Kong's Pick of the Week

Is the AJA's vision a threat?

Seriously, you have to wonder what goes on in the minds of the AJA. Here, Ramses Gold unveils a new iteration of his vision for Judo in Auckland. Truly bizarre. http://www.judoauckland.com/2008/08/ramses-vision-of-future.html.

More from "Train Judo"

Train Judo says "I am a tool of destruction!!!"

An interesting figure to follow in the MMA world is Quincy Rice aka “Train Judo.” Rice has been making the most out of old rivalries. He claims that BJJ IS Judo – or more accurately, BJJ is ripped off and repackaged ugly Judo.

“The Death Throw!!! I'm pretty confident I could kill most of you with a swift throw onto your head...Of course I wouldnt use it in MMA, but just the same, you should remember that "ippon" symbolizes a token death. Many of you are fooled into thinking you are not going to die in a street fight because you train MMA, nothing could be farther from the truth...” -- Train Judo.

So far, Rice (aka "Train Judo") has managed to piss off everyone. BJJ and MMA practitioners are horrified, particularly when "Train Judo" claims BJJ is built on "ripp'in another art." So too are Judoka who claim that, by acting the way he does, he is not doing Judo any favors. Based on this impressive track record -- managing to offend both sides of a debate -- Kong has concluded that "Train Judo" needs to be featured here over the next few months. In the interim, here is an interesting clip where "Train Judo" explores the "intensity" of BJJ:

Monday

South Island Judo Championships

Nelson | Monday, 25 August 2008 – From Stuff.co.nz.
Bodies were flying and slamming on the mat at the 2008 House of Travel South Island Judo Championships in Motueka over the weekend.
About 130 judokas from throughout the country took part in the two-day event, hosted by the Central Districts Judo Association at the Motueka Recreation Centre. The competition is usually held in Christchurch, and was last held in Motueka 10 years ago.
Carl Beech from the Motueka Valley, who won silver in his weight class and bronze in the senior men's open competition, said he was really happy to have the event in Motueka, as it enabled local judokas to see a high standard of competition.
Christchurch's Jason Koster, who won the open competition, said he was using the event as a warm-up for the Asian circuit in November, which attracts the top fighters in the world.
He said it was important to support local tournaments - he could still remember the impression senior fighters had made on him as a junior.
The president of the New Zealand Judo Federation, Harry O'Rourke, said it was a very well organised tournament and although numbers were down a little in the senior divisions, the standard of competition was very high.
Both mats were in constant use on Saturday, with bouts running from 9am to 6.30pm.
The only respite came when a fuse blew, leaving the electronic scoring system down for 20 minutes.
The event also attracted national coach Brent Cooper, who was “talent-spotting,” and referee Dave Brown, who had come straight from judging an Olympic final in Beijing.
There will be another report on the championships in Tuesday's Nelson Mail sports section.

Disturbing Announcement From the AJA?

Dear Humble subjects,

Ever since we announced the possibility of a sponsorship deal with the manufacturers of Winfield Blue we, at the AJA, have been swamped with letters of complaint and protest. Apparently, none of you see the point of being sponsored by a tobacco company unless there’s beer and/or bourbon too. Frankly, we at the AJA like your thinking. Ergo, we have now entered into a new set of negotiations that should secure the financial future of Judo in NZ. The beer and bourbon look set to flow. Further, while I cannot be any more specific at this juncture I can also say that there have also been a few nibbles from a local "adult concepts" store.

Regards,

Ramses Gold
Technical Director
"The Future of Judo in Auckland"TM

Kosen Judo Loses One of the Few Remaining Pre-war Sensei.

By Sensei Rick -- It has just been revealed that Kimura Sensei died last June at the age of 92 years.

Kimura sensei was a graduate of Doshisha University and student of Abii Goichi 8th Dan the god of newaza.

I first met Kimura sensei in 1965 when l went to Japan for judo with my 1st wife who was Japanese and came from Yonago city on the west coast of Honshu the main island of Japan. I had gone to Japan for 6 months to get my black belt which in those was the ultimate in those days and then go back to NZ and say well l could not get it in NZ but l got it in Japan.

Naturally l went down to the local dojo which was nears the ruins of the Yonago castle; the building was very basic, made from wooden planks with hard straw tatami.

At the same time Kimura sensei had come down to the dojo, having heard that a strange gaijin [foreigner] was in town. He soon introduced himself as having being the newaza coach for the Japanese team at the Tokyo Olympic.

Naturally l was impressed and more impressed when he offered to teach me judo to which l accepted his offer.

As we got to know Kimura sensei the details of his life emerged;

Born of a wealthy family who’s father owned lots of land in the area but lost most of it drinking sake and womanising; rode around Yonago in a jinrikisha, graduated from the top middle school and went to Doshisha university where he learnt Kosen judo from Abii sensei.

After graduation he was drafted into the air arm of the Japanese army where he became a pilot, towards the end of the war he was commander of a Kamikaze squadron and saw most of his friends off to their certain deaths.

One particular friend asked Kimura sensei to marry his new bride should he not come back, which he duly did. What are friends for? Research in NZ showed that Kiwi soldiers asked their mates to do the same

At he end of the war he was sent to Sugano prison in Tokyo as a war criminal, but was released after six months.

Sensei returned to Yonago city and with his brothers who also had survived the war started a gasoline station business, this prospered and when l met him he had three gasoline stands.

Although he was very busy this did not stop from taking time out to teach me his style of kosen judo and take me to judo competitions. His enthusiasm to teach me Doshisha style Kosen judo was unlimited and which had a big influence on my future impute into judo.

It was at one of these local judo competitions that after three weeks in Japan I won three contests in a row to gain my shodan. Wow l had now reached the dizzy heights of black belt except here in Japan 12 or 13 olds can get black belt the same way and shodan really means the 1st step. and that your learning had just started and as a 7th Dan l am still learning.

Kimura sensei was there when three months later at a different monthly shiai l took my nidan grade.

During the day l trained at the Higashi High School dojo which was the strongest in the area and it was not long after that, that Kimura Sensei suggested that although he could teach me lots more judo l needed stronger judoka to train with and he suggested Nagoya university where his friend was the sensei or Doshisha university in Kyoto where Ebii Goichi who had been his sensei was teaching.

After consulting the maps l found that Kyoto being the ancient capital was also in the middle of Japan

So that it would be easier to travel around the rest of Japan and so started a lifelong love with Kyoto.At the time little did l know that Kyoto being in a basin surrounded by mountains it was bloody cold in winter and bloody hot in summer


Soon after I arrived in Yonago one day after judo sensei took me to the local noodle shop and ordered Udon large white flour noodles which looked like large white earthworms, l struggled thru this and had just finished when another bowl arrived with sensei saying eat up you need to keep your strength up.

Groan!

In the 1980,s when at the All Japan Judo Championships l met Kimura sensei he dragged me over meet Kimura Masahiko and introduced him as the famous Kimura, all Japan champion x pro wrestler making out this was the real one. They were both real in my eyes.

www.My Judo Masahiko Kimura.com.

Kimura sensei when in Tokyo would always go to the Kodokan looking for foreigners to teach sankaku waza and much to the Kodokan sensei dismay strip down to his long johns and undershirt to demonstrated his favourite sankaku techniques. Meanwhile the Kodokan teachers were running around looking for a judogi for him.

I have no doubt that it’s because of the two Kimura,s efforts that their sankaku waza techniques were adapted and expanded by the Europeans about 15 years ago. Recently the Brazilians with their jujitsu have become very good with Kosen judo and sankaku

Until recently one could go on youtube and see Kosen judo by both Kimura,s but recently these clips have been pull by Budo films for copy write reasons

Whenever l visited Yonago I would always visited him and say hello, he would always try and take me for dinner or a cup of coffee so that he could talk about judo, his life long love and hobby.

One day he said lets go to sushi, as l know an unusual place, so of we trotted to this place and the owner told sensei to go and smoke outside as he didn’t want the smoke to taint his fish, so sensei went outside had his smoke and came back inside. Next the owner served his sushi and said shoyu ok for this but not for these, 1st time l had come across this.

Up to the age of 87 he was still riding around Yonago on his bicycle and only gave up after a triple bypass heart operation, also at the same time he gave up smoking.

Last Oct 2007 when I went to Yonago Kimura sensei was in hospital having fallen over and breaking his hip, but at the time the doctors were more concerned about his diabetes then his hip.

We talked about judo, took photographs, gave his wife a present of sweet cakes which sensei could not eat and he came as far as the lift to say goodbye.

Then last April when in Yonago we rang his wife to find out if he had come home from hospital, and was informed that he was now in a rest home and could not come yet because his daughter had fallen off her bike, was in hospital and the wife could not look after both.

We found the home in the countryside and sensei was having lunch he looked up recognised me and said hello.

For the 1st time ever he never talked about judo, l nearly cried, l hugged him and said my last farewell, he returned to his lunch and only looked up once as we went into the elevator.

Next month in Sept will be according to the Buddhist tradition his official funeral. And as l will not be there l will do Haka mairi, [pray front of his headstone] in Oct and visit his grave every time I’m in Yonago.

Kimura Sensei you were a true judo warrior Sayonara ..

Rick Littlewood.
Kodokan and Judo NZ 7th Dan

Old Comics: Judo Page

Remembering a bygone era...when scissors take-downs were still legal and Judo was on the rise in the West.

Joint Lock

Dear University Judo,

I know we have had our differences in the past. The fact that your club even considered that I, the mighty Ramses Gold, was a guy called Dave made me feel used and hurt. Just because I like to wear a mask, lycra wrestling tights, and have young migrant workers rub me down with oil doesn't mean you can go and call me names.
I hope we can put this little misunderstanding behind us. Ramses Gold is NOT Dave Browne. In the belief that we can move forward together please accept the following technical instruction pack as a token of my appreciation of your club and your commitment to Judo.

Best Regards,

Ramses Gold
Technical Director
Auckland Judo Association

Satoshi Ishii Wins Gold

BEIJING, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- Japan's Satoshi Ishii won the gold medal in men's over 100kg division by outscoring Abdullo Tangriev from Uzbekistan on Friday at the Beijing Olympic Games to continue Japan's success in the highest weight judo.
Ishii defeated Tangriev in the five-minute fight with a yuko, a moderate advantage in judo competition, to retain the Olympic title achieved by his predecessor Keiji Suzuki at the Athens Games.
The 21-year-old Ishii, with a body of 110kg, has been a gold medalist with the smallest weight in the men's highest category since the open division was eliminated at the Seoul Games 1988.
Having a bye in the first round, Ishii made a perfect four ippons in all the five matches without giving any score to his opponents.
He stunned Tamerlan Tmenov of Russia, silver medalist of world championships 2007, only 16 seconds to go in the quarter-final, then upset Lasha Gujejiani of Georgia, world championships bronze medalist, in the semifinal, all with ippon.
Ishii won Japanese domestic title at 19 in the heavyweight division to become the youngest national champion, which had shaken the whole country where judo was initiated.
Tangriev beat Teddy Riner, world champion last year, in his quarterfinal to clean the way toward meeting Ishii. But Riner, world-ranked No. 1 this year, later rallied to win a bronze medal by upsetting Gujejiani.
Oscar Brayson from Cuba achieved the other gold by ipponing Mohammad Reza Rodaki of Iran.

Chinese Women at Beijing

BEIJING, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Thanks to comprehensive preparations, the Chinese women's judo team has made a historic breakthrough by winning an unprecedented three golds at the Beijing Olympic Games, said Fu Guoyi, team head coach here on Sunday.

"We have analyzed our opponents very carefully before the Games," Fu told a press conference in the Athletes' Village attended by several coaches and champion judokas. "We also owe our good performance to the support from the home spectators, as Beijing is the host city."

The Chinese women were the biggest winners of the Olympic judo competition, taking three out of the total seven golds in women's events, followed by Japan with two, and Germany and Romania with one each.

The 33-year-old mama judoka Xian Dongmei, who defended her title in the 52kg category, attributed her success to the great teamwork.

Asked how she managed to retain her Olympic title, Xian said:"My physical condition is good so I can endure the hard training. And my coach, the research team and doctors all gave me great help. My success should be attributed to the great teamwork."

Xian, who gave birth to a baby girl 18 months ago, said:"When I won, I bowed to the spectators in all directions, because their cheers really motivated me."

"After the win, I called my husband. He congratulated me and I said thanks to him. It's very brief. I think our emotion is beyond language," Xian added.

The day after Xian was crowned, her husband and daughter came to Beijing for a family reunion.

"I was a coach in the Guangdong provincial judo team previously, and I think I will go back to continue my work there. As for the 2012 Olympic Games, I will decide later whether to attend them or not, according to my physical condition. Currently, it's too early to say anything," Xian said.

Besides Xian, Yang Xiuli and Tong Wen also won gold medals in the 78kg category and over 78kg category respectively at the ongoing Games.

Asked why the Chinese squad has won so many golds, Tong Wen responded:"I think it's only because our hard work has paid off."

Award for Best GRANT BRUNO

University Judo would like to present the first annual Anton Chigurh Award for Best GRANT BRUNO impersonation in a leading role. This coveted award goes to none other than Captain Ben. In a powerful yet understated performance, the Captain successfully managed to pull together the essential elements and characteristics of a figure that can only be regarded as a club legend. Bruno, in and through the Captain, your memory lives on. "More strength, less technique!"

Sensei's Pick of the Week

Sensei says: Japanese like the BIG ippon. Europeans like the little ippon (boring!). We need a rule change. Read this:
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/olympics/20080818TDY03104.htm

Judo Trivia

It has recently come to our attention that Judo provided at least 17 Olympic Flag Bearers. Here are some of them:

* Greece (GRE) Ilias Iliadis Judo (first athlete into the stadium no less)
* Turkmenistan (TKM) Guvanch Nurmuhamedov
* Malta (MLT) Marcon Bezzina
* Kyrgyzstan (KGZ) Talant Dzhanagulov
* Libya (LBA) Mohamed Ben Saleh
* Puerto Rico (PUR) McWilliams Arroyo
* Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) Amel Mekic’
* Estonia (EST) Martin Padar
* Slovenia (SLO) Urska Zolnir
* South Korea (KOR) Jang Sung-Ho
* Cameroon (CMR) Frank Moussima
* Mongolia (MGL) Mahgal Bayarjavhlan
* American Samoa - A ETONU, Silulu
* Guam - Ricardo Blas Jr.

When you add in the number of wrestlers who were also flag bearers it suggests that grapplers rule.

Judo Vision

Why read about Judo in Beijing when you can watch it:
http://www.judovision.org/?cat=203.

If anyone has found a better source please email me: judokong@gmail.com.

Tanimoto reaches semifinals, Ono knocked out

BEIJING — Tuesday 12th August, 05:38 PM JST
Defending champion Ayumi Tanimoto booked a spot in the semifinals of the women’s 63 kilograms after winning her first two matches at the Beijing Olympic Games on Tuesday. Tanimoto, who had a bye into the second round, countered an attack by Ysis Barreto, manhandling her Venezuelan opponent to get a mount before placing her in an ironclad submission hold for ippon at Beijing Science and Technology University Gymnasium. Falling behind a point for inactivity in her second match, Tanimoto was never fazed as she proceeded to execute the same power-lifting feat, this time twisting over South Korea’s Kong Ja Young on the mat before immobilizing her with a rear pinning technique. Tanimoto faces her toughest test in her next match against three-time world champion and Athens bronze medalist Driulis Gonzalez of Cuba.
But it was another day in the doldrums for Japanese men, with Takashi Ono losing his first match in the 81-kg category against reigning world champion Tiago Camilo of Brazil and failing to advance to the repechage stage. Camilo rolled over Ono, the 2005 world bronze medalist, with a piggyback technique and won the match on points. But the Brazilian did not reach the semifinals, which left Ono out of the running to win a bronze medal.

Oztralia Still Back Hungarian Ring-In

AAP - August 11, 2008, 5:09 pm

Outclassed Australia are still looking for their first victory on the Olympic judo mats after all four competitors lost their first-round bouts on the weekend.

It's hoped former Hungarian and 2000 Olympic medallist Maria Pekli will turn the tables on her former country on Monday to break Australia's duck at the Beijing Games.

Dennis Iverson will take on Turkey's Sezer Huysuz in the men's lightweight class at the same time as Pekli as Australia look to avoid a third straight day's clean sweep.

Kristi-Ann Ryder (52kg) and Steven Brown (66kg) both lost first round bouts at the Beijing Science and Technology University Gymnasium on Sunday leaving the team with an 0-4 record.

But Pekli, competing in her fifth Olympics, is seen as one of the country's best judokas after winning bronze in Sydney eight years ago following her defection from Hungary.

The 36-year-old Melbourne mother will face a tough challenge in fighting Hungarian Bernadette Baczko, 22, who won bronze at last year's world championship.

Veteran Cathy Arlove can make amends for her Athens heart-break on Tuesday when the Australia judo team look to her for some belated Beijing joy.

Arlove, the biggest hope in Australia's 13-strong team, will start her third Olympics desperate to go at least one better than the 2004 Games when she was controversially denied a bronze medal.

The technically-impressive 63kg Victorian made the third-place playoff in Athens against a Japanese opponent she beat in the minor rounds but came unstuck on the mat.

A sporting all-rounder who also competes in track cycling and wrestling, 37-year-old Arlove faces a tough first-round test against former world champion Daniela Krukower in the "half-middleweight" (63kg) division.

Krukower was the first Argentinian to win a judo world title in 2003 but Arlove performed better than her at last year's world championships.

Australia endured a forgettable but not unexpected weekend on the mat when all four fighters were bundled out of the competition in the first round.

Indonesian-born school student Mark Anthony, 18, will also have his chance to shine in the 81kg men's division at the Beijing Science and Technology University Gymnasium on Tuesday.

Anthony, in his last year of study at Lara Secondary College in Geelong, will go in as an underdog in his first-round bout with Columbian Mario Valles.

Min-Ho wins judo gold for SKorea

Posted Sat Aug 9, 2008 11:00pm AEST

Choi Min-Ho of South Korea won gold in the men's -60kg division of the judo at the Beijing Olympics on Saturday evening.

The 2003 world champion, a bronze medallist in Athens, was in startling form throughout the day and defeated Austria's Ludwig Paischer with a brilliant te-guruma (leg-grab pick-up) for the maximum ippon in the final.

Current world champion Rouben Houkes of the Netherlands beat Israel's Gal Yekutiel for bronze while the second bronze medal went to Rishod Sobirov of Uzbekistan, beating France's Dimitri Dragin.
From: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/09/2330075.htm?site=olympics/2008

Australian Lightweights Out Early

AAP | August 09, 2008 05:31pm.
AUSTRALIA'S ultra-lightweight judo competitors have both failed to last longer than 90 seconds in their Olympic debuts in Bejing. The inexperience of Matt D'Aquino and Tiffany Day was glaring as they both lost first round bouts at the Beijing Science and Technology University Gymnasium to more seasoned opponents.

Toowoomba teenager Day lasted just 80 seconds on the mat before losing by ippon when pinned down by Argentinian Paula Pareto.

The defeat came just minutes after Canberra's D'Aquino, 23, fell in similar fashion to Greek judoka Alexanidis Lavrentios, who took the bout in 90 seconds.

Pareto and Lavrentios then lost their next round matches, meaning the Australians were prevented from fighting their way back into the bronze medal competition via repechages.
From: http://www.foxsports.com.au/beijing_olympics/story/0,27313,24153350-5016792,00.html.

Beijing 08' Judo News

Judo Results and Scheduales: http://www.nbcolympics.com./judo/resultsandschedules/index.html.

Tani takes judo bronze for Japan's 1st medal in Beijing: http://www.japantoday.com/category/olympics/view/tani-books-spot-in-judo-semifinals.

Smooth draw for France's Riner and Japan's Tani: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/feedarticle/7708317

Ramses in "Neutralise" Mode

Quicker that you can say "we'll sell kiwi bank," Ramses Gold has moved into neutralize mode: http://www.judoauckland.com/2008/08/towards-bright-new-future.html

Judo Power Unmasked?

A concerned member of our Club recently sent me this photo. While it cannot be confirmed, due to the low quality of the image, we may finally have unmasked the might Ramses Gold, the technical director of the real AJA.


Kong

Judo Mum's

--Reuters, Tuesday August 5 2008
By Ian Ransom
BEIJING, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Celebrity, super-mum and one of the most feared judo champions of her time, Japan's Ryoko Tani has put family matters on hold to compete for a record third consecutive gold at the Beijing Olympics.
The first woman judoka to successfully defend an Olympic title, Tani will spearhead a team with lofty expectations, but one who face an uphill battle to match their extraordinary Athens haul of eight gold medals.
First up in the extra-lightweight (48 kg) class when the judo competition begins on Saturday, the pint-sized 32-year-old will open Japan's campaign in a strong group featuring France's Frederique Jossinet, who she defeated in the final at Athens.
Tani, who by leaving the dojo in 2005 to raise her baby boy for two years ended an unbroken run of six world championships dating back to 1993, has made it clear that motherhood has not softened her.
Months after returning to the mat in 2007, Tani defeated Cuba's Yanet Bermoy to win a record seventh world championship in Brazil last September.
"In the last four years there have been a lot of experiences for me outside of judo, which have expanded my potential," Tani told reporters in Tokyo last month.
In Beijing, the 1.46m-tall Tani will be suiting up as a wily veteran of four previous Olympics, a fighter who has tasted disappointment and glory in equal shares.

UNHERALDED TEENAGER
She entered the Olympic arena at the 1992 Barcelona Games as Ryoko Tamura, an unheralded 16-year-old. There, she stunned the world and a string of older, more-fancied opponents but lost to France's Cecile Nowak in the final bout.
An adoring Japanese public nick-named the silver medallist "Yawara-chan", because of her resemblance to a young judoka heroine in a popular comic book.
Tani returned as a battle-hardened double world champion at Atlanta in 1996, but despite an 84-match winning streak and overwhelming favourite status, was upset by North Korea's Kye Sun-hui in the final.
Under enormous pressure in Sydney four years later, Tani needed only 36 seconds to win gold, throwing Russia's Lyubov Bruletova to win automatically with an ippon and finally mount the top of the podium.
"It's like meeting your first love again after eight years apart," a tearful Tani said.
Tani, who married Olympic baseball player Yoshitomo Tani in 2003, has advertised everything from rice to do-it-yourself goods on Japanese television, but her comic book looks and bubbly public persona belie a ruthless streak on the competition mat.

RUTHLESS STREAK
When she fought her childhood idol, Britain's Karen Briggs, at Barcelona in 1992, she dislocated her shoulder, and kept attacking the injury after her opponent wrenched the joint back into its socket. Briggs, in intense pain, was eventually disqualified for passivity.
"She pushes and pushes and then, at the end, she stings," French coach Stephane Traineau said after his charge Jossinet lost to Tani in the Athens final.
Underscoring the huge expectations from home fans in Japan, Tani will train at a secret dojo in Beijing away from team mates during evenings.
"It is because she is so key to the team's morale," said an official at the dojo.
While trainers have concentrated on keeping the ageing judoka injury-free, Tani has used motivational techniques to ensure she is ready for her matches, though she admits it is not really something she needs to search for.
"This is my fifth Olympics and every competition I want to do my best for all the fans," Tani said.
The Olympic judo tournament starts on Aug. 9.
(Editing by Greg Stutchbury)
(For more stories visit our multimedia website "Road to Beijing" at http://www.reuters.com/news/sports/2008olympics; and see our blog at http://blogs.reuters.com/china)

North Korea Backs Their Judo Players

Since the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, North Korea has failed to win a single gold medal in the games and is therefore eagerly hoping for a change of fortunes in Beijing, pinning its highest hopes on judo heroine Kye Sun-hui and the women's football team.
Kye, at dinner in a North Korean restaurant near the country’s embassy in Bejiing some time ago, was quoted by a waiter as saying she was confident she can win gold. She reportedly made the remarks when she ordered ox tail soup after eating a large quantity of steak tartar and raw fish.
Kye emerged as a judo star after winning gold in the women's 48 kg class by beating Ryoko Tamura, who had enjoyed an 84-match winning streak, at the Atlanta Olympics. She won bronze in the 52 kg class in the Sydney Olympics in 2000 and silver in the 57 kg class in the Athens Olympics in 2004. After winning the world judo championships for the fourth consecutive time last year, she is now the North Koreans’ great hope for the Olympics.

Throwdown Trailer

Judo Film

Throwdown (aka “Yau doh lung fu bong”), 2004. By Johnny To.
A former judo champion quits the tournament circuit and runs a nightclub. However, when a new challenger appears as well as an old rival and a judo master in need of reviving his school, the young man must go back in training and prepare for the ultimate challenge.

More Technical Instruction from the AJA

Here is the latest installment of technical instruction provided by Rameses Gold (The Technical Director for the AJA).