About Us
A Wakefield community built on decades of coaching experience, genuine technical standards, and a room where everyone from a four-year-old to a Masters competitor is treated with the same respect.
Our Team
Two coaches, one standard: precise technique taught with patience.
Head Coach — Judo & BJJ
Marc has spent more than five decades in grappling, from competing in Judo to building coaching programmes across Yorkshire. His European Judo Union Level 4 qualification places him among the most highly credentialed coaches in the region — but what members notice first is how patiently he explains the same detail to a nervous beginner and a competition athlete alike.
Coach — Women's BJJ Programme
Emma brings a live competitive record onto the mat every week, and channels it into a Women's BJJ programme that has become the fastest-growing part of the club. Her sessions are technical, honest about what works under pressure, and built to make first-time trainees feel like they belong from the opening warm-up.
Our Values
Both come from the founding philosophy of Judo, and both still decide how we coach today.
Mutual welfare and benefit
Nobody improves alone. Your training partner's progress is your progress — which is why we coach people to look after each other on the mat as carefully as they look after their own game.
Maximum efficiency, minimum effort
Technique over strength, leverage over force. It's what lets a smaller person control a larger one, and it's the principle every class returns to, whatever the age group.
Independently assessed on coaching standards, safeguarding and club governance — so parents know exactly what they are signing their children up to.
We support members onto the competition circuit with dedicated prep — and equally support those who never want to compete at all.