Kumo Judo Club experimented with a new style of tournament at Lophams Village Hall at the weekend.
A total of 22 young players were given tasks to perform in order to score points towards achieving bronze, silver or gold medals.
Traditional competitions normally involve contest judo, in which one child is matched against another and the winnerADVERTISEMENTmoves on to the next round.
However, senior club coach Howard Oates, who is in favour of competitive judo, has long felt that this style of competition at such a young age can dissuade children.
So, on Saturday, children as young as five were set the task of learning techniques and then split into groups, where they had to teach each other throws and hold downs in order to rack up points towards their final tournament total.
The various tasks were split between a host of judo games to help retain their attention.
After two hours of hard work, there were just five players with sufficient points to merit the gold medals on offer – Liam Bush, Carys and Joshua Fowler, Jay Norris and Holly Walker.
But there was just one trophy up for grabs, so a sudden death game was introduced where the five gold medalists were asked judo terminology. If they could not guess correctly they were eliminated.
It was seven-year-old Carys Fowler who triumphed, to claim the trophy.
The rest of the non finalists were awarded silver and bronze medals according to their overall scores.
On This weekend sees Kumo players return to the more traditional style of contest judo as Colin Oates travels to Georgia for the first World Cup of the season.
Oates, who took gold at his last World Cup outing in Norway, will have a tough time as players look to qualify for the European Championships in April.
"DISS EXPRESS", 23 January 2009
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