This is the tournament put on by Pacific judo and it is here in town.
The date is 5/23/2015, the Saturday of Memorial day weekend.
I strongly urge everyone to compete. The travel time is nothing and you have two whole days to recover afterwards.
As I said on Monday, competition is a great way to test what you have learned.
The entry form is here.

The waiver is here.

The Seattle Dojo tournament is May 2nd at the Bellevue boys & girls club.
The entry form is here.

Congratulations to Aleksi Lee on his 2 2nd place trophies. All that weight cutting is definitely worth it! To quote Aleksi, “who needs food when you have the sweet taste of victory”.

The entry form is here.

We are
honored to announce the 59th Annual Obukan Judo Shiai & Kata / Onchi
Sensei Memorial Tournament

Obukan Judo Dojo

Saturday, April 4, 2015 from 7:30 AM to 6:00 PM (PDT)

 

PCC Cascade Gym

600 N. Killingsworth St., Portland, OR 97217

 

Please Register here today: 
http://obukanjudo.org/

 

Obukan want’s to be your player’s tournament. Making sure it
is fun and exciting experience for the players, coaches, families, referees and
all judo fans!

 

This year we’re trying some thing different. We are going to
have “Veterans/Masters” go right
before the juniors. Normally these are very small divisions but made up of the
dad’s & mom’s that brining their kids to compete, some coaches who compete,
referee’s that want to compete and some really good seasoned “Veterans/Master”.  We want to let you all go first so the kids
can see your great exciting judo and let you all enjoy the rest of the
tournament with your family and friends!

 

Along with the “Veterans/Master”,  we will also have Kata division, Juniors, Cadets and Seniors.

 

Special awards:

1. Best Technique
Award Juniors

2. Best Technique
Award Seniors

3. The Jocelyn Latka
Spirit Award for juniors

4. The Onchi Sensei
Spirit Award – For Coach, Referee, Senior

5. Onchi Scholarship
Award – High School Student award of $500

6. Fukushima Sensei
Kata Award – Spirit of Learning Kata

 

** Special pre
Tournament bow in performance by en Taiko

 

We look forward to
seeing you at our 59^th tournament on April 4^th in
beautiful Portland, Oregon!

 

Next year is even
bigger as it is our 60^th tournament and 90^th year since
the first person bowed onto the Obukan tatami. “Obukan 6090” in 2016!

 

 

Thank you all for
your fantastic support and participation in our wonderful sport of Judo!!

 

Gambatte Kudasai!!

 

Rod Conduragis

Obukan Judo Dojo

 

The next tournament is the Emerald City Judo Championships on 3/21.
The entry packet is here.
You can register on-line at: online registration

1st

• Myles Freeman (11-12 middle wt.)
• Cassidy Freeman (senior novice light wt.)
• Anna Marie Medina (senior brown/black light wt.)
• Aleksi Lee (senior brown/black light wt.)

3rd

• Myles Freeman (13-14 light wt.)
• Cassidy Freeman (15-16 light wt.)

Competed

• Miles Lewis (9-10 heavy wt.)
• Allen Monroe (senior brown/black super-heavy wt.)

Everyone had a good number of matches. I was pleased to see people winning with technique.

Congratulations to all who competed. It is truly hard to get out on the mat and fight.

Saturday, March 7th 2015.
McCall Donnelly High School
401 N. Mission St.
McCall, ID 83638

Everyone should go.
The entry form is here.

This looks like a great opportunity for any brown/black belt to obtain promotion points (or instantly get promoted via Batsugun).
Basically, you get to fight matches against people of similar rank and you receive 1 point for each ippon and .5 point for each win by wazari.
Click here for the 2015- Northwest Yudanshakai Promotional Point Tournament form.

Here is the entry form for the Washington State Championships on 1/17/2015.
Click here to download.

I just received this updated tournament schedule.
You can download here.