Promotion of Luis Gardia to (USJF) 9th dan

by Cichorei Kano Fri Aug 09, 2013 4:56 pm

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Promotion of Luis Gardia to (USJF) 9th dan

by Cichorei Kano Fri Aug 09, 2013 4:56 pm

Luis Gardia from Miami has become the first person who (finally) is not of Japanese heritage who has been promoted to 9th dan by the USJF:

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/07/14/2893018/living-legend-of-pan-american.html

Congrats !!

USJF has also promoted Uchida 'Yosh' Yoshihiro from SJSU to 9th dan, while USA Judo's according to its own information (as I have reported earlier) has apparently promoted him to 10th dan although strangely no news report still mentions this exceptionally high (10th dan) rank. So also congrats to Uchida-sensei for this second promotion.

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