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ILLINOIS JUDO NEWSLETTER – IPPON!!!
July 11, 2007
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Contents:
Editorial – CHARACTEROLOGICAL CONCEPTS
Local News
History channel to air spot on Judo
USA JUDO NEWS
Judo Team leaves for
Pan Am Games on Friday
JO Entry Deadline –
Early Entries on Thursday
JO Overflow Hotel
Junior World Selection
Criteria
Junior Open Update –
Florida
USJA Junior Nationals
Results
Out of Competition
Testing Announcement
US Open Masters Entry
Packet
World Team Coach Israel
Hernandez Receives Citizenship
Venezuela Elite
Training Camp – Canada Elite Training Camp
US Open Adds Kata Division
Former world Medalist
Brian Olson Makes a Comeback
Something to Think About
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USJA Junior Nationals
Vince Lombardi quotes
Upcoming Events
USA Judo Life Members
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EDITORIAL –
CHARACTEROLOGICAL CONCEPTS
I thought I made up a word
this past weekend – CHARACTERLOGICAL. But alas, it has already been used
extensively. According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, it is an
adjective. It’s etymology is characterology
or the study of character including its development and the differences in
individuals. Its obvious uses might be in psychology,
behavior disorders, human development. In fact,
Google found 120,000 references to this word. I did not research all of
them. And I might add, I do not claim to be a psychologist or someone who
casually thinks they can misrepresent themselves to you. I plead innocent
on both counts.
If we break this word
down into CHARACTER AND LOGICAL, what lessons can be learned from this.
More importantly, what lessons can I learn from this? In this context, I
think we can refer to “logical” as reasoning in a clear and consistent
manner. And “character” as the cumulative assumption of a person or
group’s qualities that make them what they are; their moral or ethical make-up,
their personal attributes, traits or core being.
One of my students
recently told me that he does not consider me his coach. Taken aback, I
asked “why not?”
“Because you are my
SENSEI. You are my coach
AND sensei.” he proclaimed. He continued
to tell me that a coach teaches you how to win, but a sensei teaches you how to
live.
I thought that was pretty
prophetic from a 16 year old boy. And while I knew this intellectually
and spiritually, I began to look at coaches and sensei’s
in an entirely new light. What makes one person a good coach or a great
coach and someone else a good sensei or a great sensei?
I began to ponder and I have come up with some observations about the
differences.
Not all coaches are sensei's
just as many sensei's are not great coaches, but neither are they mutually
exclusive. It is truly a challenge to be good at both, but it is certainly an
endeavor worth pursuing. I believe that all coaches can be sensei's and that all sensei's can be better coaches - but
it takes work.
Vince Lombardi, head
coach of the Green Bay Packers football team was attributed as saying “Winning
is not everything, it is the only thing.” This all too quoted cliché has
probably caused more heartbreak and disappointment than any nine words in the
history of the English language – certainly since the 60’s. But a closer
look at the real Vince Lombardi shows quite a different man. He was a
consummate winner (coach) but he had the respect of both fans and players (sensei)
alike. He was tough on the field (coach) but taught that life was worth
fighting for (sensei). He was a man of hard words (coach) but could also
admonish some of life’s great lessons (sensei).
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/v/vince_lombardi.html
I look at a coach who
recognizes that one of their players on the National team roster is not really
training or working to their potential and withdraws
that player in favor of another person who will work hard and will join the
international team. This is a coach and sensei.
I look at a senior
referee who has made a mistake on the mat (actually all three of them and only
one incident), but is willing to consider that a mistake has been made and make
the change so the right player gets the right score. I look at the coach
of the player losing the score acknowledging that he does not want his player
to win by a mistake. This is a coach and a sensei at work.
I look at tournament
directors who wants only to do the best for the competitors, the referees, the
local staff by making sure that all of their bases are covered for hospitality
(referee dinner), respect for time management (on time starts for the players),
transportation considerations (at 4:30am) and staffing (fair honorariums for
the timers and scorers). These are sensei attributes at work.
I look at medical personnel who looks at an injured player and does
what is best for the player’s health, regardless of the consequences to the
game or what the coaches want. This is a sensei attitude at work.
These are core principles
in action. They are reactive and sincere. They are spontaneous and
essential. It must be genuine because to do otherwise would be so
transparent that contrary actions would be met with scorn and certain
disapproval. These principles are consistent with good moral values and
courage, honor and attitudes, behavior and duty. Some say that you acquire
your values before the age of 5. That being said, while one can learn
even as an adult, as one ages, it becomes harder to
teach, only to modify. These are at the heart and soul of a person’s
existence; they are uncompromising and incontrovertible character traits.
I believe these ARE the characterological concepts of
SENSEI’S and COACH’S and are the cornerstones of our society. Without
them, what do we teach our students, our children and ourselves?
Vince Lombardi was
right. “Winning is not everything, but the will to win is.” Let us
all have the will to win and in so doing, do what is right for all.
LOCAL NEWS
MMA: NEW HISTORY CHANNEL
SERIES HOSTED BY MMA FIGHTER TO TRACE HISTORY OF HAND TO HAND COMBAT,
by Mike
Johnson @ 3:53:00 PM on 6/28/2007
http://www.pwinsiderxtra.com/ViewArticle.asp?id=7264&p=1
STARTING THIS SUMMER, THE HISTORY CHANNEL® VIEWERS CAN STEP INTO THE SHOES OF
FIGHTERS FROM ACROSS THE CENTURIES AND AROUND THE WORLD FOR AN IMMERSIVE
INTERNATIONAL JOURNEY INTO THE HEART AND ART OF HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT HUMAN
WEAPON
Series Premieres on
Friday, July 20 at 10pm ET/PT
JUDO (August 3)
Our hosts, Jason Chambers and Bill Duff, are in Japan to explore the techniques
and history of Japan’s national art of hand-to-hand combat: Judo – the science
of the Samurai. Derived from the bloody battlefields of feudal Japan and
jujutsu fighting styles of the samurai, judo has an illustrious past of deadly
skills and honor. Along their journey, our hosts travel through the towering
metropolis of Tokyo and the Samurai capital of Kyoto. They’ll train with an
elite police force and journey to the mountaintop hideaway of legendary master,
the descendent of a 400-year-old line of samurai
Under the intense training of the masters, Jason and
Bill quickly discover the spectacular throws, merciless pins and strangling
chokeholds that are an integral part of this powerful combat art. Jason and
Bill’s journey eventually leads them to Tokai University, where one of them
will muster the strength and newly acquired judo skills required to take on a
world-class judo champion. Japan
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.
Judo Team Leaves for Pan American Games on Friday
(Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) – The
countdown to the next major Olympic qualifier begins when the USA Judo Team
departs for the Pan American Games on Friday.
Fourteen athletes will compete at
the Pan Am Games from July 19-22 in Rio de Janeiro. A multi-sport event,
the Games include an estimated 5,500 competitors from 42 nations in more than
30 sports… more>
JO Entry Deadline for
Early Entries on Thursday
Don’t forget…
the deadline for entries to the USA Judo National Junior Olympic
Championships, July 21-22 in San Antonio, Texas, is Thursday. Athletes
must have their entry forms postmarked by July 12.
Late entries will be accepted on
site as walk-ups, but must pay the late entry fee.
Entry packets are available at www.usjudo.org/documents/2007JOEntryForm.pdf.
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
2008 Junior Worlds
Selection Criteria
The selection criteria for the 2008
Junior World Championships can be found at http://www.usjudo.org/juniors_compopportunities.asp.
The Junior Worlds will be held in the Fall 2008 at a
time and location to be announced.
USA JUDO Jr Open Update
Teams which have confirmed:
1. Brazil
2. Canada
3. Venezuela
4. New Zealand
5. Armenia
6. Russia
7. Puerto Rico
8. Great Britain
9. Dominican Republic
10. Netherland Antilles
11. Barbados
12. Bahamas
13. El Salvador
14. Panama
15. Mexico
16. Colombia
17. Argentina
18. Israel
19. Ecuador
20. Chinese Taipei
21. Nigeria
22. Peru
The Training Camp Coaches will be:
ISRAEL HERNANDEZ, JASON MORRIS, GERMAN VELAZCO AND CHRIS MCDONALD ALONG WITH
THEM SEVERAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL TEAM COACHES.
DUE NOTE: BRAZIL has confirmed to
bring this year their national Pan Am team which consist
of 64 athletes raning from all the Pan Am age groups.
All Japan IJF team was invited with
all the cost paid by the organizer and waiting on final reply.
_____________________________________________________________________
OVERFLOW HOTELS!
Sheraton Yankee Trader is located on
the beach and is one mile north of the headquarters hotel. The Trader still has
some rooms left the deadline to book has been change to July 12 but there is
only 25 rooms left. There will be transportation to and from the venue
and headquarters hotel provided by the event organizer at no cost. Here
is the link to reservation: US JUDO OPEN OVERFLOW GUESTROOMS
____________________________________________________________________
Here are additional overflow
hotels.
The Comfort Suites are holding 15
rooms the rates include transportation to and from Fort Lauderdale Airport,
continental breakfast and shuttle service to venue when shuttle is
available. Distance 1 mile east of venue.
COMFORT SUITES AIRPORT & CRUISE
PORT
1800 South Federal Highway
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33316
Reservations can be made by calling
954-767-8700 or 1-800-760-0000 and asking for the US JUDO OPEN rate
$95 rate is for 1 – 4 persons in a
room with 1 queen bed and a full-size sofabed
· Rooms with 2 queens (no sofabed) are ON REQUEST only at $105 for 1 – 4 persons
______________________________________________________________________________________
The Embassy Suites Hotel is
offering a room rate of $129.00 per night up to four people including full
breakfast. They have only 10 rooms.
www.ftlauderdale.embassysuites.com
Embassy Suites Fort Lauderdale
1100 SE 17th St.
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316
954-315-1327
USJA Junior Nationals
Results
A total of 530 competitors
participated in the USJA Junior Nationals, July 7-8 in Indianapolis, Ind.
Complete results can be found at http://www.usjudo.org/2007USJAJuniorNationalsResults.asp.
Out-Of-Competition
Testing Announcement
All athletes looking to qualify for
the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games MUST be in the U.S.
Anti-Doping Out-of-Competition Testing pool by AUGUST 8. Please contact
Monica Wright-Tafoya at Monica.Wright-Tafoya@usajudo.us.
Please note: this includes both
current players and any former elite athletes seeking to come out of retirement
between now and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
U.S. Open Masters Entry
Packet
The entry packet for the U.S. Open
Masters Championships, October 21 in Gwinnett, Ga., is now available at http://www.usjudo.org/documents/USOpenMastersentryPackage2007.pdf.
World Team Coach Israel
Hernandez Receives Citizenship
USA Judo would like to congratulate Israel
Hernandez (Harlingen, Texas) on receiving his U.S. citizenship on June 28.
Hernandez, who won two Olympic
medals during his career as a member of the Cuban Team, is now the head coach
of the USA Judo National Training Site at Harlingen and a coach of the 2007
World and Pan Am Teams.
Venezuela Elite
Training Camp
Venezuela has invited U.S. players
to participate in two elite training camps in August that is scheduled to
include athletes from Argentina, Venezuela, Cuba and the Dominican Republic.
Free room and board will be provided
for up to 10 male and 10 female players, based on those with the highest
rankings on the USA Judo Senior Elite National Roster, dated June 24.
The women’s camp will be held from
August 6-19 in Caracas. The men’s camp will be held August 10-September 5
in Barquisimeto in the State of Cara.
Athletes must contact Angie Marino
at Angela.Marino@usajudo.us
by July 13 to confirm participation.
Canada Elite Training
Camp
Judo Canada has invited U.S. players
to participate in an elite training camp, August 13-18 at the Shidokan in Montreal.
Free room and board will be provided
for up to eight male and eight female players, based on those with the highest
rankings on the USA Judo Senior Elite National Roster, dated June 24.
Additional slots are available;
however athletes will be responsible for their own expenses.
Athletes must contact Angie Marino
at Angela.Marino@usajudo.us
by July 11 to confirm participation.
U.S. Open Adds Kata
Division
For the first time ever, kata will
be contested at the U.S. Open, Oct. 21 in Gwinnett, Ga. Athletes may
compete in the Nage No Kata,
Katame No Kata, Ju No Kata and / or Goshin-Jutsu divisions. Male, female and mixed
divisions will be held with competitors from around the world.
For more information and a complete entry packet, visit http://www.usjudo.org/documents/US_Open_Kata_entry_Package_2007.pdf.
Former World Medalist Brian Olson Makes a Comeback
(Colorado Springs, Colo.) – With
just over a year to go until the 2008 Olympic Games, four-time National
Champion Brian Olson (Longmont, Colo.) recently announced his plans to
come out of retirement in a quest to win his first Olympic medal in Beijing.
“I think one of the biggest reasons
I decided I wanted to come back was obviously to try and win an Olympic medal
after being so close so many times,” said Olson, a 1997 World medalist.
“I had a successful career, but that’s the one thing that’s eluded me.”
Olson, who was on the 1996, 2000 and
2004 U.S. Olympic Teams, will be trying to qualify for his fourth U.S. Olympic
Team after dominating the division for the better part of a decade… more>
Something to Think About –
I would like to acknowledge the fine job Jim
Branson and Lowell Slaven did as Tournament Directors
of the 2007 USJA Junior Nationals. Not too long ago, the JA Juniors got a
bad rap for an ill-conceived tournament effort. However, because of the
tremendous efforts of Jim and Lowell, this event hosted over 520 players from
Massachusetts to Hawaii. They had Kata and
Competition divisions. They had a joint camp after the event with two
days in Indiana and a continuation camp in Michigan and the highlighter guest
of the event was world champion, Jim Pedro Jr. The tournament
Headquarters and site were first class and these two gentlemen and their GREAT
staff did a superb job in making everyone feel welcome. Of course,
Indianapolis is one of the truly friendly cities in the country so it was not a
stretch to imagine a great event. Next year, the event will be in Boston
and run by the Pedro’s – Jim Sr and Jim Jr. It
should be a great event and there will be a great expectation about having the
first national event in Massachusetts in a long time.
You should go to the Vince Lombardi quote site.
You will enjoy some of life’s small pleasures. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/v/vince_lombardi.html
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
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 – Florida
-
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
Atlanta, GA
-
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
-
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.