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Why No Judo Club in Limerick???

  • 24-05-2010 05:41PM
    #1
    judosean2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 340 ✭✭


    hey all,I have posted up here a few times looking for Judo clubs in my area,But all i seem to find is clubs that are maybe 1 hour away such as tralee. I used to be part of the Kilrush Judo club (Clare)but it disbanded a few years ago.

    When i posted here before i received alot of people intersted in Judo in the Limerick area,but still no club,

    Why doesnt a Black belt come out of the shadows and set something up??plz

    Sean


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  • #2
    Doug Cartel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,188 ✭✭✭Doug Cartel


    I got made redundant a while ago, and ended up back in with my parents in Ennis. The primary thing that got me up and motivated to get a job was the lack of a judo club within a reasonable commute of their house.


  • #3
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,609 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    OP you could contact the Irish Judo Association and ask them if there's anyone in or around the area who you can contact.

    Even if you generate an interest in Judoka in the area so far as I'm aware you don't need a black belt to run a club/training group, but you will need one to do your grading and one who is a grading officer with the IJA.

    As as example, there's a white belt in Athlone who has started a Judo training group, he found some graded East Europeans to come and give instruction to him and his guys.

    Is this an idea which might run down that way?.


  • #4
    judosean2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 340 ✭✭judosean2005


    well i am a blue belt.and i have my junior coaching licence so yea maybe thats a good idea.i know a guy in the area who has his own dojo,so i could rent off him.interesting :-)


  • #5
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,609 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    judosean2005 wrote: »
    well i am a blue belt.and i have my junior coaching licence so yea maybe thats a good idea.i know a guy in the area who has his own dojo,so i could rent off him.interesting :-)


    There ya go... When you find no road in front, leave one behind!.


  • #6
    fergal_q
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68 ✭✭fergal_q


    Hi Sean,
    There has been a judo club running in UL for the past 2 years. Far as i know its on Summer break now. Fergal


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  • #7
    LavaLamp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 284 ✭✭LavaLamp


    There's a Judo class in Ennis, they also do MMA:

    www.husariafightteamennis.com

    great gym, excellent teachers, well worth a visit :D


  • #8
    nobbo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 382 ✭✭nobbo


    Frederick Polite Knitter wrote: »
    Even if you generate an interest in Judoka in the area so far as I'm aware you don't need a black belt to run a club/training group, but you will need one to do your grading and one who is a grading officer with the IJA.

    Are you sure about this? I've never come across/heard of somthing like this before. I know its common in BJJ, its how the IJA was founded and its quite possibly its still there, but Ive never seen it in recent years.


  • #9
    Sid_Justice
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    Never seen what? a non-black belt teachng judo? It's very rare because there are so many black belts.


  • #10
    nobbo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 382 ✭✭nobbo


    Sid_Justice wrote: »
    Never seen what? a non-black belt teachng judo? It's very rare because there are so many black belts.

    Well Ive seen a brown belt coach the odd time, but Ive never seen a club been run without a black belt being the head coach. But as you said, its probably down to the amount of black belts.


  • #11
    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    nobbo wrote: »
    Are you sure about this? I've never come across/heard of somthing like this before. I know its common in BJJ, its how the IJA was founded and its quite possibly its still there, but Ive never seen it in recent years.

    I'm not sure how the IJA or Judo Ireland would see it, or if you'd be allowed affiliate your club to either association.

    As I said, I know there's a white belt in Atlone. Outside of that I've no idea what the official line is on it.


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  • #12
    Juris
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    hello, also im looking for judo training. Im in Limerick, so if anyone knows the place id be happy to get information. cheers


  • #13
    nobbo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 382 ✭✭nobbo


    UL judo club:
    http://sites.google.com/site/uljudoclub/home

    As was said previously its on a summer break.



    Edit: If you do really want judo over the summer theres a club in nenagh which is about 40mins from limerick depending on what part of limerick your from.
    http://www.blackeaglejudo.com/index.html


  • #14
    mickmac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 201 ✭✭mickmac


    Any hope of a judo club in Ennis?


  • #15
    FruitLover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,534 ✭✭✭FruitLover


    nobbo wrote: »
    Are you sure about this? I've never come across/heard of somthing like this before. I know its common in BJJ, its how the IJA was founded and its quite possibly its still there, but Ive never seen it in recent years.

    All anyone needs to do is rent a hall and invite people to train (and probably work something out with public liability insurance). It's not like anyone can stop someone doing this based on belt colour (if they've even been awarded a belt in the first place).

    Association affiliation is another thing of course, but it's better to have an independent club than none at all IMO.


  • #16
    Opinicus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 816 ✭✭✭Opinicus


    W. Power and some other lads are going running a Judo class in UL for the summer. Starting 16th June, every Wed night. Don't know the time, I'll ask him when I see him.


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