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It was a busy weekend at the US Open for some of our Kodokwai athletes. Some incredible victories for these young athletes, sometimes the most difficult part is just to go out on the mats.

Friday
Kaysun (Bantam 1; Under 18kg) Bronze
John Colney U18; -73kg 5th

Saturday
Angie Ratcliffe U21; -63kg 5th

Sunday
Rashad Chin Veterans; -60kg Gold
John Colney Golden Score; -73kg Silver
Rashad Chin Sr Mens; -60kg 5th
Elizabeth Cossitt Sr Womens; -70kg 7th

Great job to everyone on their fights!

Calling all Kodokwai Judoka, 14 yrs and older.

Come help today. We're building our new dojo.

7121-104 street NW

We'll be building the floor at the new dojo tomorrow at 10am. Calling all Kodokwai Judoka over 13 years to come help again.

Hello Kodokwai Parents! We need your help with the EYJS Casino September 9,10! Please sign up on the Judo Alberta website.

Memo from the EYJS Casino Boss:

There has been no uptake of volunteers and so another 21 volunteers are still needed. I realize you may not be in contact with your students in the summer but our casino is only a month away and we cannot wait until you start your Fall classes!

I need you to get your volunteers registered and have them complete their Volunteer forms and sent to me by August 23 so I can have them cleared by AGLC in time for the Casino. please make a bi

URGENT

The EYJS casino is in need of volunteers for September 9 and 10. These casinos helps our judo community and our club.

Kodokwai has 3 spots on Monday September 9 and 2 spots on Tuesday September 10.
Monday
645-315am 1 spot
11-315am 2 spots
Tuesday
630-345am 2 spots

This is a great way to give back to our judo community as the funds raise go towards club payments to judo Alberta.

https://judoalberta.com/in...

Thank you so much to all who help out!

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Kodokwai has a strong group of coaches which support our athletes on and off the tatami. One of our coaches who helps me tremendously is next to me in the photo! Thank you Judo Alberta for the personal recognition it is appreciated and valued.

Congratulations to Jim Karas for being awarded the Judo Alberta Coach of the Year. The Kodokwai Judo Club had a nice season that was topped off by a great 2024 Open Nationals where they won a club record 12 medals. There were many changes in the leadership of the Kodokwai Judo Club during the year and Jim Karas kept the Kodokwai Judo Club focused on

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Kodokwai Athletes please take a look at the Sask Camp. I highly recommend it.

Last EYSJ of the season. Let’s show up in numbers! #kodokwai

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Kodokwai's year-end tournament was a huge hit. Some great judo from our younger athletes and the opportunity for our younger senior athletes to coach and referee. These kids show up for each other, cheering their teammates on, comforting losses and celebrating victories.

Great work to everyone who took part!

Kodokwai's year-end tournament was a huge hit. Some great judo from our younger athletes and the opportunity for our younger senior athletes to coach and referee. These kids show up for each other, cheering their teammates on, comforting losses and celebrating victories.

Great work to everyone who took part!

What a great turnout for the year-end Kodokwai tournament. Great job to all our athletes and coaches on an incredible year of training and tournaments.

Day 2 at open nationals had some great battles from our Kodokwai athletes. The team showed up for each other cheering everyone on from team Alberta

Elizabeth Cossitt (Juice) U21 -70kg Gold
Marianna Karas U21 +78kg Silver
Habib Said Mohammad U21 -90kg Bronze
Christina Karas U16 -48kg Bronze

Excellent work from everyone. On to Day 3

Excellent work from the Kodokwai athletes for day 2. Some excellent battles today and some great outcomes.

Elizabeth Cossitt U21 -70kg Gold
Marianna Karas U21 +78kg Silver
Habib Said Mohammad U21 -90kg Bronze
Christina Karas U16 -48kg Bronze
Ethan Dillio U16 -60kg 7th
John Colney U16 -73kg 7th

Great job to everyone today. On to Day 2

Amazing work from all the Kodokwai athletes at nationals today in Montreal!

Rashad Chin (-60kg) gold
Ugo Uzoka (-100kg) gold
Owen Hoover (-18kg). Silver
Angie Ratcliffe (-63kg) bronze
Amir Said Mohammad (-81kg) 5th
Braelyn Thompson (-52kg) 9th
Shamus Riley (-66kg) 13th

So much hard work from everyone today. On to Day 2 for U16 and U21!

Thank you to Sensei Rashad Chin for sponsoring the Kodokwai back patches. Kyosocards!

All Kodokwai athletes, if interested:

Raymond, AB is hosting the Katsuta cup the May 3/4 weekend.

Judo club has arranged a bus that is travelling down Friday May 3 at 1pm and returning Saturday after the tournament is done. Some seats are available for anyone that would like to go for $50. They will be staying at the Holiday Inn in Lethbridge. Registration link below.

Kodokwai is excited to support Elite Martial Arts SpruceGrove with the 'Kids Helping Kids' Super seminar on April 13.

This is a day of Jiu-Jitsu seminars, with an open mat rollathon and the chance to help raise funds for Little Warriors.

The entry fee is $20 and can be found through the QR code pictured. This is a charity event to raise funds for Little Warriors and every $20 raised gets an entry into a prize draw, and every $200 raised (or more) becomes eligible to win a PlayStation 5.

How to Register:
1. Visit the fundraiser by scanning the barcode and select 'create a fundraiser'
2.

These tournaments are so much more than the wins and losses. The Kodokwai team shows up for each other for every fight, cheering for the wins and coaching by each other through tougher times. Great work to everyone this weekend, time to get some rest.

4 of the Battlehill team training at the regular Friday morning Kata session at the Kodokwai where they completed Nage, Goshin Jutsu and Kime no Katas.

4 of the Battlehill team training at the regular Friday morning Kata session at the Kodokwai where they completed Nage, Goshin Jutsu and Kime no Katas.

4 of the Battlehill team training at the regular Friday morning Kata session at the Kodokwai where they completed Nage, Goshin Jutsu and Kime no Katas.

Today saw 28 kids have fun at our Xmas fun day and 14 seniors step onto the mat to burn of the Xmas pudding. Thank you to all our members, volunteers and visitors from Bearpark Judo Club and Kodokwai Judo Club for coming and making the day possible. More info in the link and more photos to follow.

Another close to a fantastic year at respect judo. Today saw 28 kids from respect judo, Bearpark judo and kodokwai judo club come together for 4 hours of fun, games, friendly contest, timekeeping, refereeing and more. Well done to all the adults who had a fun forbidden judo session followed by a fr

Last weekend Kodokwai joined many other athletes at the Rocky Mountain Invitational and truly brought it. Congratulations to all athletes for all their hard work!

Ryan Dilio U10- Gold
Danilo Savosta U14 (-42Kg Advanced)- Gold
Brogan Ratcliffe U14 (-42 Kg)- Gold
Ethan Dilio U16 (-60Kg)- Gold
Abdul Magomedov U14 and U16(-55Kg Advanced)- Bronze
Yakup Hojanepsov U14 and U16(-55Kg Advanced)- Silver/Bronze
Sam Morrison U16 and U18 (-55Kg) -Gold
John Colney U16 Advanced and U18 (-73Kg)- Gold
Nazar Aynahoz U18 and U21 Advanced(-73Kg)- Silver
Davud Asgarzadeh U18 (-73)- Bronze

Congratulations to all

It's not always about showing up to fight at these tournaments. Our very own Grace Hoover was refereeing during this tournament. Excellent job Grace! You make Kodokwai proud!

One of our athletes is headed overseas today to fight in the Matsume Cup in Denmark. It was a long day of travelling just to get on the plane to go there. But Elizabeth is on her way and very excited to be representing Kodokwai for this tournament!

So much hard work from the Kodokwai athletes for Day 1 at the Alberta Winter Games.

Scarlett Aboughoushe (-52kg) - Gold
Braelyn Thompson (-52kg)- Silver
Ethan Dilio (-60kg)- Bronze
Sam Morrison (-55)- Bronze
Shamus Riley (-66kg)- Bronze
Galaxy Tkach (-44kg)- 5th place

Congratulations to all on their victories!! On to Day 2

Day 2 AWG, some incredible battles by the Kodokwai athletes and to top it off Zone 6 took home the gold medal for the team competition.

Angie Ratcliffee (-63) - Gold
Owen Hoover (-81kg)- Gold
Amir Said Mohammad (+81)- Silver
Yumi Calvert (-63) - Bronze
Aiwei Zhang (+63)- Bronze
John Colney (-73)- Bronze
Davud Asgarzadeh (-73)- 5th

So much hard work from everyone this weekend, Next up Pacifics.

It was a pleasure spending two days in Grande Prairie for the 2024 Alberta Winter Games. I enjoyed being a spectator watching from a distance observing the Kodokwai athletes, Kodokwai coaches, Kodokwai parents and most special, Kodokwai grandparents. It truly was a generational support group at these games. As a club we should be very proud not only of our results which were very good but more importantly, the Judo Spirit which we brought to the games. Zone 6 (which we are a part of) had a team of 4 coaches/managers: Jan Prus-Czarnecki, Anna Prus-Czarnecka, Tyson Thorton and Kondelia Karas

Good morning Kodokwai families.

The Edmonton Internation has made a call out for more volunteers. Most of the tournament is able to function becuase of the volunteers and we would love to show them the support that Kodokwai has for the Judo community.

Signup can be done through this link https://signup.com/go/QBgA...

They are looking for people to help with t-shirt tales, security, time keeping and registration among many other things.

This is a great way to get connected with other families in the Judo community, and learn the sport that you and your family is involved in.

If you ha

As the Edmonton International Judo Championship tournament quickly approaches a few reminders for the Kodokwai athletes that are competing.

Weigh in location is the Fantasyland Hotel Conference Centre (Ballrooms 14 and 15). Weigh in times:
U14 Friday 3pm-4pm
U16 Saturday 1pm-145pm
U18 Friday 4pm-5pm
U21/Veterans 5pm-6pm
Sr Saturday 145pm-230pm

If you fight two consecutive days (Friday/Saturday or Saturday Sunday) you only have to weight in for the first day.

Reminder about judogi requirements. Sleeve must touch the wrists with arms stretched out in front and pants must come to the ankle.