Greetings again to members, friends, and family of EBJI! Here we are, 8 weeks in. We hit a milestone, we finally poured concrete! It happened early in the morning, so I didn’t get to take pictures, one of the guys took a few pictures for me. I haven’t actually been inside since the pour, so […]

Greetings again to members, friends, and family of EBJI! Here we are at the end of week 7. I missed last week, there was too much going on. There were a few schedule changes, but shortly before I arrived to take pictures, the city inspector was on site and and gave us the OK to […]

Greetings again to members, friends, and family of EBJI! Here we are at the end of week 5. We can see more of the preparation taking place. I am told that the current plan is to pour the concrete this week if they can get the city inspectors in there to give the OK. Once […]

Greetings again to members, friends, and family of EBJI! Here we are at the end of week 4 of our remodel! The demolition is pretty much done and we can see more of the preparation taking place. When I stopped by there were a couple of guys using a wheelbarrow to remove dirt from the […]

Greetings again to members, friends, and family of EBJI! Here we are at the end of week 3 of our remodel! The majority is still demolition, but we can see more of the preparation for the earthquake retrofit coming together. There’s been a lot of work on the floors, removing the flooring and prepping for […]

Greetings again to members, friends, and family of EBJI! Here we are at the end of week 2 of our remodel! As to be expected, the majority of the work is still demolition and preparation. As you will see in the pictures, in comparison with last week’s report, more preparation has been done and a […]

Greetings members, friends, and family of EBJI! I imagine that most of these following posts will be short on text, but include photos of the progress. It’s much easier to comprehend the progress being made by seeing the pictures rather than reading the description.  I did a walk-through at the end of the first week […]

Greeting to EBJI Members, families, and friends, For more than 20 years now, we’ve been “planning” to remodel the dojo. It’s always been sort of a pipe dream, until a few years back we finally got to the point that (through gifts, investments, and savings) we could afford to actually make it happen! Given that […]

The East Bay Judo Institute is proud to announce this year’s recipients of The East Bay Judo Institute Alumni Scholarship, Henry Warmerdam and Maxime St. Jean. Henry is a two-time recipient of the Alumni Scholarship and a dedicated contributor to the dojo. In addition to training with the competition class, he assists with the beginning […]

On February 21, 2010, members of EBJI’s competitive team attended the second annual Makimoto Judo Tournament in Vacaville, CA. Jackson Kim, Dillon Izzo, Brandon Izzo, John Bennett, Satoshi Matsumoto, Masashi Matsumoto and Takashi Matsumoto all competed in their respective divisions. John Bennett and Brandon Izzo led the way for EBJI, taking Gold Medals in their […]