Club Grading this Weekend 19th July 2025
This Weekend will be the Konarakai judo Club Grading. As a club we hold 2 of these every year.
The last number of weeks have saw both adult beginners program and kids program revise their theory for their relevant grade for a grading this Saturday 19th July 2025.
The timetable for the grading will be as follows.
Junior class (7pm – 8pm Judo Class): 10.30 am – 12pm.
Senior Class (8pm -9pm Judo Class): 12pm – 1pm.
Junior Grading will cost £15.
Senior Grading will cost £20.
Important: Please can everyone ensure licenses are up to date.
Konarakai at the Worlds
12th June 2025
This weekend will see Joshua Green travel to Budapest, Hungary to fight at the World Judo Championships 2025 representing Ireland.
This represents a small club from Derry developing athletes that can compete at the highest level of judo, an opportunity to create history by achieving the best result of an Irish Judoka ever at these championships.
Joshua will fight on Sunday 15th June with the competition beginning at 10.30am. Joshua has drawn Jerome Assafoua Zelman of Ivory coast in round 1. Also in the same Pool is current Olympic, World & European champion Hidayat Heydarov.
Joshua as a full-time athlete who is all in on getting to the Olympics is always on the lookout for Derry based sponsors to help fund his aspirations of creating historic results for Irish judo & inspiring the next generations of athletes in the Derry area. Anybody interested in sponsorship opportunities can contact Paul Green on 07811 949 545.
Paris Grand Slam Result
7th February 2024
Last weekend saw Joshua Green compete at the illustrious Paris Grand slam, with Paul Green at mat side. There where 69 competitors in the -73kg category alone where Joshua drew Otari Kvantidze of Portugal in his first fight.
In a cagey first round affair Joshua lost via Hansoku-make as a result of 3 shidos, 2 a half minutes into the golden score period (Total mat time: 6 minutes 22 seconds). Joshua will now attend the Paris grand Slam camp, which is widely regarded as one of the toughest camps on the IJF Calendar.
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