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KEY DATES & CALENDAR

Club Closure 2024 and Opening 2025 (and other major events). 2024 

  1.   4 Nov24                 Budokan AGM
  2.   10Nov24                NSW Community Series Event – all to attend please
  3.   23 Nov 24              Pool Party   
  4.   5 Dec 24                Annual Awards Night
  5.   7 Dec 24                 Last Saturday classes
  6.   11Dec24                 Last Dino and Mons classes
  7.   16 Dec 24               Last Monday class
  8.   19 Dec 24               Last Junior and Senior classes

 2025

  1.   9 – 12 Jan 25          NextGen Futures Camp AIS Canberra (athletes turning 14 or 15)
  2.   13 - 18 Jan 25         National Training Camp NPC Melb. (Senior, Junior M/W, Cadet)
  3.   20 Jan 25               First  Monday night
  4.   21 Jan 25               First Tuesday Juniors and Seniors
  5.   25 Jan  25              First Saturday sessions for Competition Juniors and Seniors
  6.   12 Feb 25               First Dinos and Mons class
  7.   22 - 23 Feb 25        2025 ACT Open - Goulburn
  8.   23 – 26 Feb 25        National Randori Camp ACT
  9.   1 - 2 Mar 25            2025 Sydney International – Liverpool + 2-day camp
  10.   16 Mar 25               TBC Budokan Mons Competition
  11.   5 – 6 Apr 25            2025 Melbourne International Open – Broadmeadows VIC                                         + 5-day camp
  12.   3-4 ?? May 25           NSW State Camp (Start of State Squad) (5wks pre-Nationals)
  13.   7 - 9 Jun 25            2025 Nationals, Gold Coast Sports and Leisure Centre, Carrara                                         + 2-day camp
  14.   24 Aug 25               South Pacific Adaptive One
  15.   7 Sep 25                 2025 Perth International Open + 2-day camp
  16.   ??Sep25                   TBC or alternative - Budokan Mons and Juniors
  17.   26 Sep 25               Open Schools Ch/Ship, Brisbane
  18.   27-28 Sep 25           2025 Brisbane International Open + 3-day camp

CADET EUROPEAN TOUR – OCT/NOV 24

We wish Budokan Cadets Nikola Dobric and Billy Nyamdorj a great overseas trip as part of the National Cadet Team selected to participate in two competitions and 2 international camps: the Koper (Slovenia) Cadet European Cup this weekend (26-27 October) and camp, and the Gyor (Hungary) Cadet European Cup (9-10 November) and camp, another amazing opportunity from which our guys will gain huge benefit. They leave tomorrow (23 October) and their last session at the club was tonight (22 October).

KATA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS – 9TH – 10TH NOVEMBER

Budokan athletes Bianca and Bernhard Tandean will participate in the World Kata Championships to be held in Las Vegas early next month. They will compete in Nage-No-Kata and Ju-No-Kata. We wish them well for a successful competition. 

COMMUNITY SERIES EVENT#4 – 10TH NOVEMBER

Being the final competition of the year, Budokan Mons, Junior and Senior athletes are very much encouraged to participate in this one. Albeit attendance in some divisions of past competitions has not been high, it is important to compete in Shiai (contest Judo) as much as possible, even if the competition is small or you have to play out of your weight division. This is so that you can test under pressure situations (competition), techniques and strategies that have been developed at the club.  

BUDOKAN AGM 2024 – MONDAY 4TH NOVEMBER

The 2024 Budokan AGM will be held on Monday 4th November at 8.00pm at the club. The official notice of, and invitation to the meeting was attached to the email accompanying the last Newsletter. The Agenda of the AGM is attached to the email accompanying this Newsletter. The AGM will be immediately followed by an ordinary meeting of the Committee. Agenda items will be sent to the Committee but are available to all club members on request. All financial club members or parents of financial club members are invited to attend these meetings.  Whether you are able to attend or not, please consider any issues that you would like addressed, or any areas in which you believe you could make a contribution. Feel free to talk to Rob, Kerrye or any other Committee member or email us.

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