Coach John Holm of the U.S. Judo Training Center in Renton, Washington has trained more national, international, and world champions than any other judo coach in the state. Are you ready to win?
Coach John Holm has developed a revolutionary way of teaching judo that is ideal for American students interested in gaining a competetive edge in the sport. Coach Holm taught credit classes in judo and self-defense for 31 years at the University of Minnesota. FBI agents and police officers have trained under him. And he co-authored a book for young people, Judo is for Me. Coach John Holm developed his innovative training method at the University of Minnesota's Department of Kinesiology. He videotaped his students in competition and used a computer to digitally analyze their loco-motor skills. With the aid of this technology, Coach Holm discovered that effective judo throws in competition are totally different--often exactly opposite--from the way classical judo is taught! With this revelation, Coach John Holm revised his training method to reflect these differences. Unlike classical training methods, his unique training strategy achieves 100% transference from class to competition. Then, at competition, he videotapes his students to analyze their movements for technical accuracy, as well as the student's individual build and flair for movement. Coach John Holm's training methods and philosophy are revolutionary. As a result, he has upset the classical judo establishment. But his allegiance is to his students, to train them to be successful--he does not bow to outdated training philosophies. At the U.S. Judo Training Center in Renton, Washington, Coach John Holm offers training for men, women, and children, beginner to elite. He teaches lightning-quick throws and counter throws, immobilizing hold-downs plus escapes and reversals, super-effective submission holds (age restrictions apply), and advanced concepts of body management. Come and join us for a great time and great judo instruction!
LOOKING BACK: COACH JOHN HOLM OVER THE YEARS
	"STATE JUDO CHAMP--John R. Holm of 4420 York Ave. S., won first place at the state judo championship in St. Paul last week. Shown in action here, he wears the second degree Black Belt and is a volunteer instructor at the Central Judo Club in Minneapolis." --Minnesota Daily, April 4th, 1966

"Holm, who has been a judo instructor at the University for 25 years, was leaving the University for home when he saw a local shopkeeper chasing a man across Oak Street. 'As soon as I got behind him, he pulls out a knife and makes a sort of slashing motion towards my face. So I did a wristlock on him, stepped in alongside him, and threw him down to the ground. It was basically the same thing I teach the police officers in my class,' Holm said... "Holm teaches his students jacket wrestling, a computer-designed form of judo that he developed. '[The police] like it because it's up close and down on the ground. It's more realistic for real fighting than karate.'" --The Minnesota Daily, February 6th, 1989
	"John Holm is the only coach in the country who produced three national junior champions at the first National Junior Championships in Kalamazoo, MI. His beautiful Olympian Judo School is doing so much for our sport that it seems impossible to cover his programs on only one page. "Diane Pierce, perhaps the most outstanding lady black belt in randori competition in the U.S., does much of the instructing for women. She emphasizes randori competition and trains her girls that way. Both Diane and John hope to see women's randori competition at the national level during the next few years and are working toward that goal by hosting women's randori competition at the Olympian. "This is a great school and its coaches are a credit to judo and the Association, and we are proud to have them on the first judo team of American Judo." --American Judoman, Jul-Aug 1971, p. 10
"Randal Gast of the Olympian, Minnesota, throws in contest." --American Judoman, Jul-Aug 1973, inside front cover (Coach Holm is the referee)
	Coach John Holm continues to train judo champions. He has trained more national and international judo champions than any other judo coach in the State of Washington. Here he stands with Josiah Thalhofer of the U.S. Judo Training Center in Renton, Washington, after Josiah won his first Pacific Northwest High School Championship in 2001.