Bill Taylor - Senior club coach 5th Dan
I started judo when I was 5, so I'm in my 45th year. Obtained my 1st Dan at 22 (lazy)
2nd Dan 1993
3rd Dan 2000
4th Dan 2003
5th Dan 2005
I started coaching at Ford judo club in 1984, there was only a junior class at that time.
Slowly but surely over the years the numbers grew, some weeks there were 3 kids on the mat, Peter and Thomas Cousins and Stuart Stevenson who is now my assistant coach.
Senior class has grown into a thriving mat with regular numbers of 30-40 players, mostly Dan grades.
Start competing again in the Masters Championships, by accident really, went to three gradings and no other 2nd Dan's turned up, so cut a long story short entered the Masters to do the grading.. didn't do to bad so decided to do more… 4 National Gold's later, a bronze medal in the Europeans and gold in the Commonwealth Championships and a few other medals and placing's later I have not looked back.
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