SouthBay Judo

Finally his greatest achievement was to recrive his 6th degree (Rokudan) promotion. Sensei Ed you’re looking good!! Omedetou gozaimasu!

2023 Winter Nationals Team
Maria and Marina Matsutani, Sarah Ramirez, Enzo Sakaguchi, Meina Nagai, Sensei Shane Shiosaki, Tumen Gantsooj, Yuriah and Zachary Ordinario and Yuma Sakamoto (Not in picture Mia, Kevin and Robbie Midgette)

Lotsa hardware brought back to the dojo!!!

South Bay Judo was represented by 4 awesome girls at the "Fight For The Cure" Breast Cancer Awareness Tournament

Tanan Gantsooj
Meina Nagai
Mia Midgette
Sarah Ramirez

All the girls fought hard and brought home some hardware.
🎀🎀🎀

Fall Session Senior In-House Newaza Shiai
Congrats to all that participated
Lt Wt Winters:
1st Nehemiah
2nd Rena
3rd Robbie
Hvy Wt Winners:
1st Jamico
2nd Luis
3rd Will



-houseshiai

We were honored to have .31 come to our dojo and share with us his judo technique. The class was both very informative and entertaining!

Thank you and all of Southbay who made it to the practice last night.

Here are some pictures of the night.














(IG posting doesn't allow wide frame pictures, so some are smaller to view on this post. If you'd like to see or obtain full wide frame versions and or other pictures of the night besides the ones you see here, feel free to message for more)

This past weekend 10/6-10/8, we had 9 students compete in the 2023 San Jose Open!

Tumen Gantsooj (2nd)
Armand Gheorghiu
Brayden Mendez
Robbie Midgette (2nd)
Yuriah Ordinario
Zachary Ordinario
Lucy Rondon
Enzo Sakaguchi (2nd)
Yuma Sakamoto

Everyone who competed fought well and congratulations to those who placed. And thank you to the parents and coaches for their support and dedication to the team.

First Nanka Shorai Practice of the 2023 Fall Session.
Thank you for hosting.

Enzo Sakaguchi participated as well as Sensei Milton

Thank you for taking Pictures.

2023 Nanka Fall Tournament held at West Minister High School.

It was a great turnout and good job to everyone who competed! And a big thank you to all those who coached and volunteered to work the score keepers table.

Southbay Competitors: (A-Z)
-Julien Do
-Tumen Gantsooj
-Brayden Mendez
-Kevin and Robbie Midgette
-Yuriah and Zachary Ordinario
-Lucy Rondon
-Enzo Sakaguchi
-Yuma Sakamoto

(Thank you to those who sent in pictures for us to share. 🙂)

Congratulations to the Matsutani Twins, Marina and Maria, on their promotions to Nidan from the Kodokan in Japan this past summer.
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Here up! Myles came EARLY!

First ones to our SBJ dining at Chipotles!

Thank you for coming out to the Bunkasai Japanese Cultural Festival! Great weekend for Shave Ice and Judo demonstration.

Tuesday was our last workout and condition class for this year. Let’s all enjoy the holidays with family and friends. See you in 2023!

Thank you everyone for coming out to see Santa! We had a great fundraiser, just about sold out HOT CCOA and bagged goodies in less than 2 hours!

Lil Judoka tournament today! Good luck to Team South Bay - Joey, Atlas, Adam, Lucy & Enzo

Getting ready for our upcoming Summer In-House Shiai!

Good workout last night. Thank you Hase Sensei for visiting.

We’re here! Come on down for our 1st annual SBJ Dining Nite at Chipotle’s.

Sunday Workout!

Bunkasai today. We just got 5 stars from these happy shave ice customers.

Thanks everyone for showing up! We sold out shave ice and ice cream by 3 pm. We’re now restocking for Sunday. See you tomorrow.

Bunkasai Japanese Festival!
Shave Ice & SBJ judo demonstration.

Last week at the dojo. Great start to our spring judo session. Pics from our 2nd and 3rd classes.

Another Thursday night at the dojo.

Many thanks to our members, friends, and family for their loyal support at our recent Lazy Dog Restaurant fundraiser! It was such a nice and profitable event. Also to our many ‘take home’ diners! You are all awesome and thank you!!!!

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