{"id":18,"date":"2013-04-15T15:32:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T15:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judoalberta.com\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2025-12-03T22:10:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T22:10:21","slug":"history-of-judo-alberta","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/judoalberta.com\/index.php\/history-of-judo-alberta\/","title":{"rendered":"History Of Judo Alberta"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Our Organization<\/h4>\n<p>The Alberta Kodokan Black Belt Association, commonly known as Judo Alberta, is the governing body for the sport of Judo in the province of Alberta.<\/p>\n<p>The Association, incorporated in 1960, is a non-profit organization which operates on funds from the Government of Alberta, fundraising programs, and membership fees. Judo Alberta serves the needs of its 1,400 members which consists of Judoka (athletes), instructors, coaches, officials, and supportive members.<\/p>\n<h4>Past Presidents<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Yosh Katsuta \u2013 1952 \u2013 1957<\/li>\n<li>E. Hashizume \u2013 1957 \u2013 1959<\/li>\n<li>Yosh Senda \u2013 1959 \u2013 1977<\/li>\n<li>Allan Sattin \u2013 1977 \u2013 1981<\/li>\n<li>Ron Senda \u2013 1981 \u2013 1987<\/li>\n<li>William Cox \u2013 1987 \u2013 1990<\/li>\n<li>Frank Perich \u2013 1990 \u2013 1997<\/li>\n<li>Mike Tamura \u2013 1997 \u2013 2003<\/li>\n<li>Garry Yamashita \u2013 2003 \u2013 2009<\/li>\n<li>Paul Hachey \u2013 2009 \u2013 2011<\/li>\n<li>Gord Okamura \u2013 2011 (interim)<\/li>\n<li>Kelly Thornton \u2013 2011 \u2013\u00a02017<\/li>\n<li>Trevor Hazell &#8211; 2017 &#8211; 2022<\/li>\n<li>Kelly Thornton &#8211; 2022 &#8211; Current<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Organization The Alberta Kodokan Black Belt Association, commonly known as Judo Alberta, is the governing body for the sport of Judo in the province of Alberta. The Association, incorporated in 1960, is a non-profit organization which operates on funds from the Government of Alberta, fundraising programs, and membership fees. Judo Alberta serves the needs(&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judoalberta.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/judoalberta.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/judoalberta.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judoalberta.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judoalberta.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/judoalberta.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8168,"href":"https:\/\/judoalberta.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/8168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judoalberta.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}