World Championship Pics...

Yay pictures! Thanks to Carl (the current Shiramizu intern) and Amy (his fiance, professional photographer, and "unofficial" intern) for the great pics. Especially since I didn't have time to take them from the floor.....

Team Japan's Matsuhisa Ko (red) does his part for the WKF ad.
And he's a Wadokai member!

R. Aghayev (AZE, red) dodges a punch from S. Margaritopoulos (GRE) in the Men's Open Finals.
Aghayev followed with a take-down...

Richard (L) and me looking busy...
I mean.... being busy.... "looking" concerned =P...

K. Kneuhmann (GER, red) and N. Fujiwara (JPN, blue) in the Women's -53kg Finals.
Imagine this happening in a split second and you being the judge to decide who scored the best technique...

Women's -60kg podium.
1st - M. Sobol (RUS)
2nd - N. Varasteh (CAN)
3rd - K. Strika (SRB)
3rd - V. Dogan (TUR)

Men's -70kg podium
1st - R. Aghayev (AZE)
2nd - T. Moussa (EGY)
3rd - S. Nagaki (JPN)
3rd - S. Baghbani (CAN)

We didn't get any medals, so we settled for a picture with two of the nice ladies who handed the medals out... that's sort of the same, isn't it?? haha...