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A Club of Excellence 2025 – 2026
Kazoku-Kan Judo Club has passed all of the checks set in place by it’s Governing Body to become recognised as a school of excellence yet again…. Club colours are awarded

World Games 2025 results!
Kazoku-Kan Bring back the Gold and earned the title of World Champion! On April 5th 3 of our Students along with their Sensei, Rich Morrish travelled to the Netherlands to

A Club of Excellence
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Why Judo? Why is it important?
Get in touch with us if you think we can help you Activities and sports like Football, Rugby, Tennis, Gymnastics, Girl/Boy Scouts etc… are all great hobbies and pass time

Adaptive World Games 2024 Results
Kazoku-Kan Judo Club: Adaptive World Games results. Kazoku-Kan Judo Club return as champions. Kazoku-Kan took 3 students over to Beverwijk, Holland to compete in the largest Adaptive competition in the

Kazoku-Kan is proud to announce, our first 1st Dan black belts!
In December 2023, Felicity Warburton and Liam Jones were both promoted up to 1st Dan. This follows a tough year of training and competition with the cream on top of

Official Nationally Recognised Syllabus for Kazoku-Kan!
A Syllabus for every ability level Kazoku-Kan Judo Club now has it’s own officially licensed syllabus which is unique to the Academy. Head Sensei Rich Morrish designed syllabus for Seniors,

Kazoku-Kan is recognised Nationally as a club of excellence
Number one Safeguarding Judo Club in the County. I am SO proud to announce that we are now recognised as a club of Excellence for the 4th year running A

World Games 2023 – Results!
Kazoku-Kan Judo Academy took a group of 4 Judoka to the World Games based in Beverwijk, Holland. The contest consisted of 2 days of competition across 8 Tatami with over

World Games 2023 – Meet the Team!
Kazoku-Kan Judo Academy are taking a team of Judoka over to Holland on the 14th April 2023. Here are some info panels to get to know the 2023 team. Good

All England Judo Federation Closed Championships
Kazoku-Kan Judo Academy took members over to compete at the AEJF Closed championships on the 18th February 2023. The atmosphere was great and despite being a one mat event, there

Kazoku-Kan awarded the Safeguarding code in martial arts
I am very proud to let you all know that we have once again passed all of the requirements to have the Safeguarding Code awarded to our Club. This is

National inclusion day 2023
National Inclusion Day was a HUGE success this past Saturday afternoon at the Walsall campus – centre of excellence. British Judo Adaptive head, Kerry Tansey put together a brilliant day

East Midlands AJA Competition Results
You little Belters! We attended the AJA East Midlands competition on the 4th December, 11 Judokas from Kazoku-Kan took part, both Junior members and Senior members. First to fight were

A Safeguarding situation that could have been avoided, but instead has escelated to a dangerous situation.
It saddens us and disgusts us to hear about this but please read as this is but one reason we take our safeguarding so seriously. Just to iterate that at

Kazoku-Kan All England Judo Federation Results
British Judo is investigating a number of cases in which coaches have been arrested for sexual offences, the BBC has learned. The cases include one coach who was arrested for

Kazoku-Kan All England Judo Federation Results
On the 23rd October 2022, Kazoku-Kan took 5 students to the All England Judo Federation Championships. Veteran Judoka, Liam Jones was joined by first time participants Stephen Eades, Chantelle Nally,

Kazoku-Kan British VI and Adaptive Results!
Veteran players, Sophie Kenny, Felicity Warburton and Liam Jones were joined by first time participant Tyler Bedenham. The event was incredible with some amazing Judo to be seen from adaptive

STOP – Think! – HELP! Why we take Safeguarding as seriously as we do.
Kayleigh Haywood – the case behind the film Kayleigh Haywood began speaking to Luke Harlow, a man she had never met, on 31 October 2015. Over the course of two

Why Safeguarding MUST be a staple part of any Martial Arts Club
To read the full article on these beastly individuals, click the picture above to be taken to a news article. This highlights EXACTLY why Safeguarding MUST be in place within

Why Judo?
Activities and sports like Hockey, Baseball, Soccer, Gymnastics, Girl/Boy Scouts etc… are all great hobby’s and pass time activities and I let my kids choose whatever activities they want. I

A (True) short tale of a Judoka
With the right support in place and a Coach that understands what you need to make your Judo Journey go from strength to strength – Dreams become reality! A Judoka

Holland – there and back again, a Champion’s tale
Taking Students to an International Competition is a big deal, but when it’s the largest Adaptive competition in the World things are on a much grander scale. For those that

British Schools Adaptive Championships 2022
Kazoku-Kan Judo Club had an amazing day at the British Schools Adaptive Championships on Sunday 13th March 2022. There was some fantastic Judo on display all round and for the

Kazoku-Kan does it again!
It is with great pride to announce that we have passed our annual Safeguarding Code requirements, this is a mark of excellence for our club and we work hard to

Recognising Our National Heroes
Usually we would have just had our Annual award evening, but with the current situation this has not been possible, we didn’t even get 3 solid months of Judo this

Kazoku-Kan Earns Prestige Award
Local Judo club leads the way with new Safeguarding Code Droitwich Spa Judo Club, Kazoku-Kan is leading the charge in sports safeguarding, having successfully attained the Safeguarding Code in Martial

Kazoku-Kan Grab the Gold!
On the 8th March 2020 Kazoku-Kan Judo Club took several members to Erdington Academy to compete at the National Closed Championships. Liam Grindrod took to the Tatami first and soundly

Adaptive and Green & Under a Huge success!
On 30th June, Kazoku-Kan Judo Club held it’s first ever Adaptive championship which was held alongside it’s annual Green and Under championship. Players travelled from County Durham, Erdington, Sheffield, Nottingham

2019 Mix and Match results
On the 9th June, Kazoku-Kan took a team of students over to Erdington Academy to participate in the Mix and Match competition. Felicity Warburton managed to claim Gold in her

24 Hour Martial Arts event – A HUGE Success!
Kazoku-Kan were invited by Worcester Martial Arts to take part in a massive 24 hour fundraiser, raising money for the Survivors club Worcester, which is a mental health charity. There

2019 – A great year for Kazoku-Kan Judo Club
If you have just found our website, then I welcome you whole heartedly. Kazoku-Kan was set up in January 2017 and since then has managed to accomplish some amazing results,