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December 8, 2007: Grading

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Location: Gynasium, The London Nautical School, 61 Stamford Street, Blackfriars, London (novices and yellows); Ernest Bevin College, Beechcroft Road (oranges and above)
Time: Novices 10 am arrival; yellow 1.30pm arrival; orange and above 12.30 arrival
Cost: £15
Take water, sports drink and food.

After grading party: 7.00pm 'til 1am at The Counting House in the City, 50 Cornhill, London EC3V 3PD
DJ provided (Cost £3)

Maps below

London Nautical School Main Gym, 61 Stamford Street, Blackfriars, enter from Hatfields Street


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Ernest Bevin College, Beechcroft Road (and Crockerton Road), Tooting, London SW17 7DF, take the stairs signposted Sports Hall (detailed directions below)

Ernest Bevin from Tooting Bec tube - 5 minutes walk: Leave Tooting Bec station by the Tooting Bec and Upper Tooting Roads exit. Walk down Upper Tooting Road, and take the 4th right turn onto Beechcroft Road. Ernest Bevin College will be on your left about 5 minutes up. Just before the college is a small car park and then a few steps. Take these to the sports hall entrance

Ernest Bevin from Wandsworth Common station - 10 minutes walk: (Wandsworth Common station is 10 mins from Victoria and 20 from Waterloo) Leave the station and take the path through the grass and turn left onto St. James's Drive. At the junction with the traffic lights, go straight onto Trinity Road. After the lights take the 1st right, Crockerton Road. At the end of the road turn left onto Beechcroft Road. The college is on your right. Just before the small car park there is some steps. Take these to the sports hall entrance.


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Where we train

City Jitsu Club trains twice a week near Angel and the Barbican, London, EC1, at City University, Northampton Square, Islington.

Training times
Monday: 7.30pm–9pm
Friday: 7pm–9pm

Directions

The Club in Action

  • Club member Liam demonstrates techniques in a gauntlet
  • Instructor Gesa Brinkmann demonstrates a throw
  • Training at our 10th anniversary session
  • Instructor Gesa Brinkmann demonstrates a technique
  • Grades demonstrate techniques they've learnt
  • Grades and novices practise techniques while instructors observe
  • Grades and instructors at the 10th anniversary session
  • A scene from our 10th anniversary session
  • An orange belt demonstrating an armlock in a circle
  • Novices being taught a wristlock
  • Novices can train in light clothing until they own their own gi.
  • Members often have to demonstrate what they have learned that session in front of other Jitsuka

Videos of techniques

  • Sensei Mat Phillips demonstrates an ashi-guruma throw followed by a rare immobilisation technique
  • Techniques being demonstrated and taught at the City Jitsu 10th anniversary session
  • Kata-juji-jime, the half-cross strangle
  • An o-goshi (major hip) throw into yoko-shiho-gatame, the side four quarters hold
  • Kata-gatame, the shoulder hold
  • Ude-garami, the forearm entanglement, used in groundwork
  • Ko-tsuri-komi-goshi, the minor lifting drawing hip throw
  • O-tsuri-komi-goshi, the major lifting, drawing hip throw
  • Ko-tomoe-seoi-nage, the small circle shoulder throw
  • Irimi-nage, the entering body throw
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