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ILLINOIS JUDO NEWSLETTER – IPPON!!!
July 2, 2007
President: Tim
Schulthei
VP: Chuck
Clark
Secretary: Mary Gail Ford
Treasurer: Frank Oliveri
Editor: Kei
Narimatsu
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Contents:
Editorial – Happy Forth of July
Local News
USA JUDO NEWS
2007 US Open Entry Packets
USA Judo Summer Elite Training Camp Photos
China Training
Opportunity – Open to Junior and Senior Elite Players
Junior Olympics
Overflow Hotel
2007 Pan American Infantile Championships Selection
Criteria
Five U.S. Athletes Win Gold at World Masters Championships
Chinese and French
Teams Training at Mayo Quanchi Camp
Fall Classic and Ladder
Tournament Entry Packet Now Available
USA Judo Partners with France for New Exchange Program
Something to Think About
–
The Greatest Baseball
Play happened in Chicago
Kazahiah – down load the
video – it is worth it. KN
Upcoming Events
USA Judo Life Members
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EDITORIAL –
HAPPY FORTH OF JULY
LOCAL NEWS
USA Judo News
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.
2007 U.S. Open Entry
Packets
The entry packets for the U.S. Open,
October 19-20 in Gwinnett, Ga., are now available Visit http://www.usjudo.org/documents/USOpenDomesticentryPackage2007.pdf
for complete details.
USA Judo Summer Elite Training Camp Photos
Visit www.usjudo.org to check out
photos of the USA Judo Summer Elite Training Camps held last week at the USA
Judo National Training Sites at North Miami and the Jason Morris Judo Center.
Elite athletes from five countries,
including nearly all of the 2007 U.S. World Team members, have been
participating in this month-long series of camps.
Click
here to view the photo gallery.
China Training
Opportunity – Open to Junior and Senior Elite Players
An opportunity has been made
available for junior and senior elite females to train at the Shenyang Regional
Training Center in Liaoning, Peoples’ Republic of China.
Approximate travel dates are August
4 – 14, 2007. Training is intense and there are four daily sessions with nearly
100 female athletes on the mats each session.
Partial funding via reimbursement is
available to the highest six Olympic weight division Junior Elite athletes who
apply, based on total Elite Junior points from the rosters dated June 25, but
not less than 20. Senior athletes and other Elite Juniors who do not meet
the funding criteria may be able to participate on a self-funded basis.
Should you be interested, contact
Jim Hrbek at JrJudoTrip@aol.com or via cell
phone 518.339.8248 - NO LATER THAN July 3, 2007.
Junior Olympics
Overflow Hotel
The headquarters hotel for the USA
Judo National Junior Olympic Championships, July 21-22 in San Antonio, has
officially filled.
The overflow hotel for the
tournament is the St. Anthony Wyndham Hotel. The hotel is three blocks
from the headquarter hotel and the San Antonio Riverwalk so guests
can easily walk over to catch transportation to and from the venue at the
headquarter hotel.
Hotel: St
Anthony Wyndham Hotel
Please ask for the USA
Judo Rate
Please Call: 210.227.4392
Cut off date is July
16, 2007 for Reservations
Rates for Queen Bed Rooms: Single & Double Occupancy: $109 per night,
Triple: $119.00 per night, Quad $129.00 per night
2007 Pan American Infantile Championships Selection
Criteria
The 2007 Pan American Infantile
Championships will be held Nov. 8-12 in Colombia.
This self-funded event is a closed
tournament and only ONE entry per country per division is allowed.
The age divisions are for the 2007
event are:
Year of Birth 1993-1994
Year of Birth 1995-1996
Click here for more information and
complete selection criteria.
Five U.S. Athletes Win Gold at World Masters Championships
The premier event for athletes aged
30 and over, the World Masters Championships, was held last week in Sao Paulo
Brazil with Team USA winning 16 medals, including five gold.
After moving down to the 90kg, Dennis
Scheib (Atlanta, Ga. / Atlanta Judo) won gold in the 55-59-year-old
division after placing third at 100kg in the 2006 Championships in Tours,
France..
Sandy North (Hollywood, Fla. /
Budokan Judo) returned to the 50-54-year-old 66kg
division and won a gold medal after placing second last year… more>
Chinese and French
Teams Training at Mayo Quanchi Camp
Teams from China and France will be
training at the Mayo Quanchi Training Camp in West Warwick, R.I.
The Chinese team will be training at
the club from now through July 1. The French team will be at the camp
from June 25-July 1.
To register for this USA
Judo-supported camp, contact Serge Bouyssou at judocoach@cox.net.
Fall Classic and Ladder
Tournament Entry Packet Now Available
The entry packet for the Fall
Classic Nationals and Ladder Tournaments has now been posted and is available
at www.usjudo.org/documents/2007FallClassicEntryPacket.pdf.
The Fall Classic, a USA Judo Senior
D-Level Point Tournament, will be held Sept. 1 in Coral Springs, Fla., just outside
Fort Lauderdale. The Ladder Tournament will be held Sept. 2.
For the first time, MASTERS divisions
will be contested for athletes 30-years-old and over on Sept. 2.
USA Judo Partners with France for New Exchange Program
USA Judo is pleased to announce a
new partnership with France in which U.S. players will have the opportunity to
compete against and train with French players, both in the United States and in
France.
A team of five French athletes, led
by coaches Sauveur Soriano (Scarsdale, N.Y.) and Maxime Nouvchy (FRA)
will be training in the United States from June 25-July 4.
The team will be conducting a clinic
from 8-10 p.m. on June 25 at Tech Judo in North Bergen, N.J. Entry for
the clinic is $25, payable at the door. For more information, contact
Soriano at westchesterjudo@hotmail.com.
In addition, the athletes will be
participating in three of the USA Judo Summer Training Camps… more>
Something to Think About –
The Greatest Baseball Play happened in Chicago
Kazahiah
This video is something
we all can understand in our hearts……and remember…..
http://mfile.akamai.com/21772/wmv/gannett.download.akamai.com/21772/streaming/wmv/hancockportraits.asx
UPCOMING EVENTS - 2007
Please note the following events on the horizon for
Illinois and the Midwest. Communication and download information can be
gotten directly through this email by attachments or by going to
www.judofdl.com (Brett Wood Taylor Welcome Mat
Judo). OR www.judocalendar.com (Jim
Carmer). Either site is a wealth of information on Judo events.
Both have more events listed than I have, so visit their sites often.
Thanks.
2007 dates
Jul
7-8 USJA Junior Nationals – Indianapolis,
IN
-
Referee CREDIT Site –
Jul
14-15 USJF Junior Nationals – Ypsilanti, MI
-
Referee CREDIT Site
Jul 21 – 22 Junior
Olympics – San Antonio, TX
-
Referee EVALUATION Site –
Jul
28-29 USA Judo Junior Open – Ft
Lauderdale, FL
-
Referee EVALUATION Site
Sep
2007 Ladder and Fall Classic –
-
Referee EVALUATION Site
Sep 29 “THE ROCK & ROLL
CAPITAL OF THE WORLD” JUDO TOURNAMENT
- Brunswick OH –
near Cleveland
Contact Joe
Schmidt
Shane Hudson
(330) 273-1573
440-781-3444
schmidtjudo@verizon.net shane-hudson@sbcglobal.net
Oct
20-21 USA Judo Senior Open
-
Referee EVALUATION Site
Nov. 2-4 3rd Annual "All Women's
Championship," Kalamazoo,
Michigan
Jr.
Sr. and Master competition (Kata, Shiai)
, Referee, Coaches, Kata Clinics
Contact Deborah L. Fergus at defrgs6@cs.com or 269 208 1068
Nov
2007
Continental Crown – Seattle, WA
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Referee EXAMINATION Site
Nov
2007
Dallas Invitational – Dallas, TX
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Referee EXAMINATION Site
.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 36 Life
Members in Illinois. You can start a membership for $75 minimum start
payment and $25 per payment thereafter until completed. You can pay by
cash, check or credit card. For more information, please contact www.usjudo.org and select “LIFE
MEMBERSHIP” Let’s do our share in Illinois. Thanks.