The Judo Seminar at the Hoteikan Dojo in November was a great success and full of surprises!

Sensei Tommy conducted several underbelt tests prior to the seminar and awarded the students with their belts. They performed several Kata and self defense applications to the delight of the senior instructors. As noted, the senior instructors were: Soke Emilio Claudio, Shihan Gary Rasanen, both were the primary instructors for the seminar. In addition, Sensei's Jay Hager, Tony Nataro and John Reddick were in attendance.

Its that time of year again. The Brooklyn Hoteikan will have our LEAN and FIT program starting February 22nd.
If your looking to loose some holiday weight. Even get in shape and look fantastic for the summer. THIS IS FOR YOU!!!
With this program you will be taught how to eat correctly and take care of you body. You will learn the right excercise's that fit you.  As well as a great work out to really kick you right into shape.
All those interested in the program should call the Brooklyn Hoteikan at 718-748-2826
 

Our very own Sensei Thomas Carrano from the Brooklyn Hoteikan will have the honor of earning the Hall of Honor and Spirit award from Action Martial Arts magazine. The event will be in Atlantic City and we have a great group of Hoteikan members going to show there support to Sensei Tom. We would like to Congratulate him for achieving a great honor.

We would like to Congratualte our eXtreme Team Martial Art league All Stars. These students were the best of the best and worked very hard to show true Hoteikan spirit.
Winning All Star Team
Captain - Lider Intriago
Freddy Guaman
Andrew Guiterez
Gianna Dario
 
All Star Team Second Place
Captain- Zack Hajjar
Yanni Samaklis
James Dario
Elias Samaklis
 

The Brooklyn Hoteikan would like to Congratulate the eXtreme Team Martial Art League winners of the Fall 2010 league.  All worked very hard and did excellent. It was an exciting league.
 
First Place GRAND Champions
Team Legit Warriors
Captain- Lider Intriago
Zack Hajjar
Gianna Dario
James Dario
 
Second Place Wiinners
Team Deadly Assasins
Captain- Michael Perez
Yanni Samaklis
Andrew Guiterez
Elias Samaklis

The Brooklyn Hoteikan is proud to announce that Nov 1 we have started our Fall XT league. We have three teams with 5 players each team. The matching are exciting and the students love to participate. We have pictures posted on our facebook.
 

We would like to Congratulate Jen Tabick on her Brown belt exam. As well as Sean Larson Sr. on his Green belt exam. Both did very well and kept a good strong Hoteikan spirit during there exam.

     This weekend (Saturday, 11/6) we held a Judo, JuJitsu seminar at my new dojo location.  I invited Sensei Reno (for those of you that don't know, my sensei since I was 11, and still today some 45 years later) to join me to introduce judo to these mostly Kempo and MMA students.  We had a group of 26 show up which is a great turn out for any Judo class.The host of my new school stepped aside after introductions to let us run the class any way we wanted.  I had originally had a plan laid out, but because there were so man

Just two weeks ago I fought my first Amateur full contact fight . It was a great experience with plenty of knowledge gained along the way. The match went to decision and my opponent took the victory but I took away lessons that have made me a better fighter and Martial Artist that will last a lifetime. My father Sensei Tom would always say a quote from Chuck Norris at the dojo, he said, "I never lost a fight.. because I always learned something" he was definitely right! Although I was not the victor in that match, I honestly felt great after the fight.