Official Judo Thread VIII

RJ Green said:
you know what sucks ass? i'm a two stripe white belt that's done 9 years of judo, so i HAVE to do advanced nogi. i would get paul harris-ed.
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I had a buddy a while back that was a judo black belt that went to naga. He asked one of the organizer or something about what division he should compete in and they told him judo has about 1/4 of the groundwork and told him to do intermediate or Novice(can't remember which one).
 
Mcmoon said:
I had a buddy a while back that was a judo black belt that went to naga. He asked one of the organizer or something about what division he should compete in and they told him judo has about 1/4 of the groundwork and told him to do intermediate or Novice(can't remember which one).
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This!


My old dumbass coach said the same thing to me. My other coach said I should be doing intermediate because that suits my skills more. I can't wait to see my old coach at the next comp, he will probably think i'm trying to sand bag. :icon_twis
 
Mcmoon said:
I had a buddy a while back that was a judo black belt that went to naga. He asked one of the organizer or something about what division he should compete in and they told him judo has about 1/4 of the groundwork and told him to do intermediate or Novice(can't remember which one).
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How'd he do? Is the newaza gap as bad as the Beejers always say?
 
Bayonet said:
How'd he do? Is the newaza gap as bad as the Beejers always say?
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He took gold in gi and silver in nogi I think in whatever division it was in. His judo actually had a little heavier newaza training than most judo and he tried to tell the organizer that but the guy told him what division to compete in anyway. I could be wrong but I think he had about 5 years or so in judo at the time and dividing that by 4 but him in the novice division(doesn't it go beginner, novice, intermediate and advance for naga?).
 
Mcmoon said:
He took gold in gi and silver in nogi I think in whatever division it was in. His judo actually had a little heavier newaza training than most judo and he tried to tell the organizer that but the guy told him what division to compete in anyway. I could be wrong but I think he had about 5 years or so in judo at the time and dividing that by 4 but him in the novice division(doesn't it go beginner, novice, intermediate and advance for naga?).
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Not his fault then.

I'm sure some who like making claims that a Judo BBs newaza skills are blue belt level or less are the same who would scream "sandbagger!" if said BB were to beat them in novice comp.
 
The truth is who cares about novice categories ... They are for people to have fun and get some XP points.

People take it way too seriously.
 
One of my favorites, mr. Sobirov! Check the smoothness of the kataguruma at 4:13

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Zankou said:
The truth is who cares about novice categories ... They are for people to have fun and get some XP points.

People take it way too seriously.
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100% agree

I'm more proud of a 3rd place medal from the Brown/Black divisions in Judo than any 1st place medal in the newbie division (especially considering a whole year of losses when I first jumped in the "grown up" pool)

Even as a newb I knew: yeah I just smoked some poor WB, can't wait to play with the big dogs...

....careful what you wish for, big dogs bite hard!
 
i do all this for the hell of it, same with competition. i mean, i didn't pay $80 not to medal, but i'm also used to disappointing myself so whatever. one problem is i don't consider a video game beaten unless i've beaten all of it or beaten it on the highest difficulty level, so i'm too proud NOT to play advanced, but i still need to pour drinks and carry kegs and cut ice the next weekend.

maybe i'll play some judo this year too. at local tournaments. in the master's division :icon_chee
 
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The thing about grappling is, unless you're at a local competition, you're probably going to be going against people that train full time and have sponsors etc.

It's a humbling sport because someone always fucks you up at just about every competition you go to.

In my first fight at my last national comp I got throw in like 20 seconds by a GB squad guy with a beautiful Uchi mata and then again by another GB guy but I lasted a few minutes. The guy who won my bracket got commonwealth gold and is on the international circuit now.
 
Thrawn33 said:
100% agree

I'm more proud of a 3rd place medal from the Brown/Black divisions in Judo than any 1st place medal in the newbie division (especially considering a whole year of losses when I first jumped in the "grown up" pool)

Even as a newb I knew: yeah I just smoked some poor WB, can't wait to play with the big dogs...

....careful what you wish for, big dogs bite hard!
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100% this!

I'm so proud of my first bronze medal at brown/black division, even more so with my silver. I hope to get a gold in there soon.

My first BJJ medal should have been a gold but the ref didn't give me points for passing guard, or side control. I lost by a advantage due to a triangle attempt, which was part of my stack pass.... :icon_cry2 I'm still mad...
 
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I was showing the BJJ guys some take downs, I really want to hit this rolling Kouchi on my next tournament. Any ideas on a follow up attack after steam rolling?

I'm going to see if I can keep the arm and slide into a Juji Gatame. It maybe my next video.
 
doyourkegles22 said:
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I was showing the BJJ guys some take downs, I really want to hit this rolling Kouchi on my next tournament. Any ideas on a follow up attack after steam rolling?

I'm going to see if I can keep the arm and slide into a Juji Gatame. It maybe my next video.
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This Ippon-fake into Kouchi always goddamn gets me. There's a guy at my club who drops me with it on command.
 
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