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An interview with Sensei Handley

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Name: Mark Handley
Age: Under 100
Works: For an NHS Trust

Mark has lived in London for 2.5 years.

We asked him…

What's your favourite…

  • Drink — White Russian (at the moment)
  • Bar — Fulham Tup or The Black Bull
  • Film — Kodak Gold 500
  • Place to relax — In the bath

Where do you go…

  • When it's raining? — Outside… strange but true.
  • after work? — Pub, Jitsu, home!

What do you do on your birthday?

  • I normally get drunk with friends…

Funniest thing seen or heard on the tube.

  • Perhaps the little kiddy on the accordion. He's quite funny isn't he?

What's the most you've paid for…

  • A drink — £8 for a vodka martini and an olive!
  • A minicab — Errrr, £20

Where do you go for exercise?

  • A gym. I'm also Club Instructor for the Royal Free Hampstead Hospital Jitsu Club, and Instructor for City University Jitsu Club (www.cityjitsu.org)

Are you a member of…

  • A Gym — Yes.
  • A Members Bar — No.

Have you ever been in trouble with the law after a night out?

  • The answer to this question is not no…

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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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