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Sensei Anna Marie and I recorded this so all criticism please kept to your self.

This isn’t judo as normal, but…

Hello Sensei,

I am the chair of the USJF COVID-19 Ad Hoc committee and our committee’s goals are to promote and increase access to quality judo, expand the judo community, and raise funds to support dojos.  We are the coordinators of the 
COVID-19 Support Grant and want to continue to be a resource for our community.  In an effort to fulfill this mission, in the coming weeks, we will be encouraging people to donate for the Open Mat events on our 
community website.  However, our first priority is to provide access to quality judo and
we ask that you share about our event and freely provide the link/password to your membership!  IF you would like to donate to this event, please visit the USJF Community website events page.

Our next event is on Wednesday, Oct 28th at 5:00pm Pacific Time with Arash Soofiani.

Click to JOIN the Open Mat Zoom Class: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87831078868?pwd=Nnk4VFJwQmxXc1A1M3VQS2k2SkNJQT09
Meeting ID: 878 3107 8868
Passcode: USJF

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In addition, below are a couple of upcoming virtual events hosted by our community that we encourage you to attend!

East Bay Judo Institute is hosting a virtual presentation 
“The Judo Paradox: Reckless Judo or Reckless Teaching?” by Dr. Michel Brousse THIS Sunday, October 18th at 7:00 am Hawaii, 9:00 am Pacific, 12:00 pm Eastern. 

Contact Sensei Sayaka Torra at info@ebji.org to register.

Kokushi Midwest Judo is hosting a 
Nihon no Sensei clinic with Masahiro Takamatsu on Saturday, November 14th at 5:00 pm Pacific, 7:00 pm Central, 8:00 pm Eastern. 

Click on the link to register: https://sparkpages.io/cart/2/?i=FS6&c=&ocu=

Feel free to post the flyers and share the links with your members!   Please let us know if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Krista Tsutsui Steele

USJF Social Media & COVID-19 Ad Hoc Committee

As most of you know, we are moving from Rings-&-Things to a new location at Lilac City Fit Body Boot Camp.
Saturday March 14 (Pi day) is the big move. We need all your help to get our mats moved.
We are planning to meet at Rings-&-Things at 8:00 to move the mats.
Please join us to help with the move.

Come one come all for the last night of practice at Rings-&-Things! We need everyone on Saturday to help us move, but come to practice tonight to enjoy our old space one last time. Hope to see everyone there!

Come one come all for the last night of practice at Rings-&-Things! We need everyone on Saturday to help us move, but come to practice tonight to enjoy our old space one last time. Hope to see everyone there!

You all have been listening to me go on and on about the importance of counters and combinations. Today Mike asked about combinations and I thought instead of me saying again that I think combinations are important, I would just post a link to this excellent resource.
This gives a nice list of techniques, with setups, follow-ups, and counters.
Memorize all of these and you will be fine.
The list is here.

We are canceling practice on Sat. 1/11/2020. The weather is just too bad. See everyone Monday night.

Sensei Bret here are pictures from the Katame No Kata, now please don’t beat me up for calling you a jerk on Thursday! 😀

Thanks!

If you missed practice last night, you missde:

Over the next couple of weeks, we have some schedule changes:

• Thursday, 10/24/2019 Pacific joining us for a joint practice. Kids and adult classes are at the regular times, there will just be more people.
• Saturday, 10/26/2019 Practice is cancelled due to a show at Rings-&-Things.
• Monday, 10/28/2019 Regular practice.
• Thursday, 10/31/2019 (Halloween) We are cancelling the kids class. We will have an adult practice from 6:00-8:30. Pacific is welcome to attend.
• Saturday, 11/2/2019 Katame No Kata Clinic all day.

Everything should be back to normal after that.
See everyone tomorrow.