Bloody battle at all japan high grade masters judo kodokan 2014 april

All Japan high grade masters 
1340 judoka with 30 eighth dan include and it was all over over 5pm .
High lite of the day was Matsumura Sensei 89 yrs and Takahashi Sensei 87yrs.both have shrunk and would only be 160cm at most are a living testimony to what judo is all about . Takahashi Sensei who it is said does 1000 left uchikomi everyday threw with a beautiful right ouchigari for ippon.

As for myself I was not feeling the best due to drugs I was taking for deep vein thrombosis, felt out of breath just by climbing up four flights of stairs to the main dojo twice.i was the last to fight in the 7 th dans against a judoka who had come all the way from Sapporo Hokkaido .
Marcel Bennicourt and old student from auckland uni judo turn up for support.
Hajime
And it was all on, having been to this shiai 28 times and being a gaijin foreigner it's a bit hard to appear incognito.
First I tried my favourite standing tomoenage arm-bar which just failed as someone had warned him,followed up with roll over but he trapped my leg ,stand up start again, udegaeshi rolling arm bar , success , osaekomi hold down , nose starts to bleed , let go ? No way!
Ippon ! Let go , nearly fainted at the sight of all my blood on him.
Must have been at least 25 cc , said sorry , he said sorry , we both said sorry, stand up, fell dizzy , bowed off , forgot to get a photo of him looking like he had been in a bloody battle.
Presentation of Kodokan gongs for those who had entered today's type shiai 20 times without losing .i,m there .
Where,s my presentation for outstanding perform, sorry said a kodokan Sensei , it's very hard to get one from a newaza win.
What? That judo discrimination I said .he laughed and said yes.
Went back to the hotel in Ikebukuro and an judo friend from 1981 .Toshiro Miyamoto .
Went a local izakaya pub, ate lots of fish, drank two beers, talked a lot and then went home ,
That's life at its best.