Official Judo Thread VIII
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Had a badass birthday (Dec. 31st)
Judo for 4 hours, went and saw The Hobbit, and stayed up until 7 am playing X Box with my buddies from the Judo Club.
Judo for 4 hours, went and saw The Hobbit, and stayed up until 7 am playing X Box with my buddies from the Judo Club.
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Can you describe "bent"
Bent at the waist. The principle of uchimata is building momentum through your swing. You have the least power at the start, whereas uke is strongest when he is straight. So to attack a straight uke with uchimata is a non-starter. You have to break him down first.
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Thank you so much for that information. One last question: does it matter if the uke has his knees bent?
Only that his center of gravity is lower and you won't blow his knees out accidentally. In practice, it's rare an experienced player will lock his knees.
If you are thinking that uke bends his knees inward to block your leg, then maybe it matters. If you have good upper body control you can still throw him. If you do not, then likely he is upright enough.
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The reason why I ask is because I grapple with a lot of freestyle wrestlers. I've brought this up in the past because wrestling stances give Judokas a lot of trouble. They keep their hips and legs out to protect against the single/double, bent over with a low center of gravity. It's extremely hard to get your hips underneath theirs for a throw, and it's nearly impossible to get a foot sweep because of their posture.
Greco Roman Wrestlers are easier for us stylistically because they have more of an upright posture that is similar to ours.
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I train(ed) with a bunch of freestyle wrestling-based BJJ guys before. Their stance makes it hard to get under for many forward throws, but I disagree with that stance being hard for sweeps.
It is ripe for:
de ashi barai, o and ko soto, o uchi, reg and yoko tomoe nage
Barring you able to throw with them, should they attempt a single, uchi mata is a good counter to it, and mind you I used to hit it back before I really started training judo consistently.
The solution to the bent over Freestyle posture is a boot to the face, not a Judo throw - so unless you're competing in Freestyle Wrestling or in Nogi BJJ I wouldn't worry about it. The guy is going to get shido in a Judo comp, in a gi BJJ comp just get a HCG and rag him face first into the mat, in Nogi BJJ . . . well, I'd just leave that for the wrestlers and the gays.
Against wrestlers I prefer to do a very outside leg uchimata, pulling downwards instead of up. You just can't close the gap in time to do a normal hip type, and they can easily drop their weight. There is no gi to let you pull up properly either.
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If I remember correctly, you could even do batsugun for shodan, nidan and sandan in a row
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I'd also prefer tokyo since I'm planning on staying at the kodokan anyway.
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#'s 6 and 8 are the seoi nages I'm always working on.
btw, I have too many financial changes happening to me now. I can't do a Sherdog training trip until 2016, unless you do this later in the year.
#'s 6 and 8 are the seoi nages I'm always working on.
btw, I have too many financial changes happening to me now. I can't do a Sherdog training trip until 2016, unless you do this later in the year.
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I can check a few things and set it up.
But seriously, Tokyo is lame.
Nobody is actually local, people have no friends and live sad, lonely and have zero personal time.
Transportation is ridiculous and it sucks to be in the middle of millions of office workers on their way to work every day.
Probably the best BJJ, sambo and wrestling in the country.
The judo situation though is different. The Japanese judo is good in every part of Japan.
Of course, once the guys win the nationals, they get some scholarship and etc, so they will end up in Tokyo Uni or something like that, where the elite is. But the origins of the national champion could be in some small village, where he studies under his father and the dojo has 5 kids all together.
The reason I prefer Osaka is because I can get things cheaper there, the city has it's own identity, people are warmer and funny (90% of the Japanese comedians are from Osaka. Yeah, those with the funny TV shows you have seen) and it's easier to commute, train and have time to visit Kyoto, Nara and Kobe (all together the four cities from the Kansai metropolis).
And the Kodokan batsugun tournaments there attract around 1000 participants.
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Ok. Just let me know which city and I ca work the details.
Im going from March till June. Batsugun grading should be in May. Next one is in September.
In Osaka I can take you to train with Akiyama's coach, also in Osaka Uni, Kinky Uni (yeah, no shit), Kyoti Uni (great newaza) and Osaka Castle.
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