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| Professor Willy Cahill
Professor Willy Cahill is one of the founders and president of Jujitsu America. He holds a 10th Dan in Jujitsu and a 7th Dan in Judo. Cahill's Judo Academy celebrated their 50th anniversary in September of 1998; In 1963, Willy built a new dojo in San Bruno and began a new era for Cahill's Judo Academy. In 1970, the school won the first of a string of nine California State Judo Championships and five consecutive United States Judo Association National Championships. As a Judo coach, Professor Willy's teams competed in the Olympics, Goodwill Games, World Judo Championships, the Pacific Rim Championships and the Junior Pan American Championships. In 1975, Professor Willy was inducted as Judo Instructor of the Year into the Black Belt Hall of Fame. Besides running his own dojo, he coached the U.S. Olympic Judo Teams in 1984 and 1988, the World Team 5 times, the Pan American Team twice and the Goodwill Games twice. Since 1963 Professor Cahill's Judo Academy has produced over 1,000 national and international medal winners. He was the judo coach at both San Francisco State University and Stanford University. Prof. Cahill was head coach of the Paralympic Judo Team that traveled to Sydney, Australia in November, 2000 and brought back the first Gold Medal ever won in Paralympic or Olympic judo competition, as well as leading the U.S. team to become the top medal winners at the Paralympic Games. In 1997, Prof. Cahill started The World of Martial Arts Supplies,
a company dealing with martial arts supplies ad well as nutritional
products, with the majority of his business online through his
own website.
He has a set of three instructional videos that demonstrate
the sport. Prof. Willy Cahill has received numerous awards, including being named to Black Belt Magazine's Black Belt Hall of Fame as Judo Coach of the Year, Jujitsu America's Instructor of the Year in 1979, in 1981 to Jujitsu America's Black Belt Hall of Fame, and was the 1997 recipient of Jujitsu America's Wally Jay Award. Professor Cahill's Studio
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