Kin Ryu Judo Club was founded by Mick Leigh in 1976 in Crawley, West Sussex, England. Originally the club was based at the original Crawley Leisure Centre, and after some time moving between locations has now recently settled in the new Crawley K2 Lesiure Centre.

Kin Ryu in Japanese means The Golden Dragon.

The Club has a long history of success, including :-

Neil Seymour

            - British No.5 U21 +100Kgs
            - Southern Area U21 Open Champion
            - Southern Area Mens Champion
            - Sussex County Mens Champion

Virginia Ford

            - British Champion

James Pike

            - British Champion
            - British Cadet International

Simon Williams

            - Second in British Championships
            - British Cadet International

Ricky Leigh

           - U21 UK No.5
           - BSJA U21 UK Champion
           - British Cadet International

Martin Rivers

            - British Nage-No-Kata Champion
            - British Katame-No-Kata Champion
            - Southern Area Nage-No-Kata Champion
            - Southern Area Medallist
            - Sussex County Medallist

Peter Seymour

           - British Katame-No-Kata Champion

Stephanie Leigh

            - UK No.5
            - Coached at the club since its launch including a long spell as Boys and Girls Squad Manager, helping to produce National, Area
            and County individual champions and Southern Area Team Champions.
            - Assistant Sussex Squad Manager when the boys and girls took gold in 2000.
            - Competed from 1974 - 1989, representing Sussex and the Southern Area on numerous occasions both as a junior and a senior.
            - Southern Area Open Champion

The club has also produced many British Kata Champions, Southern Area Champions and countless Sussex County Champions.

Kin Ryu Made a clean sweep in The National Kata Championships, and were Champions in all four Kata in 1993.

For five years running, Kin Ryu had the best junior club in Sussex and was one of the three largest Judo clubs in Great Britain.

Kin Ryu Has visited and hosted clubs from Switzerland, Sweden, Greece, Germany, France, The Czech Republic and Poland.