Lagos Judo association begins training for students

The Lagos State Judo Association on Thursday organised a training programme for students of Babs Fafunwa School at Ojodu as part of efforts to raise more awareness on judo in Lagos.

The training handled by top coaches in Lagos took the students through the rudiments of martial art. The exercise tagged ‘Judo to School’ is aimed at creating more awareness for judo across the six educational districts of the state.

The LSJA chairman, Sheriff Hammed, stated that the ‘Judo to School project’ would assist and teach students the act of self-defense and mental alertness which is important at the formative stage of life.

“The Judo to school project is Lagos State Judo Association project to take the sport to schools as a way of promoting Lagos State government initiative of taking sports development to schools.

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“We are taking the programme to more districts and schools across the state. After the training programmes, judo clubs would be opened in the schools and the association would provide facilities for training and send our coaches to train the students and it is a continuous project,” he told The PUNCH.

Hammed said the initiative was part of his administration’s mandate which works hand-in-hand with Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s agenda for youth development. He also thanked the government of Japan through its ambassador for the donation of judogis through JUDO’s and also the tatami mats which on the way to Nigeria.

The Director of School Sports in the Lagos State Sports Commission, Oluyomi Oluwasanmi, commended the LSJA for their efforts to popularise the sport in Lagos.

“Bringing judo to schools will assist and develop children in the skills of self-defense and also make more students involved in sports while studying. Lagos State’s core values in taking sports to schools have been well carried out by Lagos State Judo Association. Judo is a good sport and more children should be encouraged to take part in it to improve their mental and physical well-being,” she said.

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