Peter Powell, third dan Royal Navy judo coach, with Remi, Cody and Angelo Dorey. (0867070)
TWO brothers have won gold and silver medals in the Hampshire County Split Grade Championships.
Remi Dorey, 12, and Cody, 9, are members of the Guernsey Judo Club and they both travelled over to Portsmouth for the tournament recently with their father Angelo, who is a black belt and has represented Guernsey in two Island Games in the sport.
Blue belt Remi competed in the blue and brown belts section and after three hard fights, came away with gold in the boys under 42 kilos category.
Younger brother Cody, who just taken up the sport, is a yellow belt.
He was entered in that section and pulled off the throw of the day when he defeated his much taller opponent with a classic tomeonage (stomach throw) by throwing him clean over his head and landing him flat on his back, which drew a round of applause from an appreciative and knowledgeable audience.
Despite that he went on to lose narrowly in the final to a very experienced player from Pinewood Judo Club which has turned out many national champions.
GJC chairman Mitch Agnelli was very proud of his two proteges’ performances.
‘It was brilliant because we’ve not been able to get away much at all this year so we weren’t expecting them to do that well,’ he said.
‘But to get gold and silver was excellent. Hopefully it will inspire the other boys.’
The next competition for the GJC is the Hampshire Trials, which are being held on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 March.
This Saturday at the Grammar School, the club is hosting former senior and junior British champion Wayne Lakin,
Now a top judo coach, the fourth dan was on the island in July to work with local junior rugby players as part of the Leicester Tigers rugby course.
Lakin is over to run a course for coaches in the latest methods of introducing school children to the sport in the morning before putting the island’s junior judo players through their paces in the afternoon.
Joining Lakin is Marianne Sharpe, bronze medallist from the 2001 Commonwealth Games in Canada,
Sharpe holds the rank of third dan and is currently teaching judo in London and among her students are special needs and visually impaired children.
The coaching begins at 9am and goes on to 4pm.
* For more information on the courses and if any organisations are interested in supporting the juniors, contact Mitch Agnelli on mitch.agnelli@cwgsy.net.
Article posted on 5th November, 2009 - 2.29pm
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