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Budokan Judo Club’s Crowning Glory

Castle Hill’s Budokan Judo Club, which has produced Olympians and Commonwealth Games medallists, honoured their excellent athletes, coaches, and volunteers at its latest 21st Awards Night.
Having been began by the highly-experienced judokas Rob and Kerrye Katz 25 years ago with just 10 members and two lessons per week, the Budokan Judo Club now has more than 200 members and runs nine classes each week.

Budokan Judo Club Budokan Judo Club’s Crowning Glory

“When we took over the club in 1999, Kerrye and I tapped into all the experiences that we had as athletes training at completely different clubs all around the world once we had been competing,” Rob defined. “Our goal was to construct a membership with a novel culture: one which focussed on a grass-roots entity as a community-based family-oriented judo club whereas also paving the means in which for prime performance and worldwide competitiveness.

“Our vision has all the time been to be recognised in the judo and general communities because the premium judo coaching centre in Australia. Rather than focussing on outcomes, our coaching culture instills acknowledgement for participation in every side of the game, in taking up challenges and putting in one of the best efforts in all actions, lessons that assist in all features of life.’

Olympians Nathan And Josh Katz Budokan Judo Club’s Crowning GloryRob mentioned that they succeeded in constructing depth in each age group. Thanks to a robust mentoring ethic by senior athletes, this has resulted in significant performance achievements, he said.

Rob mentioned their biggest achievement in competitors is having constant representation 12 months after year on the World Championship level across all three senior age teams: under-17, under-21, and senior.


“The pinnacle of achievement has been having two Olympic representatives in Athens, adopted by our first two home-grown Olympic representatives in Rio 2016 after which again in Tokyo 2020,” Rob mentioned. The club have been additionally very proud to have gained two bronze medals on the 2022 Commonwealth Games, adding to their growing international profile.

“We have one athlete currently on observe for qualification to Paris 2024 and are also pleased with our range,” Rob said. “We had two athletes winning a gold medal and silver medal at the Virtus Asia-Oceania Games, the primary time that Budokan has been represented at a global multi-sport competitors in the Oceania-Asia region for elite athletes with an intellectual impairment.

“Budokan Judo Club’s membership ranges from four to 81 years from recreation gamers, to fascinated dad and mom to Olympians and everything in between.”


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