Club has new home, looking for members
The Kanokai Judo Club has a new home and will look for more adult members beginning in January.
“It’s a long-standing club,” said Mike Kitson, who along with Jocelyn Sutherland gets assistance from instructors Mason Dakin, Jason MacNeil, Greg Purvis, and Kyle Sutherland.
“And we support both our recreational students and our competitive students.”
Kitson and Jocelyn Sutherland took over the reins of Kanokai after long-time sensei Cindy Fraser stepped down earlier this year, although “she still does behind-the-scenes work for us,” said Sutherland.
The Kanokai Judo Club got its start in 1989 and Fraser had been running the club since the late 1990s.
“I’m very happy they stepped up to take on the various responsibilities,” she said of Kitson and Sutherland.
The club, which in recent years had been located at a building on Archimedes Street in New Glasgow, moved into a gym located just off Mount William Road, which is also home to the Pictou County Titans jiu-jitsu academy.
While the two kids classes are currently full – they hope to expand those classes in the fall of 2018 – the club hopes to bring in new members for its adult class, starting in January.
Currently, there are nine juniors talking part in the program, 11 intermediates and 16 adults.
Anyone interested in learning more about the judo club can reach Kitson at 902-616-6360 or access their Facebook page.