From Karl Tamai, IJF-A Referee and Head Sensei, College Park Judo Club Thanks to all for participating in…
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From Karl Tamai, IJF-A Referee and Head Sensei, College Park Judo Club Thanks to all for participating in…
Maurice Allan, MBE, Sensei of Sport Judo and who holds the judo rank of Hachican (8th Degree Black Belt), wishes to bring a special publication to the attention of the members of Shufu Yudanshakai. My Journey to the 10th Dan is the story of George Kerr, the only…
The 30th annual Liberty Bell Judo Championships were held on Saturday, April 1, at the Asplundh Field House of the Academy of New Church in Bryn Anhyn, PA, northeast of Philadelphia. A total of 542 registrations made this one of the best-attended Liberty Bell in…
To our judo family: Sensei John T. Anderson passed away on Wednesday, March 16th, 2017. John joined the U.S. Navy at 16 for the WWII effort, and started judo in 1946 while stationed in Hawaii. After being transferred to San Diego, he joined three different clubs so he…
Kayla’s back! She’ll be at Maurice Allan’s Sport Judo in Springfield Virginia next Saturday, March 11th, for another clinic. Those of us who were at her clinic in December were treated to an impressive show of instructional ability, special twists to standard techniques that actually work (and she…
Competition Tactics Considering New IJF Rules and Gripping Sequences Learn how to win against people who should beat you! 2004 Judo Olympian Rhadi Ferguson, Ph.D. is also a 3rd degree Black Belt in BJJ, past StrikeForce Combatant, Tactical Consultant to the 2016 Olympic Judo Team and sports…
Paris, February 12, 2017. Juan Carlos Barcos is the Head Refereeing Director of the International Judo Federation (IJF), and the President of the Spanish Judo Federation. He started his international refereeing career in Moscow in 1980, and in Rio in 2016 attended his tenth Olympic Games as the Director of…
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As I announced at the Shufu Rules Clinic on Sunday, Sensei John Anderson has been taken ill and is in a rehabilitation facility near Baltimore. John has been a sensei to many of us and an important part of the region’s judo development over many years. I…
The 32nd annual Shufu Rules Clinic is coming up on Sunday, January 29th! Roy Englert will be leading the seminar for the 21st time, and has built it into the most regularly conducted and annually anticipated clinic in the 60+ year history of Shufu Yudanshakai. The rules…