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The East Region Judo executive is currently under going some changes. We are
looking for three executive positions to be filled. Here is the time to
become active and have a voice in what goes on in the region.
The positions are the following:
1.      Regional referee coordinator
2.      Regional coach
3.      Email coordinator

PS: Bruce McNeill has forwarded his name for the regional referee
coordinator.

If you want to add your name to one of these positions or you know of
someone who does, please forward the name.

At the next regional meeting and there are more than one name per position,
then a vote will take place.

Requirements:
Referee: minimum National C
Coach: NCCP Level 1 preferred Level 2

Regards,
David

This is an excellent bit of film about judo!

Tina is a smashing star as always and we have special features with June & Masao Sensei!  Lots of kids doing all the stuff we luv.

Living in Ottawa Tuesday’s Show!

The Dojo clip is at the very beginning! 

The dojo has a fully operational and complete Global Gym Weights system for sale!  If you are intersted please call June Sensei at the dojo.

Does anyone know how to use ebay?  It would be great to get this stuff posted there!

Cheers

t 

As you may all have noticed a fancy new Aikido club has moved into the Takahashi Dojo!  As a result there was a massive cleanup and our family room has lost some of its former charm!

The Universal fitness system is there temporarily!  So do not panic! If you are interested in buying it Contact June Sensei.

Also, does anyone have any extra sofas, chairs, blinds etc. they might like to donate to that room to increase its comfyness? It is a great place for parents to study and kids to do their homework.  If so contact Tracey!

Cheers

Tracey 

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

• The new office hours for Judo Ontario are as follows: Monday - 8:00 am – 12:00 pm Tuesday to Friday – 8:00 am – 4:00 pm
• The new Judo Ontario toll free # is: 1-866-553-JUDO **
• See Updated 2007 Calendar Of Events

• 1. Final Senior Provincial Closed Qualifier Tora Judo Club, Terry Miller Recreation Centre Brampton, 1295 Williams Parkway East Sunday, March 4th, 2007, starting at 11:00am Unofficial/Official Weigh-ins: 7:00am – 9:00am Pre-registration: March 1st, 2007 $35 per person for pre-registration At the door registration: $45 per person **Kata Qualifier for Nationals: 10:00am** $60 per kata team - $80 for 2 or 3 disciplines) See the flyer that was sent out earlier in the week for more information.
• 2. 2007 Ontario Winter Juvenile Goodwill Games Saturday, March 24th, & Sunday, March 25th, 2007 For ages 14-16 years of age Royal St. George’s College in Toronto Regional Qualifiers are in February and first week of March Regional Registration Fee: $30.00 per person Contact Judo Ontario for general information and contact your Regional Director or the Judo Ontario office for qualifying information.
• 3.a) Central West Qualifier 2007 Ontario Winter Juvenile Goodwill Games Kawasaki Rendokan Judo Academy, 45 Hempstead Drive, Hamilton, Ont. Saturday, February 24th, 2007, starting at 11:00am Registrations and weigh-ins are the day of the tournament from 9am – 10:30am Registration Fee: $20.00 per participant For more information contact: Keith Crivea at 905-899- 3700 or at judokman@yahoo.com
• 3.b) Central East Qualifier 2007 Ontario Winter Juvenile Goodwill Games Budokan Judo Club, Ajax, Ont. Saturday, March 10th, 2007, starting at 2:30pm Weigh-In: 2:00pm – 2:15pm Registration Fee: $20.00 per participant For more information contact: Steve Campbell at 905-428- 8481
• 4. Central East Region Master’s Shiai Ajax Budokan, Ajax Community Centre, 75 Centennial Rd. Ajax, Ont. Saturday, March 10th, 2007, starting at 2:00pm Recreational Judoka Only: Lightweight, Medium, Medium- Heavy, and Heavyweight Divisions Day-Of-Event and Pre-Registration: $15.00 SPACE IS LIMITED For more information visit: www.judoontario.ca/events/pdf/ 2007_03_10CERegionMasters.pdf
• 5. 2007 Balmoral Judo Club Open Tournament Stonewall Collegiate Gym, Stonewall, Manitoba Saturday, March 24th, 2007 Boys & Girls Division and Masters will start at 10:30am Registration Fee: Boys & Girls - $10 (2nd division free) Juvenile, Senior and Masters - $20 (2nd division $10) **Pre-registered entries must be received by March 20th or postmarked by March 16th** For more information visit: http://www.judomanitoba.mb.ca/2007-Balmoral-Judo- Club-Invitation.pdf
• 6. Kawasaki Rendokan Senior & Junior Tomodachi Kawasaki Rendokan Judo Academy, 45 Hempstead Drive, Hamilton, Ont. Saturday, March 25th, 2007 Junior division starts at 9:00am Senior division starts at 10:30am Entrance Fees: $10.00 (Juniors), $15.00 (Seniors) Free Team Event for those who competed in an individual event. **Do not lose weight for this event (no weigh-in)** For more information visit www.kawasakirendokan.com or e-mail sensei@kawasakirendokan.com
• 7. The Brantford Judo Club 20th Annual Championships Mohawk College, 411 Elgin St., Brantford, Ont. Saturday, March 31st, 2007, starting at 10:30am sharp Pre-registration fee: $30 (individual), $75 (family) At the door registration fee: $35 (individual) **Maximum of 8 competitors per division** **Competitors may fight in ONE division only NO EXCEPTIONS** For more information visit: http://www.stevex.org/dnn/judo/Tournament/tabid/255/D efault.aspx
• 8. Yudansha Examination (all ranks) & Technical Seminar Takahashi Dojo, 5 Melrose Avenue, Ottawa, Ont. Saturday, March 31st 2007 is the Technical Seminar & it Runs from 2:00 pm to 6:30 pm $25.00 fee (fee is waived for the uke of the candidate) Sunday, April 1st, 2007 is the Yudansha Examination Shodan, Nidan Registration: 9:45 am to 10:00 am Examination: 10:00 am Sandan & above Registration: 1:15 pm to 1:30 pm Examination: 1:30 pm The 2006 National Grading Syllabus and Recommendation forms are available on the Judo Canada website: www.judocanada.org All documentation and grading fees must be received by March 2nd, 2007 for verification. No application will be accepted without a Judo Canada passport. Please send all documents directly to the secretary of the Judo Ontario Grading board, June Takashi c/o Takahashi Dojo.
• 9. The Provincial Grading Board has identified when gradings will be held and in what region. All gradings around the province will be open to all members despite where you live. In addition, the grading board may be holding other seminars throughout the year. A proposed schedule for next year is as follows: March 31 and April 1/07 East Region Late May/June 2007 Central East August 2007 Central West Sept/Oct 2007 North Jan 2008 South West April 2008 North West As a reminder, all provincial gradings will be forwarded to the membership 60 days in advance. This will allow members 30 days to review and submit their forms. This will allow the office 30 days to receive and review all applicants’ recommendation forms.
• 10. The Twelfth Annual Liberty Bell Judo Classic Lincoln High School, Ryan & Rowland Streets, Philadelphia, PA Saturday, March 31st, 2007: Juniors - Youth Sunday, April 1st, 2007: Seniors For more information visit: www.libertybelljudo.com
• 11. 2007 Junior & Juvenile Pan-Am Judo Championships Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Wednesday, April 11th – Monday, April 16th, 2007 Eligibility: - Canadian Citizen - Juvenile 15 & 16 years old - Junior 17, 18 & 19 years old Athletes & Coaches Entry Deadline: February 21st, 2007 Please send in the entry information to: beaton_judocan@yahoo.ca For more information visit: www.pju.org/nuevo/nuevo.htm
• 12. 2007 Eastern Manitoba Open Steinbach Regional Secondary School, 190 McKenzie Ave., Steinbach, Manitoba Saturday, April 14th, 2007, starting at 10:30am Hosted By: Kokoro-e Judo Club Registration Fee: $20 (individual) $50 (family rate, 3+ competitors) Weigh-ins: Friday, April 13th – 8:00pm to 9:30pm Saturday, April 14th – 8:30am to 10:00am (Boys, Girls, Juveniles and Masters) 8:30am to 11:00am (Seniors) If you would like more information about this tournament, feel free to contact Judo Ontario at: info@judoontario.ca
• 13. 2007 Lake Of The Woods Judo Championships Beaver Brae Secondary School, 1400 9th Street North, Kenora, Ont. Saturday, April 28th, 2007, preliminaries start 10:30am Weigh-In: Fri., April 27 – all categories, 6:00pm – 8:00pm Sat., April 28 – boys/girls/juvenile men/juvenile women, 8:30am – 10:00am - Senior men/senior women, up to 11:00am Registration Fee: $25.00 ($10.00 for second category) **Judo Clinic with former Olympian Ewan Beaton on Sunday, April 29th: 9:30am – 10:30am (12 & younger) 10:45am – 12:15pm (13 & older) For more information contact: Jim Dennis at 807-548- 2205 or at jhubay@kmts.ca 

• 1. Nickel Belt Budokan Annual Shiai YMCA Sudbury, 140 Durham Streets, Sudbury, Ont. Saturday, May 5th, 2007, Opening Ceremonies at 10:00am PRE-REGISTRATION ONLY – up to and including April 27 **NEW EVENT PARTNERSHIP – all paid YMCA members and all paid Judo Ontario members may participate** **NEW DIVISION: Northern Grappling Challenge** Entry Fees: Jr. - $30.00 Family Rate - $60.00 (3 or more in Juniors) Juveniles, Sr., Masters and Grappling - $35.00 Extra Division (1 division extra only) - $20.00 Family Rate - $90.00 (3 or more judoka, each competing in one division) For more information visit: www.annualshiai.com
• 2. 2007 Ontario Schools Judo Championships Hershey Centre, 5500 Rose Cherry Place, Mississauga, Ont. Saturday, May 12th, 2007 Junior division starts at 9:00am Senior division starts at 10:30am Pre-Registration: $35.00 ($5.00 for each additional family member) Registration at the site: $40.00 For more information contact David Miller at 416-533-9481 ext. 361 or at dmiller@rsgc.on.ca
• 3. The 2007 Canadian Kata Championships are being held in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, from Saturday, May 5th – Sunday, May 6th. It’s a large attachment so if you’d like a copy, please return email and we’ll send it out individually or you can also access the document at: www.judocanada.org/events/Kata%20TP.pdf
• 4. Kawasaki Sisters Technical Clinic & Training Seminar Friday, June 8th to Saturday June 9th, 2007 Entry Fee: $35.00 per person **More Information will come in the following weeks**
• 5. 2007 Annual Huntsville Judo Tournament & Family Judo Weekend Riverside Public School, 755 Brunel rd., Huntsville, Ont. Saturday, June 9th, 2007 – Shiai (first match 10:30am) Sunday, June 10th, 2007 – Clinic **No Pre-Registration** $25 per competitor, $20 per competitor families(3 or more) For more information contact Phil / Lisa Makela at 1-705- 789-6291 or at lisamakela@hotmail.com

Well, the day of the tournament finally arrived.

I was feeling good this morning. To sum it up for those of you that don’t want to read the details: I ended up 7th, with a bye, one win and 2 losses. A little disappointing, considering I was winning my last match until the last minute and a half and then wasn’t smart the last little bit.

If I had won that one, I would have been in the bronze medal match, and could have definitely won a medal. Here are some more details: - First match was against a girl from the Netherlands (Jennifer Wickers?): I had a tough time with her gripping style and basically lost by waza-ari because of grips. She went on to win the silver. - 2nd match was against a Danish girl: Won by ippon after throwing her for waza-ari with delgado and holding her down. - 3rd match was against a Japanese girl: I was pretty much dominating the fight, and was winning initially by 2 yukos (left kouchi makikomi and tani-otoshi), and then she scored a yuko (which was really a koka), and I got little too comfortable with her attempts at uchi-mata (trying to counter with delgado again). She ended up throwing me for waza-ari with uchi-mata and held me down. It really sucks because she ended up winning the bronze against Jennie Andreasson of Sweden, and I should have beaten both of them.

- Other canadian results: Jennie Bonsant won gold in 63 - it was a small category…only 7. Joliane won gold in 57. She looked good. It’s just frustrating to know I’ve beaten her a few times before. Bianca ended up fighting 52 because they were only 2 in 48. She was sick today and ended up 0-2. - We were 15 in my category. So, the plan for the rest of the week is to go to the training camp on Monday and Tuesday (hopefully a lot of people will stay), and do a little sightseeing on Wednesday. I may or may not write again while I’m here. Internet is expensive.

Kingston Open and Ontario Team Qualifier
Saturday February 17th, 2007
Results

Gold

• Tony Walby                                           Senior
• Chenoa Marshall                                    Senior
• Mohammed Al-Mulla                              Mudansha
• Ann Larouche, Roger Houle                    Katame No Kata
• Ann Larouche, Roger Houle                    Nage No Kata

Silver

• Sean Macfadyen                                    Masters
• Emily Takahashi                                    IJF
• Tracey Lauriault                                     Mudansha
• Janine O’Keefe                                       Mudansha
• Jessica Larouche-Hovington                    Cadet

Bronze

• Daniel Porier                                          Senior
• Christy Takahashi                                  Senior
• James Day                                            Juvenile
• Cyndi Nhan                                           IJF
• Sylvain Ganter                                       Mudansha
• Adam Macfadyen                                   Cadet

Participants

• Christian Gigault                                    Masters
• Javier Gorriz                                          Masters
• Charles Nhan                                        Juvenile
• Bryce Mitchell                                       Juvenile
• Igor Kolokoltsvev                                    Cadet
• Alex Vyerych                                          Cadet
• Torin Macfadyen                                    Cadet
• Masayuki Lauriault                                 Cadet
• David Stevenson, Glenn Cheriton Goshin Jitsu No Kata

You are all lookin’ mighty fine!

FINAL SENIOR PROVINCIAL CLOSED QUALIFIER

Sunday, March 4/07
Tora Judo Club
1295 Williams Parkway E
Terry Miller Recreation Centre Brampton

Unofficial / Official Weigh-ins 7:00 – 9:00am

Tournament start time: 11:00 am Kata Qualifier for Nationals — 10:00am

Nage No Kata / Katame No Kata / Goshin Jitsu / Ju No Kata Please remember, only same gender teams qualify for the Nationals, but we are allowing mixed teams to participate for the Ontario Championships $35 per person

Pre-registration Pre-registration – March 1, 2007 ($60 per kata team - $80 for 2 or more disciplines) $45 per person at the door Modified IJF rules may apply

Tournament Director – Craig Weldon Chief Referee – Chuck Lee Draw Master – Fran McCrodden PGB Chair – Goki Uemura

Contact June Sensei for forms.

Hi everyone,