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Prof. Willy Cahill is one of
the Founders, past President, and Technical Director of
Jujitsu America. He serves for the US Judo Association's
Jujitsu program on the Jujitsu Executive Committee and Standards
Board. He holds 10th Dan in Jujitsu and 8th Dan in Judo.
Besides running his own dojo, Cahill's Judo Academy, in
San Bruno, CA, which celebrates its 60th anniversary in
2008, he coached the U.S. Olympic Judo Teams in 1984 and
1988, the World Team five times, the Pan American Team twice
and the Goodwill Games twice. Since 1963, Cahill's Judo
Academy has produced over 1000 national and international
medal winners, and four Olympic and Paralympic coaches.
Coach Cahill was the judo coach at both San Francisco State
University and Stanford University. He was head coach of
the Paralympic Judo Team that traveled to Sydney, Australia
in November, 2000 and brought back the first Gold Medals
ever won by the U.S. in Paralympic or Olympic judo competition.
The team was ranked #1 in the world in 2000.
In 1997, Prof. Cahill started
The World of Martial Arts Supplies, a company dealing with
martial arts supplies as well as nutritional products, with
the majority of his business online at his website. He has
developed a set of 3 instructional videos that demonstrate
Judo Training, as well as a 6-volume video set demonstrating
the arts of Kodenkan Jujitsu. He has also designed a line
of judo and jujitsu uniforms for Tiger Claw.
Prof. Cahill is honored to
work closely with his student Eric Renner to present Sport
Jujitsu Tournaments and events several times a year, culminating
with the annual Jujitsu America Sport Jujitsu US National
Championship Tournament. These tournaments and events are
presented in longtime partnership with Tiger Claw.
Prof. Cahill has received numerous
awards, including being named to Black Belt Magazine's Black
Belt Hall of Fame as Judo Coach of the Year, JA's Instructor
of the Year in 1979, inducted in 1981 to JA's Black Belt
Hall of Fame, was the 1997 recipient of JA's Wally Jay Award,
and recognized in 2006 with JA's Patriarch Award.
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