Nanka Judo Yudanshakai
Southern California Judo Blackbelt Association
Member of United States Judo Federation (USJF)
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General Announcements and Upcoming Events:
- Nanka Development Update:
Shorai Jr Development Program - practice at LA Tenri on Saturday, Feb 4 from Noon to 3pm. Senior Development Program - practice at OCK on Saturday, Feb 4 from 12:45pm to 3:00pm, 5241 Lincoln Ave, Unit B4, Cypress, CA 90630. For more information, please call Blinky at 562-619-6128(Posted Feb 3, 2012)- Dear Nanka, Ever since I could remember I have been apart of this great organization. Through the good and bad times the best out of Nanka has always shined through. At the second senior practice held at San Fernando Judo one of my senior students had left his sweatshirt, which held his wallet inside. Luckily I was able to get a hold of my longtime friend Ritchie Endow who would bring the wallet with him to San Jose the following weekend. During the pre-registrations for the D-level competition my student Fernando had forgotten his card in his wallet. I was lucky to have Ritchie’s number only to find that he had gone to drive over two hours to retrieve Fernando’s wallet so that he may register in time for the D-level competition in the morning. To go above and beyond for my student was an act that truly touched my heart. I would like to take this moment to say thank you Ritchie on behalf of my student, Central Coast Judo and myself in you taking the time for Fernando who is young in his Judo but was able to see what a lifetime commitment to Judo means both on and off the mat! Humbly, Greg Rubio - Central Coast Judo Joan Shiosaki, Nanka Office (Posted Feb 1, 2012)
- Hi Everyone, Just been informed about services for Ramon Rivera. Services: Friday, Jan.27. 10:30 am Rosary, 11:00 am Mass Joan of Arc Catholic Church, 3801 E Greenway Rd Phx, 1:00 pm Burial at National Veterans Memorial, 23029 N Cave Creek Rd Phx. Celebration of Life immediately following: 804 E Purdue Ave Phx. Again, our condolences to the family of Ramon Rivera. He will be missed. Joan Shiosaki. Nanka Judo Yudanshakai. (Posted Jan 25, 2012)
- Hi Everyone, It is with a sad heart that we have to announce the passing of a great judo instructor, and member of Nanka Judo Yudanshakai. Ramon Rivera, who was a member of Gardena Judo Club and currently with Heart Judo in Arizona, passed away from cancer yesterday. We want to wish he family our deepest condolences at this sad time. No further information available as yet regarding services. Joan Shiosaki, Nanka Judo Yudanshakai (Posted Jan 24, 2012)
- Because it sucks to be hungry! I'm Ronda Rousey, I'm cutting weight for the fight for the 135 lb world title and I'm hungry. How much more would it suck to be hungry every day? So I'm asking all of my friends and fans to be part of my freerice.com group to donate to the World Food Programme. When we hit 1,000,000 I'll send a t-shirt to the 3 highest donors. I have special prizes for the 3 highest donors as of when I weigh in on March 2nd. With 20,000 twitter followers plus my friends in judo and MMA, I'll bet we could donate 1,000,000 grains a day. That's enough to feed almost 300 people every day. Come on, play free rice, do good, get smarter and I'll send you swag. Here is the link to join the group and play. It's free! Money is donated by sponsors. http://freerice.com/content-group/rondammaRonda Rousey (Posted Jan 23, 2012)
- 2012 Annual Nanka Awards Banquet Update. Hi Everyone, the Annual Nanka Awards Banquet is fast approaching. It has been scheduled for March 3, 2012 at the Long Beach Grand Events Center. I have attached the forms necessary for your your instructors to nominate one outstanding individual who he/she feels that exemplifies the standards of judo. Please review the forms attached, and submit by February 3, 2012 your nominee along with a brief explanation of WHY this individual is deserving of this award. This person will be honored at this luncheon and we hope that members of his family and club will also attend to support him/her. I have attached an order form for the luncheon tickets. Please get your order in by February 24, 2012. We will also be honoring an outstanding Referee for 2011, Nanka Life members of 2011 and the outgoing and incoming officers of 2011. Please plan on supporting this event. Thank you! Joan Shiosaki, Nanka Judo Yudanshakai (Posted Jan 18, 2012)
- Nanka Development Update. Go to Nanka Development for schedule of Shorai and Senior practice dates or click here for latest Nanka Senior and Junior Workout Schedule (01-13-12). (Posted Jan 13, 2012)
- Editorial - "What the Hell is a Black Belt Rank" - Hayward Nishioka I once asked a high ranking friend of mine, “What is a Shodan?” How does one know if one is a first degree black belt, or a second, or a third for that matter? Is it that a person can beat a certain number of other practitioners? If so, how many, and of what quality? He couldn’t answer the question with any degree of conviction. He just said, “I know he doesn’t look like a white belt or even a sankyu. (third degree brown belt) I asked this question because I was at one time a member of four American promotion committees on or about the same time, and each one of them had different criteria’s for shodan. Even within the same organization’s criteria’s, weird differences arose. I also noticed that internationally many of our U.S. brown belt’s would easily beat Japanese shodan’s. But, that’s where it usually stopped. Once they got to nidan and sandan it was a different story. There seemed to be more Picasso art than Newtonian science to how judoka got promoted, and I was somewhat confused, as I am sadly even to this day (To Read More) (Posted Jan 11, 2012)
- The 2011 USJF/USJA Grassroots Judo™ Winter Nationals Video Highlights are now available on USJF website. This highly successful event just completed its 6th annual tournament. The total number of competitors exceeded 500 for the two-day event. Tune into the USJF.com for highlights of the 2011 Grassroots Judo™ Winter Nationals held on December 3 and 4th 2011 at Damien high school in La Verne California. The 1st clip of highlights from day one include the Seniors and Masters competition. The 2nd clip includes highlights from the Juniors competition. (Posted Dec 13, 2011)
- Help Us Preserve the History of Judo in the United States. Hello Everyone, USJA and USJF have recently formed a joint Archivist Committee. Our goal is to perverse judo history in the US. Our current inventory is 145,000 pages of judo historical documents, but there are many things that are missing. These ranges from bracket sheets, newspaper articles, programs from various tournament and various judo publications. Do you have judo programs, newspaper articles, bracket sheets and everything in between lying around the house or garage? Has someone in your family been after you to get rid of these papers? If so, why not consider contacting the Archivist Committee to see if your items are in their inventory? If the items are not in their inventory, the committee will scan and if necessary return the documents to you. The committee points of contacts are: Constance H. Halporn (americanjudomag@gmail.com ) and Jerry R. Hays (jrhays@cox.net). (Posted Dec 8, 2011)
- Open Letter to Senseis and Coaches (Regarding Proper Mat Etiquette) from Alain Wilkinson, Nanka Referee Chairman. (Posted Nov 16, 2011)
- Congratulations to Jerry Hays. At the Fall USJF Meeting held on Friday, Nov 5, Seattle WA, Jerry Hays was presented from Neil Simon, President of USJF, the USJF Presidential Award for his contribution to judo. (Posted Nov 9, 2011)
- 2011 Winter Nationals UPDATE. A $500 prize for the top club at this year’s 6th Annual USJA/USJF Joint Winter Nationals will be given out and points earned will be based, 1st = 5 points, 2nd = 3 points, 3rd = 1 point. Gary Goltz (Posted Oct 10, 2011)
- Hi, I have been asked to help the "Be Strong, Be Gentle, Be Beautiful" project based on Shihan Fukuda's life. The project needs donations, so, can you please circulate their link, http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bestrong/be-strong-be-gentle-be-beautiful. Thank you, Hal Sharp (Posted Oct 6, 2011)
- GRAND OPENING OF THE WEST COAST JUDO TRAINING CENTER at our new location. The West Coast Judo Training Center has moved to a much larger location at 859 W. Foothill, Claremont, CA. The grand opening is from 2 - 6 pm on October 1. Cost is $10. We will have eight instructors teach for 30 minutes each to provide all visitors an opportunity to learn judo and some ideas for cross-training in jiu-jitsu and grappling as well. There are a few who have promised to try to make it but are unsure due to work commitments or who have not told us definitely what they will be teaching. Here are those who have confirmed definitely at this time: Sensei Blinky Elizalde will be teaching foot techniques, Dr. AnnMaria De Mars will be teaching arm bars, Sensei Victor Ortiz, Ontario Judo will be teaching shoulder throws, Ronda Rousey will be teaching chokes and Gary Butts will be teaching techniques from no-gi grappling. More details forthcoming - or just show up and be pleasantly surprised. Hope to see you there! (Posted Sept 26, 2011)
- Congratulations Mickey! Mickey Matsumoto has again shown his incredible athletic and Judo skill by earning the Judo gold medal at the 2011 World Police and Fire Games this week in New York City. To read the full story go to https://local.nixle.com/alert/4727963/?sub_id=417454 Article forwarded from Low Dong (Posted Sept 9, 2011)
- USJF Sanctioned Events Update, Effective Sept 1, 2011. (Posted August 23, 2011)
- Congratulations to Keiko Fukuda, student of Jigoro Kano for her promotion to 10th Dan from USA Judo. USA Judo (Posted August 4, 2011)
Here are some short articles on Fukuda Senseis promotion:- Nanka Registration Update. USJF has a new updated sanction request form (rev 2011). Please do not use any old versions you may have. New forms on the Nanka website has "USJF Ver 2011" in the footer. Joan Shiosaki, Nanka Office (Posted August 3, 2011)
- Nanka Registraion Update. Club renewal forms for 2011-2012 is now posted. Go to the "registration" link above. Joan Shiosaki (Posted Aug 2, 2011)
- UPDATE 2011 USJF - USJA Jr Nationals, July 2 -3, Toledo, Ohio. Winner’s Brackets are posted at www.2011JudoJuniorNationals.com. Jody L. Reuter, Judan Judo of Toledo. Video Highlight are posted at www.usjf.com. USJF National Office. (Posted July 7, 2011
- Top ten clubs at 2011 CJI State Championships (Club Name - Total Pts / 1st / 2nd / 3rd):
1. San Jose Buddhist - 56 / 7 / 4 / 9, 2. Sacramento - 54 / 5 / 8 / 5, 3. Tri-Valley - 53 / 8 / 3 / 4, 4. San Francisco Judo Ins - 51 / 7 / 5 / 1, 5. Cahills Judo - 50 / 5 / 7 / 4, 6. Team Sacramento - 44 / 6 / 4 / 2, 7. Mojica - 37 / 6 / 2 / 1, 8. Bojuka Ryu - 35 / 4 / 4, 39. Taishi Judo - 34 / 4 / 4 / 2, 10. South Bay - 33 / 4 / 4 / 1 Jerry Hays. (Posted June 13, 2011)2011 CJI State Championships Results (Posted June 1, 2011)- 2011 Nanka Annual Awards and Installation Banquet. Congratulations to all the Outstanding Nanka Judo Club recepients - Isaiah Ramirez (Barstow), Joseph Kajita (El Toro), Elijah Jones (Gardena), Gary Goltz (Goltz), Phillip Lopez (Nishi), Emilio Zamorano (Norwalk), Eric Saenz (Orange County Judo Training), John Wiener (Ozeki), Michael Couchigan (Paradise), Jordon Nagai (Sawtelle), David Honda (SouthBay), Darryl Sexton (Torrance), Haykaz Oganyan (Valley), Mikaela Licudine (Venice) and Jason Chang (West Covina). Also honored were Einhard Schmidt for 2010 Nanka Referee of the Year Award, Hal Sharp for Nanka Lifetime Referee Achievement Award and Ernie Smith for 2010 Nanka Life Member. Click on to the link to see photos and writeups. Joan Shiosaki, Nanka Office (Posted March March 7, 2010)
- Koka Kids is now available as an IPAD and IPHONE app! Just go to the Apple store and search on 'judo' or 'kokakids'. Nicola Fairbrother - Koka Kids Editor, 1993 World Champion & Olympic silver medallist, Telephone 01273 390102 (Posted Sept 8, 2010)
- Judo World Map. Put your judo club on the World Map, go to http://www.judoworldmap.com (Posted April 20, 2010)
- New Animated DVD for Training Begineers. Hi, I am passing this information to you. It is a state-of-the-art judo video. The first video is primarily for beginners. The next 5 DVDs become progressively more advanced. This the type of video that young students can study at home and can be used at the dojo. The discounts are offered to clubs . Please look this over. Hal Sharp.
Following 2012 Events, Clinics and/or Tournament Forms are Now Posted:
- 02-12-12 West Covina Judo Tournament
- 02-18-12 Pacific International Tournament
- 02-26-12 SFV Kohaku Judo Tournament
- 03-04-12 Nanka Novice Shiai & Kata Tournament (Rev 4)
- 03-10/11-12 Youth Scholastics
- 03-24-12 Israel Hernandez Clinic REV1
- 03-25-12 Mojica Spring Tournament REV1
- 03/30 & 04/01-12 Edmonton International
- 04-01-12 Norwalk 80th Anniversary Tournament
- 4-21/22-12 Senior Nationals
- 07-07/08-12 USJA USJF Jr Nationals (Flyer)
- 07-21/22-12 Jr Olympics
- 07-27/28-12 Jr Open
For questions or comments regarding Nanka Judo or Nanka web site
contact us at the Nanka Office: Phone: 310-222-8690
Email: NankaOffice@aol.com
Last Updated: February 3, 2012
