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Directions to the dojo

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City Jitsu Club is readily accessible by public transport or by car. To get directions, pick from the list how you plan to travel to the club. If you can't make it to the club, you might want to find out where else you could train.

Training times

Sunday: 12pm-2pm
We don't train between Christmas Eve and New Year or on Bank Holidays.

Price
Standard price for a two-hour session is £5. Students and the unwaged pay only £3 per session.

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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
Sunday: 12pm–2pm

Directions

The Club in Action

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

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