Judo is a tremendous and dynamic combat sport that demands both physical prowess and great mental discipline. From a standing position, it involves techniques that allow you to lift and throw your opponents onto their backs. Once on the mat, it includes techniques that allow you to control and pin your opponents.
In Judo, safety is the number one priority for all students. Students learn to fall safely. This skill alone can be one of the most useful techniques that student can use the rest of their lives.
The practice of judo techniques helps kids cultivate basic and fundamental physical fitness in a number of ways, such as the development of strength, flexibility, agility, speed, dynamic and static balance, explosive power and endurance. The practice of active attack and defense helps develop reaction time coordination and overall physical self-confidence. Judo students become physically stronger and faster through their practice of Judo.
Yet, there is no punching, kicking or strikes of any kind in the sport of Judo.
Eligibility
Participants must be at least entering Kindergarten in Aug/Sept 2011 and Older. Returnees are encouraged!
Due to limited space we can only enroll the following amounts:
1st to 3rd Graders: 30
4th to 12th Graders: 25
Cost
For 2012, the cost is $110 per participant.
Season
The tentative season will start the 1st Monday night of June to the middle of July (All practices will be Monday nights):
June 4
June 11
June 18
June 25
July 2
July 9
Equipment
Participants will be provided a uniform which will be distributed and checked out during the 1st practice & collected and checked back in after the last practice. Participants should also bring a gym bag, water and slippers to each practice. Girls should bring a plain white T-Shirt to wear under their uniform. Participants with long hair should wear it in a pony-tail and should avoid using any metal or hard plastic barrettes, hairpins and hair bands with hard clasps in them.
Instruction
Instruction is provided by qualified instructors from 3 of the local Judo dojos (San Jose Buddhist Judo Club, Cupertino Judo Club & Silicon Valley Judo). Instruction is given in basic fundamentals & strategy of the sport. In 2012 we have arranged for advanced participants to be instructed in the more advanced tactics and techniques.
Location
We will have our practices at Silicon Valley Judo located at:
120 Stockton Avenue
San Jose, CA 95126
located near the Sharks arena, about 7 minutes from Japantown.
