Monkey Bar Judo
The
best Judo club in Madison!
www.monkeybargym.com
Monkey Bar
Gymnasium
600 Williamson St.
Madison, WI 53703
Phone
(608) 663-7551
Since the
demise of the UW-Madison Judo club, Monkey Bar Judo is by far the best
judo club in town. We have a ridiculous number of state,
national, and international level champions at the gym with regular
classes in judo and Brazilian Jiu-jitsu.
This
picture is of the judo gang at the 2009 AAU National Judo Championships. Shown
left to right are Vanessa Angur (Ikkyu), Matt Marty (Shodan), Tim
Freiberg (winner of the bronze medal and a promotion to Sankyu), Ellie
Pengra, Anders Angur (Shodan with silver medal in Seniors and Gold in
Masters division), Joe Sanfilippo (Shodan), Jennifer Sanfilippo
(Sandan).
The 40th Annual AAU National Judo Championships
where our team competed. Shown left to right are Cassandra Rivers-blaso
(winner of the ADCC North American Trials Championship and 2 time
Gold medalist at the Pan American Games), Jennifer Sanfilippo (3rd
Dan), Thales Blaso (GOLD), James "Junior" Clark (GOLD and BRONZE), Matt
Marty (Shodan), Jon Sanfilippo (8th Dan). Photo by ME!
Jessica Sanfilippo and David Hofhine at the 39th
Annual AAU National Judo Championships where Jes won Gold in 2
divisions.
The
local CBS affiliate did a really great feature story on our
judo club that ended up airing on the prime time news broadcasts of a
couple of different stations. Below are a few screen shots from
the interview.
State Judo Champion Dan
Mensing, throwing some big
air for the TV cameras.
"It's
more fun than a barrel of Monkeys!"
Casey
Blaso putting the smack down on Roxanne Modafferi during her 2007 MMA
title bout. The fight went 5 rounds to a dubious split decision.
