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| On Friday 8th March 2002 the Club was delighted to welcome Barbara Barnett back from the United States (and now a Great Grandmother) - seen here comforting Roy Muller four weeks following his hip re-surfacing operation. Roy says: "The hip's fine - I'm walking miles every day - I'll be back on the mat in no time at all." |
We warmly welcome visitors. We just wish they wouldn't knock the living daylights out of us!
A couple of years ago about twenty Belgian black belts invaded our dojo. They used us as cannon foder for the European Championships
A couple of months ago, two Romanian black belts danced around the dojo upending everybody - including - our World Champion Dave Walker!
Date: 11 November 2000 We were pleased to welcome a familiar face from the past at last night�s training session:
Date: 4th December 2000
A young (19 year old) Russian Sambo/Judo player, Adrei Lukin 6' 6" wearing a blue belt visited the club last Friday with his coach, Konstantin Tinovitski.
Andrei is Junior Russian Heavyweight Champion in Sambo wrestling and holds the title of `Master of Sambo'. He is spending a week in Birmingham and one week in Manchester visiting different clubs in order to improve his judo skills.
Andrei's coach Konstantin has equally impressive credentials.
He is also a champion of Sambo wrestling and as Honary Coach of Russia, trains Olympic champions.
Ron Knight encouraged him to show us something interesting, which he did: an impressive combat move - leg lock - but not one which would impress orthodox Judo referees!
The `Queen Mother' (Barbara Barnett) was there to witness proceedings which ended with an exchange of gifts:
A sculptured wooden spoon for Barbara and two T-shirts for our Sambo champions.
We wish Andrei best of luck with his judo career and certainly expect to hear more about him in the future.