Kan Judo Olbia’s 38 years of Judo.
The Judo Club of master Angelo Calvisi, Kan Judo Olbia has completed 38 years of activity, exactly from 1985 to 2023.
History.
A rarity in the world of martial arts, which places the Olbia club among the longest-lived clubs in Sardinia. The team was founded in 1985 by the master Salvatore Degortes, already for decades the main instructor of some gyms in the 70s and 80s such as Judo Kwai Olbia and Budokan Olbia. In 1991 the handover with Angelo Calvisiathlete and pupil of Degortes, who shortly after retires from judo and corporate activity.
The Kan Judo of Olbia grows, working to bring competitive successes and major events back to Olbia. In 1997 the turning point in the city, after an absence of 13 years, was a judo event in Olbia, organized by Kan Judo in collaboration with the municipality and various local sponsors, the “Trofeo Judo in action international“, with 56 clubs and 412 registered athletes, a real record, at the PalaDeiana in the Fausto Noce park, renamed in the judoistic environment “Kan Judo Olbia Arena”. Olbia returns to the top positions of the regional judo locations, thanks also to the other 4 events of different technical style organized by the creative Olbia staff, the trophy” Baby Ippon“, and 3 other experimental events never carried out in Sardinia, the trophy “Master no limits“, the trophy “Ne came” – ground fight -, and the Trophy “Cat the form“.
Overall, Kan Judo Olbia boasts more than 60 events of various levels organized in the city at the Paladeiana which makes Olbia the center of international Judo events.
Upcoming events.
The historic events, the 23rd “Judo in action” trophy and the 21st “Baby Ippon” trophy, will return again in November and December in 2023, blocked for some years due to the pandemic and the closure of the Paladeiana.
The results, the present and the future of Kan Judo Olbia.
There have been many competitive, technical and sporting results, individual and team, obtained in Sardinia, in the peninsula and abroad by the athletes and the Kan Judo team with athletes always coming from the vast and well-kept youth nursery of the team, which starts from athletes from the tender age of 4 raised and supported in all phases of technical, pre-competitive and competitive development.
The latest results obtained by Kan Judo athletes are the 2 regional “Grand prix” won by Francesco Spanoalso winner of the Sardinian championship 2023, and from Jacopo MeroneSardinian vice champion.
“Currently it is a positive period for gyms and contact sports – affirms the master Angelo Calvisi -. We all know the problems that have affected us due to the anticovid procedures, which penalize us a lot, since Judo is a contact sport. We recovered well, we started the end of the 2022 season well and we are continuing the new year in the best possible way, with many expectations from all the technical staff. With Gavino Carta cn 4′ and, Elio Melecn 3°and, Mario Fusarocn 2° and, Salvatore Calvisi cn 2° and e Federica Calvisi with 1st dan, we are happy to find ourselves able to fully express the global teaching of the various competitive and technical aspects without downsizing of any kind, at least for now. Positive and strong, thanks to our group, the large Kan Judo Olbia family – continues Calvisi -, who we found on the tatami with 94 registered athletes, and off the tatami with the various staff, parents and sympathizers who follow us and who share with us sporting joys and sorrows for almost 40 years now. We have always entirely dedicated our technical and sports spaces to a single discipline, rigorously and exclusively in a private training venue for the practice of Judo only, with the 4 daily rounds taking place in the gym of via Peru’ n.2behind the “Bruno Nespoli” stadium.
