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Ok, first of all, that guy is having too much fun wearing a black costume outside on a bright sunshiny day. But seriously, roll number 1 is a summersault(sp?), not a roll you see in Judo except as a way to teach kids and beginners. Roll number 2 is close to a proper Zempo Kaiten Ukemi, but you might want to make sure you are better at it than this guy. One of the main technical points is to make sure that if you start with the right arm and right leg forward when you finish standing the left arm and left leg are forward to allow for continuous(sp?) rolling without the need to take a step in between. This is critical if you were to say, be a NINJA and jump off the back of something moving and need to kill more momentum than a single roll would allow without harming yourself. Roll number 3 is a no hands version of roll 2. When you get decent at forward rolls, the hands are not really necessary and if you are relying on them then you are in trouble shoud you ever be thrown with something that occupys your hands.

Sure it can, it just won't hit as hard. Bushido_man is probably right that their are better things you can do if the target moves while you are striking them, but sometimes just moving your fist to still hit them is a good option.

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This has been sitting idle for about a month, but I really am interested in an answer to the question I posted here so I am re-posting it with the hope that it doesn't get lost in the mix.

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01/29/2013 Judo Class. Warm up, drills, some lecture on the new IJF rules, Katame no Kata practice and groundwork randori.

I think one universal principal that applies is that of the center. For example, in almost all grappling styles the relationship between you opponents center and your own is fundamental to executing good technique, however this same principle also applies in striking where many schools are tought to imaginge a line or a pole running through the center of their own or their opponents body to use as either a source of power or a target respectively.

Kendo. Looks like it would be a lot of fun.

Yeah, no. Just NO. Ok, first of all, this guy fails tactics forever. Second of all, the girl he was fighting fails power generation forever. She seemed to be able to hit him at will, but was unable to connect with enough force to make him react. As for this being a "Real" fight? I have never been in any fake fights. There are fights, and there are demos. But he clearly was not attempting to establish any sort of dominance or to do any sort of damage to her. It doesn't matter if she had better technique, which she clearly did. If he had any intention of doing any damage to her, he would have done so and the movements she was using would have been ineffective at stopping him.

Another secret of efficiency is do drill the same movement over and over again until you are sick of it, and then drill it again. When you have done about 5 to 10 THOUSAND fit-ins, with a decent instructor critiqueing you the whole way, then you will have a movement you can do efficiently.

Ok, I am going to take a slightly different tack on this than most people because I am PRIMARILY a grappler, particularly a Judo player. Our basics include movements that would qualify as combinations or even short Katas by most karate standards, however one of the prinicples of Judo is Seiryoku Zenyo, maximum efficiency for effort expended. I believe efficiency is developed by an understanding of the way YOUR body works and learning not to waste any time or effort. For example, I was at a tournament in Arlington, TX this past weekend and one of the things I noticed is that win or lose the more advanced practitioners matches would be over with quickly because they did not waste any time or effort.

Self-defense is important, but I picked comraderie because that is what keeps me coming back even when I don't feel like it.

Ok, honest assessment. TLDR version: She outplayed him at every turn and finished when she felt the opening. The initial takedown from him was sloppy. He did not measure the distance and she simply sprawled and took his back. He spent the entire rest of the match, even the parts where he was on top, defending against what she was doing to him. When he finally managed to escape the rear mount, she got him in to her close guard and was able to disrupt his posture at will. He attempted to defend the cross choke by fighting her hand off, but due to his balance being disrupted was unable to get rid of the first hand. Once that hand was in place and she was able to disrupt his posture it was only a matter of time until something bad happened to him. When she felt the opening she set the second hand in place and finished the choke. Overall, a pretty good display of groundwork for lower level practitioners.

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There would be more Kyokushin strikers for sure, but one thing that denotes the most effective MMA strikers is that they are headhunters and the Muay Thai/Boxing stylists would STILL have an advantage there. Grappling is where things would get REALLY different. The collar chokes, Judo throws, and modified gripping would all make a huge impact on the game.

"Think first, act second, and stop getting the two confused."

I have the same problem with a number of my joints. And in the long run it is a good thing, however when learning the technique you MUST ensure that it is performed on you correctly as an incorrectly performed technique will result in you not learning to roll with it as you wont feel the pain the way others will.

First of all, Excellent post. But, if I may be permitted to play devils advocate for a moment, since there is no standard for a black belt except what each instructor sets for his school or organization, then perhaps one of the biggest gripes with people receiving a black belt to soon is the feeling that they are not being held to as high a standard. If, for example, 2 schools tought the same style but the standard, in terms of training time/knowledge etc. for green belt in one is the same as the standard for Shodan in the other then when they meet and interact, by the "rules of etiquette" the green belts opinion is given less wieght even though he may know as much or more.

$50 month until you are a black belt, then $40 for Shodans and Nidans, $30 for Sandans and Yondans and above don't pay.

Most Judo schools I have been to have a kids program, but at my school we won't take them younger than 5. If you want to teach your own kids younger than that, sure, but I don't think most kids have the coordination or kinesthetic ability to retain what they need to In order for a child to learn effective movement, they must know left from right consistently and they must be able to follow basic directions. Many of our 5 and 6 year olds still struggle with this but we teach them the best we can.

You know, if everybody could learn to effectively throw everyone else with O Soto Gari, we would teach O Soto Gari, make you practice it several thousand times, then give you a black belt in Judo. One of the things I feel is missing from a lot of techniques and the training in them is context. Some moves are good for a shorter person to do on a taller person or the reverse. Some moves are designed for someone who is moving forward, others for someone who is moving backward and any other combination of contextual factors you can dream of.

Happy birthday folks.

Its had a bit of an impact on WHO our student base is, and WHY they train, but not that much of an impact on WHAT we teach or WHAT we claim can be done with it. Lots of young, athletic males that want to learn to throw people. Lots of people wanting to learn guard work from day 1, stuff like that. Additionally, we don't get as many former highschool/collegiate wrestlers as we used to because they go to the MMA schools now, but we run a non-profit school with a solid kids program and teach a local college class, so we are good.

Everyone only knows so many things. One of the things that makes a martial art a "Do" or martial way, rather than just a collection of combative skills, is that it contains principles and methods to discipline your life by. For instance, there is supposedly a Kanji over the door of the Kodokan that, when translated, reads "Never miss practice.". Now on the surface this appears to be a rather simple statement about showing up for Judo, but it can also be used as a basis for integrity and reliability throughout your life. This is a rather oversimplified example, but I believe the same principle applies throughout the martial arts if you have a good grounding in fundamental principles.

Hmm, a cagefight as a requirement for BB? Guess it depends on what you think a blackbelt is. See, I know some guys who could win a cagefight with most people I have seen training in MA, but they are not ready to be BB, they do not have the knowledge, the teaching ability, or the actual technical skill. They are just fantastic athletes that can make a couple of tricks work for most situations. A great deal of cagefighting is athleticism. At the highest levels that alone is not enough, but it helps ALOT with the beginning levels.