JudoNotes

Many thanks to Paul Virtue for these videos of Saturday's kata tests.

Alan Best:

John Faulkner:

Karim Wahib:

I don't have time to sort out my YouTube issues right now so I created an account on blip.tv and uploaded the videos there:

Sorry if the video in the above playlist is in a random order — blip.tv is kind of quirky. You can get a more logical order (and bigger video) if you follow this link to my channel.

Congratulations to Alan and Kevin!

I made a YouTube playlist of all the matches I got on video at Saturday's dojo tournament. Unfortunately I got there late and missed Dan and Rudy's match.

I really should learn to use my own camera. This shot of the lineup is a little blurry, but you can see what a good turnout we had.

Everyone from Oishi Judo passed their promotion tests yesterday:

• Arthur Zolotarevsky made shodan, with Will Heinrich as his uke.
• Milton Chacon made shodan, with Jeff Summa as his uke.
• Dan Withers made shodan, with Mike Pollice as his uke.
• Sensei Dave Williams made sandan, with Jeff as his uke.

Matt Crane was on hand as an alternate uke and Paul Virtue provided moral support.

Congratulations to all! Group photos and two video clips below.

Here are highlights from Saturday's promotionals.

I made a playlist of some of the matches.

Congratulations to all Oishi players who competed in the 43rd East Coast Judo Championship on September 19. In addition to those listed below, Patrick Younan and Mike Pollice also competed, and Arthur Zolotarevsky was on the sidelines shooting video.

Men Brown Belt

-161 2nd Place JEAN-EZRA YEUNG

-220 3rd Place DANIEL WITHERS

Men Black Belt

+220 3rd Place JOHNNY FAULKNER

MASTER (A)

-200 2nd Place MILTON CHACON

Here's Milton coming out of the turtle position to get osae-komi:

Unfortunately, I missed a big throw for ippon that Milton did. I was watching the wrong mat and didn't realize he was playing until I saw the throw out of the corner of my eye, just too late to catch it on video. Hate when that happens.

Here's a match well-played by Jean-Ezra:

I posted this on Facebook a while back but neglected to post it here. This was taken on Hisato's last day at the dojo before moving back to Japan. Nice smooth technique. (Hisato — a belated Happy Birthday! I hope you're doing well!)

The reason there's no sound is that I was shooting at 210 frames per second, and my camera doesn't capture audio in that mode. Although it's cool to be able to shoot that fast, in the future I'd probably prefer to shoot at normal speed and slow it down in software. Not only would I get sound, but the video would be less grainy.

Jaime says he got this from Sensei Williams.

Oishi Judo had a good turnout for the Hudson Promotionals on Saturday. Arthur, Zaid, Karim, Mike Pollice, and Jon Faulkner competed, as did one fellow from the day class whose name I'll have to get. No batsugans but a few nice throws. I made a playlist on YouTube where you can see all the matches I managed to get on video. Here are the highlights, complete with slo-mo replays:

P.S. The throwers are Zaid, Jon, Jon again, Karim, and Ken.

(I'm catching up on a backlog of news I've been meaning to post…)

Yotam posted video of his four matches at the Liberty Bell on April 5: