Coaches 

Sensei Andy Jones 4th Dan 

I started judo in 1973 when I was 11 years old at the Park school on a Saturday mornings with sensei Doug Gilbert. This club later closed when sensei Gilbert opened The Bucklers mead Judo club on Friday evenings. I would practice there and with sensei Phillip Billing at his club on Saturday mornings. Wednesday evenings at Sherborne judo club , and Mondays in  kingsbury Episcopi, after getting my 1^st dan in 1980 I started the Preston judo club at Preston school.

Sensei Doug Gilbert retired from judo just before a got 1^st dan so at this time I was also head instructor at the bucklers mead judo club this club later moved to the St Michaels hall. I stopped teaching there in 1985 it closed a few years later.

In 1995 I teamed up with Jeremy Robinson who was the head coach for the street judo club and started to seriously training for kata competitions.  

Over  the following nine years we managed to get 

29 gold 9 silver and 4 bronze at national kata competitions.

And 10 gold and 2 bronze at international competitions,

Including 1 gold and two bronze at the 2002 world masters competition.

Qualifications

NVQ coaching judo level 2, Fundamental principles of judo level 1 and 2,  Kata demonstrator award, First aid at work ,  4^th dan since 1999.

      Sensei Phillip Billing 3rd Dan

 I started Judo early 1966 at the Y.M.C.A. Watford, Hertfordshire. stopped Judo for a while after marrying in 1968, i then moved to Yeovil to work at Westlands in 1971.

It was in 1972 that i restarted Judo being 3rd Kyu at this stage practicing and helping teach at Bucklers Mead School 1073-80s. Obtaining 1st Dan on 14th March 1976at Bucklers Mead School. I've taught in various schools in Yeovil, with a club of my own at St. Michaels Hall on Saturday mornings 1975-1987 ish, i joined Yeovil Judo Club (then known as Preston Judo Club).

Sensei  Julian Marter 2nd Dan

Sensei Andy Warman 2nd Dan

I first started Judo when i was 7 years old, and it turns out it was with this club under the teaching of Sensei Phillip Billing,

I trained for about a year but then gave up.

Fast forward almost 20 years to 2001 and after a spell of training in other martial arts i felt Judo may offer the kind of training i was looking for so i joined the Pittards Judo Club aged 26 under Sensei Andy Jones.

as i thought the training was exactly what i was after and couldn't get enough of it.

I gained my first Dan Black Belt in 2004 at the Kan Geiko Winter Training Course which was presented by Sensei Akinori Hosaka. In 2006 at the St. Ives course i gained my 2nd Dan which was presented by the President Sensei Robin Otani which is my current grade.