SNJF and the BENG committee wish you a Happy New Year!

We hope the new year bring you all sorts of good things, and we wish you a safe and wonderful judo year!

This is an invitation for the twenty-third edition of our great tournament in Beverwijk. We are honoured and proud to be able to invite you, our guests, for this tournament that since its inception in 1998 has become the greatest in the world for judoka with a disability.
The Ben van der Eng Memorial does not select: We accept any handicap whether it is physical, mental or sensory. Our 5-grade divisioning system FCS is capable of handling anything from the most accomplished judoka to the most severely disabled ones in the safest way possible.
Indeed our Sunday’s BENG! tournament is, we can proudly say, the greatest Judo party in the world whereas the more “serious” Saturday hosts the Special Needs World Judo Games for Shiai and Kata.
Do you wish to participate? Then click HERE to download our outlines.

The AUTJUDO handbook is now available!

The AUTJUDO handbook, produced through cooperation of several EU partners (SNJF one of them!), is finally here! The Erasmus+ AUTJUDO project have worked for three years on this and we are very proud of our product. See below for the available languages, and click to download for FREE!

 

We have two World Champions!

De mannen op het erepodium. Klik op de foto voor de hele galerij!

Normally, this email channel is reserved for messages about the great BENG tournament. However we are so proud of our boys that we make a one-time exception.

Earier this week we mentioned that Tycho van der Werff and David Lefevere took part in the World Championships Kata in Kraków. Today, we can report that after 7 years of relentless training, two-time European Championships and general recognition in the Kata world, our two heroes are now WORLD CHAMPION katame-nō-kata!

Despite both having a severe and painful knee injury they managed to end up in the final rounds, won with a good lead onto number two and can now add a World Championship to their already impressive list.

Do you want to congratulate our heroes? Leave a comment to this article!

Date set for BENG 2023 is not yet official!

Dear guests,

You may have heard some references/rumours of a date set for BENG 2023. However please be aware that there is as yet no official date set! We know some of you are booking very early, hence this warning. As soon as the date is final, we will report that on this site.

Best regards, and see you next year!
Bob Lefevere
SNJF Secretary/Webmaster