Rochdale Judo Club

Rochdale Judo Club's motto taken from a quote by Gunji Koizumi who was regarded as the father of British Judo is "in skill opposed - in spirit united" and it is true to say that spirits at the club are very high indeed as the club with the recent redevelopment complete looks to the future. The club has always had a policy of ever striving to improve the training and facilities it offers its members and that saw a progression of venues in the early years - above a garage, in a church hall, in a room above the old Rochdale market - but a great landmark was reached when in the summer of 1977 the club opened its own custom built premises - the Trafalgar Street Dojo.