The 9th Annual Hoteikan System Spring Seminar will be held at the US military Academy at West Point.  Your host Soke Emilio "Reno" Claudio & West point Judo Team will be featuring Master instructors Soke Santiago Armstrong (Headmaster), Master Sensei Thomas Carrano (Shihan), and Shihan LTC Hector Morales (Shihan).

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Photos for the 8th annual Hoteikan Seminar at West Point have been loaded on the website and can be viewed in the media gallery.  You can also click on the link below.

8th annual Hoteikan Seminar

The Seminar at West Point on Saturday, April 16th was a huge success! There was expert demonstration and instruction from some of the top Grandmasters and Masters in the Martial Arts.
 
GM Luis Ferrer wowed the group with his quick hand techniques and devestating Jujutsu defense movements.
 
Shihan Cookie Melendez gave a no nonsense demonstration of practical defense and showed off her Kickboxing skills.
 

Congratulations to the USMA West Point Army Judo team! For the second year in a row they were the winners of the team competition of the National Collegiate Judo tournament. This year, they won 1st place in both the senior & novice divisions!
 
The team is under the direction of Soke Emilio Claudio Jr. & Shihan Hector Morales!
This is truly a great accomplishment! Congratulations to the team for a job well done!
The news article and pictures will be posted soon!

The 8th annual hoteikan system spring jujutsu seminar will be held at US Military Academy at West Point on Saturday 16th of April, 2011 from 9am to 4 pm.

West Point Judo teams take 1st and 2nd Place at Drexel University; Beat Navy 120-0 The entire West Point Judo team descended upon Drexel University for the 2nd Army –Navy weekend intercollegiate Judo team competition. This year, the competition included two teams from Army, two from Navy, two from Drexel University, and one from Penn State. Each team was comprised of one woman and five men in ascending weight divisions and three alternates.

The West Point Judo team took 22 cadets to Paterson, NJ on 05DEC11 to compete in the Northeastern Judo Championships. The team was very successful, winning 48 out of 87 total matches against high level local and national competitors. The team brought back a total of 19 medals including 7 first place finishes by cadets San Jung 21 Co C3, Josiah Mccoy 11 Co F3, Justin Adkins 13 Co B2, Austin Bowman 14 Co B2, Elisabeth Posey 14 Co H3, and Juliet Talavera 14 Co E3.

Katherine Clarke-Pounder wins the Gold and Danielle Munoz (11) and Michael Gibson (12) bring home bronze Nine West Point Judo Athletes stepped out of their comfort zone and traveled to Texas to compete at the 45th Dallas Invitational. The Dallas Invitational is an USA Judo elite level tournament where the top Judo athletes in the Nation compete from prize money and ranking on the USA Judo national roster. All the weight divisions were heavily populated with some divisions having as many as 25 competitors on them.