SFV JUDO Fundamentals Class

Calling all Senior Judokas!!!

If you're looking for a good, safe night of randori...head to San Fernando Dojo tomorrow night!

Sensei Stuart Kam will be hosting a special night of training and randori with Peru's Olympic hopeful Alonso Wong 73kg!

7pm to 9pm
12953 Branford Street, Pacoima, Ca 91331

All Judo and Jujitsu friends are welcome!

RESULTS!!!

93rd ANNUAL SFV JUDO KOHAKU SHIAI

MOST OUTSTANDING JUDOKA AWARD
NOVEL MARTIROSYAN, GLENDALE JUDO ACADEMY

BEST TECHNIQUE AWARD
KANTA UEYAMA, L.A. TENRI DOJO

BATSUGAN PROMOTIONS
CAYDEN SANCHEZ, 11 WINS
KEANU MONCHER, 10 WINS
NOVEL MARTIROSYAN, 9 WINS
ARMEN HAYRAPETYAN, 9 WINS
HOVAHANNES KRKHYAN 8 WINS
DEVEN RIDINO, 7 WINS
DAVIT HAYRAPETYAN, 7 WINS
STEPHAN YAMALYAN, 7 WINS
ARMEN KHALYAN, 7 WINS
LANCE TAN, 6 WINS
DANIEL ZAKHAROV 6 WINS
RYAN VAVRUNEK, 5 WINS
TODBILIG MYAGMARSUREN, 5 WINS
KHACHIK LEVONYAN, 4 WINS
ENZO MIYAMOTO, 4 WINS
MAX LIU, 4 WINS

TOURNAMENT ARTWORK: LLYN HUNTER
TROPHIES: FC PRINTING
TSHIRTS: TRI-ARTS
MEN’S ADAPTIVE
1ST: KEVIN GOMEZ, RIVERSIDE
2ND: BOBBY HOLTZ, SAWTELLE

MINI-YONEN COMBINED
1ST: CAYDEN SANCHEZ, GUERREROS
2ND: KEANU MONCHER, VALLEY
3RD: TODBILIG MYAGMARSUREN, SAN FERNANDO

GIRL’S YONEN WHITE BELTS
1ST: SONYA GELFAND, SAN FERNANDO
2ND: MIYA OZAKI, SAN GABRIEL
3RD: CLAIRE JOHNSON, VALLEY

GIRL’S YONEN YELLOW BELTS
1ST: JARELY SANCHEZ, GUERREROS
2ND: MELODY CHAN, SAN GABRIEL
3RD: MINAMI TO, SAN GABRIEL

GIRL’S YONEN ORANGE BELTS
1ST: APRIL LIU, GUERREROS
2ND: TERRY EUM, GUERREROS
3RD: IEVA KIM, L.A. TENRI

GIRL’S YONEN ORANGE HW
1ST: STELLA GADIMYAN, VALLEY
2ND: ARISA MAALIPPOR, AOT

GIRL’S YONEN GREEN BELTS
1ST: SOFIA MANIBOG, SAN GABRIEL
2ND: MILAN KAGAOAN, 510 JUDO
3RD: EMMA QUEPONS, GUERREROS

GIRL’S YONEN BLUE/PURPLE BELTS
1ST: SAKURA UEYAMA, L.A. TENRI
2ND: MILAN KAGAOAN, 510 JUDO
3RD: CONSTANCE HO, SAN GABRIEL

BOY’S YONEN WHITE BELTS
1ST: DANIEL ZAKHAROV, SOUTH BAY
2ND: ARAM GHARABAGHTSYAN, VALLEY
3RD: ARTUR MAZARETYAN, VALLEY

BOY’S YONEN YELLOW BELTS
1ST: NOVEL MARTIROSYAN, GLENDALE
2ND: ARMEN HAYRAPETYAN, VALLEY
3RD: DAVIT HAYRATPETYAN, VALLEY

BOY’S YONEN ORANGE BELTS
1ST: LANCE TAN, VALLEY
2ND: MAX LIU, GUERREROS
3RD: KAITO KITAJIMA, SAN FERNANDO

BOY’S YONEN GREEN BELTS
1ST: ENZO MIYAMOTO, EL TORO
2ND: ARTUR MARTIROSYAN, GLENDALE
3RD: YURIAH ORDINARIO, SOUTH BAY

BOY’S YONEN BLUE BELTS
1ST: KHACHIK LEVONYAN, GLENDALE
2ND: ARMEN YEREMYAN, GLENDALE
3RD: MUSHEGH SIMONYAN, GLENDALE

GIRL’S SHONEN WHITE/YELLOW BELTS
1ST: ADELINA DAVIDIAN, SAN FERNANDO
2ND: KAORI SAKAUE, SAN GABRIEL
3RD: ADELINA DICKENSON, BARSTOW

GIRL’S SHONEN ORANGE/GREEN BELTS
1ST: ANGELA JIMENEZ, TAISHI
2ND: KARINA CAMERA, MOJICA
3RD: VANESSA BRAYER, SAN FERNANDO

GIRL’S SHONEN BLUE/PURPLE/BROWN
1ST: ANAHIT AMIRKHANYAN, VALLEY
2ND: AIYANA ENRIQUEZ, VALLEY
3RD: TATUM PARK, HARBOR

BOY’S SHONEN WHITE/YELLOW BELTS
1ST: MIKAYEL HOVHANNISYAN, GLENDALE
2ND: HENRIK SIMONIAN, GLENDALE
3RD: NICOLAS COVARRUBIAS, GATOS SALVAJES

BOY’S SHONEN WHITE/YELLOW HW
1ST: ARMEN MOVSISYAN, VALLEY
2ND: TIGRAN NIKOGOSYAN, VALLEY
3RD: JASON SAITO, O.C. KODOKAN

BOY’S SHONEN ORANGE/GREEN BELTS
1ST: RYAN VAVRUNEK, KAMIKAZE
2ND: ARAYIK VARDANYAN, GLENDALE
3RD: LUIS ENRIQUEZ, VALLEY

BOY’S SHONEN BLUE/PURPLE/BROWN BELTS
1ST: MARCO QUIRANTE, GUERREROS
2ND: JAKOB MANO-PANIPINTO, TAISHI
3RD: ARMEN KHALYAN, HAYASTAN

BOY’S SHONEN/SEINEN OPEN
1ST: HOVAHANNES KRKHYAN, VALLEY
2ND: RYAN VAVRUNEK, KAMIKAZE
3RD: WINSTON CLARK, RIVERSIDE

WOMEN’S OPEN
1ST: PATRICIA CLAUS, SAN GABRIEL
2ND: CAROLYN ALVARADO
3RD: VANESSA DE LA CRUZ, SAN FERNANDO

MASTER’S NOVICE
1ST: JONATHAN DAVILA, HARBOR
2ND: LUIS ACEVES, SAN FERNANDO
3RD: MARTIN SATRUSTEGUI, SAN FERNANDO

MASTER’S BLACK BELTS
1ST: TADASHI MATSUMOTO, GARDENA
2ND: JOSE SANCHEZ, SANTA MARIA
3RD: JORGE SOTO-ENRIQUEZ, SANTA MARIA

MEN’S NOVICE
1ST: DEVEN RIDINO, SAN FERNANDO
2ND: HOVAHANNES KRKHYAN, VALLEY
3RD: ARMEN KHALYAN, HAYASTAN

MEN’S BROWN BELTS
1ST: KYLE CHARMIT, SAWTELLE
1ST: ESTEVAN SOLIS, SHIMERU
2ND: EMILIO ZAMARANO, NORWALK
3RD: STEPHAN YAMALYAN, HAYASTAN

MEN’S BLACK BELTS
1ST: KANTA UEYAMA, L.A. TENRI
2ND: CHRISTIAN BUCKNER, HARBOR
3RD: STEPHAN YAMALYAN, HAYASTAN

TOP TEAMS
1ST: VALLEY JUDO INSTITUTE
2ND: GLENDALE JUDO ACADEMY
3RD: GUERREROS JUDO CLUB

TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR
ERIC MOCHINAGA

HEAD REFEREE
GARY TAKEMOTO, IJF-A OLYMPIC REFEREE

MAT SUPERVISORS
DAN TAKATA, IJF-A
GLENN KOYAMA, IJF-B
SCOTT GALLES, IJF-B

HEAD SENSEI
STUART KAM

SFV JUDO PRESIDENT
GLEN WHITESELL

HOSPITALITY
CAROL MOCHINAGA & TEAM

TECHNICAL CLINICIAN
TOKUZO TAKAHASHI, 6DAN

COACHING CLINICIAN
PHILIPPE MOROTTI, 6DAN

MAT TEAMS
VALLEY JUDO INSTITUTE
RANDI DAVIS + SFV JUDOKAS
MOJICA JUDO CLUB

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE
WHO ATTENDED, VOLUNTEERED,
HELPED, SUPPORTED, CHEERED,
COMPETED & ENJOYED!

THANK YOU ALL FOR THE LOVE & SUPPORT!

The Kohaku has reached it's event capacity!

See you all on Sunday...Rain or Shine!

Come prepared.

Free Parking.
Free Spectator Fee.
Fully stocked Snack Bar.

Here's some info that may be helpful...

For coffee within few min drive:
Starbucks in Target
9725 Laurel Canyon Blvd, Arleta, CA 91331
Churro Hub Cafe
9007 Woodman Avenue, Arleta, CA 91331

Breakfast within few min drive:
McDonald's (Open 24 hours)
14024 Osborne Street, Pacoima, CA 91331
Jack in the Box (Open 24 hours)
9018 Woodman Avenue, Pacoima, CA 91331
Del Taco (Open 24 hours)
13701 Roscoe Blvd, Van Nuys, CA 91402
Tip Top Hamburgers (Opens at 8:00am)
8612 Woodman Ave, Arleta, CA 91331
Big Jim's Family Restaurant (Good for big groups)
8950 Laurel Canyon Blvd, Sun Valley, CA 91352

Urgent Care/Medical Services within a few min drive:
Kaiser
8250 Woodman Avenue, Panorama City, CA 91402
Pacifica Hospital
9449 San Fernando Road, Sun Valley, CA 91352

Grocery Stores within a few min drive
Food4Less
9635 Laurel Canyon Blvd, Arleta, CA 91331
Vallarta
9011 Woodman Avenue, Arleta, CA 91331

Good eats for Lunch/Dinner:
Chiba Japanese Restaurant
7515 Lankershim Blvd, North Hollywood, CA 91605
Sushi Dragon
8069 Vineland Avenue, Sun Valley, CA 91352
El Taco Llama
13215 Osborne St , Arleta, CA 91331
Wong's Kitchen
13209 Osborne St , Arleta, CA 91331
Krua Thai Restaurant (Good for big group)
13130 Sherman Way, Valley Glen, CA 91402
In & Out
13651 Roscoe Blvd, Panorama City, CA 91402
Jollibee
8261 Woodman Avenue, Panorama City, CA 91402
Yoshinoya
13750 Roscoe Blvd, Panorama City, CA 91402
Chiguacle Mexican Restaurant
8255 Sunland Blvd, Sun Valley, CA 91352
El Pollo Loco
8351 Sunland Blvd, Sun Valley, CA 91352
Shakey's Pizza Parlor
1300 N. San Fernando Rd, Burbank, CA 91504
Chuck E. Cheese
930 N. San Fernando Rd, Burbank, CA 91504
California Pizza Kitchen
601 N. San Fernando Rd, Burbank, CA 91504
Yard House
100 E. Palm Ave, Burbank, CA 91502
BJ's
107 S. First St, Burbank, CA 91502
Black Angus
235 S. Ikea Way, Burbank, CA 91502
Octopus Japanese
227 E. Palm Ave, Burbank, CA 91502
Olive Garden
1575 N. Victory Place, Burbank, CA 91502

Another Judo Legacy to know and be proud of in American Judo history. The Patteson Legacy.

Sensei Kenny Patteson was an elite senior competitor and member of the all star Tenri Dojo Judo Team in East Los Angeles through the late 1970's to 80's. Today he is one of the owners and head sensei of Eastside Dojo in Texas. Which is one of the best Judo programs in the country. Always placing in the top 3 dojos at the Senior National Championships. They most definitely have the largest facility! It's beautiful. Congratulations to the next generation of Patteson Sensei!

Be part of this story by competing in Sensei Patteson's annual Dallas Open Judo Championships held faithfully every November. It's the most action packed all ages tournament in the USA! The $1000 cash prizes for the Gold Medalist of each Senior Blackbelt divisions draws all the monsters to come out and play! So exciting!

Another great night of Judo at the Dojo! 20+ years ago, Rogerio Sampaio, a legendary Olympian from Brazil, visited our dojo, and I remember when he said in broken English..."A beautiful thing about Judo, is each us walk into the dojo tired, depressed or negativo, but after a good Judo practice, everyone leaves the dojo invigorated with love, joy and confidence to do anything we dream to do."

Great job to all of our judokas for the great energy last night.

Stuart Kam, 4dan
Head Sensei of SFV Judo

Stuart Kam started Judo under Seigoro Murakami in 1967 with his brothers, Stan and Steven. Stuart excelled in Judo as he developed a footstep (Deashi Barai) that quickly inverted most of his opponents. Stuart was very successful in local and national competitions winning many trophies during his competitive career. He was also the Team Captain on many of the dojo teams that won many team trophies.

As a teenager, Stuart also trained at the historic Seinan Dojo under Kuniyuki sensei. Seinan Judo Dojo dominated American Judo in the 1950's and 1960’s winning many team trophies. Seinan was home to many super star judoka like Roy Sugimoto, Henry Iriye and Ronnie Kaichi. Stuart was very fortunate to get to learn and experience Judo at such a prestigious program at the time.

In the early 1970’s, through the connections of Murakami and Kuniyuki senseis, Stuart was able to travel abroad to Japan. He trained at many dojos in Japan and entered many tournaments. He won many very unique trophies in Japan. One of them is a mini samurai helmet.

In 1977, Stuart was awarded his Shodan (1st Degree Black Belt), and continued competing locally while establishing his career in the grocery industry.

In 1989 after the dojo’s loss of young blackbelt, Paco Iniguez, Stuart stepped up for the dojo to assist Roy Murakami sensei at the dojo. At this time, San Fernando Judo had a very strong junior program with 17 junior national champions training daily. Stuart was a perfect fit with his powerful footsweeps, tai otoshi, uchimata and tani otoshi, he was able to be a great example for the juniors to follow.

Stuart Kam was always very physically fit. Always very strong and always in shape, which allowed Stuart to continue competing at the local, state and national levels all the way into his late 50’s. Stuart has not retired from competition yet, but on top of all of his junior trophies, he has collected the following hardware to add to his collection:

Gold Medal, 2013 Winter National Championships
Gold Medal, 2014 U.S. Masters National Championships
Gold Medal, 2014 Winter National Championships
Gold Medal, 2016 U.S. Masters National Championships

In 2017, Stuart Kam honorably accepted the responsibility of being the Head Sensei of San Fernando Valley Judo Club. The first non-Murakami to continue on the Seigoro Murakami Legacy that was started in 1921.

In the mean time, Stuart is building his own legacy with his nephew, Mike Toren, and grand niece, Lily and grand nephew, Ben, are all doing judo at San Fernando. Mike is a 1st Degree Black Belt and does a fantastic job assisting Stuart with the Advanced Class.

Kumi Kata (Grip Fighting) is one of the most important elements of modern Judo, establishing a good grip and negating your opponents grip can be what wins or loses you a match.

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Grip fighting doesn't make many highlight reels, but it's definitely an aspect of Judo that needs to be tended to and respected as a higher level competitor.

Here's a recent match from 2019 that is a very good example of good, effective grip fighting. You may not like it, but if you had to compete against it, it would be very tough to deal with.

Nemanja MAJDOV / IJF.org The official International Judo Federation website - IJF - is the judo hub for all the judo community members as well as those exploring the sport of judo. Judo is an Olympic sport since 1964. Judo is more than a sport. The IJF is present in more than 200 countries and is involved in numerous educat...

Thank you, Ray Fukumoto and Christine Onouye for sharing this with us.

The Kewen dojo was used post internment camp from 1945 to 1955.

This is great photo of our dojo and the founder, Mr. Seigoro Murakami.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Fernando Valley Judo

Morote Seoinage = Two arm Shoulder Throw

At San Fernando Dojo, we consider Morote Seoinage the first step to building a strong judo foundation. Many San Fernando Judoka were very good at executing this throw. Especially our previous head sensei, Mr. Michael Murakami. He had a beautiful morote seoinage that he won hundreds of trophies with.

Mr. Hatsuyuki Hamada of Japan, does a great job explaining everything you need to know about Morote Seoinage in this video...

https://youtu.be/FvDn3g9-OMk