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OLYMPIC COUNT-DOWN

K<Jilh RelHfrrand Benin Den Birkenof Hollaud congratulate each othcrdler their e1assic contest lit Cr)'!llalPallice.

In the first malch Britain beatBulgaria scoring as follows: Neenan(koka loss); Morrison (yuko win);Jacks (waza-ari win); Starbrook (ip­pon win) and Remfry (ippon win).In the next round Alexander replacedNeenan and the very strong Polishteam met a similar fate at the handsof the British. Alexander (ippon win);Morrison (koka win); Jacks (yukowin); Starbrook (ippon loss) andRemfry (koka loss). Morrison's winwas against this year's individualbrOllze medallist and Jacks beat thisyear's individual silver medallist.

The British team was very popularwith the Russian spectators and thiswas shown even in the next roundwhen Britain were to meet themighty Russian team. This Britainlost 2 to 1 but they pUt up a greatbattle. Keith Remfry was lhe oneBritish winner with both Morrison

gamble on these Championships toplace the leadng British fighters in abetler position for Montreal and tothrow every effort into the teamevent. With one last-minute changeand Tony Johnson doing the seem­ingly impossible by securing in oneday a visa, Paul Radburn replacedthe injured Peter Donnelly with thethe rcst of the team being: KeithRemfry: Bob Bradley; Paul Eales;Dave Starbrook: Brian Jacks; BobDiebelius; Vass Morrison; NeilAdams; Ray Neenan and 'Alex'Alexander. Holding back both Jacksand Starbrook for the team eventonly, Ray Ross pUt Radburn intothe light-heavyweight individualevent and a trimmed down Diebeliusinto the middleweight individuals.With just one day's notice Radburndid exceedingly well in this, his firstmajor international senior event. Hefell just short of rating a medal get­ting to fifth place. In his first contesthe beat within 20 seconds the veryexperienced Vajetitch of Yugoslaviaand went on to score an amazingwaza·ari win over Betanov of theU.S.S.R. who is current worldbronze medallist. He then beat Daliaof France but eventually lost by anarrow margin to Van de Val ofBelgium which if he had won wouldhave put him in the finals. Tn therepechage Paul dominated the can­lest only to be penalised seven sec­onds from the end with a keikokuto lose Ihe chance of a bronze.Nevertheless. this was a remarkabledebut and augers well for the future.

The other British fighters worthyof mention in the individuals werethe two lightweights Neenan andAlexander. Alex was the moreimpressive h.tving the much stifferoppOSition. they both finished in fifthplace.

The team e\'ent was the successstory for Britain. Being unseeded theoppOSition was tough but Ross'sgamble paid off and by winning abronze medal next year's teum isassured of a head start.

lectively and man for man, didbetler than any British sportmen ­and yet hardly a television cameracould be found to relay the news,they were, of course, all employedelsewhere recording the successes ofother countries.

1976 Senior EuropeanChampionships - 6/7 and 9 May

On the second leg of their flightto Kiev, the British team were treatedto an antidote to pre-contest nerveswhen JUSt after take-off from Mos­cow the passenger door of the gian·tRussian jet flew open at a thousandfeet. A very brave Russian soldiertook it upon himself to secure theoffending door and was eventuallyable to do so with 'Alex' Alexanderhanging on to his legs and othermembers of the British team pilingin to help. This however was nothingcompared to the incredible confusionthat awaited them at Kiev when offi­cialdom was seen at it's best withno two officials having any idea ofwhat the other one was doing. Thesituation was such that on the firstmorning of the competition thePresident of the European JudoUnion warned the organisers thatunless there was an improvementhe would instruct all teams to returnhome and boycott the event. Slowly,as each day went by, things didimprove.

Just one week earlier Ray Ross,the Team Manager, had won approv­al from the Executive Commiltee to

1976 Senior European ChampionshipsFour-Nation Tournament in London

Final Preparations of the British Team

Within a few weeks of readingthis issue, the world's top sportsmenand sportswomen will be vyeing witheach other to attempt to secure thehighest honours in the field of sport;an Olympic medal or at best anOlympic title. The British public withthe full knowledge that the sporlSpeople representing them belong tothat remaining few who can truly beclassified as amateurs, will onceagain be willing their favourites ondespite the odds they know arestacked against them. And there liesthe one glimmer of hope, thatstrangely, we always do better whenwe are up against it, when thereseems to be little hope. True, thereare a few of our sports Ihat havegood backing and no doubt themedia, newspapers and televisionwill be following those particularsports. But I have that feeling thatonce again the underdogs, the un­sung heroes and heroines, will bethe ones who will be keeping theold flag waving. We can rememberonly too well how, in 1972 at theMunich Games, our Judo lads col-

Judo Magazine presents to if'sreaders a round-up of events affect­ing the British Olympic Squad inthe final months of preparation forthe Montreal Olympic Games. Thisreport is laced with photographsfrom David Finch's considerablelibrary of photographs.

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Bob Bra.dle)· proudly acknowledges the applause dler hiA J;eIl!lltio".1 "illfor the British ·B' leam agaiust Wesl Germany in the last contest.

and Slarbrook losing and Ihe restforcing a draw. It was generally feltthat had this been. an individualevent both Jacks and Morrison wouldhave won on a decision. Starbrook,labouring with an injected arm lostto a Russian he has 6"eaten twicebefore.

This bronze medal will give a newteam next yeur a nying start, I SIlYnew team because as will be seen,there will be a number of retire­ments after the Olympic Games.

And so with his Olympic teamtaking shape, Ray Ross was stillundecided about the lightweights.There was no doubt that Alexanderappeared the better at this event butRoss still needed another testingground. This was to be the Four­Nations Tournament to follow a fewweeks later.

Four-Nalions Tournament ­23 May

Along with weight-lirting, modernpentathlon, yachting and cycling.Judo was chosen to be included inthe big-five and described by theSpOnsors Faberge Incorporated as"Brut Olympic 5". The Judo eventtook place at Crystal Palace NationalSports Centre on Sunday, 23 Maywatched by an almost capacitycrowd. Originally billed as a triang­ular match involving Uelgium, Hol­land and Great Britain it was justone week earlier that the FederalRepublic of Germany asked if theycould take up the invitation theyhad declined earlier. A triangulllrmatch would have been just com­fortable but with four natiOns theproceedings seem to drag on. How­ever, most of the crowd seemedwell satisfied when it became clearthat Britain had won the series andmany of the parties of schoolchildrenwho had travelled to the venue bycoach had to depart before the finalrounds.

As it turned out this was an idealtime to hold such an event, partic-

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ularly when Team Managers werefnced with the problem of finalselection of their Olympic teams.

Not only did this event show thatBritain have the srongest team butalso that the 'B' team, or our secondrunners, were equal to the best thaIother countries can provide.

I would lhink thllt ex-farm boyGeorge Barrie, undisputed boss ofthe Fabcrge-8rul perfume empirewhose annual sales top 160 milliondollars, would have been well satis­fied if, looking down from his Man_hallan suite of officcs, he could haveseen the large audience of mainly)'oung people on that day; he wouldhave been well pleased, I'm sure.True thai such sponsorship would beto him a drop in the ocean. Butother large concerns who could alsodo the same just don't bother. Togive so many young people an excit­ing event to remember and to bringtogether the top fighters of fournations in friendly combat must bea satiSfying reward.

The crowd welcomed the teams asthey marched into the arena butnever was the applause so great aswhen the British team, at the endof the parade, stepped into the hall.This I11l1st have been a great encour­agement.

In the firsl matCh, West Germanyversus Belgium, it became clear thaImany fighters were competing for aplace in their Olympic teum. Contesl.~

were vcry close nnd tense, althoughWest Germany won this round veryconvincingly by 5 wins, 4 of themwith ippon with most of the resultsbeing achieved in newaza.

The next match was Great Britainversus Holland and in the first con­tcst, though we were not yet toknow it, 'Alex' Alexander set theball rolling for an eventual victor­ious British team and for himself ­a brilliant afternoon's display ofJudo - both skilful and aggressive.In iust 80 seconds he effected yoko-

shiho.gatame on Harry Peters toscore an eventual ippon. 'Vass'Morrison also on this day becameIhe pride of Britain when. in just30 seconds from the opening of thecontest, he scored waza-uri withseoi-nage on Peter Kneteman. Ab­solutely bouncing with confidence heproceeded to dominate his opponentscoring a koka with a splendid ren-

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raku·waza sequence culminatingwith ko-uchi-gari. At 3.25 'Vass'clinc.hed the contest with II superbippon-seoi-nage. Jacks, with nluchat stake and almost definite for theOlympic team, confided in me ear·lier Ihat he would be treating hisDutch opponent with great caution.He didn't want to take any risks atthis stage and his opponent promised

to be II diflicult one with ulmO!>L the Slimestyle as Brian llnd \\ith alert uchi-mata ­and being a young contender - ready tochance anything. Certainl)' his opponent.E. Oaselmllns, l>rO"cd "cry diflicult andllstutC. There was very lillie in it until, withjuSt 40 seconds to go il\ the six minutecontest, Ilriall WIIS I>cnuliscd with II keikokufor pushing his opponent Ollt of the area.Dave Starbrook lit 4t minutes showed thestadium JUSt what huu to come and JanBosman was on the end of that classic tai­otoshL With the m:ltch comfortably in thehag Keith Remfry, obviously playing toinstructions, went to the full six minuleswhich earned both hc and his opponent.Bert In Den Berken, hiki-wah

Next it wus the turn of thc Great Britain'B' team uguinst Belgium. This resulted ina 4 to I win for Ilritain with Necnan.Adams, Diebclius and Donnelly all scoringwith ippon.

The match which c,'cr) body in the :.tudiumhad been wlIiting for, Grellt Britllin versus

The rderce ili 'cry IIlud, "1' "illl lloe lIelion IItldi<II'('~ 'f:ng('IlK'rL Dvcrbratll from n broken Drill,In a no~h 'VlI'liI' Muri,ol1 IlOd ~lJlIn in for II 11Cr',fl'CI jllji,glllllll"·.

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West Germany, came next. Alex­ander did very \\·ell to secure a drawagainst Alexander Liebkind. 'Vass'scored yuko with seoi-nage tit 4.29and with clock-work precision slidinto juji-gatame which hud his oppo­nent tapping furiously, In the nextmatch Brian Jacks faccd his old foeFred Marhenke. Of their previousthree meetings Brian hud won thefirst and lost in the next two, butthis time if it had been an individualcompetition I am sure that Bri:Hlwould ha"e been given the ned. Inevery way he tried 10 open upMarhenke's defence and at half wayBrian attacked with a rally of kneel­ing seois both left and right and hadthe stolid and experienced Marhenkerocking but wth no score. CerlainlyBrian put in many more auacks butat time hiki-waki was given. DaveStarbrook also drew with GunterNeureuter, having just recoveredfrom an injury Dave was not goingto take any chances with his Mon­treal ticket. At 2t minutes KeithRemfry scored a koka with harai­goshi and therefore won the nod attime giving a British win over WestGermany 2 to nil. Robert Heil theGerman Sports Director told meafterwards that he had thought thiscompetition might help him to solvehis problems for settling his finulteam for the Olympic.~ but it hadonly given him more headaches,

The British '0' team did except­ionally well to draw with Holland2 - 2. who had earlier fallen to Bri­tain 'A' 3 to I .Holland beat Belgium4 to nil and Germany beat Bolland3 to 2. The British '8' team tookWest Germany to an incredible I • Idraw with Bob Bradley pulling ofT afantastic arm-lock at 5.23 in the lastcontest against Jean Jacques Komo­sinski. This lifted his team tremen­dously and brought tumultuous app­lause.

Britain, therefore. were overallwinners and with agreement, Britain'11' were not included in the camp-

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etition results, silver medals were pre­sented to West Gcrmany and bronzemedals to Holland and Belgium.

Flnul I'repurulions for theIJrilish Teum

The next day a British party corn­I>rising Keith Remfr)', David Star­brook, Orinn Jacks, Vaccinuff Mor­rison and Neil Adams travelled toJapan for a three week trainingI>cried in Tokyo. Within a few daysit WitS found that the YMCA Hostelin which they were billeted justcould not provide the food withsunicient protein and vitamins andthe cost thcn went sky-high, Donnellyfound he had problems with the oldleg injury and Jacks suffered a mOStuncomfortable carbunkle on his backlInd for the youngster of the party,eighteen ycar.old Neil Adams. theexperience threatened to be a littleunnerving, folowever, as it transpired.

'Alex' demonstrates his ~"l'erioril)" in ne.wlIZll against t\lexand.:r Uebkind ofWest German)".

Constantine AlexanderVaceinuff MorrisonBrian JacksDavid StarbrookKeith RemfryKeith Remfry

Vcry few people realised lhat Ittlhe Four-Nations Tournament wewould be seeing Starbrook, Jacksand Remfry in international com­petition for Ihe last time. After theOlympics Ihey will all be rei iringafter long and glorious careers, BrianJacks will have been 12 years on theinternational scene.

Ray Ross himself will be givingup the post of Olympic Team Man­ager after Montreal. The reasons areobvious, "J will see my wife andchildren this year for the first timein my so-called leisure time whenthey will be staying near us at theScotland camp". Ray told me JUSt amonth ago. "Since 1971 I have hadthree days holiday with them. Therequirements of the job are now sogreat that the post demands a pro­fessional man. The game has changedenormously since 1 took up the job.In the socialist counlries only Russiaand East Germany had full-time

Da"e Slarl,rook throws Jan HosnHlU of H01l'lIu.I wilh his famous lai·nIMh;. the1<1"1 one WI;" ~hall see in ill1.:rnntional tom""tit;o" in Hrit<l'n.

With regaru to the open-weightcl1Iry for Grcat Britain Ray Rosslefl his seleclion until absolulely thelast moment.

It has been no easy task seleclinglhe final team. Starbrook, Jacks andRcmfry were a foregone conclusionbut lhen injuries always lie in thewake of such predictions. The light­weight situation was a problem withRay Neenan being considered num·ber one up to the 1976 EuropeanChampionships. But at those cham­pionships Alexander assumed lhatspot wilh his brilliant display, bothin Ihe individuals and the teammatch. This was later confirmed atthe Four-Nalion Tournament in Lon_don when Alexander scored two'ippon' wins as against Neenan's one'ippon' win and two drawn contests.As we can read in the daily news­papers with olher sports, il is thecurrenl form which matters in thefinal selection.

Reserves:Raymond NeenanNeil AdamsRobert DiebeliusI)aul RadburnRobert BradleyDavid Stnrbrook

Squad because of Ihe very tighl holdthai the old Senseis still have on theJapanese scene.

On Ihe 11 th June the Britjsh Olym­['lie Squad travelled to Edinburgh forone week's training with an armysquad and a Scottish squad. ]n muchpleasanter surroundings and accom­modated by Ihe army in EdinburghCastle wilh first-class food, the Squadwent into their final phase of train­ing. With tremendous facilities andattention given to their every needthe Squad were all in tremendousspirit.

At a press conference on Monday,21 June, the Olympic Team Managerannounced the British Olympic teamfor the 1976 Games as follows:

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morale was high and Neil was pro­tected by the more experienced andheavier members of the party when­ever he was likely to be overwhelmedwhich sadly the Japanese lend to Iryto do on small foreigners.

Actually, it was the turn for theJapanese to be surprised, they justcould nOI believe that one so power­ful and skilful at Judo could be soyoung and Neil made a good accountof himself. Due to the poor food andmiserable conditions and becausemoney was running out the partylerl Japan IWO days earlier thanscheduled.

According to Brian Jacks, Irainingattitudes have slill not changed insixteen years and Ihere seems to bean underlying apathy in the JU['lanese

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KATA? WHY BOTHER?

CORRESPONDENCEsquads, now all of them treat Judoin a professional manner. I wouldnot like to see our squad totally pro­fessional but surely the Team Man·uger should be a professional?" saysRay.

Certainly for Ray since he wasappointed in 1971 the job has takenvery much of his free time, he hashad no fees and no rewards otherthan the glory of the successes fromtime to time of the many Britishteams he has been responsible for.There have been plenty of knocksbut 1 can tell you that the respon­sibility being put onto the shouldersof one man has proved betler thanwhen we had a selection committee.Members of that committee weresometimes accused of being moreconcerned with putting fighters they

On SlIturday, 15th May 1976, atStockton·on.Tees, the British JudoAssociation held what may be laugh­ingly called their National KataChampionships.

The literature, which stated thatwe should book in between 12 noonand I p.m., proved to be fiction, asthe organisers had secretly decided(without telling the competitors orjudge Mr. John Cornish) that theKata would start lit II a.m. Wefooled 'em though, by being readyon time to hear them say "thejudges haven't turned up - we can'tunderstand it". They eventuallyfound three ·stand·in' judges. Wehad a pre-championship chat to lheeffect that those who had enteredfor the Ju No Kata (two pairs), Bnd

had themselves trained into a Britishteam just for the prestige, than whowas best for Britain.

Who will the new Team Managerbe? Certainly the picture looks betterfor whoever gets the job than it didone year ago. Ross hands over tothe new manager a very experiencedand young squad which includes:Seth Birch (aged 21); Neil Adams(18); Stuart Travis (21); Bob Diebel­ius (22); Paul Radburn (21) and PeterDonnelly (24). Each one of them hasalready competed successfully on theinternational scene. Also it must beremembered that this year's teamensured that Britain will be seededin next year's European Champion­ships which will be a great advantageto a young team and will give a newTeam Manager an encouraging start.

the Katame No Kata (three pairs),would have no championship unlessthey joined together as one category!This was after the literature hadstated that 'Where there are fewerthan four pairs entered in a category,the title will be held vacant', Thesecompetitors had to obey or withdraw.As some had undertaken a roundtrip of near 500 miles to enter theyagreed.

It occurs to me that with five wholedays between the closing date andthe 15th, there was ample time toinform the people in these categoriesof the shortage of entries so thlltthey had a chance to withdrawbefore making the trip. Perhapsthe organisers realised that a partof the championship would be miss­ing if these entrants withdrew and

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Sir.-Once again we have beenthrough the exercises of the NationalKata Championship, and once moreit has proved to be a mockery ofcompetition. For this the British JudoAssociation must accept it's fullshare of the blame. It would seemto members that they are paying lipservice to what a large number ofmembers want, i.e. a National e\'entfor Kata, then doing their best tokill the whole idea off.

Again, as in 1975, it was coupledwith the Women's National TeamChampionships, like a cartoon beforethe main event, and proved to be 1\negation of a year's hard work. andtraining, as in 1975, when they bar­red all modern versions of Kata afew weeks before the event. I do notquestion too deeply the ethics ofremoving a National Championshipfrom the National Sports Centre, asone recognises that it could proveto be a stimulant for the sport inother areas, but surely, the entryfee of four pounds per Kata entrywas nothing short of prOhibitive,especially when a number of en­trants competed in three categories,and were charged twelve pounds forthe privilege, this is in addition tothe cost of getting to the venue,which for some meant a journey ofover two hundred miles. Coupled 10this was the sudden decision tochange the time of starting the con­test from that printed quite clearlyon the entry form, it could havemeant that some contestants couldhave arrived to 'book in' and noteven having the chance to competefor the money they had paid. Oneof the Kata judges actually foundhimself in this position, arriving toolate to adjudicate.

The method of judging was nothingshort of amazing, as, apart from theIsutsu Kata, not one of the judgessaw a complete Kata performed.The whole thing was done in un

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entirely piecemenl fashion, with thejudges selecting, apparently at ran­dom, an entry to perform two setsfrom a Katll, and another entry toperform a different two sets fromthe Kata, and deciding the winnersof the 1976 National Kata Cham­pionship in this manner, a truly dis­graceful way of judging Kata atuny level.

One can hardly blame one clubentry from leaving the centre indisgust, declining to wait for thepresentation of their awards. Thiscontingent included the Katame-no­Kata Silver medallists, the Nage-No­Kalil Silver nlcdallists, the 1975National Kata Champions, the 1975Silver medallists, who also held the1975 Annual Rose Bowl award. Atop Official of the British Judo Ass·ociation ought to have atlendel"i anddeclared the contest void.

Whilst congratulations arc exten­ded to the couple who gained a hat­trick of Gold medals, who, incident­ally, were not conforming to the laiddown rules for Kata, i.e. Red beltTori, White belt Uke, I left theCentre with a definite impressionthat their performance appeared tohave been taught by a choreographer,rather Ihan a Judo coach. It wasmore of a ballet than a display ofan aspect of a Martial Art. I askone thing, at least, from the BritishJudo Association, either let us havea properly organised National KataChampionship, or betray Dr. Kano'sideals on the importance of Kataand let the whole thing sink intoobscurity.

What a tragedy for Judo if thisis ullowed to happen, for the per­formance of Kata is a necessary andsatisfying aspect of Judo, or anyMartial Art, calling for a far higherdegree of technique and perfectionthan it's counter part in contest work.

P. 1. MELLE1T.Billericay, Essex.

Morning 11Ii';'lIgu trainiulit in the Saga Kenseiklli Oojo. Kyushu. Roald Knut..-u"'II! a"'uded me"l...,.o·kl,illl'''. or licence tQ koch. one or thc traditional ,ljUJuClluko f:ilhi" ..ryu. This dojo i.'!o ~trictl!, onhod(lx in Ini lind Kcndo.

-KENDOforum

by Roald Knutsen

"wice a year the Kendo J{cnmciholds a weekend camp as part of thenll·the·ycar-round general trainingprogramme. These camps aredesi~ned to involve doja groups frommany different areas in olltdoor prac­tice in direct ContrllSI to the morcroutine activities in the doja. Thes':evenl.s are under canvas with train­ing on rough hill ground in the SouthDowns near to lewes. The mostrecent. held in the first week in June.was attended by 36 sudents of allranks from juniors up to 5th drill.

I don', intend here to merely givea rl"Cital of what we did at the campbut rather 10 show the value of oldBudo methods applied to what wemay fondly believe to be moderntraining. I am rather inclined toSHess the traditional in Dudo andthe weaponed arts: well. here at thesecamps we go right back to the tradi·tion without any transition and it i..quite surprising to ..orne people justhow realistic training can be whencompletely out of the artificial en­vironment of the dojo.

It may come as a surprise to someof my readers to learn that any formof Budo practice in a specially desig­nated dojo or training hall only datesback at the most a hundred years.The doja as a place for militarytraining was the product of thedecade or so right at the end of theTokugawa period and the beginningof the Meiji period (1868). Beforethat there are records of indoortraining but these dojo seem 10 haveheen IIlIed for other purposes a.. well.They were often contained within

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castle pra:mcts ur associated wllh thebuilding~ within the perimeter of theIJllk(' yl,kll/l', or headquarters whichwas not necessarily the local castle.If we take the era of recorded prac­tice of fwgill(l/(l and swordsmanship.a span of well over 1.000 yean•. thenthe "dojo" period is very recentindeed.

It is qUlle common to sec withinthe variollS Japanese Shinto shrinecomplexes small or large are:lS ofground marked off for sacred uscby long gra..s plaited ropes called.I/limf'IU'wo. These ropes indicate thatthe particular area is under thepatronage of a hili,; for some par.ticular purpose. The area is rituallypure. It is thought that the earliesttraining places for the fore-runnersof the martial arts were connectedwith ritual impurities (sheddinl.!blood, for example) and ritualcleansing. especially cleansing withthe sword. bow, or spear. It is a wellrecognised fact that there have beenthe c1o~est possible relationshipsfrom the most ancient time5 betweenShinto and /)// (in Bu-do). The useof open spaces for training continuedthroughout the fully documentedlate·feudal period (roughly between1490 and 1868) and still continuesin several vigorous major kohudolradition~.

A large number of kobudo mastersargue that unless training is takenout of the artificial surrounding.. ofn special building with perfect noorsthen the students will not be able tounderstand fully how techniquesdeveloped or how the form~ willwork in more normal everyday eon·ditions. Therefore practice i5 oftenin the open nir. on mountainside5.in thick undergrowth. on sandybeaches, in woodland. and so on.All with the aim of giving reality tothe true object of the exercise.Experience shows that this elementof physical realism makes it no morediflicuh to teach the mental orintelleCHllll meanin.,!s of Iludo andmay even help because movement'

on rough ground makes most~tudents more fully aware of alltheir bodies. The constant usc ofperfect dojo floors in kendo. forexample. leads many students to"forget" their legs until they mayhave to face the unusual. Realisationat this late stage is disastrous asanyone who has fought against theIllIgi"lll" can vouch !

Outdoor training helps to broadenperspectives. It enable.~ reasonablyIntelligent people to look at theirlJudo from an entirely new anglebecause. for one thing. the nature ofthe ground prevents any sort of"normal" dojo style being followed.At our Kendo Renmei camps. andwe have quite some experience be­hind us. we have found that we canintroduce fresh thinking to suchmaners as basic postures and unusualfollow-up movements from these. Inlai-jutsu in the doja it is sometimesdifficult to give studen" a true ideaIlf the walkin)! (advanced) forms

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because the surroundings are artiti­cia!. but oUldoors with naturalobstacles whole groups of the.~e samestudents quite easily understand howwe deal with such problems as pre·emplive lai. with ",Iwi (interval orspace). or with multiple opponents.

I think thal too much emphasi~

on one particular aspect of Budocan lead to error since that em­phasi5 produces imbalance and ulti·mately distorts proportions. Nowa­days. and in kendo terms that mean~

the pa~t hundred years or more. thegreatest trend has been towards theuse of the ,~I,illl,i or bamboo sword.There is now little or no proper uscof the buklllV or wooden sword. andit was ev~n reported to m~ at thecamp that in some European quar·ters (British'l God forbid!) peoplewould like to see kala eliminatedfrom nornllli training.

Reading. as I always do. DaVIdWhite'~ often p.:netrating comment...I must say that I agree with this

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team have helped all Martial Aftpractitioners by keeping in checkmany exploiters. Quality Chinesesifu are now joining and this speakswell for the future.

A brochure "The Ugly Shadow",was produced in May 1915 and30.000 copies distributed nationally.This hnd much impact and at thepress lunch. at which The Rt. Hon.Denis Howell. Minister for Sportand Mr. Walter Winterbottom spokcin support, il was pleasing to sec somany fellow supporters includingMr. Tony Reay and Mr. Jim Elkinwho need no introduction to readersof Judo.

The main Martial Art groupsquickly realised the importance ofco-ordination and co-operation andThe British Association of KoreanMartial Arts was formed in 1975.This organisation is making soundprogress and has needed the co­operation of eight separate Koreangroups to amalgamate into oneorganisation so thai true KoreanArts may be maintained at a hightechnical standard. They are soon toadopt their own standard licencebook similar to that of the OJ.A.We will hear a lot from this group inthc future.

National and local newspapers.local authorities and others wish torefer their queries to one centraloffice and so by cOo-Qperating to­getller the Karate, Kunp-Fu. KoreanAns and Aikido bodies can nowhave a central service capable ofgiving good service to sports centresand enquiries. A central check canalso be made for work permit appli­cations.

THE MARTIAL ARTS SCENE

As a reader. sometime contribUior.and long term supporter of hldQ,I would like readers to know ofdevelopments in the Martial Artsand 1 will keep this article as factuala'l possible.

The British Karate Control Com­mission came into being in 1967-8with ollicial encouragement followingmuch adverse publicity and questionsin the House of Commons.

The founding members consistedof the thcn known major karateorganisations and since that timeseveral extra style associations havebeen admilted-Goju. Sankukai andWado Ryu for example. There arenow eight associations (one is sus­pended).

By 1970 the Commission was inreceipt of Spons Council grant andour team did well at the First WorldChampionships in Japan.

Karate became successful andtherefore popular and increasedexpertise in administration becamedesirable. Nearly two years a,ltO weappointed our first full lime GeneralSecretary and established an officeat New Cross. London. We werethen deluged with publicity resultingfrom Kung-Fu hlms. the DavidCanadine "Kung Fu Commercial"on Sunday television and "Kung FuFighting" was the title of a recordin the top twenty. The British KungFu Council was formed (with thehelp of Mr. Tony McCarthy ofWorld of Sport T.V.) and has sincedone some good work vetting,controlling and trying to co-ordinateKung Fu activities. There is stillmueh to be done but Mr. ChristopherCarvalho (Co-Chairman) and his

-from a personal viewpoint

lute rubbish. If David White is cor·rect in his assessment. and m:lke nomist:lke :lbout il. Ihere arc manyvery senior :lnd influential Budomasters who arc working to thi~ end.then wc may gradually sec thebalance redressed. Until Ihat time.in kendo at least. Ihcre will be asharply marked division betweentho~e aiming at the traditionalvalues and those who mistakenlythink that competition at all cost isall there is. In the meantime ourvery active programme of traditionalBudo will continue unabated - andundeterred.

Early Morning Trnill!lIgD.W. again stimulates my pen­

he's as good as a tonic. He com­ments on Jap:mese training timesand mentions the habit of earlymorning practice. Getting up anddeliberately going to the dojo. lit.say. 6 a.m. once now and again is a..easonable experience. How aboutgoing every day at that time? LastMarch and April in Kyushu I hadthat unreasonable experience everyd:ty for over a fortnight. I hadvolunteered! Some Japanese kendokaarc fully commined to this sort ofthing and I believe that the presentmayor of the city of Osaka. who isa kcndo master. trains seven morn­in!!s a week before going to hisoffice suite. All very well if you aretraining in Japan but I thought Iwould put it on record tllal prellyregularly over the past si", years someof my Ini group at my BrightonButokukan 1.10;0 practice at six inth~ morning three times a week.

lIoal<! Knutsen. 51h DIIIl. willi OgakiSIl~uJnu ~C'lSei. 71h Dan KyoslJi. III'I'aJlawa in K)"u81lll. ,h;. April.

view that there may be a return tothe more spiritual values of Budo.I think I would prefer to say intel­lectual rather than spiritual beeaus:::I, too, have been plagued by new­comers who present themselves atthe 1.10;0 as "hooked" on Zen-theyusually last three weeks ... if that.

Shinai-Kendo is not true kendo(IS [ and many other senior Ylldrl/ls/wwell know. I personally don't thinkall is well in the kendo world. Ithink that a very Rref\l deal of whatras~e.s these days for kendo is abso-

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THE BRITISH JUDO ASSOCIATION

By TONY REAY

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AROUND THE AREASAnyone interested in refereeing

courses and examinations in theEastern Area should note that 10hnBenson,. the Area Executive Com­rpitte,e Representative. is now alsothe, Area Refereeing Representativeand any refereeing requests or querieswithin the Area should be directedto him. For the time being all othercorrespondence to ,the Area Com­millee should be sent ,to the AreaChairman. Miss R. A. Bird.

Frank Smith is the newly ejectedChairman of Midlands Area for the

treatment and sometimes worse. Butyou must know that there are peoplewho do care and are dedicated totrying to make your path easier. Inthis we are all united in British judo.We know that you will be keepingthe old flag flying and we wish youevery bit of luck. Whatever happenswe will be willing you on and what­ever the outcome we want you backsafe and sound, Good luck lads!Show them that we can still givethem a good run for their money".

SupplementNewsletter

AS I WAS SAYING

The message frQm all of us backhome is simple and very much fromthe heart: "We are proud of ea'chone of you. We will be thinking ofyou constantly. We kllOw that you'will do your best as we have seenyou each do niany times in the past..we know that the long tOf\uous ~t~

has nOI been easy a.nd we knpw thatthe rewards have been really verylittle. But as sportsmen. you do cai'(y.the greatest honour on your OIYQ1picblazers. We do know also that therehave been difficult times of pain or,frustration. sometimes both, Weknow that during those times it is so'teniptiJ:\g .t'Q sa"y to yourself. 'Is it all'worl~ it'!',1t is easy to say this whenwoolly thinking and misguidedbureaucracy seems to st.and in yourway. You are n~t alpnc., OtherBritish sportsmen hii,vi! hall similar

This issue of the magazine shouldbe out in time for the five membersof the British Olympic team and thetwo officials-the Team Manager andthe Team Doctor-to pack a copyinto their Olympic bag for readin,gon the long journey to Montreal.

Eleven year old TanyaBacon of the Archer JudoClub is shown winning herway to a silver medal in aBarking & Dagenham SportsCouncil competition. Theinstructors of her club arerightly proud of Tanya's harai_goshi, and so they should he.lt takes time and a lot ofpatience teaching children ­and even more effort indeveloping a big throw.

DOING IT IN STYLE

Who would have thought 25 yearsago that we would have seen suchan upsurge in all these activities:there is no sign of demand abating.

All this activity has unfortunatelynot been without growing pains andinternational successes in competitionhave been offset by political troubleat home. However, there is nowmuch goodwill for karate unity andthe future seems assured. Part ofthe "Code of Conduct" generallyadopted is that all members will dealwith and reco~nise only the officialgoverning bodies of their "brother"Martial Arts, During the course ofthis year it is hoped an announce­ment will be made formally bringingall the arts together for purposes ofco-ordination, but encouraging themall to develop technically in theirown way,

medical advice is being followed andsuitable rules are in existence.

Growth continues apace and thusthe future will, we hope, see in­creased co-operation among all thefollowing bodies:

The English Karate Board

The Sconish Karate Board

The Welsh Karate Board

The Irish Karate Board (whenformed)

The British Kung-Fu Council

The British Association of KoreanMartial Arts

The British Aikido Association

No doubt other arts will also co­operate in due course.

The advent of professional "con­tact" karate has necessitated a provi­sion being made for representationof those promoting events, Againthe promoters are co-operative.

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DJA SttUAltS .'UNOA final al.peal on behalf of the

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next two years. After the AssociationAnnual General Meeting the E.C,representative for the Area. BrianRegan. will be standing down nftertwo years of much work and heavyresponsibility holding down bothpositions. For his devotion and ser·vice to the Area in the past. Brianhas been made Vice· President of theArea.

At a Northern Ireland JudoFederation A.a.M. recently all theArea ofticers were retu;ned to ofl1ce.

Association members living in3cotland are reminded that IndividualMembership applications should beforwarded direct to the MembershipSecretary of the Scottish JudoFederation. 8 Frederick Street.Edinburgh. EH I 2AE.

North-West Area have re-appoin­ted Arthur Tomkinson as their E.C.representative. He is the longest~erving member ever to have workedon that committee.

At a recent A.a.M. of the WelshJudo Association nil the officers werereturned in the elections for an Areacommittee. Club secretaries in Walesshould forward their club applica­tion for registration direct to theSecretary of the Wlesh Judo Asso­ciation. Until further notice allcorrespondence to the Area com­mittee should be forwarded to ItheChairman and E.C. rep:,esentative.John Perrins.

London returned all the committeemembers for a further term of officeat a recent A.G.M. which was atten·ded by 18 Member Clubs.

NATIONAL COACJI.F..SAt the most recent E.C. meeting

Roy Inman's application for the postof Honorary National Coach wasapproved. Two excellent papers writ­ten by Peter Barnett, Co-Ordinatorof National Coaches titled: "Role of

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National Coaches in the British JudoAssociation" and "Range of Coach·ing Awards" have been accepted andapproved by the E.C.

EXPENSE CLAIMSQuite a large number of Associa­

tion ollicials do not claim ,theirexpenses from the Association fortravel. meals and accommodationwhilst undertaking Association work.This is greatly appreciated by theAssociation but in order that suchmonies can be ltccredited in the cor­rect column of the Accounts. mem­bers arc requested to use the new­style Association claim forms andsign the appropriate statement indioeating that the ollkial concerneddoes wish to donate such money tothe Association.

NATIONAL SUB-COMMITTEESThe co-option of Ian McCullam to

lhe National Competitions Sub·Committee has been agreed by theE.C. The E.C. have also agreed thatfrom 1977. two National RefereeingCourses should be held per year.one in the North and one in theSouth, in order that increased interestand demand can be satisfied.

WOMEN'S JUI>OIn order to assist the Association's

programme of cost-curbs Miss MarieFoun has llrranged that some ses­sions for this Squad take place atcheaper venues than Crystal PalaceNational Sports Centre.

The President of the InternationalJudo Federation recently informedthe E.C. that the Pan American JudoUnion would be holding a cham­pionships for senior women either atthe end of this year or next year andthat this would make possible aWorld Championships in 1978 or1979. If this happens then the pos­sibility of women's judo being in­cluded in the 1980 Olympic Gameswould be very real.

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In studying Ellen Cobb's pro­gramme for the Young Women'sSquad lhe Finance Sub·Commilleeand in turn the E.C. are very pleasedwith her initiative in arranging sucha varied and interesting programmewhich is entirely self-supporting andshe has been congratulated by bothcommittees.

Miss E. Williams of the SouthernArea has been awarded the MontClair Shield which is presented to themost outstanding player in the YoungWomen's Trials each year.

In the last analysis. when the run­ners are settling into their startingblocks and when the judomen stepout inlo the contest area. it will bethe man who is flUest. sharpest. themost fit and the best prepared andrea.dy who will win.

As far as the British judo team isconcerned the preparation in the leadup to that moment has been the bestthat we have been able to offerwithin their truly amateur status. Butthere is just one thing more we cando in these last few days.

In the words of David Jenkins,Britain's 400-metre gold medal hope."Just as in Munich. the MontrealOlympic village is going to be aconcrete jungle. ." He has writtento Arthur Gold. Secretary of theBritish Athletics Board telling him,hat he and his coach, DavidHemery are going to do it their wayif he is expecled to bring back agold medal. "The catering is goingto be slipshod and in the 19-sloreyblocks there will be only one liftper 1.000 athletes. That's going tomean waiting ages to get out of Ihe

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ASSOCIATION LII~E

MEMBERSHIPThe following were recently suc­

cessful in their application for LifeMembership of the Association:Sub.-Lt. I. C. Taylor; Mr. M. Hop­kinson; Mr. B. A. Baldock and Mr.J. Hawksby. Association Life Mem­bership costs £20 lind applicantsshould apply to the E.C. and addresstheir correspondence to the GeneralSecretary. The British Judo Associa·tion. 70 Ilrompton Road, London.SW) lOR.

building to go for meals and train­ing ... that's not for me", saysJenkins.

Ray Ross, our own Judo TeamManager is also concerned and Imust say with what r have heard Ishare that concern. Ray would liketo get the lads away from thatdepressing and frustrating atmos·phere for just a few days in thecrucial period just before the startof \the competitions. He would liketo take them well away from Mon­trealto the quaint old city of Quebec,just to relax. The cost would not bemuch but of course we ean onlydepend on the Squads Fund for anyfinanC'ial help that might be fOl'llh­coming. Help us in this last bid­to help the lads. It would be a pityif the prep3fations that have goneb~fore should be threatened.

Your donations-however small­would be greatly appreciated as soonas possible. Thanks again.

Tony Reay(responsible for the BJ,A. Squuds

Fund),

BJ.A. NATIONAL DAN GRADE REGISTER

Appendix Sixteen - Promotions confirmed 19/3/76 to 6/5/76

LATE CLUB NEWSHARLOW JUDO CLUB is situated at Harlow Sports Centre. The next promo­

tion examinations will be held on Sunday, 18th July at the Centre, TerryAdams, East Essex County Coach will be present. Examinations will beas follows: 10.00 am for Men and Women ungraded, 9th Kyu, 8th Kyuand 7th Kyu. 11.30 am Men and Women of 6th, 5th, 4th, 3rd and 2nd Kyu.2.00 pm Men and Women 1st Kyu. 3.30 pm 1st to 2nd Dans and 2nd to3rd Dans Men and Women. For further enquiries write to: The Secretary,Harlow Judo Club, Sports Centre, Harlow, Essex.

A SPECIAL JUDO COURSE FOR BEGINNERS

(Kyu grades and Mon grades of the age of 15 years or over, I

To be held at the Budokwai for five full days from Monday, 23rdto Friday, 27th August. Two two-hour sessions per day, 10.30 amto 12.30 pm and 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm. Includes technique instruc­tions, kata and daily talk·ins. Conducted by Tony Reay, 4th Dan.Fee [15.

Applications should be sent to The Manager, The Budokwai',4 Gilston Road, london, SW10 with a £5 deposit. Book early toavoid disappointment,

Hockley, J. E. ? NHC 11/4/76Liddiard.jenkin, D. N. Tower Hamlets L 11/4/76Owens, P. Stockton YMCA N J5/3{76Webster, D. S. Olympic NHC 215/7.

MEN TO 3RD DAN.Abbotts. M. Kodokai M 30/4/76Catling. V. F. G. ? NI 11/4/76Revels, R. C, Biggleswade NHC 13/3/76MEN TO 4TH DANEales, P. A. Renshuden NHC 11/4/76

WOMEN TO 1ST DANBartlett-Sando, j. D. Camden L 713/7.Bridge, J. Otanikwai NW 14/J/76Coleman. N. ? L 29/4{76Percival, K. Rustons M 2/5/76Snee, J. A. Coventry M 16/4/76West. B. A. Budokwai L 7/3/76Woodard, M. Budokwai L 7/3/7.

Association at the International JudoFederation Congress. Any corres­pondence for the National DanGrade Register can be sent to HeadOffice but unfortunately cannot bedealt with until her return on the3rd August.

NATIONAL DAN GRADEREGISTRAR

Please note that Dr. P. Elliott willbe on holiday and also attending theMontreal Olympic Games during theentire month of August. Phyllis willaha be representing the British Judo

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?York R.1.SheffieldWorksop Sports Centre

A''''RedbridgeKingsparkMid Sussex .Motherwel1 YMCANechellsR.NJ.A.RamseyI.P.M. GravesendWalthamstowShin Wa KwaiAireboroughDoncaster

ME.... TO 1ST DANAlveranga, J.Anstee, D. R.Armstrong, R. L.Ash, E. F.Buttery, K. F.Celina, N.Clark, M. C. E.Cole. R.Collett. T. A.Dearden, A. J.Goodison. D. J.Graham, M. H.Gray, M. J.Gritz, B.Hartley, D.Head, C. W. J.Henry, A.Heron, A.Holt. A. J.Johnson, J. T.King. R.Lane, P. W.Levey, D. J.Littler, L. J.Mahoney, P. M.Morrissey, D. J.Newman, D. B.Papadopul1os. K.Reed, R.Rispin, T.Rodda, J., R.Rowe.J.J.Sammons, R. C.Shopter, K._Shuker, S. D.Somerville, R,Stockton, J. N.Tilylor, 1. C.rhacker, R. F,Underwood, M. A.Warren, G. S.Wheeler, C. J.whitehead, M. B.Willcock, D. J.

MEN TO 2ND DAN

~eevor, K. D. D.Coulthurst, R.Daly, P. M.Edwards, F.Farr, O. J.

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BRITAIN NAME TEAM FOR OLYMPICS

by John Goodbody

JAPAN OMIT STARS

Japan seem to have done their best\0 ensure that their comparativelypoor J.>Crformance at the MunichOlympIcs (only three gold medals outof a possible six) will be repeatedthis month at the Montreal Games.They have selected the winners ofthe All Japan Weight Category Trialsin Fukuoka irrespective of their pastrecords, their form against foreignersand their experience of internationalevents. Consequently. Shozo Fujii,arguably the greatest middleweightthe world has ever secn (three WorldChampionship! and three goldmedals), has been inexplicably, in­credibly, unbelievably omitted fromthe learn becau5C he lost the Finalof the Trials ,to Sonoda on a closedecision. Sonoda, admittedly a fighterwhom every other country wouldhave been delighted to pick. has beennamed instead. Still the Japaneseselection system is extraordinarilyantiquated. Everyone knows howFujii has never shone in domesticcompetitions as he has done in biginternational events- he did poorlyin last year's selection contests forthe World Championships but thisstill didn't stop him from puuing ona dazzling exhibition in Vienna.

Fujii's squat build makes him veryawkward to throw while his kouchi­gari/seionage combination often up­roots the tall foreigners. Sonoda isbetter equipped to cope with Fujii'sattacks and, therefore, Fujii appa­rently spent many wasteful periodsof their final struggling to throw hisfel1ow..countryman with tomocnage­without success. This is the secondtime ,that Fujii has missed theOlympics. In 1972 Shinobu Sekine,lhe reigning All Japan Champion,was, with rusonable grounds, pre-

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ferred. He went on to take the goldmedal in Munich but displayed littlezest or originality.

Sonoda may well win in Montreal.But the Japanese decision hasdeprived them of their best middle­weight, increased ~he chances thatthey will lose the gold medal andstopped us all from seeing the pheno­menal Fujii win the supreme acco­lade in the sport.

This is not the end of the Japanesemistakes. Their best light-heavy­weight, Ueguchi, who had been leftout of the World Championshipsteam, is also out of the Olympicssquad. In April's All-Japan Cham­pionships he was a wazari up onSumio Endo in the final but W;y

finally countered. Nevertheless, itwas still an excellent performance byVeguchi. But in the final of theWeight Category Championships helost to Ninomiya, who has managedto lose enough wcight to slim downunder 14st. 9 Ibs. Ninomiya is there_fore selected.

Again Ninomiya could well winthe gold medal but the method ofselection is far too stereotyped.Japan. of course, can afford to dothis because they have so many out­standing fighters. And it will need arun of defea.ts 10 make them changethis system. TIlis is what happened inAmerican athletics when for yearstheir Final Olympic Try-Ouls settledthe squad. The first three in everyevent went to the Games irrespec­tive of what occurred previously.There were famous instances ofworld record holders. unbeaten [orthree years, tripping over a hurdle,falling flat on their faces, getting up.

finishing fourth and still not beingpicked. Eventually and thankfullythe system became more flexible.

I am not alone in my distres~ atthe Japanese selection method. !saoOkano. the team trainer who hadnothing to do with the method ofpicking the team (another mistake),is equally depressed. At least th::Trials brought some of the best menavailable through to win places-atlightweight, Minami. surely favouritefor the gold medal, and at heavy­weight the magnificent Endo. Theother heavyweight is the World OpenChampion, Uemura, but I suspectthat Endo will contest the Opencategory (the class above all whichthe Japanese long to win) andUemura the heavyweight division.

It remains, inevitably, the strongestteam in the Games but still not asformidable as they could have moun­ted. At the time of writing I havenot had all the Russian team butTass have announced that Novikovwill be the heavyweight representa­tive and Chochosvili in the Opendivision. Dvoinikov is rumoured tobe moving up to the middleweightclass, leaving Nevzorov in the welter·weights-the class in which he tookthe world title last year.

The French have named a predict­able team: Delvingt (lightweight),Vial (welterweight), Coche (middle­weight), Rouge (light-heavyweightand Open) and Bertet (heavyweight).Coche and Rouge both stand excel­lent chances of winning medals, ofcourse. and the Japanese must beconcerned about both of them.Rouge as the reigning world cham­pion and Coche as European Cham­pion have the experience and abilityto win Olympic titles. In addition,the French have prepared with athoroughness which equals that ofthe Communist countries.

It would be foolhardy to predictthat Britain will win as much deser-

vcd honour as they did in 1972 whenthree medals were won. As teammanager, Ray Ross points out: "Thestandard internationally has im­proved considerably since 1972. Fouryears ago we were ahead of mostnations in technique and contestexp:::rtise. Many of the Communistcountries were only dabbling in judothen. But now they have becomemore serious. You only have to lookback to last year's European Cham­pionships when their fighters won 20out of the 24 medals available in theindividual events".

Nevertheless the team which. withthe exception of the lightweight divi­sion almost picked itself, looks cap,able of securing at least on::: medalbetween them. The team is:

Lightweight:Constantine Alexander (London)Reserve, Ray Neenan (London)

Welterweight:Vass Morrison (London)Reserve, Neil Adams

(london/Midlands)

Middleweight:Brian Jacks (South)Reserve, Bob Diebelius (London)

Light-Heavyweight:Dave Starbrook (London)Reserve. Paul Radburn

(Nonhern Home Counties)

Heavyweight:Keith Remfry (London)Reserve, Bob Bradley (South)

Open:Keith Remfry (London)Reserve, Dave Starbrook (London)

The one leading fighter, who wasunavailable to be considered forselection was Solihull's Peter DOn­nelly, who damaged his leg seriouslyin Japan. He obviously stood a goodchance of being picked for the Opendivision, particularly after his per·formance in last year's World Cham-

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Travis Wins Open Title

THE ARMY JUDO CHAMPIONSHIPS

ALDERSHOT

CLUB FORUM

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instructors. This course is for allKyu grades and Mon ,l.!.rades of 15yean or over. The course is non­residential and there will be morningand afternoon sessions of two hourseach incorporating throwing andground-work techniq,ues, continuationand counter technIques and therewill also be kata instruction on tradi­tional lines. There will be coursetalk-ins each day on various aspectsincluded in the course programme.The course fee is £I~L Book now andinclude a £5 deposit. Applicationsshould be made direct to: TheManager, The Budokwai (SummerCourse), 4 Gilston Road. SouthKensington, London. S.W.IO.

HIlM!!t. HEMI'~m:AD Juoo CWB. Thenew address of Hemel HempsteadJudo Club i~: Dacorum SportsCentre, Park Road, Heme! Hemp­stead, Hertfordshire. The practicetimes are: SundllY: 10.0 to 12.0 ­Juniors. Monday: 8.0 10 9.30Seniors. Monday: 7.0 to 8.0Junior... Thursd:IY: R.30 10 10.0Scninr~.

strong team from the School of Elec­trica'l Engineering. Although the finalresult was close (3 points to 2), theSchool of Artillery won the firstthree bouts, so their victory wasneVer in doubt.

The final of the Army TeamChampionships between the RoyalSchool of Artillery and 1st BattalionThe Parachute Regiment, who werethe DAOR winners, proved to be amost fitting end to the two days.After four contests the score wastwo bouts each with the outcomedepending on the last bout. In thisSiddell brought off an excellent mor­ote-seoinagc, the beSt of the Champ­ionships, to make the Royal Schoolof Artillcry the new champions.

TilE BUOOKwAI-Reg Oliver ",riles:Welcome back from Japan theBudokwai members of the Briti~h

Olympic Squad.The Dan gradings adjudicated by

Senior Examiners Brian Jacks andMalcolm Hopkinson in June were agreat success as were the Kyu grad­ings olliciated by Tony Sweeney andMalcolm Hopkinson.

The next Dan grading will be heldon Sunday. 5th September and thenext Kyu grading on Sunday, 12thSeptember; both commencing at2.30 p.m.

The Budokwai summer courseswere always popular and well auen­ded especially by judoka who be­cause of travel. could not attend theclub as regular members. This year'sl3udokwai summer course will beheld from Monday 23rd to Friday27th of August inclusive and will beconducted by Tony Reay (4th Dan)a Budokwai instructor. There will beguest appearances of Budokwaimembers of the Briti..h Olympic teamand also other rcsidenl l3udokwai

BAOR Champion who won the Wel­terweight and Open (Class A) Titles.Young proved a most worthy oppo­nent in both these finals to earn theMitchell Trophy for the best losingfinalist. Their welterweight bout wasso close that it went the full distancewith Connor winning by only a yuko.However, in the Open final Connormanaged to obtain a ju.ji-gatami togain a full ten point win.

The UK Team Championship waswon by Royal School of Artillery.They pulled off an excellent semi­final win (4 bouts to I) against 4Light Regiment RA. Full credit mustgo to their heavyweight, Donna­thorne (Green belt) who beat a 1stDan. In the final they met an equally

the Games, to give the probable teama really testing series of workouts.Peop!e like Paul Eales, Roy Inmanand Dave Lawrence were happy togive up their holidays in order to helptrain the squad.

Many of the squad's fighters maynow be retiring from serious conl·petition but they wanted to go outwith a flourish. And it is a tribute tothe spirit of the squad that all thesepeople felt compelled to go to Edin­burgh. It was rather a sad momentwhen the week ended because somany of the members of the group,who, individually and collectively,have trained so hard, will be endingtheir careers and will never cometogether as a SQuad again. Any suc·cesses that Britain obtain in Montrealwill be partly a renection of the en­thusiasm and ability of the reserves.

The team know this. "This hasbeen the best training camp I haveever been on in my life", said BrianJacks, who has seen a few. The sup­port of the Army and Scouish squadswas invaluable too. The advice ofpeople like George Kerr and ColinMaciver and the facilities at Edin­burgh Castle, where the squad stayed,and Meadowbank where Andy Bullis manager, helped make the week amemorable occasion for everyonewho was there. And now for Mon­treal.

perienced 1st Dan, was no matchfor Travis, who won by a throwfrom a pick-up in their first conlestand a strangle in their 'Open' bout.

Another performance worthy of(IUal note was that of Connor, the

lilly Hoii;'. /lriti~h Tearn MIIIIger."II<J/U6'/lpll by J)add fi"ch.

pionships. However, one hopes thathe will come again for the MoscowGam!:s.

What particularly impressed me atJune's training camp in Edinburghwas the willingness of a number offi.llhtcrs, who knew that barring anaccident they would not be going to

Once again the performance ofTravis (3rd Dan) dominated theArmy Championships. Travis wonboth the Light·heavyweight Titleand the Open (Class B) Champion­ships. 'iis opponent in both finalswas Millinl'S Who, lllthough an ex-

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Reporr by DAVID FINCH

KENDO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

Japanese dominate Worlds Best Kendoka

OFfiCIAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF BRITISH KENDO ASSOCIATION

Nation EnteringB. CI-I. GB. Nt. SB. CH, D. GB. F. I, MAL0. F. GB, MAL. USAB, GB. F. IGil

losing to 7th Dan Hosoda of Japanwho finished third overall. The othermembers of thc British tcam wereknocked out of ,the Chllmpionship~

in the ellrly rounds.

In 1he semi-finals it was Yukoo ofJapan against 51.ycar·old 6th DllllC. T. Wu of the Republic of Chinlland Ono of Jap:'II1 versus Hosod!l.

Yokoo defeated Wu and weill onto fiCllt 6th Dan Ono in the finalwhich he won two points to one.

It is interesting to nOle that of allthe Martial Arts to emerge fromJapan that have reached world status.kendo is the only sport in whichthey remain so crushingly dominant.The next Championships may scc 1I

weakening of that grip.

No. PllSscd15 (GBIO)14 (GB4)II (GB5)6 (GB')I (GBI)

ENGLISH OPEN JUDO CHAMPIONSHIP FOR MEN

In conjunction with london Area & N.H.C., at South Ruislipleisure Centre on 18th September 1976. Write for entry form to:The Centre Organiser. Stonefield Way, Ruislip. Tel: 01-8415614.

In the semi-finals Japan devastatedthe U.S.A. 5-0 while Canada de­feated the Republic of China 4-l.

The final again saw Japan swC'Cpthe opposition aside as it annihilate(!Canada 5-0.

The Championships had initiallystarted at Crystal Palace on the pre­vious Thursday when the represcn­tatives of ,the 21 nations present. metand staged a series of goodwill mat­ches and displays of kendo andnaginata. These superb exhibitionscontinued at appropriate timesthroughout the Championships.

The individual tournaments werestaged on the Sunday at Bletchleyand saw Japan triumph again. againststrong opposition.

Our own European Champion.David Todd. reached the last 16

Results of Shodan Shiken (Dan assessment) held at Bletchlcy LeisureCentre. B4ckinghamshire on 17th April. 1976 during the 3rd Kendo WorldChampionships.

Dan No. Entered1st 372nd 253rd 174th 95th I

8ritish Kendo Association MembersTo 1st Dan - T. Hood. D. Troman. K. H. Davies. B. Eslami. D. Stcwart.

S. Killick. A. D'Amico, J. McEwen, K. PO\'cy. B. Hartley.To 2nd Dan - T. Palmer. B. Kay. J. Bush. G. Dockway.To 3rd Olin - J. King. E. Baboolal. P. Cronin. A. Oliver. M. Mulrooney.To 4th Dan - M. Davies. T. Holt. E. Schofield. J. Ho.....ell.To 5th Dan - A. P. Hopson.

by J contests to 2. but beatingMalaya 4·1. In their next roundBritain convincingly defeatedMorocco by four cOnlesls to one andthen lost to Canada 5-0 in thequaner-finals.

Top ll'/t: Y. Nakano, 8lh 01111, of Japan.l>errornl~ K"ndo·no.Klrl anJ Ih:mottslratClOI !'I,omen CUt 10 K. IIorif:llChi. 9th Dan.ul00 of Japan. R;~ht: In Ihe JupaneseIlUl,rera match K. Ilorigome. 8th Din.ulluck.....ith u thru,t to ,he rhronr !)rT. ""..i_himu. 8110 Don.

1·IIlI/OII.tlP"" I.y IJiIl''''' "';ltd

Sine\: the inception of the WorldKendo Championships at Tokyo in1970, Japan has maintained its posi.tion as the World's foremost ex­ponents of Ihe sport.

At Blclchley Lcisuredrome onSaturday, 171h April, 19761he)' domi­nated 16 other nations with a finedisplay of kcndo. as good as anyseen at the two previou~ WorldChampionships.

Britain reached the quarter.finalsafter coming second in their initialthree-nation pool losin~ to the U.S.A.

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EUROI'f;AN ,jUDO MEN-No.3

Shota Chochosvili - Russia

niques arc sasae tsurikomi ashai hizllgaruma. harai goshi and ouchi gari.

He is an exce~dingly good prospect10 repeat his earlier performance ofan Olympic gold medal and willspearhead the Russian attack on theheavier weights at Montreal wilhVladimir Nevzorov - current worldlight-middleweight champion-in thelighter weights.

Vladlem Andrcyev-Russia's chiefjudo coach says. "We now h:'\vequite a number of high class judoists.The problem now is to turn Iheminto extra-class judoists capable ofvying with the Japanese on an equalfooting".

The Japanese as a judo nation willendeavour never to be s~ond to any·body. The Russians with fighters likeShota Chochosvili will cen3inly Iryto pUl them Ihere.

,.

Chochosvili fought his way backthrough the repcchage and took abronze medal. Hi~ fl\vourite lech-

tsurikomi ashi (left propping drawingankle) tcchnique secn at Ihe tourna­ment (rcfer to Decembcr issuc ofJ/ldo. pa~e 4 for photos). Unfortu­nately fo'r the Georgian. Uemurareacted instantly by grabbing Cho­chosvili's left trouser leg and bothmen were lifted three feet from themat by the throw's impetu~. Theycrashed down heavily with the Rus­sian being momentarily stunned but:'\warded a wazari. Uemura seized theopportunity and clamped on kamishiho galame (upper four (IUl1rccr~)

and held on for the 30 ~econds whilethe dazed Chocho$vili to.pped theeventual gold medalist's back think­ing that he had scored ippon insteadof wazari.

OH,lChos>'ili <Iefen(l~ aj:.uin~1 TriJ~·t' .. lItlllck. slips h~ ldt arm uround tl.eFrellehmll"'s "lIi~l. pkl.~ hi", Ill' al,,1 ""i,,·15 tllrollJ,lh 270" 'n "IIIUt hirn on,11f' milt r(lr il'pnn.ShOla ChochoS>'ili

his head during the Vienna WorldChampionships. Looking exceedinglyfit and every bit a contender for theOpen title. 6ft. Jin. Chochosvilibarely raised a sweat as he carved hisway through the opposition. NeitherJapanese. Uemura nor silver medalistNinomya wert: able to exercise theauthority in their contests shown byChochosvili. On meeting the 1973World silver medalist. HarukiUemurn. the Russian student fromGori University towered above hisadvt:rsary. took a left handed gripand imnlcdiately threw the Japanesewith the mOSI powerful migi saS3e

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Photographs and Commentary

by DAVID FINCH

It was only by pure chance thatShola Chochosvili fought in the 1972Olympics and won everlasting fame.He was originally ranked numbertWO in Russia to Soloduchin whounfortunately was invalided out ofthe Munich Games by an appendixoperation.

Earlier that year l!l-year-old lon­doner, Angelo Parisi. had thrown arllw Chochosvili for ippon with taiotoshi (body drop) on his way to be­coming European light-heavyweightchampion at The Hague.

Fivt: monlhs laler and after intenseRussian preparation. 22-year-oldChochosvili Ihrew the world light­heavyweight champion. Fumio Sasa­hara of Japan. for Ippon. He then lost10 Dave Starbrook on a split decisionbut returned through the repcchageto take the Olympic gold medal andput Starbrook into the silver medalposition.

The following year at Madrid.Chochosvili, an ex-samba wrestlerfrom Georgia. went heavyweight andwon the open silver medal at theEuropean Championships. Each yearsince, despitl: his outstanding allround ability. he has remained run­ner-up in Ihe European open categoryto fellow Russians. Sergei Novikovand Givi Onashvili.

In 1974 he again won a silvermedal when he came second toMuratani of Japan in the WorldUniversity Championships.

It was only last year that Chocho­~vili was really unleashed and given

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BRITISH ARMYSMI T.A.D. He/liear

The 8AOR Team and IndividuulJudo Championships 1976 were heldat the 8AOR School of Physical andRecreational Training on Ihe 10011IhApril and were generally reckonedto be one of the most successfulmeetings held so far.

There were 73 entries in the vari­ous categories and six teams con·tested in the Inter-Unit Competition.This resulted in a lotal of 207 con­tesl$ over the weekend and producedsome hard, spectacular and spiritedJudo. The competition was so keenthat only one of the defending cham­pions managed to retain his litleimd that was DdT CONNOR now of40 Fd Regt who held on to hiswelterweight title.

I Para won Ihe Team Champion­ship by defeating 2 Fd Regt by 3contests to 2 with the result depend­ing on the very last contest or thechampionship. This was a tremen­dous achievement by the Pllra's.whose team was reduced to 4 mendue to an injury to their captain, CplHENDE.RSON and who were unableto field a substitute at Ihis particularweight.

All the winners now go forwardto the UK to conlest and I have Ihefeeling that more than a few or thetitles will be coming back to BAOR.

Individual winners were:

SPECIAL KYU 'A' (under 11 stone)S K YU - orange belt and below:Gnr ROY, 2 Fd RegtSPECIAL KYU '8' (over II Slone)8 KYU - orange belt and below:Gm HEERON, 40 Fd Regt

HI!AVYWElOIITL/Cpl CRITCHLOW, 4 Gds ArmdUde HQ & Sig SetnLIGl!'f l-!eAVYWEIOllTDdr McNAMARA, 2 Fd ItegtMII)DLEWflOllT5.5,1. JOHNSTON, AI'TCWEl.TERWEIOIlTDdr CONNOR, 40 Fd ReglLIOIlTW!31011TS/Sgt I'IULL, REME01'EN 'A' (under II stone)Odr CONNOR, 40 Fd RegtOI'llN 'I)' (over II stone)S.S.I. JOI-tNSTON, APTC

YORKSHIRE ANDHUMBE.RSIDE AREA

April seems to have been an activemonth with more than the usual3mount of jUdo events t3king place(if that is humanly possible).Th~ Area "Grades" Champion­

ships took place at I-!altenprie::Sports Centre, Hull on Easter Mon­day. The event was reasonably wellattended, except for the Kuy gradedivisions, which had a disappointingfew entries,

The winners werc as follows:Lower Kuy Grade - 1. Jackson.

Ilridlington,5th Kyu-2nd Kyu - A. Gibbard,

Doncaster.1st Kyu - E. Ash, Bridlington.1st Dan - T. AllOft, Grimsby,2nd Dan - P. Becket, York R.1.3rd Dan - D. Shclton, Doncaster.The area men's training sessions at

Huddersfield Sports Centre continueto be one of the more successful areaevents with spirit sweat and, in somecases, a large amount of skill inevidence.

The grade championships the dayafter the inter-area, should provemost useful to all who enter in botl).The leaders will receive a medal ortrophy and a fair percentage of

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others will receive any points theyhave earned towards their futurepromotion. Fighting the same gradeall the time makes every fight apoints scoring contest, As a one-time3rd Dan, 1 know how difficult thiscan be, you can fight countless num·bers of contests and not have onechance to score points,

On 2nd May the Doncaster ReedCup took place at Doncaster J.e,Things eventually worked out. Ourthanks to Rita Turgoose and DaveShelton who organised the event.

The results. 1st. Huddersfield A;2nd. York R.T. A: 3rd. Wakefield A;York R.1. B.

The Area League is now underway with most clubs having foughttwo or three matches. One hopes(his year will prove as successful aslast yc::.r,

[ASTERN AREAR. J. Mat/hews

The Area Kyu Grade Champion­ships wcre held on 23rd May at Bury$t. Edmund's Sports Centre, Con·gratulations to all the new AreaChampions and to the silver andbronze medalists.

The Area Team Championshipswere held at the same time. Con­gratulations to Norwich YMCA LC..who emerged as the 1976 Goldmedalists. for the second year run·nin3·

The Area schoolboy squad, num­bering 39 players, enjoyed a mulli­sports training session on 29th Mayat Bury St. Edmunds Sports Centre,

The highlight was the instructiongiven by George Glass, 4th Dan.National Coach, who showed someexcellent tactical and technicalmoves. which should be of consider­able benefit to the Area players,Another course is pl:lnned for laterin the summer.

The Area senior squad has beenpreparing for the 1976 NationalTeam Championships, Monthly train­ing sessions have been held at Nor­wich YMCA J,C.. under the AreaTeam Manager, peter Parkinson, 3rdDan, Autumn training sessions havebeen arranged for 5th September,3rd October and 7th November.starting at 10.30 a.m.

On 21st May two Area schoolboyclubs, Peterborough and SI. Neots.were invited to take part in the Bed­ford Championships. 51. Neots wontwo of their three matches (beatingPeterborough and Harpcnden), whilePeterborough only managed onewin, over Harpenden, and narrowlylost to Bedford, Unfortunatelyneither club managed to reach thefinals. Thanks to Bedford for a veryenjoyable evening.

The next major Area events arc:Senior Individual Championships:12th Scptember. Kyu Grade TeamChampionships: 12th Scptember.Schoolboy Individual Champion­ships: 3rd October,

Reminder: The monthly AreaNewsletter can be obtained by send­ing a cheque/P.O, for (1.50, pltyableto "BJ,A, Eastern Arca" (for 12issues), to R, I. Matthews, 71 Ben­land, Bretton, Peterborough,

WELSH JUDO ASSOCIATIONThere will be II D.J,A, Referees

Course and Exam to be held atR,A.F, Sclllllnd, Deeside. The TheoryCourse llnd Exam will be held on17th/18th July, fee is £2 llnd theIlractical Exam will be held on lsiAugust, fee £1.

Accommodation enn be arrangedfor a small sum at It.A.F. Selllllnd,

Applications. with fees and stateif accommodation is required for oneor tWO nights, to:- Mr, J. Hulton,"Conway", Bryn Awelon, Mold,Clwyd.

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Ilrlllri EU~I/lCc (ril/IH) ,lcrnon8unIC~ 11,c Io/l~k tct'llllillue. ,hQrne" IIle, with RayZi"l, "f Slr/llr"rd.

~RcJlr<JJ/l(:c,II})' ('"urICly "III,,: "/JirminsllU'" EI'C"i"G Muir')

OFFICIAL NOTES

Vic Davis

There must be something specialabout It club that has won fournational team championships andproduced three individual nalionalchampions in eight years. This isthe achievement of Stratford-on­Avon Aikj Kwai, and it's success isdirectly due to the dedicaton of it'sfounder, Drian Eustace, 4th Dan.

When Brian is not leaching Aiki­do, he is talking about it or studyingit - he has 11 copy of nearly every

book ever published in this countryon the art. He takes three two-hourcoaching sessions e"'ery week in add­ilion to three junior judo classes. Asa lOP coach he is in demand allover the country.

Drian won his first coaching awardseven years ago. In 1972, nationalcoach Jim Elkin appointed him sen­ior coach, and IWO years later hebecame regional coach responsiblefor the Midlands lind Northern area.Now, with Jim concentrating on thejob of BAA chairman, he has takenover liS nutionlll coach.

He bcctllne interested in the Jap­anese martial arts after years as anall-round games player and athlete.He wanted to keep fit for his jobas a policeman. Only later, when hebecame the official coach to thepolice forces of England and Wales,did he give serious thought to the

aspect of self-defence. The 1·lomeOffice had decided that aikido, withit's emphasis on restraining tech­niques, was the most suitable formof unarmed defence for the police,and, with Jim Elkin, Brian deviseda simple repertoire for police instruc­IOU.

Judo had been one of his interestsfor some years, but in the curly1960's he began to practise aikido inthe Uyeshiba style under a profess­ional instructor in Birminghnm. Atthat time, there were few aikidoclubs. rn 1965, his interest in Tomikistyle began, mainly as a result of II

visit by Senta Yamada, 6th Dun, lindthe formation of the Stratford clubcame the following year, Brillnachieving 1st Dan under H. Kogure,5th Dan, a year later.

It was not long before Stratfordpillyers made their first appearancein the national aikido championships,and in 1971 they were runners-upfor the team title and took severlllindividual prizes. The Midlllnd dom­ination of aikido competition, underBrian. now 2nd Dan, was on it'sway.

Remarkably, he has never plucedundue emphasis on the competitionsidc, in fact he does not believe thataikido should be the major competit­ive sport that judo and karate havebecome. His teams are well-trainedand keen to uphold a fine record.They do well, not because they havebeen pressured to do so by theircoach but because his nlethods bringout the best in themselves.

Visitors to Stratford may be sur­prised by the relaxed atmosphere,the absence of rigid discipline - thewide range in the ages of the players,from 16 to 63, with many in theover-30 group. For, though gtud tosee keen youngsters (his main ambit·ion is to build up a strong nucleus ofgood, young players), Drilln Eustuceturns no-one away who is keen tolearn nnd will conform. During his

term as national coach he hOI>Csthere will be an increase in the num­ber of young 1st Dans.

He is proud that his own club hasproduced 12 Dan grades, and al­though some have moved awny theyare helping to spread aikido byorganising new clubs in Redditch,Evesham and Belfast. The most sig­nificant boost to British aikido, hebelieves, was the visit of Tetsu Ehara,5th Dan, two years ago, but Ihereis still a gap to be filled by the prO"duct ion of an up-to-date technicalmanual. Perhaps, one day, when hehas fewer commitments, Brian willfill that need.

Midland and NorthernChampionships

The Midland and Northern AikidoChampionships, held at Scarboroughon June 5th brought another win forStratford-on-Avon, who took theteam title for the fourth year run­ning.

The outstanding player was And­rew Eustace, of Stratford, who wonboth the tanto randori and randorikyoghi events and was also in thewinning ninin dori and open katllteurns.

ResllltsTANTO RANDORI: I A. Eustace (Strllt­ford); 2 Barry Vigrass (Sheffield).RANDORt KYOOIll: I A. Eustace,2 S. Honor (Stratford); 3 p. Clee(Stratford).

NISIN OORI: I A. Eustace, C. Lloyd,P. Clee (Stratford); 2 Rhodes, Miller,S. Pudsey (scarborough): 3 S. Honor,G. Thurman, M. Reynolds (Strat­ford).

KATA (restricted class): I Miss I~.

Spinks and R. Jones (Leeds); 2 S.Honor and C. lloyd (Stratford); JMiller and Rhodes (Scarborough).OPEN KATA: S. Honor and A. Eustace(Stratford); 2 Goodship and McGin­nis (Newport Pagncll): 3 H. Hnrrisand L. Hull (Eveshllm).

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COII/il/llell from /Xl/te 10. down and proper slnndurds formu­latcd for Kala events, If such a thingcomes about, I hope.: lhat the judgingwill be b,lsed on factual, visuul evi­dence of ability by the pcrrormers,

It i,~ obvously tOO latc to do an)'­thiog ubout this extrllordinnry affair,with ii'S inept organisation and un­necessary discourtesy by ofliciltls.One wondcrs somctimes, JUSt whosome oflicials think Ihcy ure runningthings for - themselves or lhe fecpaying members.

In conclusion, I and my Kntlltcam would like to Ihunk onc of the'stand-in' judges for her COUrlcsy intaking the trouble to telephone meon the following evening 10 apologisefor the shambles. She was kindenough to try 10 explain withoutany allemPt to 'wuffle' and was thefirst to admit that she was not aqualified Kala judge,

..ER.... E.KCUSC: me....WOULD YOU BeinTeReSTeD InJUDGinG l' KFHf'ICOmpeTITIOn ?"

ning after winning a contest!Because wc had travelled up over­night without sleep and because wewere so disgusted with this 'national',we decided to leave immediately andasked if we could lake our medalswith us. We were told to wait anhour for 11 presentation at 2 p.m.On the stroke of 2 p,m. they announ­ced that ALL medals would be pre­sented at the evening show! We left!

Another thing, why on earth doesIhis Kata competition have to betacked on to the Women's TeamEvent? Perhaps the BlA have forgot­ten Ihal it ceased to be a 'Women'sOnly' event in 1974. We also nowhave evidence that if this competitionis moved away from the NationalSports Centre. there are less entries.

Mr. John Cornish has been appoin­ted National Coach with a specialinterest in Kata, It is hoped that bynex! year, procedures will be laid

If Illy rctllurks give offencc to thispair, theo I apologise, as my intentis not to 'knock' their display, butrather to emphasisc the standard ofjudging, It is obvious Ihut oil couplesendeavour to do Iheir beSt on Ihedny, lind it is on lhal performanceonly that they should be judgcd, CunIInyone disagrce with that?

This couple, under the eyes ofexperienced, knowledgable judgeswould probably han,: been placedfourth, as there were IH least threecouples whOSe performance was freefrom (IS many faults.

Ukc frcquently showed signs ofindecision and omitted the 'resist­ance' 10 Tsurikomi Goshi. Tori'sfootwork while moving about had apeculillr toe pointing and anklestraightening before being placeddown, which seemed more suited tolhe tmllet thun II contest urea. If weare to believe in the relevance ofKata movement 10 Judo lechnique, itwould be hard to believe that thispla)'er gained her well deserved repu­lalion by moving around the conlestarea in this fashion.

Prior 10 the competition we toldthe organisers that we .....ould not beaVllilllble (if we .....on), 10 attcnd theevening show. PcrhopS that waswhere we wenl wrong? No thoughtis given by organisers to whether itis convenient from a praclical or afinancial aspect for winners to staylate to perform. If anyone does everlake the trouble to work out properprocedures for Kata competitions, Ihope that one of the first thiogs thatis eliminated, is the obligation toperform at the evening show. I won­dcr if Urian Jacks i.~ ever asked torepeat hi~ l>crformancc in the evc-

Then, Tori alone time staggercdand nellrly fell and later, during astanding throw, lost hcr grip on Ukewho landed in II heap.

KATA'! WHY IJOTHER'!

so did not tcll thcm. l'lowever, Idoubt whcther it was II question of de_viousness so much us incompetence,Incidenlally, I would be very grate­ful if someone could explain to mehow one clln judge lu No KUlalIgainst Klltame No Katil even witha fully cxperienced tcam of Klltlljudges, We were also asked if thosein the Nage No Kala cutegory wouldperform twO sets for the judges. Eachcouple were given lliOerelll sets toeach other. How one can judge TeWaza against Sutcmi Wa7.ll is also amystery to me.

Thinking Ihat, like 11L\,1 )'ellr, theseIWO sets were to eliminale somecouples and leave about four couplesfor the finals where the full KUlawould be performed, we went ahclld.when each pair had done their twosets, we .....ere horrified to hear themannouncing the winners!

This must be the only NatiOlllllKala Championship where nobo<!}'actually performs the full Nllge NoKala or Ihe full Katame No Kata!Is that not a fantllstic situation?One of the most Ilmllzing things inthe minds of experienced compet­itors llnd onlookers alike, was thejudges' choice for the Gold medalin the Nage No Kata category,

Bcaring in mind Ihat Ihere wereonly IWo sets being performed, let'slook at their performllnce. The fol­lowing llre facts which clln be con­firmed by anyone who, with llnappreciation of this pmticular J:::llIa,was watching,

Tori, a well known contest plu)'er,.....ore a Black belt of proficiencywhich stood out in contrast to theRed and White belts of Ihe otherperformers. Uke wore a Blue belt.I doubt whether this was gamesman­ship, but rather the first example ofthe judges' lack of attention to detail.Under proper rules of competitionone as.'Iumes that Ihis would havcinvalidated their performance,

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The lirst event for the new build­ing was our own Junior Champion_ships. This was immediately followedby the Surrey Boys' and Girls Cham­pionships lind trials.

The next Examinations 10 be heldare as follows:

Suudny, 81" August: 10.0 JuniorBoys; 2.30 lsI Kyus (Men andWomen) for Shodlln.

Seniors must produce a currentB.LA. licence. Examination fees are:Juniors 2Sp. LJ.S. Seniors SOp.Visitors £1.

Congratulalions to Colin Fordhamon winning the gold medal on lhe15th May. To top this he went on toqualify for his Shodan lhe followingday at the last Examination to beheld al our old address. Well done.Colin.

London KUnite Kni. Membershipi, still increasing and with our largertraining area we hope for even moremembers.

WellpoII... Section. Mike Finn isnow leaclting Nun-chaku, Sai. Bo­jutsu. Details on application. Ournew phone number is 01·622 0529.

CLUIJ FORUM COl/IiI/lied lrom"lsil by GerllIlln Team

On May 71h to May 10th we wercvisited by 30 members of I. JudoVerein Langen from Nco-Isenberg.Germany, This is the twin town ofHemel Hempstead and the people ofthis judo club arc very {:ood friend~

of ours, The tournament, which washeld in lhe new sports centre atHemd Hempstead and ended in adraw with 10 wins each. attractedquite a few spectators who seemedto enjoy the judo.

N.tI.C. Area Chaml)iollshipsJohn Howe won a bronze medal

(-63 kg.) in lhc Northern HomeCountries area championships atSouth Ruislip sports centre on May22nd. Coming top in his pool hethen reached the semi-finals losingonly 10 lhe eventual gold medalist.LONDON JUl>O SOCIETY-from Ericf)ullli,IY: By lhe time you read thiswe shall have opened al our newaddreu and many of you will haveseen lhat we were not making idleboasts about lhe size and potentialof the c1ut>,

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