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The latest and greatest from the Roswell Judo Club!

It’s been a hectic few months for me. All the classes are going wonderfully. The college class has only lost one student, but that’s because he moved; all 7 remaining are doing wonderfully and progressing right on course. The adult program seems to have fallen by the wayside for people not involved in the college class. The youth program is doing wonderfully!

Since the middle of March to yesterday, we’ve been to two tournaments and on the 16^th we’re headed to Las Cruces for one more. We might go to New Mexico State Games, but we’ll have to see about that. On the 19^th of March Eddy and I went to the Denver Spring Tournament in Denver where Eddy had his first tournament experience. It was a good experience with Eddy placing second in his division in some very hard fought matches. He also fought in the advanced division fighting five more incredibly tough matches.

Yesterday, 2 April 2011, we took four kids down to the LC Grappling tournament in Carlsbad, NM. It was a long day starting at 7am to drive down there. The tournament started about 10:15am and lasted until almost 1 pm. Everybody had at least two matches, many having more. We came home with 3 medals, one gold medal (Go Gabriel!) and two silver medals (Yea Joel and Xavier!). Loren IV fought hard in his matches but was a little undersized losing to throws both times, though his hold-downs were good when he got the chance.

  

The April 16^th tournament is with Guzman’s down at Mayfield High School in Las Cruces. I don’t know who exactly is going yet, but I expect to take at least two or three.

What’s in Store?

We’re gearing up for summer! Expect more information on the summer programs we’re going to offer in the next few weeks! I expect that we’ll start a new class of beginners starting in June, so current students recruit your friends! If you want to try judo, summer is just the time to get started! We expect to offer a judo activity during the Yucca Recreation Center’s summer program which will be taught by Alana. Parents, that’s a great way to keep your kids busy during the summer, enroll them in the Yucca Recreation Center’s summer program where they’ll get to try a lot of activities and not be at home vegging out on the couch in front of the TV/Wii/Xbox/PS3!

We’re trying to get Tony, Daniel, and Cody back again this summer for another wonderful clinic! Last year was wonderful and it would be great to have them back for our senior students to have some fun learning from different instructors!

Also, if anybody’s headed to Roswell and you think you’d like to give a clinic on something, feel free to drop a line to our instructor!