Lycée Français de San Francisco Judo Club: December 2008

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Corte Madera - Group 1

Waiting for beginning of the class - Rei

Crab Position - Yoko Shiho Gatame - Practice

Introduction to Competition

Searching for mum

Monday, December 15, 2008

Belt Promotions - The Traditional Throws

All black belts have to throw the newly promoted judoka.

Here is Sensei William throwing his Students.

Alix

Sara

Kevin

Axelle

Alexandre

Belt Promotions

Alix - Black Belt

Kevin - Purple Belt

Alexandre - Orange Belt

Axelle - Green Belt

Lorenzo - 1/2 Orange

Belt Promotions for 7 La Pérouse Judoka

The United State Judo Federation Black Belt Committee has decided to promote

Alix Desmole - Ceinture noire - Black Belt - 1st dan - Shodan.

6 other judoka from the Lycée La Pérouse have also been promoted.

Kevin Desmole - Purple Belt

Axelle Weeger - Green Belt

Sara Landau - Orange Belt

Alexandre Seutin - Orange Belt

Lorenzo Baldo - 1/2 Orange Belt

Quentin Weissenburger - 1/2 Yellow Belt.

Black belt promotion is very strict and tedious - The player has:

to compete in order to score points,
to present in front of a jury the first nine throws of Nage no Kata,
to be able to referee.

For other color belt promotions, the club black belt committee can decide who to promote, which is mainly based on competition results.

Sunday, December 7, 2008

City College - All the Results

Sara Landau – 1st

Alexis Dumon - 1st

Janet Brusil - 1st

Joana Arrechea - 2nd
Loranzo Baldo – 2nd

Gaexan Arrechea - 3rd

Cedric maetz - 3rd

Axelle Weeger – 3rd
Kevin Desmole – 3rd

Nikita Chuvakhin - 3rd
Maxime de Kouchkovsky – 3rd

Solène Poulhazan - 3rd

Calafia Sanchez - 4th

Quentin Weissenburger - 4th

Theo Leventhal - 5th

Mathieu Kaman - 5th

Salomé Gobbi - 5th

Peter Bieman - 6th

Nico Bach - 6th
Lilliane Stone – 6th

Sebastian Korbus-Bergin - 6th

Nikola Manrique - 6th

San Francisco – Dimanche 7 décembre 2008.
23 Judokas du lycée ont participé au tournoi organisé par le City College of San Francisco. Parmi ces 23 compétiteurs, 3 effectuaient leur première compétition ; Matthieu Kaman (5ième, 7th), Peter Bieman (3ième, 9th) and Solène Poulhazan (CM1, 4th). L’ensemble de nos judokas ont effectué en moyenne 4 combats. Saluons la très belle performance d’Alexis Dumon (CE2 – 3rd) qui a gagné tous ces combats par Ippon. Après chaque compétition, au début de l’entrainement, avec l’ensemble des judokas, nous faisons un débriefing. Cela leur permet de s’exprimer sur ce qu’il leur a plu, ce qu’il les a surpris et sur quelles techniques ils souhaiteraient travailler. Cette discussion est importante car elle permet à nos jeunes judokas d’exprimer leurs frustrations s’ils en ont eu, de faire part de leur expérience auprès des autres judokas qui n’ont pas participé au dernier tournoi et de parler des techniques qu’ils ont pu utiliser pour faire chuter leurs partenaires.
Pour ceux qui sont ensuite restés un peu plus longtemps dans le tournoi, nous avons pu assister aux très beaux combats de la division ceinture noire des catégories sénior où l’on a pu admirer la qualité technique d’un judoka de l’équipe nationale chinoise.
Félicitations à tous nos judokas.

San Francisco – Sunday December 7th, 2008.
23 judokas from the Lycée entered the City College Tournament. Among those 23 competitors, 3 of them were fighting for the first time; Matthieu Kaman (5ième, 7th), Peter Bieman (3ième, 9th) and Solène Poulhazan (CM1, 4th). Our judokas did an average of 4 fights. I wish to recognize the outstanding performance of Alexis Dumon (CE2- 3rd) who won all his matches by Ippon. After each tournament, at the beginning of our weekly training, with all the judo players, we have a debriefing. It allows our players to express themselves about what they liked or disliked, the technique that they wish to work more. This discussion is very important because it allows our young judokas to talk about their frustrations if they had any and talked about the technique they used to throw their opponents.
For those who stayed a little bit longer, we were able to watch the senior black belt division where we have been able to admire a judoka from the judo national Chinese team for the quality of his technique.
Congratulations to all our players.