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Saturday 13th August
– Day One
Judoka began to arrive
early into North Devon, as the Second Western Area Summer camp
commenced promptly with the first mat session at 6pm.
The first session was set
out to test the fundamental abilities of the judoka involving
gymnastics, co-ordination, strength, flexibility and team leadership’s
skills.
The group then had their
first test with six rounds of randori in both ne-waza and tachi
waza before we finished at 7.30pm, after being reminded of the
strict rules and regulations for the Judoka to follow for the
week.
Evening meal was followed
by a comfortable evening to settle into their rooms before lights
out at 10.30pm.
Sunday 14th August
– Day Two
An early 6.55am start;
with all Judoka managing to adhere to the rules and turn up on
time for the first morning 2km run with hill sprints before breakfast.
The morning mat session
was based on movement exercises which progressed into ne-waza
drills from a range of varied attacking directions. We finished
the morning session with four ne-waza randori contests and a team
battle of dodge ball.
Just as the sun came out
in the afternoon, the group played a range of team games including
Softball and football.
The evening Judo session
started at 7pm with a focus on tachi-waza posture and mobility
drills which included tandoku-renshu. We then developed that into
technique preparation and full nage-komi practice.
This followed with five
4 minute tachi-waza randori. And then a circuit session and shuttle
run as some of the group had been late to the session and cheated
on the morning run.
Monday 15th August
– Day Three
Another early start before
breakfast this morning at 6.50am as the Judoka faced a Judo specific
circuit session for one hour.
At 10am the Judoka started
the day with a challenging game of rugby with a medicine ball.
The technical session was based on development of sangaku-jime,
with series of movement exercises set to help the judoka understand
the key fundamental workings of the sangaku technique. As the
morning session developed the technique was starting to take shape
as an entry into the roll with tori underneath. The session again
finish with some ne-waza randori, a ten minute target was set
to see who could win with ten ippons, the highest score in the
time frame was Emily Harper with eight.
In the afternoon the group
travelled to South Molton to spend some time climbing indoors
as rain set in to ruin any plans of outdoor rock climbing. The
entire group took up the challenge and completed six difficult
and extremely demanding climbing walls. The instructor then got
some competition between the groups with some tough physical testing
which certainly increased the competitiveness of all the Judoka
to be the best.
The evening judo session
was a reinforcement of the tachi-waza drills from Monday and moving
them forward with extra directionally patterns and nage-komi practice.
The session was completed with pylometric jumps and a stretching
session.
Tuesday 16th August
– Day Four
Yet again we started with
a 7am run with the entire group completing a 4km circuit.
Jurgen Klinger was the
guest coach during today’s sessions and he run a masterclass session
focussing on o-soto-gari. It was an excellent insight into exercises
and movement patterns designed to develop the technique. Jurgen
then worked at a range of different gripping situations from ukes
and extreme stance using the o-soto-gari step patterns linking
into combinations.
The afternoon session was
a visit to the local Gym where the group were put through a challenging
45 minute high intensity spin class.
Jurgen Klinger ran his
second session of the day at 7pm, with a look at some ne-waza
situations and turn overs and developing quality randori practice.
Wednesday 17th
August – Day Five
Today was England ExCell
West training day so we didn’t have a morning run, which meant
a welcome lie in for the judoka which was very much appreciated.
The first mat session started
at 10am with a focus on tachi-waza uchi-komi drills and nage-komi
practice. The second half of the session was lead by Jason Parsons
and Alex Paske who both worked on the development of ko-uchi-gari,
looking closely at two entry patterns into the technique.
After lunch we returned
to the dojo at 2.30 to run a SAQ training circuit and reactions
tests with Simon Ward for an hour.
The last mat session of
the day started at 4pm with Sandra Klinger running a challenging
randori session with a mix of tachi-waza and ne-waza.
The evening BBQ started
at 7pm and allowed everyone time to relax and enjoy many fun challenging
team games as the sun set on what was a great day’s judo and entertaining
night.
Thursday 18th August
– Day Six
After a hard days training
the day before, we decided that the early morning Judo circuit
would be cancelled to allow the judoka to fully recover. So the
first mat session stated at 10am with Simon running a ne-waza
technical session with a reinforcement of the sangaku roll which
Sandra introduced on Monday. Followed by developing a few different
rolling shime-waza and looking at the key principles in producing
an effective strangle.
A thrilling afternoon of
surfing at Westward Ho was set up for the judoka. After a quick
lesson on the basics they all headed out to hit the waves and
have some fun in the sea.
The evening judo programme
started at 7pm with Sandra and Judy splitting the group into three
times and setting out a team challenge session with some physical
judo games, strength and conditioning tests and a final team randori
competition.
Friday 19th August
– Day Seven
The final day’s full training
started again with a tough morning run at 7am with ten laps on
the hill.
In a relaxed end to the
final day’s judo the morning session was run by the boys who lead
a warm-up and then choose a number of judo games with Sandra adding
her knowledge of a better range of games for the group to enjoy.
After lunch the entire
group walked into Bideford town for ice cream and a relaxing play
in the local park, where all the kids enjoyed playing in the under
12 year old play park..
The final judo session
in the evening started with a final exhausting physical circuit
before the girls were allowed to conduct the final hour’s judo
programme before we all put away the mat area and cleaned up the
dojo. This then lead to a few hours for all the judoka to enjoy
their final evening together.
Saturday 20th August
– Day Eight
The final breakfast before
departing at 10am, we arranged a special cooked breakfast for
all the judoka, before parents started to arrive to collect their
exhausted children.
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