Wednesday Practice

Only 19 judoka tonight, but still a great workout. Lots of uchikomi, partner drills, ukemi, and randori.

We had a little contest tonight to see who could do ukemi over the most bodies. Six-pack was the favorite going in, but, surprisingly, Jonel beat everybody by clearing nine people with room to spare - not too bad for an old man :-)

Practice downtown tomorrow night.

Bojuka Invitational Tournament in Monterey this Sunday - check the calendar for details. If you're not going down Saturday night but want to fight, contact one of the coaches about carpooling.

Monday Practice

Quick warmup, lots of work on kouchi gari (instruction by Morales Sensei), and some randori... 30 warm bodies flying around - nobody should have this much fun!

Practice downtown tomorrow night.

Bojuka Invitational Tournament in Monterey this Sunday - check the calendar for details.

Saturday Practice

Fun practice today! We continued working on kouchi gari, focusing on a kouchi-to-ouchi combination. Video of some of today's workout is available here.

After the warm up everybody took a fitness test: max pushups in two minutes, max situps in two minutes, and max burpees in one minute (15 seconds rest between each). Here are the results:

Name	Pushups	Situps	Burpees	Total
Lincoln	92	93	22	207
Bella	128	47	27	202
Ellis	100	60	28	188
Mina	97	54	23	174
Conrad	103	41	21	165
Matt	75	62	27	164
Daniel L	71	60	21	152
Chantall	50	80	15	145
Kay-John	78	46	14	138
Ute	35	76	19	130
Nick O	53	58	17	128
Dominique	55	40	21	116
Nate	35	53	19	107
Lukas	30	50	20	100
Nick T	28	56	13	97
Vic	60	20	10	90
Rina	34	28	14	76
Gabriella	29	32	14	75

Wednesday Practice

Another fun class with a total of 26 bodies on the mat tonight.

Appetizer: lots of uchi komi
Main Course: kouchi gari variation (demonstrated by Teixeira Sensei)
Dessert: newaza and randori (of course)

Practice downtown tomorrow night - Saturday workout in Roseville.

Monday Practice

Congratulations to Nick and Matt Ontiveros on their well-deserved promotion to orange belt.

Also, congratulations to Marcos Torregrosa for placing 2nd at U.S. Open XIII Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (Adult Black Belt, Lightweight Division).

Tonight we started a two-week training cycle on variations and combinations with kouchigari. We also weclomed two new students: Lincoln and Sean.

Great practice tonight. The mat was crowded with a total of 39 judoka.

Saturday Practice

Saturday practice went very well. The small class size (16 total) allowed a lot of one-on-one instruction.

Breakdown of today's training:
Warmup: 30 minutes
Half nelson drills: 30 minutes
Seoinage variations and transitions: 90 minutes
Randori & newaza: 30 minutes

A video compilation of today's workout is available here.

This weekend marks the end of our two-week cycle on seoinage and variations (same-side grip, seoitoshi, transitions, etc).

Monday is the start of a new two-week cycle. Maybe kouchigari or te guruma. If there is a specific throw or combination you would like to work on post it to comments.

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