On Saturday, August third, 510 Judo hosted the 2nd Bay Space Judo Championships (2024) at Pinole Valley Excessive Faculty. A judo event is an enormous manufacturing and requires the participation and efforts of many many individuals to make it work. Thanks, in no explicit order, to:
- Our unofficial co-host Vallejo Judo, Sensei Armando, Sensei Frankie, and Sensei Acazah. It wouldn’t have been doable with out you!
- Our referee crew, together with our chief referee Glenn Koyama of San Gabriel Judo. Thanks as properly specifically to David Williams, Ralph Palmer, Dina Mani, and Minobu Shibuya.
- All of the fighters and coaches from all of the golf equipment who got here from close to and much to indicate their judo and take part within the shiai.
- All our fantastic volunteers from all of the golf equipment across the space, together with Nakano Judo, Griffin Judo, San Francisco Judo Institute, and extra.
- Sensei Anthony Lau from Hollywood Judo, who flew up simply to assist out on the event. Sensei Anthony can be the co-host of the wonderful judo podcast Tatami Speak – please subscribe to their YouTube channel and hear the their podcast on any podcast platform.
- Our 510 Judo volunteer crew, beginning with Eileen, our volunteer coordinator. I had no concept what an essential job that was going to be!!
- Sensei Nico and his spouse Rebecca for manning the awards desk within the morning.
- Sensei Jay for manning the awards desk within the afternoon.
- Coach Angelo, simply again from the U.S. Open in Florida, for all the assistance with arrange, breakdown, teaching, and doing the whole lot that wanted doing.
- Sebastian for his invaluable assist ending up the brackets and getting them revealed the night time earlier than.
- Kevin and that Australian fella JT for technical help with the livestream in addition to scoring and timekeeping.
- Tristan, David, and so many others who crammed in wherever it was vital.
I’m positive I missed any individual, and for that I’m really sorry. Please know that your efforts are very a lot appreciated!
Further details about the event:
We experimented with a PPV livestream for this event, provided straight by means of Smoothcomp. We bumped into some technical points, largely our fault. Our intention was to seize each single match in superb HD, with each single match getting its personal file, and clickable hyperlinks from the bracket web page. Nonetheless as a consequence of unexpected points, there are not any matches from Mat 4. Mat 1 has a number of hours of matches, however there was a difficulty with graphics popping up and protecting the complete display screen through the match, making it practically unwatchable.
Nonetheless, in case your judoka was on mat 2 or mat 3, through the first few hours of the event, there’s a good probability that we acquired their matches. Please click on right here and discover your judoka’s identify, then click on “Watch.” You’ll be taken to a video participant and can have the chance to purchase a replay of the livestream for $10 (the minimal quantity allowed by Smoothcomp). Please notice, the $10 lets you watch all of the matches from the entire event.
We additionally had knowledgeable photographer, Rex Mananquil, come and take nonetheless photographs of the occasion. Just a few of them are right here on this weblog submit. For my part, they got here out nice! Click on right here to have a look – the password is 510Judo-080324. There are over 750 excessive definition motion photographs! From that web site you should purchase non-watermarked digital information for a couple of bucks every, or you’ll be able to order prints. Please notice all income from that web site goes on to Rex, to not us because the event organizers.
Additionally, don’t overlook to comply with the official instagram account @bayareajudochampionships for extra photographs. Be at liberty to tag or point out us you probably have photographs or video you’d wish to share.
Lastly, should you’re somebody who’s curious about taking over judo, come observe with us! We’re conveniently positioned in San Leandro, California, simply off the 580 freeway, in between Oakland, Hayward and Castro Valley.
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