Author: Brett Lewis

Last Thursday we were honored and delighted to have Sensei Dick Tashiro, Sensei Randall Platt and Sensei Anne Platt on the mat, in preparation for the 2023 Senior Nationals!

I encourage all of our junior players to compete. We will need to sign up tomorrow at practice, so come prepared to register!

We will not have our normal Saturday practice

Tomorrow and Sunday are the Senior Nationals, I encourage everyone who isn’t volunteering or competing to go and cheer everyone on.
The opening ceremony is at 8:00 tomorrow for the shiai and Sunday at 10:00 for the kata competition.
All event info and updated results are available here.

Good luck to Tay and Sensei Sam!

Spokane Judo was well-represented this weekend at the 2023 Budokan Tournament by Aries Flores who narrowly missed bring home the bronze in a very strong bracket. Her fighting shows how much she’s learned ~ she can’t wait for the next Shiai!

Pacific Judo needs volunteers for the upcoming Senior Nationals.
Specifically, I would like to get at least 4 volunteers to help running a table on Saturday 5/20.
I will be bugging everyone, so the earlier you sign up to help, the less everyone has to hear about it.
The table help will have the best seat in the house for some of the best judo in the US, so don’t miss this chance to help and see some excellent judo.

The Senior Nationals is coming up fast, May 20th. If you are born 2008 or older, you qualify to compete (Ryan).
The link to sign up is:

USA Judo Senior National Championships (teamusa.org)

In order to register online, your date of birth and rank must be verified. Contact Austin Leath

Let me know if you have any questions.

Saturday, the facility is being used for a cross fit kind of competition thing so we can’t workout. We will be back to normal on Monday.
See everyone on Monday.

Here are the streams from each of the mats.

• mat 1
• Mat 2
• Mat 3

We could not be more proud of our judoka! Not everyone brought home medals, but ALL fought well and hard. Tournaments are tough ~ so are the competitors who show up for them!

Getting focused….

Sensei Sam also took silver, but I didn’t get a pic…😬…Apologies!

Jet and Dan showed great fighting spirit and used technique well in their matches ~ we know medals are in their future!!