Due to the oustanding show of support, we are very proud to announce the

 

 

We are are almost halfway there folks.  We have about 25 people committed to helping out, but we need 60 for all three days.  We have gotten good feedback for our training clinic so we are going ahead with it.  David and I just got back from Harlingen, Texas where we went to work as referees at the Fall Classic/Ladder Tournament.  When we got there we found that there were almost NO technical officials, so we put on an improvised training session with those willing to help out early Saturday morning and the weekend ended up being a BIG SUCCESS and everyone had lots of fun!

 

We are going to do a "mock" tournament to get everyone some real-time experience on brackets, scoring, timing, etc. . . We are going to be running six mats at the US Open, two will be computer scoreboards and four will be the electronic scoreboards.  We are trying to arrange to have one of the electronic scoreboards dropped of at Bill's dojo for our training purposes - these are very easy machines to operate.  The training clinic should be a lot of fun in itself and I encourage everyone who is planning on helping out at the US Open to come to this clinic so we will all look like pros.  Even though it doesn't cost you a cent, it is a sanctioned event so you will even pick up a promotional point!

 

 

 

 

 

Sanction: FJI PENDING

 Date:  October 7, 2006  (Saturday)

 Time: 11:30  AM to 4:00 PM

 Location:  Central Florida Judo Dojo
                 248 Hatteras Ave.
                 Clermont, FL 34711
                 Dojo Phone:  (352)  243-2777

 Cost:  Your time (NO CLINIC  FEE)

 Clinic Director:  Sensei Bill "Dancing Bear"  Andreas
                          e-mail: SenseiJudo@...

 Clinicians:  Michael New and David J. Ellis
                 Local Technical Official Chairpersons for  2006 US Open

 Special Clinician:  Rachel New (2006  Spirit of Tai Yosheda Award Winner
 for her work as a technical  official)


 For more information contact Sensei Bill  Andreas
 at SenseiJudo@... or call him at (352)  243-2777