Written by EJJA

Selected Judokas are attending the seminar by Melanie Stoll intensively 4 times per week. This training that takes several weeks qualify them for a better understanding of techniques and philosophy of Judo.
The intensive seminar at the Addis Ababa University is already running at full speed. Instructor Melanie Stoll is very proud of her students.

Written by EJJA

The 5th Ju-Jitsu seminar has been successfully completed in December 2011. The seminar was given for three days in Addis Ababa by Dr. Tsegaye Degineh, EJJA President. The seminar was attended all in all by 150 Ju-Jitsukas from different clubs.
This seminar was also necessary and essential in order to extend the permission in order to teach and couch Ju-Jitsu.

Besides, the Ju-Jitsu belt examination took place on 13th December. Mekdelawit Negussie, Abraham Abate and Yared Negussie have been graduated for the first Dan successfully after having satisfied the grading panel. Further belt examinations upwards blue belt were also examined successfully.

EJJA General Assembly took place on 18 December 2011 and elected new executive committees. The full report will be available in January 2012.

Written by EJJA

Grand Master Daxbacher's 4th Judo trip was completed very successfully. 86 Judokas have been examined to different belt ranks. Various fruitful meetings were held with the authorities and Addis Ababa University. The two main points were the team building and the goodwill-activities from Ms. Stoll, who is instructing Judo for the next two months. This is a great opportunity to develop Judo in Ethiopia. Recently, Mr. Stoll is teaching Judo techniques referees and rules.