Registration – AKJA Open National Judo Championships
Registration forms for the upcoming AKJA Open National Judo Championships are available by clicking on the links below:

2011 AKJA Invitation & Costings (119kb pdf)
2011 AKJA National Open Judo Championships Entry Form (94kb pdf)
Waiver & Indemnity Form (a signed copy must accompany entry form)

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Registration – 13th Australian Masters Games
Entry forms for the 13th Australian …

The Australian Kodokan Judo Association Summer School begins next week, from January 3rd to January 7th 2011 at the Shudokan Budo Academy in Brunswick East. The Summer School is an intensive week of Judo training, featuring morning and afternoon sessions. The morning seeions are fom 10am to 12.30pm, with the afternoon sessionfrom 2.30pm to 5.30pm, inclusive.
The morning session is …

AKJA CEO and Head Instructor, Sensei Ivan Zavetchanos, along with Ingrid Wilby (Godan) and Gina Vangeli (Nikyu), recently travelled to the United State of America to participate in the well-respected, and 22nd, Fukuda International Invitational Kata Tournament. As in the past, the small Australian contingent arrived in the USA as relative unknowns, but by tournaments end, this was no longer …

A Mirror to the Soul
“The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being. (ho de anexetastos bios ou biôtos anthrôpôi — ὁ δὲ ἀνεξέταστος βίος οὐ βιωτὸς ἀνθρώπῳ)”Socrates

When the Kodokan made the decision to use the Yata no Kagami as the symbol to denote the Kodokan Spirit, they did so with the full realisation that Kodokan Judo was …

Recent World Results for Australians
Release Date: 18/06/2010
image © Erin Bryne

GRAND SLAM, RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL22-28 May, 2010.
A major event with an entry of cream competitors. The Australian team were all eliminated in their first fights with the exception of NSW Police Officer, Kylie Koenig, in the U/63 category, who won her first match against Colombian fighter, Madeline Choconta (Ippon), and …