welcome....

To our Stopsley Sports website, the Stopsley home of International Atemi jujitsu (IAJJ), a jujitsu organisation based in the Luton and Dunstable areas of Bedfordshire since 1992 offering jujitsu classes for juniors and adults plus women only self-defence classes

local history....

For those who don't know, Stopsley was originally a hilltop village and is a ward situated in the north-east of Luton. The original civil parish of Stopsley village became a part of Luton when the boundaries were extended in 1933.

It's believed that the name Stopsley, comes from the saxon Scrobbale, meaning scrapes or scroppeslie and the Norman Shrubsley, meaning a hill covered with scrobbes, shrubs or underwood.

The village of Stopsley has an infants, junior and secondary school, although Stopsley high is now a designated sports college, a pub (there were 3 about fifteen years ago) and a couple of churches. Stopsley is also home to the Luton Regional Sports Centre (LRSC) where many of the sports and martial arts clubs found in the Stopsley area are based. There is a plan to replace this existing sports centre with a new state-of-the-art swim and sports centre in 2012. This new centre will be built a couple of miles away along the A505 Hitchen Rd.

In the centre centre of Stopsley village is the memorial, dedicated to those Stopsley parishioners who lost their lives during the two great wars.

jujitsu and stopsley....

Luton Regional Sport Centre (LRSC) is where the Stopsley branch of International Atemi Jujitsu is based.

One of many martial arts clubs situated in Stopsley, there has been a ju-jitsu club at the centre with connections to the IAJJ and it's instructors for 30 years.

Bob Cowan, the IAJJ's chief instructor originally trained at Stopsley and the BBC2 programme, 'See Hear', did a feature on Sensei Kevin Brown, who used to run a club at the same venue.

Sensei David Brown (no relation to Kevin) opened a junior club in the same martial arts room in February 2008 followed by an adult club in March 2009.