Our Tradition: Kosen + Contemporary Olympic

The Auckland University Judo Club style fuses Kosen and contemporary Olympic Judo. The current Sensei is Rick Littlewood (7th Dan, from Kodokan Judo and the NZJF). Sensei Rick has trained extensively at Doshisha University, Kyoto, and studied under Kimura Mitsuro (8th Dan), affectionately known as “Mr. Sankaku,” and Ebii Goichi (9th Dan), the “god of Newaza.” His present Judo Sensei is Isao Okano from Ryuzukei University. The Club was founded in 1960 by Jerry Van Kylenburg. We are an affiliated member of the New Zealand Judo Federation (NZJF).

02 June 2009

Club News

* The club Captain, Ben Stallworthy has had a baby girl and now he looks much slimmer.
* Aaron Page (aka Pajii) has move to Wellington for a new job and now stays in bed all day on Sundays because it is so cold.
* Clayton Mitchell from Tauranga has escaped from his father’s influence by taking a job with a financial/db tui company in Wellington.
* Club numbers are averaging 25 per night with some strange looking types from the north shore coming.
* Sensei Rick is back and the 1st thing he did was castrate the members for the dusty state of the Dojo.
* Dave Mair has done a good job of teaching during sensei ricks judo holiday in Japan and Shanghai. Dave will be away for next two weeks.
* Judoka wearing blue judogi have been given the job of keeping the dojo clean and tidy
* Greg Reynolds father died last week at the age of 82, and the funeral will be held today.
* The sight of Greg trying to stay ahead of his rapidly improving judo sons will be funny to watch in the future.
* Our Japanese female judoka from Ritsumeikan uni is fitting in well. Of course she won’t be able to fight in the NZ champs because the women's division in NZ is so strong we don’t want foreigners?!

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

strange looking types.

yes the ones from the north shore are unusual as they have 4 fingers on each hand(and a thumb).