On 17th December 2007 the club held its final training session of the year, cleverly disguised as the usual games night. Due to the number of students taking part it was decided to split the students into three teams, this made for a much more difficult time, as traditionally the result is normally a draw. Luckily after a very lively evening the result was declared a close draw.

 It has since come to light that due to some creative cheating by the senior grades (as usual), the Chief Instructor has had to declared all results null and void.




The evening was also marked by the presentation by Chief Instructor John Robertson of certificates to mark the following awards for 2007.



Alex Barnes received a certificate for the student with the highest attendance this year.

And Amy Taylor was awarded the McCarthy Student Of The Year Certificate.
This is the first year that the McCarthy Student Of The Year Certificate has been awarded and all the Clubs Instructors felt that Amy had consistently shown the correct Zen Judo Spirit, both in her technique and etiquette on the mat.

It was also nice to see Sarah back on the mat once again (even if only in a limited way at present) after her unfortunate accident at the beginning of the year, hopefully 2008 will see her  finally on the mend and back to full training.