September
21, 2006
President: Tim
Schultheis
VP: Chuck
Clark
Secretary: Mary
Gail Ford
Treasurer: Frank Oliveri
Editor:
Kei Narimatsu
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Contents:
Editorial – IMAGINE
From the IJI President
Gurnee Judo Club Announces Holiday Camp
Schedule
USA JUDO NEWS
PJU Card Requirements for the US Open
Great Membership News from USA Judo
USA Judo Introduces Family Memberships
Referees Needed for US Open Masters Competition
World Team Championship Results
Women’s Rendez-Vous
Canada Light weight Preview
Serving Our Country
Something to Think About – IMAGINE
Upcoming Events
USA Judo Life Members
EDITORIAL
IMAGINE
– Read the article and download the video. It is a two minute read, a four
minute video, but a lifetime of reflection.
From
the IJI President:
Last weekend, we held our third
IJI meeting this year. We added another more Board Member, Doug Tono, Head Instructor at
- We are planning the 2007
Illinois State Open Judo Championships for a Sunday in February 2007 (date TBD)
at the
- We have scheduled 4
Open-Workouts at 4 different IJI clubs during October through January. We
will ask for a $5 donation per athlete, and the proceeds will go directly to
IJI, a non-for-profit organization (see IJI Junior Development Chair report).
- Our Treasurer briefed a
financial report of IJI's expenses and revenue over
the last, approximately 5 years. Our current fund balance is just under
$14K (see IJI Treas. report).
- We are planning a Coaches'
certification clinic, 10 December, at
- Expect to see our IJI homepage
posted by 15 October. More to follow on the link
address.
We will hold our next IJI
meeting, prior to the Wolf Tournament, 09:00-10:00 AM, 15 Oct at the
In the meantime, the IJI Board
urges all
Thanks,
Tim Schultheis
Gurnee Judo Club announces its
The
Gurnee Judo Club is hosting its first Holiday Camp from 26-30 December
2006. We are very fortunate to have made arrangements for Ms. Carrie
Chandler, 2005 Pan American Champion and 4 x National Champion, to serve as the
head trainer. The schedule will include a workout from 10:00 AM - Noon,
Tuesday, 26 December through Saturday, 30 December 2006. The Saturday, 30
December, 10:00 AM - Noon, class will also be one of the upcoming 4 scheduled
Illinois Judo Open Workouts, managed by the IJI Junior Development Chair, Brett
Wolf. As part of the camp, there will be nightly work-outs, mostly randori, at the follow dates times: Tue, 26 Dec,
6:00-7:00 PM, Wed, 27 Dec, 6:30-8:00 PM, Thu, 28 Dec, 6:00-7:00 PM, and Fri, 29
Dec, 5:00-6:00 PM. Early registration is only $95.00. Please see
attached flyer or go to www.gurneejudoclub.com for more info.
Complete coverage of
these articles available at the USA Judo website. Click on the link http://www.usjudo.org/ and click on the What's New page to see all the recent news items. The
items listed below may or may not be linked already. To get further
information on any of these stories, it is better to go to the USA Judo
website.
PJU Card Requirements for
In order to further clarify USA Judo’s announcement relating to
PJU card requirements for the U.S. Open:
All athletes, coaches and referees participating in the Senior Shiai Competition of the U.S. Open will be required to have
a PJU card.
Those athletes, coaches and referees participating in the masters
Division will not be required to have a PJU card. PJU cards will be made
available to Masters athletes at their option.
Great
Membership News From
Any USA Judo
member that registers either his or her club or individual registration for the
2007 season will receive a special gift from USA Judo!
These gifts
are in limited supply and will only be available on a first-come, first-serve
basis.
Don’t miss out
on the exciting Olympic Memorabilia that USA JUDO is giving out for
early registrations:
·
Any member looking to register their club
for the 2007 season – the time is now. USA Judo is offering an Olympic
Pin Collection (Value $150) for all Clubs that register between now and Nov. 1,
2006.
·
Any club that signs up 10 NEW PRIMARY
members between now and Nov. 1, 2006 will receive an Olympic memorabilia gift
package worth $300.00.
·
Any new PRIMARY MEMBER that registers
between now and Nov. 1, 2006 also will receive a free Olympic gift for
supporting USA JUDO.
And of course
we would not forget our current members…
Any current
member of USA JUDO that signs up EARLY FOR PRIMARY MEMBERSHIP for the 2007
season between now and Nov. 1, 2006 also will receive a complimentary Olympic
gift!
USA Judo is
pleased to announce the creation of new primary family memberships for
households with three or more USA Judo members.
Under the new
membership structure, families who register up to four primary members will be
able to do so for a reduced rate of $125. Every additional member from
the same immediate family will pay $30 annually.
“Judo is an
excellent example of a sport where family members of all ages, from four to 84,
can be found out on the mat practicing together at the same time and we thought
this would be a great opportunity for the hundreds of families within USA Judo
to receive a benefit for their continued loyalty to this great sport,” said USA
Judo CEO Jose H. Rodriguez (Colorado Springs, Colo.) “We hope that
this new program not only rewards existing members, but provides an incentive
for more judo players to encourage their families to take to the mat as well.”
In order to be
eligible for this program, family members must all be immediate and reside in
the same household address.
For more
information, contact USA Judo Director of Membership Monica Wright-Tafoya (
Referees
Needed for
The Masters
competition at the U.S. Open, Oct. 21-22 in
World Team
Championships Results
(
Not only would
she be competing with her
Not one to back
down from a challenge, Gotay and Team
For Gotay, that meant an opening match against Aiko Sato – the 2002 Junior World
Champion. Sato, a former 52kg player, has since moved up to 57kg and is a
four-time World Cup medalist, including a bronze medal win
at the Warsaw World Cup in May.
Gotay,
best known for her groundwork, took Sato to the mat and pinned her for a waza-ari (half-point) that looked like it would go… more>
Annie Shiraishi (
Team
World
Championships by Team of Nation Photo Galleries: Check out photo
galleries of Team
Women’s Rendez-Vous Canada Lightweight Preview
(
Amid the mix
are top medal favorites Sayaka Matsumoto
(El Cerrito, Calif. / NYAC / East Bay Judo Institute / 48kg) and Valerie
Gotay (Harlingen, Texas / Harlingen USA Judo National
Training Site / 57kg). Both athletes won bronze medals at this event
last year as well as at the Pan American Championships in May.
A complete
breakdown of each division is as follows:
Women’s
44kg (Estimated Division Size: 2)
As of early
this week, this division is expected to be a two-woman show between Alexa Liddie (
Women’s
48kg (Estimated Division Size: 17)
With Canadian
star Isabelle Latulippe not slated to compete
at the Rendez-Vous, this division quickly opens up
for a number of potential takers. Look for
Americans to
Watch: Jeanette
Rodriguez (
Women’s
52kg (Estimated division size: 26)
Americans to
Watch: National Champion
Carrie Chandler (Scotia, N.Y. / NYAC / Jason Morris Judo Center) isn't
expected to compete in Montreal which leaves Natalie Lafon (Harlingen, Texas / Harlingen USA Judo National
Training Site) and Franchesca Durand
(Coral Springs, Fla. / North Miami USA Judo National Training Site) as the
highest ranked Americans in Canada with this being the first trip to Rendez-Vous for both athletes. Neither athlete has an
extensive international resume, although Lafon will
be returning from the World Team Championships in
Women’s
57kg (Estimated Division Size: 22)
A final match
between Maria Lindberg (SWE) and Valerie Gotay
(
Americans to
Watch: Marti Malloy (
SERVING OUR COUNTRY
PVT Luke Jacobsen – Milwaukee,
WI
LTJG Donny Newsome, Gurnee,
IL
LT Nick Oldfield, Navy, Virginia – home
base
William Hendrickson, MN – basic – Camp Pendelton,
CA
Mike Preditus,
IL
SGT Dennis Pruitt, IRAQ
Dan Smith, Dickson,
TN
Please let me know other Judo families who have loved ones serving in our
military: rank, branch of service and where they are serving.
Thanks.
Something to Think
About – IMAGINE
I received this incredible email today…thought I
would share with you and perhaps get it into the newsletter. Take a
look. I think the message speaks for itself…Be
sure to watch the video at the end. Don Bordeau
Strongest Dad in the World
(Make sure you view the video at the end.)
[From Sports Illustrated, By Rick Reilly]
I try to be a good father. Give my kids mulligans. Work nights to pay for their text messaging.
Take them to swimsuit shoots.
But compared with Dick Hoyt, I suck.
Eighty-five times he's pushed his disabled son,
Rick, 26.2 miles in marathons. Eight times he's not only pushed him 26.2
miles in a wheelchair but also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while swimming
and pedaled him 112 miles in a seat on the handlebars-all in t he same day.
Dick's also pulled him cross-country skiing, taken him on his back
mountain climbing and once hauled him across the
And what has Rick done for his father? Not much-except save
his life.
This love story began in
"He'll be a vegetable the rest of his life;" Dick says
doctors told him and his wife, Judy, when Rick was nine months old.
"Put him in an institution."
But the Hoyts weren't buying it. They noticed the way Rick's
eyes followed them around the room. When Rick was 11 they took him to the
engineering department at
"Tell him a joke," Dick countered. They did.
Rick laughed. Turns out a lot was going on in his brain.
Rigged up with a computer that allowed him to control the cursor
by touching a switch with the side of his head, Rick was finally able to
communicate. First words? "Go
Bruins!" And after a high school classmate was paralyzed in an accident
and the school organized a charity run for him, Rick pecked out, "Dad, I
want to do that."
Yeah, right. How was Dick, a self-described
"porker" who never ran more than a mile at a time, going to push his
son five miles? Still, he tried. "Then it was me who was
handicapped," Dick says. "I was sore for two weeks."
That day changed Rick's life. "Dad," he typed, "when
we were running, it felt like I wasn't disabled anymore!"
And that sentence changed Dick's life. He became obsessed
with giving Rick that feeling as often as he could. He got into such
hard-belly shape that he and Rick were ready to try the 1979
"No way," Dick was told by a race official. The
Hoyts weren't quite a single runner, and they weren't quite a wheelchair
competitor. For a few years Dick and Rick just joined the massive field
and ran anyway, then they found a way to get into the
race officially: In 1983 they ran another marathon so fast they made the
qualifying time for
Then somebody said, "Hey, Dick, why not a triathlon?"
How's a guy who never learned to swim and hadn't ridden a bike
since he was six going to haul his 110-pound kid through a triathlon? Still,
Dick tried.
Now they've done 212 triathlons, including four grueling 15-hour Ironmans in
Hey, Dick, why not see how you'd do on your own? "No
way," he says. Dick does it purely for "the awesome feeling" he
gets seeing Rick with a cantaloupe smile as they run, swim and ride together.
This year, at ages 65 and 43, Dick and Rick finished their 24th
"No question about it," Rick types. "My dad
is the Father of the Century."
And Dick got something else out of all this too. Two years
ago he had a mild heart attack during a race. Doctors found that one of
his arteries was 95% clogged. "If you hadn't been in such great
shape," one doctor told him, "you probably would've died 15 years
ago."
So, in a way, Dick and Rick saved each other's life.
Rick, who has his own apartment (he gets home care) and works in
That night, Rick will buy his dad dinner, but the thing he really
wants to give him is a gift he can never buy.
"The thing I'd most like," Rick types, "is that my
dad sits in the chair and I push him once."
Here's the incredible 4-minute video....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryCTIigaloQ
UPCOMING
EVENTS - 2006
Please note the following events on the horizon for
Sep
23 11th
ANNIVERSARY OF “THE ROCK & ROLL CAPITAL OF
THE WORLD” JUDO TOURNAMENT Solon, OH
Contact Mike
Mooney
mmooney@academycomm.com
Sep 30
Contact Terry Smith
Oct 7
America’s Cup Judo
Championship
Contact Jim Branson
765)
215-7107
jcbranson@comcast.net
Oct 7 –
8 2006 Juyukai
East Coast Judo Championship
Contact Sensei Y. Yonezuka www.cranfordjkc.com 1-908-276-3544
Oct
15 5th
Annual Wolf Junior Tournament Military Arts Institute –
6101 N Broadway, Chicago, IL
Contact Brett
Wolf
azumah4@yahoo.com
Yarina Birnbaum
773-348-8641/ philya@ameritech.net
/Fax:773-442-1550
IJI BOARD MEETING 9:00am –
10:00am
NEW!!
Oct 15 2006
Great Lakes Open Judo Championships
Contact Neil
Simon NJSimon@aol.com
Dave
Wertheimer Dave.Werthiemer@farmington.k12.mi.us
Oct 20-21 2006 US Open
Miami, FL
Contact
Ms Sherri Phillips sportsconsult@aol.com
1-719-491-9682
Oct 21 Junior
Development Clinic – Open Workout
3pm –
5pm
Menomonee Judo Club
Contact Brett
Wolf
azumah4@yahoo.com
Oct
28-29 Badger Open Judo Tournament
Contact
Brett
Wood-Taylor
welcomemat@charter.net
Tournament
package available online August 15, 21006
Nov 4 –
5 2nd Annual All Women’s
Championships Kalamazoo,
MI SEE 11.zip file in attachments
Contact
Deborah Fergus DeFrgs6@cs.com
http://www.southsidedojo.com/womens
Nov 12 Gurnee
Veteran's Day Judo Tournament
Grayslake, IL
Contact Tim Schultheis
tschulth@warpnet.net
or flyer available www.gurneejudoclub.com
Nov 17 Jimmy Pedro – A Special
Judo Seminar Midway Judo Club – West St Paul, MN
Contact George Trembulak 651-778-3740
Nov 18
Junior
Development Clinic – Open Workout
Yorkville Judo Club
Contact Brett
Wolf
azumah4@yahoo.com
Dec
2
Santa’s Shiai
Contact Brett
Wood-Taylor welcomemat@charter.net
Dec 10 TENTATIVE
IJI Coaches Certification Clinic at Tohkon Judo –
Clinicians: Jim Colgan, Jim Peterson, Barry Henby
Contact
Tim Schultheis tschulth@warpnet.net
for more information
Dec 26 –
30 Gurnee
Judo
Contact
Tim Schultheis tschulth@warpnet.net
for more information www.gurneejudoclub.com
Dec
30
Junior
Development Clinic – Open Workout
Gurnee Judo
Club
Contact Brett
Wolf
azumah4@yahoo.com
2007 dates
Jan TBD Junior Development Clinic – Open Workout
Contact Brett
Wolf
azumah4@yahoo.com
Feb
TBD
Contact Chuck
Clark clarkmail@sbcglobal.net
LIFE MEMBERSHIPS INFORMATION
– USA JUDO
For
more information on Life Membership in USA Judo, please contact USA Judo and
click on “LIFE MEMBERSHIP”
Nat’l Order Name
030
1 Henry
Okamura(deceased)
041
2 Kei Narimatsu
065
3 James
Colgan
122
4
Richard Fukuyama(deceased)
125
5
Joanne Barthold(deceased)
139
6
George Stanich
148
7 Mary
Gail Ford
161
8 Kevin
Narimatsu (CA)
162
9 Scott
Narimatsu (CA)
164
10 Byung Chul Cho
167
11 Yung Kim
177
12 Kyu Yoon
181
13 John Bek
189
14 Quentin Thompson
201
15 Michiyuki Sasa
216
16 George Weers
271
17 Susan McConnell
289
18 William Jaconetti
291
19 Jean S Narimatsu
292
20 Susan Narimatsu
324
21 Timothy Tremaine
342
22 Stephen Bergren
349
23 Timothy Canty
355
24 Tim Schultheis
358
25 Bradford Lee
(NV)
363
26 Frank Oliveri
364
27 Michael Ogata
(FL)
370
28 Jeanette J Narimatsu
371
29 Julie K Narimatsu
374
30 Joe Kajita (CA)
378
31 Eiko Shepherd
381
32 Bill
Dunning(deceased)
382
33 Yasko Odagiri
383
34 Wren Odagiri
385
35 Cary Yamanaka
(MN)
387 36
Don Bordeau
There are currently only 34 Life Members in