I got beat up by a junior brown belt who was smaller than me last night. It hurt my ego a great deal, I was surprised by how much. Judo is a harsh mistress if you don't practice often.
Some of those kids are killers. The kids and teens at our school tend to be the primary competitors, and a lot of them have been training with extreme dedication for years. So you get 14 year old 120 pound black belt kids who are able to violently launch me, 190 pounds yonkyu.
Some of those kids are killers. The kids and teens at our school tend to be the primary competitors, and a lot of them have been training with extreme dedication for years. So you get 14 year old 120 pound brown belt kids who are able to violently launch me, 190 pounds yonkyu.
We get a lot of visiting kids too with USA competition patches on their gis and such, and you know they are going to be fierce in randori. There's just no comparison between a 15 year old kid who has been doing competitive judo since he was 5 and some hobbyist adult.
Guys, I'm still a noob and don't know much about current or previous iconic Judokas. Could you give me a few names to look up on Youtube and get familiar with?
lol. because apparently "If he was the same size as Inoue he'd be collecting bronze medals at B class tournaments, not winning internationals."
Ilias Iliadis
Mark Huizinga
Flavio Canto
are a couple other names.
lol. because apparently "If he was the same size as Inoue he'd be collecting bronze medals at B class tournaments
keep talking shit about einarr... I see 100% o soto in your future.
I asked this in another thread about difference in my submission game in gi and nogi but was wondering if there are in judoka who have a strong pummeling game(doubtful but just curious).
That's so dumb. Just because he's in much better shape than the guys he's fighting (most of whom would be natural LHWs if they weren't so pudgy) shouldn't diminish his technical skill. He's really, really good, not just really really big and strong. It's no different than the Klitschko bros. Yeah, they're taller than everyone else and have longer reaches, but they've also developed their styles to take advantage of their physiques. I don't think it diminished them any that they mostly fight blown up LHWs.
Yasuhiro Yamashita
Toshihiko Koga
Jeon Ki Young
Neil Adams
Udo Quellmaz
Robert Van de Walle
Katsuhiko Kashiwazaki
Jimmy Pedro
Mike Swain
David Douillet
Kosei Inoue
Keiji Suzuki
Peter Seisenbacher
Angelo Parisi
And why not Riner? He's a bit of a tool but his Judo is very good.