2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Judo and Wrestling to be Televised on Sunday Judo fans can watch your favorite players fulfill their Olympic dreams on MSNBC on Sunday, June 22 from noon – 2 p.m. EST. courtesy of www.usjudo.org

Hi Everyone I would just like to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you for your help these past four years. Its been a long road and without your help and support I wouldn’t have been able to achieve any of my goals. Thank you so much for being there to […]

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The Olympic Trials for Judo and Wrestling will be held this weekend June 13-15 in Las Vegas, NV. EBJI will be sending three Olympic hopefuls to vie for a spot on the 2008 Olympic Team at the Olympic Games which will be held in August in Beijing, China. #3 ranked Nate Torra will be competing […]

This is a reminder that Our EBJI Yard Sale will be on JUNE 21 from 9-3. Please keep bringing things in for our yard sale! Also, if you have free time, we need volunteers to help sort and price items on Friday June 20. We also need people to help sell items on June 21. […]

*Editor’s note: The Pam Am Championships and Zone Cup were held May 9-11 and were the two last qualifiers for the 2008 Olympic Games. Sayaka Matsumoto represented EBJI and the USA at these events and brought back a medal from the Zone Cup in addition to qualifying a USA competitor to go the Olympics in […]

Check out this article on EBJI assistant instructor and 2008 Olympic hopeful Sayaka Matsumoto in the SF Chronicle Sunday Edition. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/02/CMS0VFVV3.DTL

From 2/13 – 2/19 A team of 7 women from Kokushikan University will be visiting the San Francisco Bay area and participating in practices at EBJI and SFSU. The full practice schedule can be found here. For more information please email Sayaka Matsumoto or call (510) 237-0607.

For the full article and pictures from Belgium visit http://www.usjudo.org/2008BelgianLadiesOpenResults.asp Annie Shiraishi (Elk Grove, Calif. / East Bay Judo Institute) went 2-1 in her pool, defeating a British opponent by ippon in the first match of the 48kg division.  Shiraishi lost to a Japanese player by a yuko, but came back to throw a German with […]

Over the winter break Brandon and Dillon had the wonderful opportunity to visit Hong Kong while on vacation. In addition to spending time with their family, they took some time to practice judo, while in Hong Kong with Sensei Takeo Iwami, founder of Hong Kong Judo Kan in Causway Bay.