Budokan Judo Club’s Crowning Glory
Castle Hill’s Budokan Judo Club, which has produced Olympians and Commonwealth Games medallists, honoured their excellent 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 every week, the Budokan Judo Club now has more than 200 members and runs nine classes each week.
Budokan Judo Club Budokan Judo Club’s Crowning Glory
“When we took over the club in 1999, Kerrye and I tapped into all of the experiences that we had as athletes coaching at totally different golf equipment all around the world after we had been competing,” Rob explained. “Our goal was to build a membership with a singular culture: one which focussed on a grass-roots entity as a community-based family-oriented judo club while additionally paving the best way for top performance and worldwide competitiveness.
“Our imaginative and prescient has all the time been to be recognised within the judo and general communities because the premium judo coaching centre in Australia. Rather than focussing on outcomes, our teaching culture instills acknowledgement for participation in each aspect of the sport, in taking over challenges and placing in the best efforts in all actions, classes that help in all aspects of life.’
Olympians Nathan And Josh Katz Budokan Judo Club’s Crowning Glory Rob stated that they succeeded in building depth in every age group. Thanks to a strong mentoring ethic by senior athletes, this has resulted in vital efficiency achievements, he mentioned.
Rob mentioned their greatest achievement in competition is having constant illustration year after year at the World Championship stage throughout all three senior age groups: under-17, under-21, and senior.
“The pinnacle of achievement has been having two Olympic representatives in Athens, adopted by our first two home-grown Olympic representatives in Rio 2016 and then again in Tokyo 2020,” Rob mentioned. The club have been additionally very proud to have won two bronze medals on the 2022 Commonwealth Games, adding to their growing worldwide profile.
“We have one athlete currently on track for qualification to Paris 2024 and are additionally proud of our variety,” Rob said. “We had two athletes winning a gold medal and silver medal at the Virtus Asia-Oceania Games, the first time that Budokan has been represented at an international multi-sport competition within the Oceania-Asia area for elite athletes with an mental impairment.
“Budokan Judo Club’s membership ranges from four to 81 years from recreation gamers, to involved parents to Olympians and every thing in between.”