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UCF Study: Judo May Help Health, Social Interaction of Children Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder
UCF (the University of Central Florida) have confirmed what we really already knew: Judo may help people with ASD to function better in society. Read their article here!
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EOSN (SNJU 2021 event, Ireland) is now CANCELED
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Our Technical Director and his uke are European Kata Champions!
This is the official EJU aftermovie of the EJU European Kata Championships. The SNJU Technical Director Tycho van der Werff (yondan) and his uke, David Lefevere (nidan) became first in Katame-no-Kata!
If you want to see what that looks like: This is their winning performance.
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SNJU Board Members receive TWO awards
This weekend during the EJU European Judo Championships, the EJU Social Inclusion Award was granted to our Technical Director Tycho van der Werff (the 2019 award) and IK Sodra, the judo club of SNJU President Tomas Rundqvist (the 2020 award). SNJU is proud to have this important prize awarded to two of our board members, and it will certainly encourage us to keep up our work in the progression of Special Needs Judo. -
Online Inclusive Judo Training (11/04)
Sunday April 11th, James Mulroy and Cecilia Evenblij (SNJU board members) organised and hosted the second in their series of six International Online Inclusive Judo Trainings. Once again it was an amazing success with nearly 90 participants from 8 countries including Ireland, Switzerland, Hungary, Italy, Sweden, Netherlands, Finland and Spain. A special thanks to our Italian friends who delivered part of the session.
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AutJudo in Barcelona!
Meet the group of prof. José Morales Aznar, performing Judo in COVID-19 protective gear.
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Open letter from the SNJU Board
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Hainaut Cup 2019 features Adapted Judo Kata championships
Quinten Fransman and Dion Sassen perform a modified nage-nō-kata. Click the photo to show the complete gallery. On Sunday, October 6th Judo Aiseau – Presles organised the 10th edition of the International Hainaut Cup. And for the first time, the organisation decided to have a “handi-kata” tournament alongside the original tournament.
What can we say- the tournament was very successful! Special Needs judoka showed their art, judged by the same jury as their regular friends.
We applaud Aiseau-Presles for their effort, in line with the interest that EJU have shown into the Adapted Kata sport and we hope that there will be a follow-up in 2020, and of course that their initiative will also encourage other clubs and organisations to organise an Adapted Kata tournament!
If a club is looking for advice on how to do this, then of course SNJU are always at your service to help you with your effort.
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SNJU plays major role in EJU Special Needs Judo Festival
Earlier this week, on the EJU Special Needs Judo Festival in Poreč, Croata, SNJU officials performed a comprehensive seminar on how to teach Judo to people with a disability. We are proud that SNJU played a major role in this event.
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OESN Lindesberg review
Finnish referee Joona Nakki in action at OESN 2019 – Joona is the first Special Needs referee to perform in a SNJU event ever! The Board of the SNJU wishes to express its great appreciation for Frövi Judo’s skillful execution of the OESN tournament, last weekend in Lindesberg. Our sincere compliments for the tireless efforts of Johan Orrbo and his enthusiastic team for a wonderful weekend of tournaments, seminars and fun.
Details will be forthcoming soon for the next OESN, which will take place in 2020, in Ireland ☘️
SNJU will issue a full review about the event to its members soon.
A special mention for the young Finnish referee Joona Nakki, who competed on Saturday morning, but was a referee in the afternoon- the first Special Needs referee for an SNJU event ever!
Finally: to view the photos of this amazing event, click HERE.