Australia's Special Needs Judo Friendship Games in Gawler, South Australia | Sport & recreation

Australia's Special Needs Judo Friendship Games

Locality: Gawler, South Australia

Phone: +61 437 692 168

Address: 148 Smart Rd, St Agnes SA 5097 5118 Gawler, SA, Australia

Website: https://www.specialneedsjudo.org.au

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25.01.2022 I've done it! I've completed my 40km challenge for Australian's living with mental illness. It wasn't easy, but knowing I've helped fund vital support tools for people who need them most motivated me to cross the finish line. Thank you to everyone who supported me so far. It means so much to me!... If you haven't had chance to support me yet, it's not too late. Click here to show your support: https://www.onefootforward.org.au/fundraisers/paulreeves

17.01.2022 ELIZABETH SPECIAL NEEDS JUDO CLUB INC. SEEKING SPECIAL SENIOR AND JUNIOR JUDO COACHES WHO HAS THE RIGHT STUFF TO COACH SPECIAL NEEDS ADULTS AND CHILDREN. Are you a Semi-Retired Shodan who is interested in the challenge a coaching a child with special needs? Are motivated to connect with children with a physical, intellectual, sensory, or social issues and have the skills to become their roll models?... Can you think outside the circle of demonstrating and communicating, or even modifying judo techniques to suit individual needs and limitations? Are you willing to work with highly experienced special needs coaches with a decade of experience as a team? Then we need you help.... Check Us Out on Facebook and Follow Us or just Google Elizabeth Special Needs Judo Club Inc. For more information. Our Coaches are funded and encouraged to attend courses with Autism SA if they so desire. We appreciate experience coaches and junior coaches. You don't need to be a Shodan either, we will provide you with the skills and knowledge you need to learn in a friendly no stress environment. We are seeking new members and semi-retired Judo Coaches. If you think you could be interested, contact me (Sensei Paul Reeves) on 043 769 2168. Perspective Judo Coaches require to be a member of JFA and have both National Police Clearances and People working or volunteering with children in South Australia must, by law, have a working with children check. A DHS/DCSI child-related check will be recognised as a working with children check until it expires. Our club would be happy to assist. An unfinalised child-related check application will be recognised as a working with children check on completion until it expires. If you applied for a child-related employment screening before 1 July 2019, and your application has not yet been finalised, the application will be treated as an application for a working with children check. Elizabeth Special Needs Judo Club Inc is a not-for-profit Judo Club who has won many community and sporting awards over the last 10 years. We are well known by Office for Recreation and Sport and the Disability Community in Northern Adelaide through our volunteering services. We look forward to hearing from Coaches, Shodans, or any junior coaches who want to broaden their horizons in coaching judo in South Australia. If you are interested please don't hesitate contacting me on 0437692168. https://www.specialneedsjudo.org.au

16.01.2022 A bit of history now. Big Brother, the Judo Federation of Australia has formalised a special needs category in national and state events called "No Limits" by adding a special needs category to every event, which was a good thing but I like to think we, "Elizabeth Special Needs Judo Club Inc started the ball rolling across Australia. We are a extremely small club that funded a big event called Australia's Special Need Judo Friendship Games 10 years ago. Although less formal...Continue reading

14.01.2022 Elizabeth Special Needs Judo Club Promotion. It's time for a Huge Club Promotion for Northern Adelaide.

09.01.2022 Thanks for the memories

07.01.2022 Please Remove if not appropriate... NEW FACE BOOK SITES FOR THE WORLD TO JOIN DURING OUR DIFFICULT TIMES. IT IS A POSITIVE SOCIAL CONNECTION HUB WHERE PEOPLE CAN SHARE THEIR LIVES WHILE BEING ISOLATED FROM THE WORLD.... Hello Everyone, I have created a new FB Page which has rapidly grown over past week. The aim is for people around the world to share photos of: Themselves, Pets, Family, Home Life, Their Streets, Their City or Towns, Their Gardens, Cooking, Anything Really! To say they are Ok during this time of Isolation. It's important that we as a global society remain connected and despite there so much concern about our future, we WILL get through this and life will continue. I feel it's important that young people globally, learn that people are doing the best they can under difficult conditions. Nevertheless it's the little pleasures in life we learn to appreciate. So, Please Join Up... Share your photos and say that you are Ok. Thankyou. https://www.facebook.com/groups/213306573339087/lease Remove if not appropriate... NEW FACE BOOK SITES FOR THE WORLD TO JOIN DURING OUR DIFFICULT TIMES. IT IS A POSITIVE SOCIAL CONNECTION HUB WHERE PEOPLE CAN SHARE THEIR LIVES WHILE BEING ISOLATED FROM THE WORLD. Hello Everyone, I have created a new FB Page which has rapidly grown over past week. The aim is for people around the world to share photos of: Themselves, Pets, Family, Home Life, Their Streets, Their City or Towns, Their Gardens, Cooking, Anything Really! To say they are Ok during this time of Isolation. It's important that we as a global society remain connected and despite there so much concern about our future, we WILL get through this and life will continue. I feel it's important that young people globally, learn that people are doing the best they can under difficult conditions. Nevertheless it's the little pleasures in life we learn to appreciate. So, Please Join Up... Share your photos and say that you are Ok. Thankyou. https://www.facebook.com/groups/213306573339087/

06.01.2022 Our Judo Club Street Sign has moved again. Can you guess where? Approaching what intersection?

05.01.2022 Another Elizabeth Special Needs Judo Club Inc meeting. The first of 2020. Some hard planning ahead. Thanks Sensei Graham and Club Secretary Helen Abrahams for all.your Voluntary Work and Ongoing Dedication.

03.01.2022 300 leaflets randomly placed on car windscreens promoting Elizabeth Special Needs Judo Club Inc. I know there will be some gumpy bums out there who will phone just to rant about leaflets under their windscreen wipers.... But if we increase our membership levels...so be it. First target strategy is St Anges area where the club's dojo exists. Next target is Tea Tea Shopping Centre... mostly Post Office Boxes. The catchment area is so huge that house to house would be time con...suming, time and labour intensive. We don't want to become too big, but big enough to be safe, and cater hiring our venue. I have put some club cards on the St Agnes Shopping Centre Notice Board as well.

02.01.2022 Hey Groupies, This is Our club street sign. It's made solid and heavy and strong. I had this laying around at home since we got the new sign....and thought it's good to keep using. The idea is to chain this to structure like a tree, etc where there is high exposure like a intersection ... After a week I will move to a new location within Modbury, Elizabeth, Salisbury, St Agnes, Mawson Lakes, ...etc. It's made solid because I expect some idiots will try to kick it, or steal it... it will be pad locked. If a council doesn't like it, I will move it to a new catchment area. I intend to put it somewhere tomorrow. Cheers, Sensei Paul Reeves. Chair-person, Founder, Coach. Elizabeth Special Needs Judo Club Inc.

02.01.2022 Thankyou everyone, The Special Need Friendship Games will never return... But it was funThankyou everyone, The Special Need Friendship Games will never return... But it was fun

01.01.2022 It seems like a 100 years ago...

01.01.2022 Australia's Special Needs Judo Friendship Games is about to take a new challenge. We are going to continue to run these games says founder Sensei Paul Reeves. As long before a special needs category existed, (based mostly on the Dutch Model), the Friendship Games offer a different format of completion. ... The difference is that it is more relaxed, focusses on friendly competition and maybe considered as another option to add to a judo itinerary. The Australia's Special Need Judo Friendship Games first started nearly a decade ago because there was no 'fair' competition available in Australia at the time. In fact, we were the first to offer the ONLY option for special needs judo to compete in a national competition. 'No Limits' has become more inclusive with the development of a JFA special needs committee. We support this move entirely but we feel, why disband an original concept that has been run for over a decade and offers something different. The Friendship Games is not in any means competing with JFA, or Kodokan Competitions with inclusive rules. It is just another avenue to meet and compete in a smaller circle. Elizabeth Special Needs Judo Club Inc founded the Special Needs Friendship Games, we are you a small club yet we funded for trophies, insurance, and even financially assisted judokas to South Australian venues from interstate. We had some awesome supporters too like Lismore Judo Club, Judo SA, Judo WA, NSW Judo. We appreciate everything that was achieved and our supporters who assisted us. My perspective has changed. I support all the changes that the JFA has put into place. It was a good move to formalised rules etc. However, the Australia's Special Need Judo Friendship Games will continue based on my experience. I am hoping to make this a State Wide (SA) event with open invitation to any interstate competitors. As mentioned before, the format for this competition is far more relaxed and less informal and based on its HUGE success in the past, this should be viewed as unrelated to any JFA events. In the meantime I will encourage all competitors to attend any Kodokan, or JFA "No Limits" events to gain experience and recognition of their skills and learning formally. Stay tune on our next Special Needs Judo Friendship Games. The Planning has begun. Good Luck, Learn with Pride, and have fun. Judo is a AWESOME sport.