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This year marks our fifty first state Championship tournament.

This tournament is presented with the hope that the ideas of Kano Shihan, instilled into the earliest students of Kodokan Judo, are evident today in our Alaskan students. These ideas are the corner stones of Kodokan Judo and are important to the development of the person and the community. Translated into English, these concepts are at once simple and complex. They are easy to understand, but often difficult to practice. They are:

Seiryoku Zenyo - Achieve maximum efficiency with minimum effort. Kano Shihan considered this important in all aspects of life, not only in techniques of Kodokan Judo. Achieving maximum efficiency with minimum effort is just as important in doing homework as it is in executing seoi-nage (shoulder throw).

Jita-Kyoei - Practicing mutual welfare and benefit. Kano Shihan included this idea to balance the first. Those persons looking only for their own perfection would inevitably, cause conflict with those around them. Considering those about us cause the individual to be a member of the community of humans.

We hope that you recognize these concepts in the competitors, referees, and officials at this tournament. We also hope that these concepts are encouraged in your local dojo and in your life.

Swanee Swain

President, Alaska Judo, Inc.