA Referee and Timekeeping Course
DATE: Sunday 10th May
TIME: 10am - 12 midday
VENUE: Acorn Judo Club, Digby War Memorial Hall, North Street, Digby, Lincolnshire, LN4 3LY.
ENTRY: FREE

EVENT: AJA EMA Area Novice Championships
DATE: Sunday 10th May
WEIGH-IN: 1Up to 35kg at 12 midday / Over 35kg at 1pm
VENUE: Acorn Judo Club, Digby War Memorial Hall, North Street, Digby, Lincolnshire, LN4 3LY.
ENTRY: £6
ENTRY DEADLINE: Saturday 2nd May 2026

This is a great day, and it's local to us, Digby is around 30mins from our venue. It would be great to get a good turnout from the club to support this event, it's a fantastic opportunity for our younger Judoka who have not travelled away from the club before to compete.

Please let me know as soon as possible if you have any questions and would like to enter.

We recently held our Annual East Club Team Competition.
Congratulations to everyone who took part, thank you as always to friends and family for supporting our young Judoka and helping create a fantastic atmosphere.

We hope everyone is enjoying their Easter Break.

Tonight's session is on as normal, as we're in the school holidays and we've had a few busy weeks with gradings, National Championships, and Club Team Competitions, the session this evening will be a Games Night!!!

We will also be handing out Player Of The Month trophies for April, please return the trophies if you are the current award holders.

Thank you.

A few images from last week’s session where we celebrated our National Champs medalists success and Club Coach Eddie’s County Referee Award.

At next Thursday's session, Thursday 2nd April, we will be running a Club Team Competition.

Club Members will be split into 4 equal teams, with each team lining up against each other during the session, medals and an Easter Egg will be awarded at the end of the session to everyone taking part.

Please arrive in good time so we can start promptly at 6:30pm, we aim to be finished by 8pm but there is a chance we might roll over to 8:30pm at the latest. All support from friends and family is welcome, we will be setting up extra seating.

We look forward to seeing you all on Thursday.

A fantastic day for RMJC Club Members at today’s AJA National Closed Championships.

All our club members displayed attacking judo from the first Hajime to the final Matte resulting in podium finishes, medals, and AJA National Squad badges for everyone. Amazing results!!!

Harley - GOLD (Junior category) & SILVER (Espoirs)
Eliza - SILVER
Bodhi - SILVER
Chase - SILVER
Jonathan - BRONZE x2 (Junior & Espoirs)
Micah - BRONZE

We’re so proud of all of you, well done everyone.