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Instructors of hanabijudo
Dan began judo under his Dad at 8 years of age in 1970. He won his first national championship at 12 years of age (and didn’t win his next until he was 19.) In 1984, at 21, Dan won the Sr. National Judo Championships at 71 kilos: he was the best competitor in the country at that weight division.
In 1984 Dan also graduated with a teaching credential from San Francisco State University and moved to New York where he taught at PS 72 in East Harlem. He continued practicing judo at the prestigious NY Athletic Club on Central Park South. Then the following year he took his judo international, first by living at the Olympic Training Center in Mexico City, where he learned to speak Spanish, and then by moving to Tokyo, Japan. In Japan Dan trained at the world headquarters of Judo, the Kodokan, along with the “Keisujo,” the Tokyo Police Academy and at other universities around Tokyo.
Instructors of hanabijudo
Dan began judo under his Dad at 8 years of age in 1970. He won his first national championship at 12 years of age (and didn’t win his next until he was 19.) In 1984, at 21, Dan won the Sr. National Judo Championships at 71 kilos: he was the best competitor in the country at that weight division.
In 1984 Dan also graduated with a teaching credential from San Francisco State University and moved to New York where he taught at PS 72 in East Harlem. He continued practicing judo at the prestigious NY Athletic Club on Central Park South. Then the following year he took his judo international, first by living at the Olympic Training Center in Mexico City, where he learned to speak Spanish, and then by moving to Tokyo, Japan. In Japan Dan trained at the world headquarters of Judo, the Kodokan, along with the “Keisujo,” the Tokyo Police Academy and at other universities around Tokyo.