End of Month club Gossip Auckland Uni JUDO

Hong Kong International Open
Tim Slyfield Judo N.Z. High Grade development director,IJF Samoa international u 100kg champion  goes to the H.K. International open today and fights on Saturday.Tim who at 36 will be surely the oldest judoka there will be fighting an assortment of Mongolians,Chinese,Russians etc will be fighting under the new IJF rules for the 1st time.Tim who is famous for his pistol grip and grip breaking using two hands will need to be careful as the bight eyed ,newly refreshed IJF referees will be on the ball for that style of judo.This is the start of Tims comeback judo career and the next Commonwealth games when Tim will be 38.Maybe he should start looking at the Masters.
Jordan has restarted his mixed martial judo club at the A.I.T. North Shore Campus with good numbers and more to come next week when school fully resumes.
He needs mats so we suggested the the Auckland Judo Ass which has a policy of letting the two professional clubs in Auckland use all its mats free release some of these.

Try before you buy

Simon Fox LLB lawyer/shodan from Uni judo will be teaching at Bay City club as they have a instructor crisis,thanks Simon.
Auckland Central Police Club,negotiations are a foot to form a police club in the police gym.Those involved are Craige [formally Tauranga judo club] senior Sargent,Cornell [cloggs]Senior police inspector, Auckland and Andy [gunso] Lovelock North shore and above area commander.
Should have a good chance of getting of the ground and then they can apply for judo mats from the Auckland judo ass who have given the areas assets to professional judo clubs free of charge.
One of the Professional club instructors offered to pay the A.J.A. 2 dollars per mat per year rental fee , now on a two hundred dollar mat , the equates a 1% return, thats good [for him]
Auckland has two professional judo clubs;
Howick judo club and Nippon judo school both these clubs are professional and get the use of the areas assets for free.
No wonder judo in Auckland is going nowhere.
The new area president has proposed a judo camp for kids , something which not happened since the area started spenting all its time and energies on a International Auckland open.
Kiyoshi and Yoshimi from Ritsumeikan uni spent their last judo night at Auckland uni before going swimming with the sharks at Wahi beach Coromandel with wayne schuler.
Kiyoshi Japanese sandan gave Jodan a lesson in breakfalls, something Jodan has not had since he left Ritsumeikan Uni.
The last randori saw 4 pairs on the mat , but was soon reduced to only one pair as all stopped to watch a fine display of left hand  and both uchimata experts Japanese style judo between Kiyoshi and Yoshi.
Enjoyed by all with a group photo taken for judo history.
A strange sight was seen at the dojo during training last night,a fifth dan lounging on a chair drinking free beer Must be a bad habit he picked up at the national training camp recently in Wanganui. Hope we never see this again as we will have to have words to this national coach and also it gives the club a very bad image.
Can Am Ju Christchurch sent three good  brown belts to Osaka for the monthly shiai hoping to get their shodans by beating three in a row,only one passed.
Now this says two things;
One is that its not that easy to get a black belt in Japan, and the other is that those who passed recently [three from uni] are feeling very proud of themselves.

Backlash.
It is rumored that Judo N.Z. accussed  Matsuura Sensei from Daishin Dojo Osaka of helping N.Z.judoka to bypass the gradings in N.Z.
What the hell are they talking about?
Look at he judo calendar and you wont find much!
Isn't going to Japan, training and entering shiai what Judo n.z. should be promoting?
We at Auckland Uni Judo have a policy of sending and sponsoring our members to Japan to sit their black belts and this includes the famous red and whites where win 5 in a row and get instant promotion.Bring it on!
Igor
Welcome to Igor from Russia, with four other Russians in the club we must seriously consider making Russian an official language at club.We can all say nyet and da so far.
yawara