History

1947
Dr. MARTI founds the Judo Club de Genève.

1948
The school's management is entrusted to Jean Georges VALLÉE, then an international with the French team. The first dojo was located at 30 rue de Coutance.
Progressively, judo became more popular and the dojo's influence spread beyond Geneva: Jean Georges VALLÉE's former students played a leading role in founding dojos in Lausanne, Morges, Fribourg, Thonon les Bains and Bellegarde.

1954
After winning over adults, judo began to attract children and teenagers.

1958
With the opening of the new hall at 4 avenue Jules Crosnier (a modern hall for the time, with changing room, showers and heating) the club intensifies its activities and wins numerous individual and team competitions

1963
Under the presidency of Monsieur René GAY, also President of the Swiss Judo Association, the Judo Club de Genève organizes the European Championships, held for the first time in Switzerland. The publicity generated by this event will boost Swiss judo as a whole and attract the attention of sports leaders.

1969
Rudolf EBERHARD paved the way for stays in Japanese schools, spending a year at the famous TENRI University, followed by some of our students: Jean Michel PEYVEL, Alfred UELTSCHI, Alexandre MOSER, Florian EGLIN, Rodolphe PEYVEL, Florin ROULET, David FERNANDEZ, Thierry RAPPARD.

1990
A page is turned. Jean-Georges VALLÉE retires and hands over the management of the school to Jean-Michel PEYVEL.

1997
The club celebrates its 50th anniversary with a gala at the Bâtiments des Forces Motrices in Geneva. To mark the occasion, fifteen of our students fly off to Japan.

1999
The dojo on avenue Crosnier proves too cramped. The 100 square meters of tatami were no longer enough to accommodate the many children, teenagers and adults who frequented the dojo. We moved to 24, rue Goetz Monin, in April 1999, to a bright, airy 350-square-meter facility with suitable outbuildings.

2007
The Judo Club de Genève has been in existence for 60 years.

2010
After 50 years of martial arts practice, Jean-Michel Peyvel is retiring. He is handing over the running of the school to his son Rodolphe, a teacher since 1999 who has been assisting him since 2008.


Successive teachers

Jean Georges VALLEE from 1948 to 1990
Jean Michel PEYVEL from 1990 to 2010
Rodolphe PEYVEL since 2010. Judo teacher since 1999 First-degree state certificate in judo.


Disciplines practiced

Judo: Created in Japan by Professor Jigoro KANO, judo has grown to become an Olympic sport practiced in many countries.
Stemming from ancient jujitsu schools, Professor Jigoro KANO conceived judo in a spirit of physical and moral education at a time when Japan was opening up to the world and modernizing. As the samurai era drew to a close, judo became a link between the contribution of jujitsu fighting techniques and the teaching methods introduced by the West at the end of the 19th century.
Judo as a martial art enjoyed growing success in Japan and throughout the world, gradually approaching the level of modern and then Olympic sports.
The aim of judo techniques is to use a partner's strength to throw him off balance, immobilize him or force him to give up using dislocation or strangulation techniques. The ancient techniques of jujitsu are found in katas, ritualized technical exercises.
Appropriate teaching from the earliest age enables children to develop harmoniously. Adolescents and adults alike pursue this practice with enthusiasm, finding an activity with multiple facets: leisure, competition or personal development.

Aikido:Stemming from one of the oldest jujitsu schools, aikido is the result of Master UESHIBA's lifelong research.
Aikido techniques originate from Japanese sword practice. The practitioner will therefore find techniques involving projections, dislocation of wrists, elbows and shoulders. The aikido practised in our school is non-competitive, and is suitable from adolescence onwards.
Aikido enables you to develop great sensitivity to your partner's force, in order to deflect it, control it and turn it against him or her. In addition to the use of physical strength, the practitioner will progressively try to express his or her inner strength.

Tai-chi-chuan: Originating in China, Tai-Chi-Chuan, is an amazing gymnastic known as "long life" and also a self-defense system.
How can a set of slow, relaxing movements, performed according to a fixed ritual, be reputed, if legends and old texts are to be believed, to stimulate physical and psychic vitality on the one hand, and defensive potential against aggression on the other?
Similar to aikido, tai-chi-chuan offers practitioners the chance to refocus and develop internal energy.


Schedules

• JUDO-JIUJITSU

MONDAY
16:30 to 17:15  >  5, 6, 7 years
17:30 to 18:15  >  8, 9, 10 years
18:30 to 19:30  >  adults and teens

THURSDAY
4:30 to 5:15 pm  >  5, 6, 7 years
5:30 to 6:15 pm  >  8, 9, 10 years
18 h 30 à 19 h 30  >  adults and teenagers
19 h 30 à 20 h 30  >  RANDORI

WEDNESDAY
10:15 to 11:00  >  4, 5 years
11:00 to 11:45  >  6, 7 years
16:00 to 16:45  >  5, 6, 7 ans
16 h 45 à 17 h 30  > 8, 9, 10 ans
17 h 30 à 18 h 15  >  11, 12, 13 years

ThURSDAY
4:30 to 5:15 pm >  4, 5 years
5:30 to 6:15 pm  >  9, 10, 11, 12 years
6:30 to 7:30 pm  >  adults and teenagers

FRIDAY
16:30 to 17:15  >  7, 8, 9, 10 years
17:30 to 18:15  >  11, 12, 13 years
18:30 to 19:30  >  adults and teenagers
19:30 to 20:30  >  RANDORI

• AÏKIDO  

MONDAY  7:30 to 8:30 p.m.  >  adults and teenagers
WEDNESDAY  6:30 to 7:30 p.m.  >  from 11 years.
THURSDAY  7:30 to 8:30 p.m. >  adults and teenagers
FRIDAY  12:15 to 1:15 p.m. >  adults and teenagers

• TAI-CHI-CHUAN

MONDAY
12 h 10 à 13 h  Beginners
13 h 13 h 30  Avancés

WEDNESDAY 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.