Budokan Judo Club’s Crowning Glory
Castle Hill’s Budokan Judo Club, which has produced Olympians and Commonwealth Games medallists, honoured their outstanding athletes, coaches, and volunteers at its recent 21st Awards Night.
Having been started by the highly-experienced judokas Rob and Kerrye Katz 25 years in the past with just 10 members and two lessons a week, the Budokan Judo Club now has greater than 200 members and runs nine lessons each week.
Budokan Judo Club Budokan Judo Club’s Crowning Glory
“When we took over the membership in 1999, Kerrye and I tapped into all of the experiences that we had as athletes coaching at different clubs all all over the world when we were competing,” Rob defined. “Our aim was to build a membership with a singular culture: one which focussed on a grass-roots entity as a community-based family-oriented judo membership while also paving the way for prime performance and international competitiveness.
“Our imaginative and prescient has always been to be recognised in the judo and general communities because the premium judo training centre in Australia. Rather than focussing on outcomes, our coaching culture instills acknowledgement for participation in each aspect of the sport, in taking up challenges and putting in the best efforts in all actions, classes that assist in all features of life.’
Olympians Nathan And Josh Katz Budokan Judo Club’s Crowning Glory Rob said that they succeeded in building depth in every age group. Thanks to a powerful mentoring ethic by senior athletes, this has resulted in vital efficiency achievements, he said.
Rob stated their biggest achievement in competitors is having consistent illustration 12 months after yr at the World Championship level across all three senior age teams: under-17, under-21, and senior.
“The pinnacle of achievement has been having two Olympic representatives in Athens, followed by our first two home-grown Olympic representatives in Rio 2016 and then once more in Tokyo 2020,” Rob stated. The club were also very proud to have gained two bronze medals on the 2022 Commonwealth Games, including to their rising international profile.
“We have one athlete presently on track for qualification to Paris 2024 and are additionally pleased with our variety,” Rob mentioned. “We had two athletes winning a gold medal and silver medal on the Virtus Asia-Oceania Games, the first time that Budokan has been represented at a global multi-sport competition in the Oceania-Asia region for elite athletes with an mental impairment.
“Budokan Judo Club’s membership ranges from 4 to eighty one years from recreation players, to fascinated mother and father to Olympians and everything in between.”