Competition to forget the one held in Turin on Sunday, October 5

The Grand Prix has seen the total absenceof the athletes of Spello at the top of the rankings, which have collected only a few sporadic victories. Michele Damiani in 90 kg - the best in the race - managed to stand up to high-level athletes, but in the fourth round he lost in a really prohibitive category, where the athlete of the Blue Flames, Matteo Celesti scored a third place. Nothing to be done, however, for Balzana, Fiorucci, Binucci, Giulietti, Stojecki and Battistoni, still far away from an acceptable form that will allow these talented and strong judokas to fit into the top of the ranking list.

European experience closed with a negative balance

European experience closed with a negative balance, three defeats in the first round for Binucci, Damiani and Battistoni at the European Cup in Belgrade, and Sunday, Oct. 5 the circuit of the Grand Prix starts again, valid for qualifying to the Absolute Championships. In Turin, there will be the Trofeo Città della Mole and the team of Spello will participate with the almost all athletes: Michael Balzana and Giacomo Fiorucci in the 66 kg, Alessandro Binucci and Luca Giulietti in 81 kg, Michele Damiani and Patryk Stojecki in 90 kg and Filippo Battistoni in the over 100 kg. "An appointment important also to evaluate the state of preparedness of the samurais of Spello, - says the coach Giulio Famà - athletes of absolute technical value but who still fail giving their maximum in the big competitions."

European weekend for three bearers of the Kodokan Spello

Leaving for Belgrade, where Sunday, September 28th they will take part to a stage of the European Cup, Filippo Battistoni (category over 100 kg.), Michele Damiani and Alessandro Binucci (8 kg.) - at the top of the national ranking - will try to acquire a useful score in order to enter into the European rankings, but the achievement will not be easy. "The guys are aware that the competition will be difficult - says the coach Giulio Famà - but they are well prepared and have worked during all the summer in order to make a good impression and they are ready to distinguish them in the competition". From the teammates... Good luck!!

Technical update for judo instructors

On September Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th, the gotha of Umbrian judo met at the Sport Palace of Spello for the annual update of the technical judo instructors. The amazing technic and judo champion Stefano Proietti, who several times achieved European and world medals in the category kata, will represent Italy at the next World Cup in Malaga, which - as an expert in the field of problems linked to youthjudo- held an interesting and innovative lesson on judo to children aged 4 to 11 years. Almost eighty technicians were there, and have appreciated the commitment of the Technic Proietti: words of praise have been spent by the volcanic vice president of industry, Leonardo Perini, and by the Regional Commissioner Technic, M °Giuseppe Fama. The success of the course has pushed the industry executives to offer more sessions with the teacher Stefano Proietti, mainly directed to the aspiring instructors.

The training sessions of the senior and youth team resume

After a short summer break, the trainings of the senior and youth team start again with even greater vigor and enthusiasm, in anticipation of the upcoming challenging appointments. The gym was closed only the week of August 12th to 18th, immediately after the trip to Sicily. The college, held from 4th to 11th August in Furci Siculo by technic Gian Nicola Casale, has galvanized the group of Spello, composed by the very young Riccardo Tartaglini, Luca Gasparrini, Matteo Murasecco and Carlo Kallcishta and by the seniors Michael Balzana, Alessandro Binucci, Cristiano Damiani Filippo Battistoni and by the head of the delegation Daniel Piermaria. A busy week of preparation and study under the careful direction of Olympian John Casale, that has given so many great satisfactions to the italian Judo, allowed the young athlets of Spello to perfectionate some movements and some technical moves. Not only judo but also much fun, sea, river and trips to the Alcantara Gorge in the free time were important gatherings. By the end of September it will start getting serious, when three athlets of the agonistic team will descend into the arena of the indoor stadium in Belgrade for a leg of the European Cup: Michele Damiani and Alessandro Binucci in the 81 kg category and Filippo Battistoni in the over 100 kg category. Classes will be held at the Sports Palace of Spello in the same hours and days of the previous year, from Monday to Friday: information and registrations are given every day from 18 to 20. The classes start again also at the gym of the Elementary School Santa Caterina di Foligno, judo lessons on Monday and Thursday from 17 to 18.30.

The preparation of the competitive team of Spello continues without pause

After participating at the Collegiate held at the Sports Centre of the Yellow Flames in Ostia, a tough week with intense workouts in the morning and in the evening, Massimo Mancini and Michael Balzana are preparing for the next international competitions at the headquarters of Spello. Michael certainly will participate in the European Cup in Sindelfingen, Germany, together with his teammate Alessandro Binucci, while Massimo is considering the possibility of taking part at the tournament in Berlin, a competition reserved for the junior class. Meanwhile, all members of the competitive team are following a program of physical work under the guidance of Coach Fabio Morettini and Ilaria Silvani of Terni, "personal trainer" of the Italian Champion Massimo Mancini, and a session of randori, every Tuesday at 19, for the entire month of July.

The stage of Umbertide full of judokas, with over 100 athletes

Nine samurais of Spello captured by the cheerfulness and enthusiasm of the multiple Olympic champion Girolamo Giovinazzo, who held a lesson Tuesday, July 1, during the stage organized by the volcanic Mirco Diarena, technical of the society of Umbertide. An unprecedented success attended by over 100 athletes, from Lazio, Tuscany and Umbria, at the trainings that took place in the bucolic setting of the Agritourism Acquacalda. The team of Spello was composed by the athletes Alessio Cecera, Samuel Bagaglia, Riccardo Tartaglini, Luca Gasparrini, Matteo Murasecco, Carlo Kallcishta, Giacomo Benedetti, Massimo Mancini and Michael Balzana.

Massimo Mancini conquers two medals at the Grand Prix of Catania

A Massimo Mancini in great shape conquer two medals at the Grand Prix, held in Catania on saturday 14th and sunday 15th at the Palalivatino of Alicastello (CT): gold medal in the cadets competition, where Massimo is the italian champion 2014, and bronze medal in the juniores category. In the cadets competition, the Spello’s citizen doesn’t give escape to the opponents, he presses them from the very beginning and ends always before the limit, thanks to the spectacular techniques, evaluated ippon. The highest step of the podium is his, proving that he is at the time, in the 90 kg category, the strongest italy’s cadet. The day after, the Spello’s warrior has arrived on the area of fighting with the intention to repeat the success achieved in the cadets competition, but the semifinal meeting, one way, concludes with a bitter defeat: three yukos and three admonitions of the opponent weren’t enough to be right on a though judokas, who managed to perform a technique evaluaded waza-ri. Not at all demoralized, Massimo goes on the Tatami and wins in thirty seconds the match and the bronze medal, a great result that allows him to move to the ranking position and to obtain the right to participate to the European Cup, reserved to the Juniores. “A result that rewards the efforts of Massimo, who, under the careful and responsible direction of the physical trainer Ilaria Silvani of Terni, has already made big strides and notable improvements from the athletic point of view, as he has demonstrated during the competition” said the technic Giulio Famà. Good performance also for Giacomo Fiorucci in the 66 kg category juniores, who after having won the first match and lost the second through injury, was unable to play the matches of recovery. Still too young, instead, Gloria Giacomucci, who in the 57 kg category, is overwhelmed by the more experienced opponents, but has enormous potentials to be exploited; in the long run she can give great satisfactions to the club of Spello. Meanwhile the athletic preparation goes on in brother’s Famà gym, in anticipation of the future competions, that already in september will see the Judokas of Spello engaged on the tatamis of all Europe.

The Giant of Spello saves the honor of Umbria

A bitter bronze, the one won by Filippo Battistoni in the finals of the Italian Cup, held in Follonica Saturday 31 May, who saw wrecked the dream of winning the gold after losing the match against the athlete of Genoa, D'Apice. A fight dominated by Filippo up to a minute until the end of the fight, when a sudden and unexpected blow deprived him of the opportunity to play the final, and relegated him to recover to win the third place. During the recoveries, Filippo did not give a chance to anyone and defeated one after the other three opponents, beating them before the time ran out with spectacular ippons. Three fights managed with supremacy and safety, which demonstrate that the samurai of Spello is back stronger than before and certainly more mature. Nothing to do for Alessandro Binucci, who was unable to repeat the success of last year, when he won the bronze: a difficult group, with the four strongest civil athletes in Italy. After he won two fights, he fought until the end against the Italian champion D'Alessandro, and at the recoveries, he impacts against Micelli of Turin, which exceeds him in a very balanced fight: by the way, both opponents of Alessandro conquered a place on the podium. Weak, however, the performance of Andrea Biasin, Michael Balzana and Giacomo Gramaccioni, who failed to pass the first round, while the strong athlete Michele Damiani, recent bronze at the University Italian Championships, is passed in the first round by Colarossi, in a fight strongly influenced by arbitrage. Unfortunately, the new regulation does not give space to show and the penalties are inflicted continuously to the detriment of technique, but these are the decisions of the highest organ of the world judo.

Tournament of Osimo

The young kids of Spello showed their skills at the tournament of Osimo, which took place on Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 May. Alessio Cecera and Tiziano Meniconi conquered their way up to the top step of the podium, while their teammates Angelica Sechi, Oana Cont and Alice Capitini achieved a great result with two silver and a bronze medal. Always at the top the Italian champion Massimo Mancini that obtains the top step after defeating his opponents without worries. Good performance of Jordy Suarez, Luca Giulietti, Patryk Stojecki and Giacomo Fiorucci.