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Unfortunately there is a new system of locks in place at St. Olave's school which preclude access from the school's entrance.  We have been asked to direct students to access the school by entering St. Peter's from Bootham and proceeding to make their way down along the lit path at the edge of the playing fields and gain access to the St. Olave's site via the new footbridge.

The directions from St. Peter's can be found on the map linked on the club location page.

Halloween 2008 falls on a Friday this year which means that there's a great opportunity to run another special sun and spooky session.

Jitsu is an all encompassing martial art but not many people fully realise its potential for battling the undead.  This session focuses on how to deal with a range of horrific foes and sets you up to make it through as more than just a bystander in an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

The University Jitsu club is going to start up again after the summer break on Monday of week one - that's Monday the 13th Of October 2008.  The first week of training is going to be spent getting ready getting rid of the cobwebs in your technique ready for the York Sport recruitment fair (previously known as the AU Mart) on Saturday the 18th of October.

The elections for a new committee for York Town Jitsu Club were held at the start of Friday night's session (3rd October 2008).  The successful candidates were in alphabetical order:

• Chris Andrews
• Stephen Burr
• Sandy Emmerson
• Alex Fargus

Sensei Stephen Millard joins the committee as a non-elected member to ensure the committee is kept up to date with information from the regional board and TJF as well as to cast a deciding vote on any split decision.

There has been a roll-over of the 2008-2009 committe elections for York Town Jitsu Club as set-out by the procedures in the club's constitution document as there were not enough candidates standing to fulfil the committee allotment.  A second election will be held on Friday the 3rd of October.

Additional candidates should register by contacting the club instructor - either in person at Monday's session or via the web site contact form.

The committee elections for York Town Jitsu Club are due to take place on Friday the 26th of September 2008.

All people wishing to be considered for a committee position should pass their name to the club instructor before Wednesday the 24th of September.  This can be accomplished by informing Sensei Millard at one of the sessions of your intention to stand or by contacting the club using the online contact form.

Candidates should also prepare a short speech to give to the club members on Friday who will then be asked to vote in their committee.

Welcome to the new look YorkJitsu web site.

The site hadn't been changed in some time and things move on. In fact in the past year the site had got so behind due to several external pressures on my time that i decided I needed to make time to totally revamp the site.

... this is the beginning of the rewrite. Over the coming weeks old content will be transferred and updated and hopefully we'll get some brand new content on here too.

Regards,

YorkJitsu.org Administrator