His name is literally “1,2,3” in Kun.
Which means I’ll permanently have the closing song from Challengers in my head, with Trent Reznor’s voice, and associate it with Olympic judo:
Sad story but their mother died while they were training this year. It didn’t get much media recognition, because the media doesn’t give a rat fuck about judo.
This video make me crack up, even if the comments section is disturbing (for reasons I’m sure I don’t need to explain).
I don’t think Take has any background in martial arts, but you never know. Maybe after they recorded that they threw her around a little.
Squid pro quo.
I don’t really understand anything about the Japanese language. I never understood why sometimes people in my judo or aikido class would substitute shi with yon or shichi with nana when they were counting. I had to read the idiots guide to everything to figure out your reference about Hifumi. That’s strange you would think the Japanese media would give alot of attention to those two’s mother dying.
I posted that because I thought it was cute and funny. I was playing stupid. I’ve actually been a fan of her for years. She’s like a tiny cute human doll.
Chiharu sempai told me that in Japan judo is a part of compulsory education. So all children learn it. But I’m pretty sure it’s not to a high degree. I told this other Japanese woman about Chiharu. I said Chiharu is so short that her name should be Chisato instead of Chiharu. Chiharu sounds close to Chisato and chisa means small in Japanese. Kaoru told me that was very mean for me to say that.
What’s the context? USA Judo is the national governing body. USJF is a Group B (or at least it used to be) member of USA Judo.
USJF, is associated with the Kodokan.
Joining one or the other? I’d go with the one the dojo a person trains at is affiliated with.
I’ve been out of that loop for a long time.
@BKR what I want to know is how come in judo and tomiki we call ourselves clubs instead of dojos.
You are the context.
A gentleman scholar.
I’m trying to navigate the judo competiton to shodan path, which rightfully because of the pure awesomeness of judo, requires that I mo gong kau, gong sau.
That’s southern Chinese for not talking with my mouth but with my hands.
My new instructor thinks I’m first Kyu material and he doesn’t even really know me. He just handed me the belt on day one, but as we did rapid uchikomi he told me to take it slow.
Damn I don’t do slow but I can when asked.
What are your guy’s opinion on uchikomi? The club where I went to the person who ran the club was a hachidan under USA Judo and he made us do uchikomi in the beginning of every class. On the days he didn’t show up the instructor would make us skip uchikomi and said “we’re going to do some things that are more useful today.”
I’d go with whatever org your instructor’s school is with, then.
If you want him to promote you.
I’m very surpised he just “handed you” an ikkyu, btw. That’s not standard protocol. My Nidan is from USJF, and nobody handed me that on day one at the USJF dojo I was at in NOLA.
As far as you uchikomi go, I had no idea you’d been practicing Judo at all.
There are a lot of kinds of uchikomi, some fast, three person, some slow, static, moving, etc.
It keeps things interesting.
The USJF is pretty strong in your state, Hudson Yudanshakai…
Or close enough, LOL.
There are a lot of training methods. Uchikomi, IMO, has it’s place. It’s a sports-specific warmup, if nothing else.
The controversy about uchikomi is like, old school vs new school training, to some degree.
I never quite figured it out all the way, for myself, or my students. I tended to the “not a lot of static uchikomi” side of things, though. I think it’s also perhaps something that has to be tuned to individual students.
And the fact is, Judo was in the school system in Japan, lots of students, poor quality tatami, not necesarily a lot of room, so something you could do statically and simply was necesssary. Also, at first, there were not a lot of qualified instructors.
I’d say I went more with the gestalt of judo competition, in training, to inculcate the ability to grip/move/throw in all it’s grand variations (and breaking that down, as well), rather than worrying about a lot of static uchikomi. Used moving uchikomi a lot more useful.
I’ve been a judoka for almost 30 years.
Surprise
I took a fall down a flight of concrete steps at Madison Square Garden Monday night that would have maimed or murdered most people.
Me:
I thought you had to quit physically practicing judo quite some time ago, due to injuries then did BJJ for a while. No idea you had physically been practicing Kodokan Judo, in a dojo/club, since then.
forgive me if my old man memory is failing in this regard.
I left out the military trying to, and sort of succeeding, in taking over the Kodokan, which showed up in the whole standing at attention thing, and drilling by counting together, stuff like that.
Then there was the whole Aiki-Budo/ versus Judo rivalry to be the main form of H2H in the Japanese armed forces thing.
He’s probably making shit up.
Merry Christmas BTW.
Back at ya, it’s old timers post time!
One of our girls beating a judo Olympian.
So? Did you train her?
On and off again, I started out with judo in college in the late 90’s and only gave it up due to a couple of back to back injuries (a torn MCL and a sprained shoulder), but my typical MO is I recover for 6-12 months, then restart somewhere, which is probably why I rank up so slowly.
For example from 1999-2002 I practiced with my old Kodokan instructor. Moved in NJ in 2002 after 9/11. 2004-2009 I practiced with local people, then in 2009 I decided to join a southern Chinese kung fu school with a sifu with a lot of Judo experience (a Marine veteran), and continuing to find and roll with as many people as I can hunt down and convince I’m worth mat time with. In that time did a lot of boxing, Muay Thai, Jun Fan, JKD, Lethwei, and of course, Lei Tai deathmatch.
Ironically, I did BJJ from around 2014-2017 just to keep fresh, with my youngest son, and one day I was leaving a friend’s house and their doormat slipped out on me. Since I couldn’t breakfall easily with my hands full (I tried to save the food), I decided to take a knee…suffered nerve damage that didn’t go away for about a year but kept on practicing.
I took a little time off to get my doctorate, but have been dabbing with local clubs for while, minus COVID. Unfortunately my amazing world champ BJJ instructor decided to move her school a little further away, she is no longer associated with the YWCA nearby, but the local YMCA has a GREAT school, which is where I’m at now, working on taking the black.
The black belts jump on me day one, pal. They can smell it on me, and me on them.
Here’s the best part. I now have a self made, hybrid gi, heavy judogi on top, fancy light Brazilian jujutsu pants that I just laced up (my old judogi pants were too long, apparently I’ve shrunken from 6’3 to 6’2).
Sparring partner.
My purple belt coach trained her.
I think she was a blue belt at the time.
I’ve never made shit up here about martial arts.
If anything I’m one of the most trustworthy people here when it comes to the subject, or any other subject.
Which is why I have double super secret access around here.
Don’t be a Mark Tripp. That guy was an asshole, and now he’s fucking crazy.
