Post by Carl Elder on Feb 14, 2007 12:21:14 GMT -5
IU Judo Kicked all kinds of ass in the St Louis Judo Tournoment! I sucessfully made weight, I had to cut 5 pounds the night before. I placed 2nd in my division and the guy who beat me beat a black belt in open division and gave my coach a nidan a hard time. I got to fight my coach Neil Coker in the first match of open division and he beat me in 8 seconds witha sweet tai O toshi. Neil went on to win the open division!
There wasnt to many black belts at the tournoment so they combined all the black belts weight divisions together and some of the heaveir brown belts. Neil had to fight a 335lbs guy and he is 185, he lost that only becuase he got a shido, which is a penalty. My other coach Daisuke Hirata who I think is a Sandan got 2nd in that division. We also got 2nd place in 150lbs advanced, and 175lbs novice. We got 1st in 185 novice. And they split the women into two groups heavy and light, and we placed 2nd and 3rd in light, the girl who got first I guess is a Pan American medal winner, and we only had white and yellow belts fighting her.
So we did pretty good, someoen placed in every division we had people fighting in! IU Judo walked away with more tropies than any other club! It was a good time, Oh yeah I ate at jack in the box for the first time which was great! Next tourny is in 3 weeks in Chicago I think, so I'm busy training for that right now. But I will be home on the 10th for about a week for spring break, hope to see you all in jujutsu!
There wasnt to many black belts at the tournoment so they combined all the black belts weight divisions together and some of the heaveir brown belts. Neil had to fight a 335lbs guy and he is 185, he lost that only becuase he got a shido, which is a penalty. My other coach Daisuke Hirata who I think is a Sandan got 2nd in that division. We also got 2nd place in 150lbs advanced, and 175lbs novice. We got 1st in 185 novice. And they split the women into two groups heavy and light, and we placed 2nd and 3rd in light, the girl who got first I guess is a Pan American medal winner, and we only had white and yellow belts fighting her.
So we did pretty good, someoen placed in every division we had people fighting in! IU Judo walked away with more tropies than any other club! It was a good time, Oh yeah I ate at jack in the box for the first time which was great! Next tourny is in 3 weeks in Chicago I think, so I'm busy training for that right now. But I will be home on the 10th for about a week for spring break, hope to see you all in jujutsu!
stupid job! 
