Olbia. The Kan Judo gym in Olbia, directed by master Angelo Calvisi with 5th dan, celebrates its 38th year of activity. A very important milestone in the world of martial arts, a result that places the club from Olbia among the most important clubs in Sardinia.
A company note reads: “So much history in the all-round work of Kan Judo Olbia “Judo Team Angelo Calvisi”, was born in 1985 by the work of master Salvatore Degortes, in 1991 the handover, the association passed into the hands in Calvisi, athlete and pupil of Maestro Degortes who soon retired from judo and corporate activity, after having been the main instructor of some gyms for decades in the 70s/80s see Judo Kwai Olbia and Budokan Olbia. Olbian society grows further, working hard to ensure that the City of Olbia returns to the old dawn of the great successes obtained in the past, with competitive results from the various clubs of the time, but above all the return of competition events absent in the city for a long time In 1997 the turning point in Olbia, after an absence of 13 years, a judo event returns to the city, a competitive event organized by M° Angelo Calvisi and his staff, in collaboration with the Municipality and several local sponsors”.
“The era of the “TROFEO JUDO IN ACTION INTERNATIONAL” had begun, 56 clubs were present with 412 participants, a real record, an entire day of sport and celebration at the PALADEIANA in the Fausto Noce park, renamed in the judo world KAN JUDO OLBIA ARENA , having been the official headquarters of all the events created and organized by the Olbia-based company for a long time. creative staff from Olbia, the BABY IPPON TROPHY, and 3 other experimental events never held in Sardinia: the “MASTER NO LIMITS TROPHY”, THE “NE WAZA TROPHY” (ground fight) and the “KATA LA FORMA TROPHY”, a real record in the years to follow for the incredible amount of work, organization and creativity that rewards the Olbia association in an excellent way as the flagship of the regional judo scene and beyond”.
“Overall, Kan Judo Olbia boasts more than 60 events of various levels organized at the Paladeiana del Fausto Noce (now out of use), a true record of continuity and seriousness over the years in proposing regional-national and international events and thanks also to this , makes Olbia after decades an important sports square known everywhere”.
Calvisi declares: “I announce that this year the historic events, the 23rd JUDO IN ACTION TROPHY, and the 21st BABY IPPON TROPHY, will return in November and December (already included in the regional competition calendar), blocked for some years due to of the pandemic and the closure of the Paladeiana.There have been many individual and team competitive, technical and sporting results obtained in Sardinia, in the peninsula and abroad by the athletes and the Kan Judo team, athletes always and only coming from the vast and well-kept youth nursery that starts from athletes at the tender age of 4 and then through painstaking work develops in various growth changes that determine selections for technical, pre-competitive and competitive activity”.
“The latest results are the 2 REGIONAL GRAND PRIX won by Spano Francesco (also winner of the 2023 Sardinian championship) and Merone Jacopo (Sardinian vice champion) Currently it is a positive period for gyms and contact sports, we all know the problems that have interested through the anticovid procedures, which clearly penalize us a lot since judo is a contact sport on the front line”.
Calvisi continues: “We recovered well and started the end of the 2022 season well and we are continuing the new year in the best possible way, full of many expectations, from all the technical staff made up of Gavino Carta cn 4th dan, Mele Elio cn 3rd dan, Fusaro Mario with 2nd dan, Salvatore Calvisi with 2nd dan and Federica Calvisi with 1st dan, 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 However positive and strong, thanks to our group, the large Kan Judo Olbia family, who we found on the tatami (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.Always dedicating our technical / sporting spaces entirely to a single discipline strictly and exclusively in a private training venue for the practice of judo only with 4 t daily rounds that take place in the gymnasium in via Peru, 2 (behind the Bruno Nespoli stadium in Olbia)”.
