May

- Attended London Europe-

an Cup as a member of the

National Source Group for

Judo and the British Judo

National Coaching Commis-

sion.

- Roy Inman awarded his

9th Dan.

- Visited the Croation Judo

Federation for the Awards

Presentation by the Minister

of Sport.

- BJA Olympic and Para-

lympic Pathway Research

Project presentation.

June

- EJU Advanced Coach

Award residential in Rey-

kjavik, Iceland. Delivery by

Dr Callan, Darren Warner

and Janine Johnson.

- Mr Darren Warner joins

Judospace as Technical Ad-

visor.

July

- MOU signed with South

Africa Judo Federation.

- EJU level 4 Summer block

in Cambridge with Neil Ad-

ams, Envic Galea and Dan-

iel Florin Lascau.

August

- Presented Roy Inman his

9th Dan belt gift from the

Kodokan, Japan.

- Isamu Nakamura & Yoko

Tanabe from the All Japan

Judo Federation visit.

- 8th International Associa-

tion of Judo Researchers

Symposium, Rio de Janeiro.

- Launch of partnership with

Koka Kids.

An Exciting Year At Judospace...

September

- Lauren Jackson joins Ju-

dospace team as Communi-

cations Assistant.

-Professor Katsumi Mori

from National Institute of

Fitness & Sport, Kanoya,

Japan visits.

- Executive Assistant Janine

Johnson visits Japan.

-Presentation at the EJU

Education Seminar, Brussels.

- Co-authored an editorial

accepted into the British

Journal of Sports Medicine.

October

- Dr Callan accepted onto

the editorial board of the

International Journal of

Sport Science and Coach-

ing.

November

- Kodokan Assistant coach

Yoshiaki Tsuruoka 4th Dan

arrives from Tokyo to work

with Judospace as an intern.

-Joined with Jon Sieloff to

provide Judo First Aid to

Coaches.

- Andy Burns and Mike Cal-

lan contracted to write the

book “Strength and Condi-

tioning for Judo”

December

- Dr Callan lectures to AJJF,

and Japanese

Olympic

Committee.

- Roy Inman’s

technical re-

view of the

year.

www.judospace.com

January

- Presentation at the

Reykjavik International

Games.

February

- Managed the Common-

wealth Judo Association

Congress in Paris.

- In conjunction with Anglia

Ruskin University hosted

Yusuke Hayashi from the

National Institute of Fitness

and Sport, Japan.

- Appeared in BBC4 docu-

mentary “Everybody was

Kung-Fu fighting”.

March

- Keynote speech at the 3rd

Annual FST Conference at

Anglia Ruskin University.

- Commenced supervision of

an additional judo specific

PhD student.

-EJU coaching award

expanded it’s curriculum to

include Basics of Sports

Medicine, tutored by Dr

Nikos Milliaropolous.

April

- EJU Level 4 delivery in

Cambridge welcomed Alina

Dumitru and Isamu

Nakamura.

- Dr Mike Callan visited

Tokai University, Japan to

co-ordinate EU ICI-ECP bid

Double Masters in Science,

Practice and Coaching of

Judo.

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Working to improve

the standards of judo

across the world

through improving the

knowledge, skills and

understanding of the

coaches, players and

federations.

Inside this issue:

December 2013

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Judospace Newsletter 2013 Supporting Player and Coach Education

ADVISING THE ALL-JAPAN JUDO FEDERA-TION

KOKA KIDS PARTNERSHIP

JUDOSPACE EXPANDS

8TH INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM

EJU AWARD DEVELOPMENTS

PERFORMANCE PATHWAY PROJECTS

ERADICATION OF VIOLENCE

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT VISITS JAPAN

PUBLICATIONS

EJU EDUCATION SEMINAR, BRUSSELS

In October Judospace were pleased to welcome mem-bers of the All-Japan Judo

Federation.

Professor Yoko Tanabe, AJJF Board member, and Professor Isamu Nakamura, AJJF Coaching Commission member came to discuss international coach educa-

tion.

The AJJF are looking to improve their coaching set up and discussed with the Judospace team the experi-ences they have gained while educating coaches

internationally.

spanning three continents of the world. Authors included world champions Yasuhiko Moriwaki and Florin Daniel Lascau, and Olympic cham-pion Maki Tsukada. IJF Hall of Fame inductee and 10th Dan Dr. George Kerr was among the 50 observers. The organising group was led by the IAJR Executive members Dr. Mike Callan, Professor Michel Brousse,

August 2013 saw Rio de Janeiro, Brazil accommo-date the 8th International Judo Research Symposium. Judospace and the Inter-national Judo Federation provided help and sup-port in the organisation of the symposium. 17 academic papers from 40 different researchers were selected for partici-pation in the symposium

Professor Takeshi Nakajima, Mr. Florin Daniel Lascau and supported by Mr. Michel Huet and Miss. Ja-nine Johnson. Thank you to those who contributed their work and for the hard work and ded-ication to judo research.

Advising the All Japan Judo Federation

8th International Judo Research Symposium

Koka Kids Partnership

This year Judospace an-nounced its partnership with Koka Kids. The company is led by 1993 World Cham-pion Nicola Fairbrother and provides a range of quality resources for judo coaches, including their popular

magazine.

The collaboration will de-velop a special range of innovative educationally based coaching resources, based on the theme of

‘Teaching Judo to Children’.

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Judospace Expands

2013 has brought some new faces to the Judospace

team.

In June Mr Darren Warner joined as Technical Advisor to the company, in particu-lar he will supporting face to face delivery with coach-es. In September Miss Lau-ren Jackson joined as Com-munications Assistant. Lau-ren’s role is to help the com-pany communicate more

“We had a very productive

meeting and we look

forward to further

collaboration.”

Professor Isamu Nakamura, All-

Japan Judo Federation.

effectively with the judo family.

We also welcomed Mr Yoshiaki Tsuruoka, 4th Dan, at the request of the Kodokan, Japan. Mr Tsu-roka will be an intern adding to

our coaching expertise.

Rebeka Tandaric, from Croatia joins us as Sports Psychology Advisor, and Dr Nikos Malliaro-polous from Greece, joins us as

Medical Advisor.

“I’m delighted to welcome them to the team. They bring a wealth of expertise, experience and energy to their respective roles. Each will help us continue to enhance our services for coaches and Federations.” Dr Mike Callan

Level 4 This year has seen both the Easter and Summer residential coaching blocks hosted by Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. Thanks to Dr Sheila Pank-hurst, Bob Challis, Natasha Collins and the staff at Anglia Ruskin University for their on-going support with the course. Additional thanks go to the guest tutors for their attendance and valued contribution: Alina Dumitru Neil Adams Daniel Florin Lascau Deborah Gravenstijn Isamu Nakamura Maki Tsukada Jean-Claude Prieur

Level 3 The course itself has ex-panded with inclusion of a new module: Basics of Sports Medicine. This will be tutored and assessed by Dr Nikos Malliarpolous (5th dan) a doctor from the University of Aristotle in Thessaloniki, Greece. Judospace have broad-ened their geographical reach and have devel-oped working relationships with the Icelandic and South African Judo Associ-ations to deliver the EJU Advanced Coach Award. Following an invitation from South Africa Judo

President Temba Hlasho, a Memorandum of Understand-ing was signed between Ju-dospace and Judo South Afri-ca. With the mission; “To build a system to gener-ate future educated judo leaders, who can deliver judo for development and performance, based on sound technical principles, for the wider benefit of judo in South Africa.” A successful residential block was delivered in Reykjavik, Iceland in June this year. Ice-land Federation President Johann Masson was the first to complete the course. Our thanks to Bjarni Fridriksson for the wonderful hospitality.

Developments to the EJU Coaching Awards.

Performance Pathway Project

issue which has come under

recent attention.

He was honoured to deliver

the keynote speech at the

Japanese Olympic Commit-

tee Federations Forum on the

topic of Violence in Sport.

He taught a class of sports

management students at the

University of Tsukuba, a gen-

eration who will benefit from

the legacy of the Tokyo

2020 Olympic Games.

Finally was the Solidarity of

International Judo Education

14th Annual Lecture, hosted

by Mr Yasuhiro Yamashita

which addressed the prob-

lems of judo injuries to chil-

dren in Japan.

The aim of the lectures was

to raise awareness and ad-

vise on possible strategies,

policies and coach education

solutions that could be imple-

mented to help tackle such

issues.

In November Dr Callan visit-

ed Tokyo, to present 4 lec-

tures addressing the eradi-

cation of bullying and injuries

in sport and judo in Japan.

The visit was hosted by the

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

and he was accompanied by

Professor Michel Brousse.

At the All-Japan Judo Feder-

ation Dr Callan lectured

about the occurrence of bul-

lying by Japanese coaching

staff - a highly important Page 3

2013

This year Judospace re-

ported about the British

Judo performance path-

way and VI performance

pathway to BJA Perfor-

mance Director Nigel

Donohue, and his team.

The work was commis-

sioned by the BJA CEO

Andrew Scoular, and Per-

formance Manager Dave

Sanders.

Eradication of violence in sport, Tokyo

During September, Miss Janine Johnson, Executive Assistant at Judospace, visited Japan. Miss Johnson spent time train-ing at Tsukuba University and the Kodokan Judo Institute. Whilst there Miss Johnson met Professor Takeshi Nakajima, former Treasurer of the International Association of Judo Researchers, based at Kokushikan University. Professor Nakajima and his colleague, former World Judo Champion Yasuhiko Moriwaki welcomed the group with a day trip out to climb Mount Fuji!

Successful publications this year

have included an editorial ac-

cepted by the British Journal of

Sports Medicine that Dr Callan

co-authored alongside Dr Nikos

Milliaropolous and Babette

Plium addressing injury preven-

tion in judo.

Judospace Sport Development

Officer Andrew Burns, has been

commissioned by Crowood

Press to produce a book enti-

tled ‘Strength & Conditioning

for Judo’.

Executive Assistant Visits Japan

Our Associates and Friends

Katrina McDonald

Roy Inman

Jane Veveris Callan

Nikos Malliaro-polous

Katsumi Mori

Keiko Mitsumoto

Karen Castle

Lauren Jackson

Darren Warner

Rebeka Tandaric

Yasuhiro Yamashita

Michel Brousse

Nick Fletcher

Sheila Pankhurst

Slavisa Bradic

Yoshiaki Tsuruoka

Hiroko Ozawa

Reva Callan

Lizzie Richmond

Vic Jenkins

The company depends on its

dedicated group of highly

skilled associates, and sup-

portive friends.

Thank you to:

Lance Wicks

Janine Johnson

Joda Callan

Andrew Burns

Chris Doherty

Bob Challis

Florin Daniel Lascau

Envic Galea

Hrvoje Lindi Page 4

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Publications

European Judo Union Education Seminar

Capelletti, Mrs Benedicte Rouby, EJU Education Director, and Mr Michel Huet, EJU Education Com-missioner. Dr Callan made a presentation based on the proposals for the development of research in judo within the EJU. The presentation highlighted the effect that judo re-

Thank you

“It was interesting to adapt to a different randori

system to that of a typical European session, in that

it was very high in volume but somewhat looser in

movement and intensity. Thank you to everyone

who made the visit so memorable.” Janine Johnson

During September 2013 Dr Mike Callan, Ju-dospace Chief Executive, attended the European Judo Union Education Seminar held in Wavre, Belgium, in his role as EJU Didactic and Scientific Expert. The seminar was organised under the skil-ful leadership of EJU Vice President and IJF Hall of Fame inductee Franco

search is already having and noted that over the last 4 years there have been 68 research posters presented, from 35 Uni-versities and Research In-stitutes, from 15 countries. Thanks to the European Judo Union and the Bel-gian Judo Federation for all their efforts in running such a well organised event.