After our first week there are quite a few announcements to make.
Winter class is starting on Wednesday, January 23rd. If you are interested in joining this is your time to register. Click here to find out more.
We are attending Continental Crown (this Saturday, Jan. 19th)! So far we have 5 competitors confirmed, fighting in black belt and novice divisions.
Also the tournament schedule was updated and as of now Pacific International at Steveston, BC is scheduled on February 16th and Washington State to be announced soon. Those are amazing tournaments that we will attend.
Yes, we are resuming training on the first day of the Winter 2013! Please come at 6:40pm to IMA Mat Room B to train with us! The greatness starts tonight.
Our next big event is Continental Crown on January 19th! It’s the biggest tournament (E-level) in the northwest that often features the world-class judo competitors. More info can be found here.
There will be quite a few big tournaments this year including Steveston in Vancouver BC, Washington State Championships, competitions against Western Washington University, Eastern Washington University, U of Montana with a possibility of Oregon State Participating as well as invitational workouts all over westen washington.
Go Huskies!
Well, it’s been a while since the last update. So here are the most recent events.
Congratulations to Tomo Kumaki on taking Silver at Rainier Cup (October 6th) in Middleweight Black Belt Division! So far Tomo has defeated everybody from Ippon Dojo including a double win (one for 2nd place) over the nationally ranked Thomas Ortega!
Molly went 1 win – 2 loses in a very tough bracket that featured a couple nationally ranked players. Artem went 1-2 as well, losing in the finals to a BJJ black belt.
Congrats to all of our competitors!
On the side of training, we went back to our usual routine that includes uchikomi, technique work as well as randori. Last week Professor taught double leg takedown and Steve demonstrated an excellent defense drill.
We recently got 2 new members: an exchange student from Germany Philip and Kim from North Sound BJJ.
First of all, congratulations on the amazing job you did at the Dawg Daze. A 2 hour demo session and 12 hours of tabling resulted in 75 potential recruits. This is not bad given the current number of club members.
To the new potential members: Marissa Nishimoto is your coordinator. She will keep you updated and you should contact her regarding the additional details and concerns (you are welcome to leave a comment on this blog as well). We are excited to see you on October 8th! Register for the class please.
We also welcomed new freshmen to the club, graduates of Kent Schools judo program, Alton and John. We hope that they will be valuable members and will improve the representation of the huskies at the tournaments.
Rainier Cup is less than a week away! It’s going to be held at Lakewood YMCA on Saturday, October 7th. Plan on being there.
As far as that goes, the season has officially started and so did the training!
Hey, fellow dawgs! A few announcements are to be made.
Our club president has done an incredible job and got us tables for Dawg Daze!
As of right now we are tabling on Sunday, September 23rd from 6pm to 8pm.
We are doing a demo at some point on THAT day (most likely in front of IMA).
We also have a table reserved for Tuesday/Wednesday (25/26) from 9:30am to 3pm.
All of the above means that we need everybody.
Rami Foster sent the link for everybody to register. This is a big opportunity to get a good start for a year of judo. This is the difference between having crappy practices and a huge number of people. This is where we can REALLY grow as a program.
P.S: Also 1.5 weeks from now, Saturday, September 15th we are going down to Kentridge High School (12430 SE 208th Street, Kent, WA 98031) for a full day of judo. Last year there were at least 20 black belts, should be pretty good this time!
Remember Rainier Cup tournament is only a month away!
While we have hibernated for summer, our level of training didn’t go down. The practices are still on Mondays and Wednesdays at IMA starting at 6:40 pm with optional practices at Budokan Judo Club staring at 8 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays. There are still almost 2 months left for you to make progress before the tournament season kicks off! Lift, run, swim,play, fight and get ready.
Here are some goals for the fall and the rest of 2012-13 season:
Make it to 2013 NCJA Championships in Iowa
Make a great demonstration at Dawg Daze (plan it out and possibly practice a few times before we do it) to get more people
Set up a table at Sports Fair in the Fall
Break the attendance record at practice, number of active members and number of active competitors
Continue the Battle Royale Tournament and also invite Oregon State Judo team (check out their page http://www.facebook.com/OSUJudo)
Congrats on the well deserved promotions to Green Belt to Wei Chang and Keenyn Odom. Also we congratulate Keenyn on his other “less” important endeavor.
Congratulations to all of our competitors (Tomo, Alex, Keenan, Artem, Rebecca, Jennifer and Molly), who went out there on the mat on Saturday and showed other schools what Husky Judo is all about, surrendering a limited number of points, taking first overall
Tomo, Molly and Alex went undefeated and just plowed through their opponents with style.
Rebecca and Jennifer fought hard an won majority of matches. Rebecca scored an especially important win against Western, when she secured osaekomi at the last second of the match. Artem tied his wins and losses, contributing to the team.
Keenan had an impressive performance as first time competitor and scoring an important win.
We also have to mention other club members, whose help was greatly appreciated: Wei, Marissa and Carolyn. And of course without our club coaches Aaron Scroll, Dave Christianson, Yuko Mera, Matt Cozzolino and Mark Huang all of this would not be possible. We also would like to thank all of the referees, our opponents and UW supporters that showed up.
Last 2 weeks of practice were relatively eventful as UW Judo Club team competed at Seattle Dojo tournament.
Tomo ended up placing 2nd in Black Belt Light division only losing to Davon Johnson from Ippon Dojo, winning against 2 other older guys and taking a split decision (you should know that its called hantei in japanese) victory from Patrick Mendiola of Ippon Dojo.Molly took second as well only losing to a nationally ranked player. Artem also competed, but didn’t live up to the expectation.
After the tournament Dave Christianson and Artem attended a Seiei Judo Clinic in Redmond. It was a good session.
Also last week Rami “The Gladiator” Foster (Rah-mee) conducted a mini-clinic on the proper technique of power clean. We had a relatively large turnout, even though we worked hard through the practice.
Our next challenge is to host and win against Western Washington and Eastern Washington Judo teams on May 19th.
Good job guys, I am getting a lot of views from all of you. Keep looking at the blog. Feel free to post a comment or too.
We are expanding our online presence. We are revitalizing our old Facebook judo group. I will post a link soon
First of all congrats to our newly promoted competitors:
Tomo Kumaki (Brown Belt)Rami Foster (Blue Belt)
For the past weeks practices have been going on as usual. Training methods will not be posted on the blog as that is a classified information. We have been incorporating training methods from Travis Stevens.
Husky judo club attended Northwest Collegiate Team Battle Royale Meet @ Eastern Washington University. This is how our coach Dave Christson describes the meet:
“The format of this tournament was for us to fight three lightweight matches (2 men, 1 women’s), 2 medium matches (2 men’s, 1 women’s), and three heavyweight matches (same) against the other schools. No rest period was allowed between individual matches. With our four competitors we covered all but one weight class by having our players fight across weight classes as well as fight back to back matches in the same weight class.
versus EWU:
– Artem and Tomo secured wins by wazari and ippon against EWU’s most experienced competitor to keep the score even
– Molly fought up in weight and won in decisive fashion with shimewaza to edge EWU
versus UM:
– Rami was able to pin Montana’s heavyweight and with no rest fought a very tough match against their superheavyweight to match scores with UM
– forfeits in UM’s missing weight classes decided the match.”
Up next we have Seattle Dojo Tournamentin South Bellevue Community Center on Saturday, May 5th. Since there are only 3 tournaments left this season, we gotta make all of them. By the way, weight-in is from 9:30 to 11:00AM on Saturday.
P.S: Our video channel has half of videos uploaded. You are welcome to take a look.
I know its been a long time since last update, but I promise to be more consistent.
On April 9th, we welcomed a new batch of judo students. However the real question is how many of them will stick around. We also need a big hand of applause to the guys who have graduated the beginner class and made the team: Wei and Kennan. Practices went on and on as usually.
Artem got 2nd place at Obukan Judo Tournament in Portland. He went 3 out of 4 matches full 5 minutes. Won the first one. Lost the second match (he shouldn’t have). Artem won next match against the first guy and then fought for 5 minutes for 2nd place. Ironically, it was against the guy, that Artem lost to. Artem won at the end with not a bad throw. Too bad there was no video. It turns out that the first guy was from Oregon State.
Also, Tomo, Molly, Artem and our coach Dave have attended the clinic with Travis Stevens, top A+ 81kg judo player. He showed his entry for uchimata and a few moves to get a guillotine choke. Next, we all got a few rounds of ground work with Ippon Dojo kids. After that there was an improv Q&A session. I mean, it was incredible to learn just how much he trains and his dedication to the sport.
Couldn’t beat them in water polo, but Judo evened it all out. I also told this guy from OSU (via Fbook) about the upcoming tournament in Cheney, on April 28th. Its gonna be good as EWU has quite a few good student black belts and Idaho schools that consistently place in College Nationals.
Talking about the Cheney tournament, we need as many people as we can get. We really do need a good heavyweight (Rami, we need you to go).
Also the UW Judo Youtube Channel has been updated so check it out.
To sum it all up, no matter what happens we are going to to NCJA Collegiate National Judo Championships next year.
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