Provides judo teaching and coaching; the majority as extra/co- curricula sports clubs in state & private schools. Additional training is available outside set sessions. We also run the coaching of the student club at the University of Bath. Plus a recreational session there for adults on a Tuesday (see the page linked). We hope this site will give parents, schools & perhaps, students a better insight of Gleeson Judo. I hope you enjoy it! Any comments can be sent via the contact us page. Please also see Ts&Cs among other things on download page, thank you. FG. 29.6.24
Finn Gleeson
THE UNIVIERSITY OF BATH SQUAD FOR THE 2026 BUCS (Bristish University & College Sports) CHAMPIONSHIPS.
NEWS
17.3.26. News up-date, the University of Bath attended BUCS with a squad of just short of forty. Covering novice, intermediate, advanced chatagories plus of course three teams for the teams event. The medal haul was: 12 Gold, 4 Silver, 2 Bronze, 3 fifth place & 4 seventh place. The Teams, Men's first team = Gold. Bath overall champions for the third year on the trot!
This squad was made up of the student club - which I coach and the High Performance athletes. The student club were larger in number and therefore gainded more medals but there are levels to this sport. The novices did particularly well. Many finishing their fights within in seconds. One player was only on the mat for 34 seconds in total for all his 5 fights. Just saying.
Dan gradings are coming up next month, so we should have got a small contingent through that milestone within their time at university.
17.2.26. What a day out!! We took a squad of 16 up to Warwhick Invitational Open last saturday (14th) and came back with 8 gold medals, 3 silvers & 3 bronzes. This covered the novice and intermidate catogories as there was no advancee/black belt section. All the novices, which made up 4 of the golds, all the bronze and 2 of the silver medals, obviously only started judo this academic year, ie September. I am completely astounded at how well they all did! Many of them won all their matches with ippon scores.
There were some spectacular stand out moments, one such was one of our intermidate men, seemed very determined to give his opponent back to their coach - by throwing him right into her lap!!! She only just got out from under the pair as the lunged towards her.
The support offered to everyone fighting by the rest of the team was truley gratifing! We made sure our spot in the beachers was cleaned of all rubbish, adding to the statement of good judo spirit!
Yours a very happy & proud coach!
5.1.26. Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a good festive season? Schools all, except one start next week. Any issues give me a shout. Adult sessions start back tomorrow! 7-9pm at the uni.
Parents, if you fancy trying judo, Tuesdays are it! Come along, work at your own pace, it's all very friendly and we have a growing number of non uni students, so no need to feel intimidated! No pressure, just for fun, can't say it'll be easy but should be enjoyable. See what your kids see in it -
New term, new year and new ideas and targets; school's comp in March hopefully. Uni student team building newaza kicks of soon in the run up to BUCS 2026. This means most of our squad will be training up to 7x plus sessions a week, excluding any weight or stamina training - just judo!
Things are looking good across the board! 2026, looks to be an exciting year!!
Best wishes for 2026 all!!
AS THINGS "FALL" OFF THE BACK HERE, I'll repost important things on the THOUGHTS IDEAS REPORT page25.3.25
UP COMING EVENTS
17.3.26. Next Special is planned for June. VIP will be Amelia, recent gold medalist at BUCS & Englsih Nationals. IAPS for independent Prep schools is May 10th. and of course the WESTERN AREA OPEN CHAMPS in July. I'll post info on that again nearer the time!
17.2.26. Next Special all booked in. Invites have gone out! First of March. Should be good, one of our school's Head is threatening to come along! This will be a first! All very exciting! The in house competition I was planning has had to be posponed until the summer. I will be pushing out more info again nearer the time. Many elements have lead to this action.
Extra stuff, to save searching...
Tying belts,
> Here's a link to a video I made.
(Tell me what you think of the sound track )
> Please water kids before sessions!
> No school trousers under judo ones! Too hot!!
> Don't tumble dry kit - cool wash please!
Year 6 students or students changing to a school we don't do, I strongly suggest & recommend going to the Uni Community club. Their sessions are on Monday (6.45-8) & Thursday (6.30-7.45). If you'd like me to be there, no problem just let me know - all part of the service!
Again a note for the future, for those really enthusiastic about chasing a judo dream, this is the link to Team Bath Judo - which you could start looking at joining once you get into your late teens! Keep training though! It'll get hard -