Dave Dunsford
 | Senior Club Coach |
| 3rd DAN | |
| Supervisory ‘Sitting In Examiner’ Southern Area Examiner | |
| National “B” Referee | |
| South England Champion 2005 | |
| South England Bronze 2006 |
This year I started a new venture. Taking advantage of excellent new facilities and working with many of my old team I established Bexley Judokwai.
I am a regular examiner at the Kent county grading and have just been promoted to Supervisory ‘Sitting in’ Examiner for the Southern Area.
The jewel in the crown for me is the club’s Kano class, comprising over thirty five 5,6 and 7yr olds. “Teaching these classes is a privilege and honour all coaches should experience”
Louise Dunsford
| Club Coach |  |
| 1st DAN | |
| Qualified First Aider | |
| CRB Accredited | |
| Sports UK Good Practice and Child Protection |
I started judo at the age of 6 and haven’t looked back since and still love the sport to this day. I had a break from judo at the age of 16, but decided to come back after 5 years away. I came back as a senior green belt and found it hard to gain my dan grade as it became more difficult to find other women to fight. I finally achieved my goal in 2002.
I was lucky enough to be taught by Tony Reay who was one of the most influential men in British Judo during the 1980s. He took me to many clubs to train, one of which was the “Budokwai”, Britain’s most famous and longest running judo club. Tony wrote many books about judo and I was lucky enough at the age of 10 to appear in one of them, which I still look back through today.
I competed for Bexley many times as a teenager in the London Youth Games. I now manage the girls’ team for Bexley. Before having my daughter I competed in many of the major events around the country, sometimes managing to win a medal!
Louise deals with the day to day running of the club which is why we are so successful!
Tony Manchester
 | Club Coach |
| 1st DAN | |
| Qualified First Aider | |
| CRB Accredited | |
| Sports UK Good Practise and Child Protection |
I gained my black belt at the most famous British judo club, the Budokwai.
Since re-starting my judo career 7 years ago I have competed in competitions at international level and coached regularly.
In November 2005 I gained the British Judo Association coaching qualifications in both the Kano and junior classes since when I have been a club coach at Bexley Judokwai and its predecessor.
“Working with the children is a huge commitment but is an extremely rewarding experience and worth all the effort required”.
Peter Azzopardi
| Club Coach |  |
| 2nd DAN | |
| Qualified First Aider | |
| CRB Accredited | |
| Sports UK Good Practice and Child Protection |
I actually started Judo by accident aged six, my mum thought she was taking me to a Karate class. That was the best mistake she ever made. I took to Judo really well and won a number of competitions in my first year and went on competing till the age of seventeen picking up a National title and a few International titles along the way.
I even got to spend three months in America where I won the USJA Junior Olympics, The California State Games and the Golden State Open. I lost the bug for judo when in returned from the states and spent the rest of my teens like most other teenagers do and did not step back on the mat until I was 26, married with a three year old son and another child on the way.
While looking through the BJA website I found Dave’s club and he invited me down and since then I have not looked back. Two and a bit years on I have gone from a 1st Kyu (brown belt) to a 2nd Dan (black belt) and have just received my level two club coaching pass.
If I could give one piece of advice about Judo it would be, “don’t give up as a teenager”.