San Jose Buddhist Judo Club

05/20/2025

Judo Clinic hosted by Anne Suzuki (SJSU) Tuesday, June 3 @ PA Judo Club 6:30-8:30pm

Judoka Anne Suzuki (a SJB judo alum and current SJSU team member) is hosting a judo clinic at Palo Alto Judo Club on Tuesday, June 3 from 6:30-8:30pm.

All SJB judo club members are welcome to attend this event.

05/20/2025

Club Promotion Event
Thursday, May 29 @ Practice

We will be holding our club promotion event! Please remember that not everyone will receive a promotion at each event. Promotions are based on a variety of factors, including skill, attendance, progress, tournament performance, and dedication, and can take time to achieve. For pre-judo ranks (center of the belt stripes), belt promotions generally take 6 months to 1 year, while regular belt promotions generally take 1+ years.

We encourage all students and families to attend the promotion event to show support for their teammates. Your encouragement means a lot to those being recognized and helps foster our community spirit.

In addition, we will be taking another club photo. All judokas should come in a clean WHITE JUDO GI.

05/20/2025

Upcoming Events:
Monday, May 26 - NO CLASS
Thursday, May 29 - Club Promotion Event & Picture
Saturday, May 31 - Annual Friends and Family Summer Picnic
Tuesday, June 3 - Clinic by Judoka Anne Suzuki hosted by PA judo
Thursday, June 19 - Judo Mat Move Day
Monday, June 23 - Beginning of Summer Judo Schedule (LOCATION AND TIME CHANGES)

07/02/2024

https://www.kqed.org/news/11992373/yoshihiro-uchida-san-jose-state-coach-who-took-judo-to-olympic-stage-dies-at-104

Yoshihiro Uchida created the renowned San José State judo program and coached the inaugural U.S. team in the sport’s Olympic debut.

05/30/2024

Exciting news! Our judokas, Jayden and Caleb, were the youngest kata team to compete at the USA Judo Senior National Kata Championships this past weekend. Their outstanding performance in three Kata events showcased exceptional skills and teamwork and earned them Gold 🥇 in Goshin Jitsu (forms of Self-Defense) and Silver 🥈 in Nage No Kata (forms of throwing). Kudos to Jayden and Caleb for their remarkable achievement! They were coached by Sensei Elaine Abad, who played a vital role in their success.

05/22/2024

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who donated, shared our cause, and enjoyed some delicious Panda Express today to make our Panda Express fundraiser a success! Your support means the world to us. 🙏🐼

05/14/2024

Enjoy delicious PANDA EXPRESS on TUESDAY, May 21st with code 923607 to support San Jose Buddhist Judo Club!

Orders must be made online through the Panda site or the app, but can be picked up at ANY NATIONWIDE location!

Thanks for your support!!!

https://www.community-fundraiser.com/virtual-fundraiser/events/promotions/32da57da-09c6-a201-4ad5-2f2d3dd2ff79/en/landing

05/08/2024

We were honored to host Palo Alto Judo Club for a Friendship Workout at our dojo this past Sunday. Huge shoutout to Sensei Keith Nakasone and the San Jose State Judo Team for leading the workout and inspiring our judokas. Thank you to both teams for sharing your knowledge and expertise with us.

06/29/2022

To SJB Members

This past weekend, San Jose hosted the International Junior Olympics Championships and Junior Olympic National Championships. There were 1597 competitors with 2633 matches over 3 days. SJB Judo was well represented and our competitors showed tremendous skill, techniques, conditioning, passion, and drive. Some of our competitors phenomenally competed in 2 categories. Congratulations to all of our competitors for all their hard work to compete at the highest possible level in judo.

Allison Takara - National
Rebeca Hoang - National and International
Christian Carandang - National and National IJF
Alex Lim - National
Shane Takara - National and National IJF
Elisa Villanueva - National
Carrie Itatani - National
Cassie Itatani - National and International - Undefeated 8 ippons - Gold in both categories
Emily Lim - National - Bronze

Thanks to all the instructors for preparing the competitors for this top-level event. Special thanks to the coaches that coached mat-side throughout the event:
Andy Takara
Lance Kawata
Daniel Kikuchi
Neal Kodama
Special thanks to team manager Sarah Jabin who tirelessly kept everyone abreast of upcoming matches.

Of course, the tournament could not be run without a technical staff manning the score tables. Thank you to the following volunteers to provide the ability to have the tournament run smoothly:
Rachel Vuong
Jame McCabe
Jim Pennington

While judo is an individual sport, our competitors came together as one SJB Judo team. On days they were not competing, they still came early to help their teammates warm up. They cheered and supported each other. Kudos to our competitors for their awesome judo spirits on and off the mat.

Tremendous thanks to the parents for their unconditional support and amazing team spirit as well as our club members who came out to support our competitors. It was a very exciting three days of tournaments and they were there to support each other, our competitors, and the club.

Thank you all.

06/24/2022

San Jose Buddhist Judo Club is proud to announce that a number of our junior competitors will be competing this weekend at the 2022 Junior Olympic Championships.
2022 Junior Olympic Championships
Friday, June 24, 2022 - Sunday, June 26, 2022

The location of this event:
McEnery Convention Center
150 W. San Carlos Street, San Jose, CA 95113

This event is not always held so close to home and is a great opportunity for new and/or up-and-coming judokas to get a glimpse at some competitive judo while supporting some of their young teammates.

Below are some links for the tournament:
(Brackets and Schedule) https://usajudo.smoothcomp.com/en/event/7939/schedule

(Live Stream Video) https://usajudo.smoothcomp.com/en/event/7939/livestream

(Participant Search) https://usajudo.smoothcomp.com/en/event/7939/participants

BEST OF LUCK TO ALL OF OUR COMPETITORS!

05/30/2022

To Judo Parents/students,

We will not be having our Jr. judo practice this Monday in observance of Memorial Day.
Class will resume on Thursday.

03/02/2022

The next dojo cleanup is scheduled for next Saturday 3/5/22 at 9:30am. Could you please help to make announcement to your class so the students and their family can come and help out with the cleanup? The more people we have, the faster the cleanup will be.

For the older students ages 12+, there will be a choke/pin and referee clinic right after the cleanup. We hope to see everyone there.