January Athlete Performance Panel launched.

Rebeka Tandaric & Samobor Judo Klub conduct physiology testing at Anglia Ruskin.

February Organised visit of the All Japan University Judo Association to the Budokwai & Oxford Univer-sity.

March Visit from Dr Ryo Uchida of Nagoya University, Japan.

Coach education seminar for Judo Federation Iceland.

Dr Callan met Mr Nikos Iliadis in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Commonwealth Judo meeting in Edinburgh.

Don Werner portrait presented to Pinewood Judo Club.

April Kye Orledge completes work experience opportunity at Ju-dospace.

EJU Level 4 practical block in Cambridge with Juergen Klinger, Nuno Delgado and Emanuela Pierantozzi

EJU Judo Knowledge Commis-sion meeting with Envic Galea, Ezio Gamba and Franco Capel-letti.

Accepted onto the UKTI Pass-port to Export Scheme.

May Visit to Johannesburg South Africa to deliver Level 3 EJU Ad-vanced Coach course with Dar-ren Warner.

Partnership established between Hellenic Judo Federation and Judospace.

Judospace 5th Birthday!

June Professor Fumiaki Shishida, Waseda University, visits Ju-dospace offices and Bowen Ar-chive.

Trevor Leggett centenary premi-ere at BAFTA, London.

July Organised the Commonwealth Judo Association congress and elections in Glasgow.

Andy Burns wins Commonwealth Games medal.

EJU Level 4 practical block host-ed by Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge UK.

Lauren Jackson graduates from Bsc Sports and Exercise Science at Bath.

August Adam Bolwell joins the Ju-dospace team for work experi-ence.

EJU Level 3 practical block in Bath.

Graduate Slavisa Bradic invited to observe the Special Teachers Seminar by the Kodokan, Japan.

September Tenant of the month for Regency Offices.

Norwegian Judo Federation part-

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nership to deliver EJU Level 3 Award in Oslo.

Hellenic Judo Federation partner-ship to deliver the EJU Level 3 Award in Athens, Greece

Dr Mike Callan & Nick Fletcher attended the World Kata Cham-pionships and the IJF Kata Train-ing Camp, Malaga, Spain.

Research away day organised by Anglia Ruskin Sport & Exercise Science Research Group.

Janine Johnson, Judospace Exec-utive Assistant shortlisted in the top 10 for the Newcomer PA of the year award by Executive PA magazine.

Prof Katsumi Mori from Kanoya University visits Judospace to discuss child protection.

Partnership established with Pinewood Judo Club.

Yoshiaki Tsuruoka leaving party.

October Commonwealth Judo meeting at Glasgow European Open.

Dave Duffy joins the team.

November Dr Callan appointed Director of Coaching for NHC Area, teaches at Area Technical Conference.

Participated in Global Sports Mission to Japan organised by UKTI at British Embassy Tokyo.

December Lecture to the Solidarity of Inter-national Judo Education Coach Programme at Tokai University.

Visit to International Budo Uni-versity, Chiba, Japan.

Attended the Tokyo Grand Slam as a guest of the All Japan Judo Federation.

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EJU COACH AWARDS 2

UKTI GLOBAL SPORTS MISSION to JAPAN

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COMMONWEALTH CONGRESS & GAMES

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EXCITING NEW PARTNERSHIPS

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IJF KATA SEMINAR 3

COLLEAGUES & FRIENDS 4

SAFEGUARDING CHIL-DREN IN JUDO

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Inside this issue:

December 2014

Level 3

2014 saw 4 practical blocks of the EJU Advanced Coach Award delivered. We sup-ported coaches in: Oslo, Norway; Athens, Greece; Johannesburg, South Africa and Bath, UK.

We were proud to work with two world class colleagues in Nikos Iliadis and Darren Warner.

Online registrations have grown as we develop coach-es in over 20 nations.

Level 4

The Level 4 course was equally busy this year with practical blocks being held in Cambridge. Our thanks go to all Anglia Ruskin Uni-versity staff for their on-going support with the course.

Thanks also to guest lectur-ers who taught on this years modules: Juergen Klinger, Darren Warner, Yoshiaki Tsuruoka, Nuno Delgado and Emanuela Pierantozzi.

The British Judo Association hosted a dinner for the EJU Judo Knowledge Commis-sion at Trinity College. Guests included; Ezio Gam-ba, Franco Capeletti, Yana Dimitrieva, Envic Galea, Lance Wicks, Attilio Sacripanti, Kerrith Brown and Andrew Scoular. Along with Mike Cole, Bob Challis, Mike Callan and Natasha Collins.

Graduate, Slavisa Bradic was invited to attend the Ko-dokan Teachers Course.

European Judo Union Coach Awards

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Greetings from Judospace Chief Executive

Welcome to our annual newsletter. It always amaz-es me the variety of activi-ties which we manage to squeeze into each year.

In 2014 we have worked in 7 countries with over 100 coaches face-to-face and over 120 online. What con-tinues to impress me is the passion and dedication they have for judo.

UKTI Global Sports Mission to Japan

This year Judospace was accepted onto the Pass-port2Export programme run by UKTI (UK Trade & Invest-ment) which aims to in-crease the capability of British business to trade internationally.

Judospace was one of only 16 British companies invited to take part in the Global Sports Mission to Japan from 25-27 November.

Hosted at the British Embas-sy in Tokyo, the Trade Mis-sion involved meeting with the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government,

as part of a Host2Host agreement to share exper-tise from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games to help prepara-tions, delivery and legacy for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Our thanks go to UKTI, and our International Trade Adviser, Sandra Warne for their support.

We are often humbled by the incredible hospitality when we travel. So many people to thank for that.

This year we celebrated our 5th birthday, looking for-ward to an exciting journey over the next 5 years.

Congratulations to Janine on her shortlisting in the PA of the Year Awards and thanks to her for all her hard work.

I’d like to finish with a short poem from Dr Shigeyoshi Matsumae;

Cultivate your thoughts, make your body vigorous, improve your wisdom, and chain your hopes to the stars.

Whilst in Japan, Dr Callan taught on the Solidarity of International Judo Educa-tion coach programme based at Tokai University. Coaches were from China, Guam, Laos, USA, Tanzania, Ivory Coast, Israel and Pal-estine.

He had meetings at Interna-tional Budo University and attended the IJF Tokyo Grand Slam.

The Commonwealth Judo Association Congress, organ-ised by Judospace, was held at the University of Glasgow. In July alongside the Com-monwealth Games.

Dr Mike Callan, was re-elected as Secretary General and Treasurer of the CJA.

We congratulate all the oth-er Executive Committee members on their election, and also South Africa who were awarded the 2016 Commonwealth Judo Cham-pionships, to be held in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape Province.

Commonwealth Judo Congress

Many congratulations to all of those who contributed towards a fantastic Com-monwealth Games. We are very proud of the athletes and coaches associated with the Judospace team.

Danny Williams (ENG), stu-dent at Anglia Ruskin won Gold at 73kg. Judospace Strength & Conditioning Advisor, Andy Burns (SCO) won Bronze at 90kg.

Coaching graduates from our suite of Coach Awards played a key part in the suc-cess of the Games. Matt

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In September Mike Callan and Nick Fletcher attended the World Kata Champion-ships in which three Ju-dospace coaching gradu-ates competed; Mike Griffiths & Ernie Wakamat-su (AUS) in Katame-no-kata,

IJF & Kodokan Kata Seminar

Karlo Lackovic & Marijan Kraljevic (CRO) in Nage-no-kata and Jelena Vukovic Gotal & Katarina Potnek(CRO) in Kodokan-goshin-jitsu. The first IJF organised Kata Training Camp followed with sessions led by Murata-sensei and Fujita-sensei of

Divall was England Team Manager, alongside coach Luke Preston, their team finished top of the medal table. Darren Warner was Performance Coach for Wales, supporting Natalie Powell to win the first Com-monwealth Games Gold medal for Wales in Judo.

Exciting new partnerships

Commonwealth Games Success

Hellenic Judo Federation

We signed an agreement with the Greek Federation to develop their coaches, and Mr Nikos Iliadis joined the Judospace Delivery Team to teach the first practical block at the Peace & Friendship Stadium in Athens.

Norwegian Judoforbund

Working with Stine Lastein, Coaching Consult-ant to the Norwegian Fed-eration, we delivered ad-vanced coach education at the NJJK in Oslo.

Judo South Africa

In Johannesburg we taught the first group from the High Level Coaching Project devel-oped in partnership with Judo South Africa.

Pinewood Judo Club

We are proud to be helping Pinewood Judo Club follow-ing the sad loss this year of coaching legend Don Wer-ner. We are working on a variety of exciting projects to help the club with coaching and fundraising.

the Kodokan. Dr Callan sup-ported Murata-sensei in clarifying definitions in eng-lish of important new kata principles. We congratulate the organisers, judges, com-petitors and medallists. and the ten new World Champi-ons in the 5 categories.

This year we welcomed Dave Duffy, 6th Dan, in the role of Assessor. Dave is a graduate of the EJU Level 4, and a very experi-enced coach educator. We also said ‘sayonara’ to Yoshiaki Tsuruoka of the Kodokan, who spent one year with us as technical officer. Yoshiaki was able to develop his English

Lance Wicks

Janine Johnson

Joda Callan

Andrew Burns

Chris Doherty

Bob Challis

Florin Daniel Lascau

Dave Duffy

Katrina McDonald

Roy Inman OBE

Jane Veveris Callan

Nikos Malliaropolous

Katsumi Mori

Keiko Mitsumoto

Karen Castle

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Colleagues and friends

Publications We are involved in research that contributes towards judo, sport development and coaching through an evidence based approach. Continuing to provide lead-ership of the Anglia Ruskin Judo Research Group. This year publications that we have contributed towards include:

Safeguarding children in judo

“It has been a great experi-ence for me, understanding all that goes on behind the

scenes at Judospace. Kye Olredge.

Solidarity of International Judo Education—Activities to prevent Judo Injuries in the UK and France. Muscle, Ligaments and Ten-dons Journal—Comprehensive training pro-gramme for judo players nine plus 9+: possible lower limb primary injury prevention.

Archives of Budo—Three-dimensional assessment of the judo throwing tech-niques frequently used in competition. Judoka Quarterly—Keeping our heads: Young Judoka and Head Injuries. USJF Newsletter—Managing your judo club.

Judospace are proud to be promoting child athlete welfare—an issue that continues to challenge sport environments.

This year we welcomed two research visits.

Professor Katsumi Mori, a child protection specialist from the National Institute of Fitness and Sport, Japan, invited Dr Callan to present a keynote speech at the International Symposium on Safeguarding the Child in Sport, in 2015.

Our Associates and friends

Darren Warner

Rebeka Tandaric

Stine Lastein

Sandra Warne

Yasuhiro Yamashita

Kantaro Matsui

Peter Thatcher

Nick Fletcher

Anderson Accounting

Slavisa Bradic

Yoshiaki Tsuruoka

Nikos Iliadis

Mark Fricker

Hiroko Ozawa

Lizzie Richmond

Vic Jenkins Thank you

skills and worked towards his Advanced Coaching Award. Whilst here he visited several clubs across the country to share his knowledge.

Two younger judoka; Adam

Bolwell and Kye Orledge,

completed a school work ex-

perience module. The pair

experienced many different

roles within the company.

Dr Ryo Uchida, Associate Professor at Nagoya Univer-sity, Japan. Published the research exposing the trag-edy of child deaths from head injuries. We agreed to collaborate on future re-search initiatives.