UPeople,
You may be aware that Steve Pullen from the North West area is campaigning to become a member o the BJA board of directors. Many of you will be aware that Steve has long been a great supporter of police judo and has on many occasions attended PSUK judo weekends, along with members of his university team.
Steve has a very "say it, as you mean it" approach to speaking to people, a characteristic which I find most helpful and missing from many people who find themselves in influential positions. Steve would be an asset to the BJA on the board of directors.
Another supporter of PSUK Judo is Mike Callan, who is the director of coaching for Team Bath, with whom we have a very close association. Mike was kind enough to assist in our preparation for the USPE Judo Championships in 2007, when our squad were allowed unlimited access to facilities at Bath University. He also arranged top class coaching and randori for our players.
If you are in a position to influence voting for the vacancies on the board of directors on the BJA, can I ask you consider Steve and Mike as really excellent candidates and vote for them in the forthcoming ballot.
regards
Andy Moss
pdate following Directors of Examiners meeting
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One of the major changes is the make up of the commission , all Directors of Examiners are now members of the promotions commission, contained within this is a working group of Roy Inman Dave Horton Jones and Derek Hopkins who will carryout the day to day work and present proposals to the commission before being submitted to the Board of Directors, so please let me have any comments via the website email that you have on the current promotion structures and I will ensure that these are fed to the working group and members of the commission.
New Dan Grade certificates are being prepared and it is intended that a hard copy of the BJA Dan Grade register will be made available; I suspect that this will always be slightly out of date due to the regular promotions that take place. Any one who has not yet asked to have their Dan Grade entered on the PSUK website should send your details to us via the web site email, we need your name, current grade plus date of last promotion.
The technical grading system for juniors and Kyu grades has now started , there will be a review in November this year so please let me have your thoughts, experiences etc in order that I can help make the system as good as it can be for you the coaches to operate.
For those who feel that they would like some training in the technical systems courses are to be held throughout the UK, PSUK will be involved in this, the revalidation courses that we currently run will have to include two hours on the technical grading systems we will be including this in our autumn course ( date and venue to be decided) this will be presented by myself and Darren who as you know is a member of PSUK Technical, Commission and Director of Examiners for Wales, probably we will use the Sunday morning of the course to run these. Further more detailed courses can be arranged if there is sufficient interest. Again please let me know.
The High Grade review for promotions to 6th Dan and above are automatically reviewed by Dave Horton Jones and Roy Inman anyone of 5th Dan or above who is due to be eligible for promotion should complete a judo CV on their activity since last promotion and send it to Dave Horton Jones, his contact details re on the BJA website, please give me call with any queries you may have. ( 07795044439)
For those who are looking for a technical Dan Grade and wish to be examined please contact me and I will arrange your examination at our next weekend course, if you require some training on the Technical Dan Grade syllabus again let me know and I will arrange a course at a suitable venue for the applicants.
All gradings involving four or more clubs will be licensed in the future, fortunately there will be no fee, all competitive gradings will also be licensed.
New BJA records books are being printed and are at the proof reading stage as are stickers and Kyu grade certificates.
That is about it further updating on the website as I learn more.
High Quality Randori,
Please remember all PSUK players are guaranteed a warm welcome at the high quality practises at Bath University Mondays and Thursdays 8pm start (no mat fee) coaches Juergen Klinger 6th Dan Mike Callan 6th Dan and Patrick Roux 6th Dan or at the Welsh Institute of Sport Cardiff Coach Neil Adams 7th Dan (£2 mat fee half of which goes to a judo charity) starts at 7pm, I appreciate for many of you these are too far to travel in an evening but for those who live an hour to two hours away it is well worth the trip, let me know if you intend to attend as I am often there with players.
Next PSUK Judo Weekend
We will let you know the date and venue as soon as this has been firmed up,
National Championships 5th to 7th September 2008 Merseyside the entry forms etc have been circulated, if you have not had any these can be down loaded from our web site Please get you entries in early to assist the organisers; I look forward to seeing you there.
Chris