Club News...

Rob Friar wins GOLD at International Brazilian Jujitsu Competition

We are organising the Billericay Xmas event for 21 December at a local eating and drinking establishment

There will be a junior competition 22July 2007

Due to Sports Hall refurbishment here will be no Thursday night session 2nd and 9th August 2007. Sunday session is not impacted by this work

June 07

The club attendance has started the year well with over 20 juniors and 18 seniors

Our aim this year to increase the senior membership to 20 by the end of the year, so please bring along anyone that you feel would benefit from martial arts training

 

Training has been dominated by groundwork, grading preparation defence techniques and drills.

Quarterly fees (amendments)

As you know we are now training in the gym on permanent basis. I am sure that you are appreciating the benefits in terms of noise levels and space.

The last club subscription that you paid covered the training period July, August and September and as such subs would normally be due again in October, to cover the remaining three months of the year.

However, we wish to re-align payment dates and therefore are now asking for the next payment now which will cover training until Feb 2008 (which effectively gives you two months free training!). We will request the next quarterly payment in Feb to cover March, April and May.

I am sure that you will agree that our fees have been very competitive when compared to other martial art clubs/sporting activities and our intention is to minimise increases as far as possible.

To keep things simple, the subscription fees will be spread equally into 4 payments throughout the year based on the total number of sessions in the year and won’t necessarily cover the same number of sessions per quarter (there is no facility to ‘pay as you go’).

The fees (cash only please) will be as follows:

 

Quarterly FeesThursday only Sunday only Sunday and Thursday

Juniors*£40

(46 sessions =£3.48 each)£55

(45 sessions £4.89 each)£55

(91 sessions £2.42 each)

Adults**£70

(50 sessions=£5.60 each)Not Applicable£90

(95 sessions = £3.79 each)

* closed 20, 23, 27 and 30 Dec, 23 Mar, 6, 10, 13, 17, 20, 24, 27 and, 31 Aug

** closed 20, 23, 27 and 30 Dec, 23 Mar, 10, 17, 24,and 31 Aug

Junior Course & Competition (16 years and under) Sunday 22 July 2007

As advised previously, the first Jikishin ‘junior only’ competition will be held at:

Epping Sports Centre

Hemnall Street,

Epping,

Essex,

CM16 4LX

This will be open to all Jikishin clubs in the area with competition categories of 1) open hand kata, 2) weapons kata, 3) random attacks 4) pairs demo and 5) ground work (N.B. no sparring this time). We have a strong record in competitions and would like to see this continue so give it a go!

Please let me know if you are interested in entering (closing date for entries is 13 July and the cost is £10).

Thanks for your support !

The last Junior grading was March 2007 so we are now concentrating on syllabus work in preparation for the next grading

Senior Gradings June 2007

Well done to everyone who graded on 10 June (Dave Poulter, Neil

Richardson, Rob Richardson (orange belt) Jason Woolmer, James Spurling

and Rob Friar (Blue belt)). An excellent standard from all of our

students. Next adult grading is 16 September 2007.

Senior Gradings December 2006

At the adult grading on 3rd December 2006 at Courage Hall, Brentwood, Rob Friar and James Spurling successfully completed their Green belt and Suzanne Kinsella achieved her Purple grading - well done everyone !

Chris Benkin and Harry Banks both put in excellent work to achieve their Yellow Belt

Senior Gradings December 2005

Congratulations to Suzanne Kinsella who successfully completed her 'conversion' from her previous Jujitsu style on Sunday 4th December 2005. Suzanne performed very well in the grading and is now officially a Jikishin Blue belt - well done

On Thursday 8th December Rob Friar demonstrated good style and effort during his White belt grading. Everyone on the mat agreed he performed very well on the night and his pass was well deserved. Now for the Yellow belt!

Sunday 11th December saw Kyle Hargreaves attempt his Black belt (Shodan). Kyle had trained really hard for the grading and still was not sure who would be his training partner on the day. We are pleased to report that Kyle was successful and becomes the first pupil since the club's establishment at Billericay Sports Centre to start at White and go all the way through to Shodan. Many congratulations to Kyle.

"Train like there is no tomorrow"