SOUTH BAY JUDO

Wilson Park - Dee Hardison Center - 2400 Jefferson St. Torrance, CA 90501 - 424-392-4732

"He who fears loss, has already been beaten."

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Dr. Jigoro Kano

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"It is not important to be better than someone else, but to be better than yesterday."

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Dr. Jigoro Kano

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"He who fears loss, has already been beaten." ✦ Dr. Jigoro Kano ✦ "It is not important to be better than someone else, but to be better than yesterday." ✦ Dr. Jigoro Kano ✦

2025 - SBJ ANNOUNEMENTS & EVENTS

Winter Nationals – Dec 6 & 7 at the LA Convention Center

Results: 1st - Ezra Elder (Shiai) and Maria and Marina Masutani (Kata). 2nd - Grace Wang and competing for Team South Bay were Meina Nagai, Sarah Ramirez, Mia Midgette, Nicolas Do, Kevin Midgette, Yuriah Ordinario, Enzo Sakaguchi, Julien Do, Yuma Sakamoto, Zachary Ordinario and Robbie Midgette.

Although we didn’t have the results we wanted, the kids are improving and in time we’ll be bringing home the medals. Good work everyone!

SBJ also had parents and kids helping on the score table all day for 2 days. Thank you to Manami Takeuchi, Leah Ishii, Yuko Fujita, Mark Sakaguchi, Chloe Sakaguchi, Valarie Do, Julien Do, Zachary Ordinario, Jerome Ordinario, Khaliun Gantsooj, Tumen Gantsooj, Mickey Tran & Enzo Sakaguchi. If we missed anyone thank you for volunteering as always!

Holiday Workout Session - Nov 4 to Dec 16 (Off Nov 27 and Dec 11)

The Holiday session is being run by Sensei Shane with help from all the other sensei’s. Going over tournament techniques, conditioning and how to improve your judo techniques. The younger kids and older adults are getting a hard pre-holiday workout so they can eat a little extra before the Winter session starts. After the last class of the Holiday Workout session - Dec 16, We will be off for the rest of December.

Start of 1Q-Winter-2026 On-Line Registration (DATE CHANGE)

We’re good to go! On-line registration will be open on Monday, Dec 22!

1Q-Winter-2026 – the first session of 2026 starts on Jan 6 and ends on Mar 5.

On-line registration starts on Monday, Dec 22, 2025 and ends on Jan 2, 2026.

To register go to:

Jan 25, 2026 - South Bay Judo – Annual Awards Luncheon

We are planning to have our 2025 Awards Luncheon hopefully at Chevron Park, El Segundo CA. PLEASE SAVE THE DATE! You can always go to www.southbayjudo.com for additional information and updates.