Nottingham Christmas Budo Course 2003 Report
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Radcliffe Zen Judo Club
Nottingham.

Report on budo course 2003

Click on the link on the left to see the photos. Please check the Radcliffe club website for up to date details of next years course which is already being planned for 2004. Contact: Gordon Lawson on Tel: 0115 933 5562 and e-mail:<gordonlawson@btinternet.com>

I have now recovered from my trip up to Radcliffe Judo Club near Nottingham for the annual Christmas Budo course held there each year. The course has grown bigger each year and attracted some forty plus training and around a dozen instructors from a number of different martial arts, these included Judo, Akido, Tai-Chi, Ju-Jitsu, Karate and Kendo, with representatives of clubs from the all over England and also Northern Ireland and Spain attending.

Most of those attending where from Zen Judo style clubs but some from other styles also attended plus a number of people who had little or no experience of Judo or Ju-Jitsu. The good thing about these courses is that they allow you to try other martial arts and styles which you would not normally do. The trick (which I still have to learn) is when to give up gracefully and go and sit on the side lines with the more sensible attendees, this then allows you to observe and comment on those less fortunate (Younger and fitter) than yourself from the safety of a chair.

Joking aside I would once again like to thank Shihan Lawson and his instructors (see list below) for a great course and look forward to next year.
Shihan Gordon Lawson (and the Radcliffe instructors); Sensei John Cox; Sensei Charles and Keith; Sensei Jim Dart; Sensei Tollo; Gordon McGowan and Keith Harby. (I hope I havn't missed anyone ?)