Videos from my 2 state Judo titles from back in the day.

I was looking for a particular video today as I surfing through youtube and stumbled across these (one of my students had them posted) so I thought I'd share.

The first is from 2000 when I won the Open Division (Open is esentially the absolute division in Judo). The way it works in NYS is there are 6 regions all with regional championships, the regions champs fight a month or two later at the Empire State Games, all round robin.

Yes I was a super heavy weight back then ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NglSbhK6KSs

The next one was in 2006, the last time I stepped on a Judo competition mat, I announced my retirement right before, and told my regional coach I taking home the gold today, don't blink I don't plan on being out there long, its too fucking hot in here. I won the Super Heavy Weight division with my longest match being just over a minute, the rest were under 20 secs each, with the finals being about 6 secs. Sorry no music on this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V34dEq0oGXo

beaaaaaaast.

Crazy... why did you choose to retire from Judo competition (just curious)?

AJ judo has had many rule changes over the yrs, which is taking away from the sport. When I first started with Chris we would go to a lot of judo tournaments. Now bc of the changes I havent been to one in 3yrs.

One big bad man for sure!

Very cool.

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Originally Posted by AJ Camacho

Crazy... why did you choose to retire from Judo competition (just curious)?

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A number of reasons; rule changes, the distancing of the art of Judo from its roots, more importanly I wanted to put more energy into my coaching and raise the bar on my teaching ability, and on learning something diffrent (this was right aroound the time that I started reading Eddies philosphy on Jiu Jitsu on the Underground), and soon after picked up Jiu Jitsu Unleashed, and its been ON every since.

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Originally Posted by Kendell "Has Legs" Madden

beaaaaaaast.

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+1 on the beastin... Belly splashin with authority

Now thats how you use your weight.

Can't wait for your next trip to Decatur. I definitely won't be a RETARD and miss it again.