Our world class head coach, Chris Doherty, is BJA 5th Dan and World Masters Bronze Medallist. Carol Doherty, BJC 4th Dan and World Masters Silver Medallist, is responsible for women's judo in Oxford and this year has taken over responsibility for the hugely popular beginners' class. She is also actively involved with the Schools Outreach Programme that we run with the support of the Sports Federation.

We have been fortunate, over many years, to have had, as our Honorary Chief Instructor, Tony Sweeney 8th Dan, who represented Great Britain in the 1964 (Tokyo) Olympics and who has been associated with the club since the mid-1960s. He no longer instructs us on a regular basis but, in March 2005, he became our Honorary Life President in celebration of the 40th anniversary of his association with us. Tony has been extremely influential in promoting university judo nationally. He is a former chairman of the BJA Technical Committee and is the current BJA representative to the British Universities Sports Association.

There are also other members of Oxford Judo who are experienced coaches. At present we have more than 10 members who are qualified coaches and they are encouraged to occasionally teach classes in order to support our senior coaches. In addition, Oxford Judo financially supports members who want to qualify as coaches. This has enabled five members to qualify as new coaches in the past five years. From time to time we welcome extremely distinguished judo teachers to run world class coaching events. In recent years we have welcomed: 

Kawakubo demonstrates technique