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Topic Started: Jul 14 2014, 10:21 PM (992 Views)
Wahoo08
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Oct 9 2014, 01:39 AM
Hey guys as my tag suggests I have a bit of a judo background... Was on the Canadian national team for about 15 years or so and got to compete in quite a few international tournaments over the years, highlight being a silver medal at the British Commonwealth games around 94 or so I think.

Retired from competition for about 10 years now but I still train with my kids. Any questions I'd be happy to try to answer. My specialty was leg and ankle picks so my style is not particularly applicable in the current competition environment, lol.
Not sure how I missed this. Welcome aboard though! It's always great to have another judo fan around, especially one that might be able to offer some insight on techniques and competition.
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Wahoo08
Nov 5 2014, 07:18 PM
Well damn, Telerion finally made an appearance. I was about to make a thread debating the the pros and cons of flat rate taxation just to try to pull you back in.
Yeah, I've been lurking a bit lately. Putting in a lot of time at work (end of year review). In the past 6 months or so I've been running a judo class at my BJJ school which has been fun.

Off to Chicago tomorrow for the Cohen's tournament.

You have a brown belt, yet?
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telerion
Nov 5 2014, 12:38 PM
Judobum
Oct 9 2014, 01:39 AM
Hey guys as my tag suggests I have a bit of a judo background... Was on the Canadian national team for about 15 years or so and got to compete in quite a few international tournaments over the years, highlight being a silver medal at the British Commonwealth games around 94 or so I think.

Retired from competition for about 10 years now but I still train with my kids. Any questions I'd be happy to try to answer. My specialty was leg and ankle picks so my style is not particularly applicable in the current competition environment, lol.


Ah! You're the one to blame for the rule changes.

Kidding. Good to meet you. I'm another judoka on here. My only international experience was competing at the US Open where I got obliterated. My daughter is the competitor in the family now.
Lol... I loved US Open and competed there about 4 times I think. 3 were while it was held at the OTC in Colorado which was an amazing facility. I can remember the effects of the altitude though, I was in the best shape of my life and my lungs would be burning about three minutes in. Great tournaments though one of my high/low lights was cracking my rib by trying to arch out too hard from a hold down. It was great though got x-rayed and had a doctor read it within an hour of the injury. Always loved hitting the local bars afterwards, always had a great party there.

Last US open I competed in was the first one in Vegas. That was my last international tournament, didn't do well, lost first round. Great trip though.

Waiting on my kids to get competing I have twins (boy/girl) that are 11 and a 7 year old girl. I didn't actually start judo until I was 12 so I'm easing them in. Most of the guys I knew that had dads who were instructors were pushed hard and burnt out by 18-19 or so. They just go once a week and haven't been pushing to compete yet. My boy loves it and is taking to it well while my older girl is still quite awkward but she's much taller and lankier than he is. Don't plan on getting them more serious for a couple years yet.
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Wahoo08
Nov 5 2014, 07:27 PM
Judobum
Oct 9 2014, 01:39 AM
Hey guys as my tag suggests I have a bit of a judo background... Was on the Canadian national team for about 15 years or so and got to compete in quite a few international tournaments over the years, highlight being a silver medal at the British Commonwealth games around 94 or so I think.

Retired from competition for about 10 years now but I still train with my kids. Any questions I'd be happy to try to answer. My specialty was leg and ankle picks so my style is not particularly applicable in the current competition environment, lol.
Not sure how I missed this. Welcome aboard though! It's always great to have another judo fan around, especially one that might be able to offer some insight on techniques and competition.
Thanks. Yeah any questions I'd be happy to try to answer though my competitive experience is dated, though quite extensive.
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Nov 12 2014, 11:38 PM
Wahoo08
Nov 5 2014, 07:27 PM
Judobum
Oct 9 2014, 01:39 AM
Hey guys as my tag suggests I have a bit of a judo background... Was on the Canadian national team for about 15 years or so and got to compete in quite a few international tournaments over the years, highlight being a silver medal at the British Commonwealth games around 94 or so I think.

Retired from competition for about 10 years now but I still train with my kids. Any questions I'd be happy to try to answer. My specialty was leg and ankle picks so my style is not particularly applicable in the current competition environment, lol.
Not sure how I missed this. Welcome aboard though! It's always great to have another judo fan around, especially one that might be able to offer some insight on techniques and competition.
Thanks. Yeah any questions I'd be happy to try to answer though my competitive experience is dated, though quite extensive.
Any funny stories? Did any MMA fighters compete at any of the tournaments you went to?
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telerion
Nov 6 2014, 09:36 PM
Wahoo08
Nov 5 2014, 07:18 PM
Well damn, Telerion finally made an appearance. I was about to make a thread debating the the pros and cons of flat rate taxation just to try to pull you back in.
Yeah, I've been lurking a bit lately. Putting in a lot of time at work (end of year review). In the past 6 months or so I've been running a judo class at my BJJ school which has been fun.

Off to Chicago tomorrow for the Cohen's tournament.

You have a brown belt, yet?
They just had promotions last weekend in our area, but I've been working crazy hours and taking some business classes, so I didn't have time to prep for the test. I've pretty much committed to taking the test in spring, since I've got a bunch of people in my club giving me a hard time for not going up yet.
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News going around that the IJF is apparently banning all of it's rank competitors from competing in any other grappling competitions. At this point, I'm kind of curious to see how they will be able to top this, but I have complete faith that they'll figure out a way to continually ruin the sport....

http://www.bjjee.com/bjj-news/international-judo-federation-prohibits-judo-athletes-to-compete-in-bjj-other-grappling-competitions/
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spasgur
Nov 13 2014, 02:00 PM
Judobum
Nov 12 2014, 11:38 PM
Wahoo08
Nov 5 2014, 07:27 PM
Judobum
Oct 9 2014, 01:39 AM
Hey guys as my tag suggests I have a bit of a judo background... Was on the Canadian national team for about 15 years or so and got to compete in quite a few international tournaments over the years, highlight being a silver medal at the British Commonwealth games around 94 or so I think.

Retired from competition for about 10 years now but I still train with my kids. Any questions I'd be happy to try to answer. My specialty was leg and ankle picks so my style is not particularly applicable in the current competition environment, lol.
Not sure how I missed this. Welcome aboard though! It's always great to have another judo fan around, especially one that might be able to offer some insight on techniques and competition.
Thanks. Yeah any questions I'd be happy to try to answer though my competitive experience is dated, though quite extensive.
Any funny stories? Did any MMA fighters compete at any of the tournaments you went to?
Never ran into any MMA guys at tourney that I know of but I was competing before it really hit mainstream.

Funny stories... The first time I cracked my ribs was at a tournament where the guy threw me down onto my stomach and I had my elbow tucked in, it pushed into my ribcage and cracked them. I somehow managed to finish and win that match. Came out the next match, threw the guy for a yuko and had a mate (stop) on the ground. When I went to sit up the pain of my abs pulling on the cracked rib was too bad for me to get up so I had to forfeit the match. The funny part is that while I was in the medical station recovering my girlfriend was over making out with me (I was like 18). One of my friends though I was really hurt and she was giving me mouth to mouth...

I was over in Scotland for the British Commonwealth games one year. My club had a tradition where we would host the RAF (Royal Air Force) judo team every year when they came to Canada where they would usually compete in the Am-Can tournament. The RAF team hosted us and took us to their really nice training facility in High Wycombe (sp?), an awesome place with a nice dojo overlooked by a full-service pub. They entered us in the East England tournament the following weekend. Me and one of my buddies were drinking very, very hard at said pub the night before. The tournament was a bit of a mess since we were so hung over, we were actually sleeping on the mats and had to be woken up to go up and fight. Plus we were both fighting up a weight division since we weren't going to cut weight for essentially what was a fun tournament for us. I think we pissed a bunch of guys there off though since it was a qualifying tournament for their nationals. I ended up getting third I think but was happy just to get out and getting drinking again lol.

My style was very heavy on ankle and leg picks. One of my favorite techniques is sequi-nage (spelling) where I would grab my opponents opposite sleeve, pull it across my body, tuck my knee in behind his (we're both facing the same way), grab his pants and throw him backwards onto the mat using my head to guide him down. Anyway at one tournament I remember ripping three pairs of one guys pants in a match trying to throw him. It was funny and frustrating since each time I would've thrown him for ippon if his pants hadn't ripped. I don't even know where he was getting all the replacements from. The fourth held up and I threw him for ippon with that throw.

That's all I can come up with for now.
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Wahoo08
Nov 17 2014, 09:02 PM
News going around that the IJF is apparently banning all of it's rank competitors from competing in any other grappling competitions. At this point, I'm kind of curious to see how they will be able to top this, but I have complete faith that they'll figure out a way to continually ruin the sport....

http://www.bjjee.com/bjj-news/international-judo-federation-prohibits-judo-athletes-to-compete-in-bjj-other-grappling-competitions/
This is some serious garbage. I can understand on some level that they're trying to distance judo from other grappling arts and give it some distinction but they're cutting off their noses to spite their faces with stuff like this. Judo is a niche MA as it is, with this you're going to drive away a lot of more serious athletes since they won't want to limit their ability to potential branch into MMA and higher profile grappling comps.
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telerion

[URL = www.ippon.tv] Link to the judo world championships in Kazakstan. [/URL]

Because of the time difference matches begin on the east coast of N. America at 1 am. The streams (separated by day and elimination vs medal rounds) are still all there. Tomorrow for the U.S. will be Hannah Carmichael and Marti Malloy at 57KG. Marti has a pretty good chance to medal.

Btw if you click on the Adobe Acrobat link on the screen it will show the mat (tatami) number and match order of first round (or second if player has a bye). Make sure to click the stream of the correct may number 1-3.
Edited by telerion, Aug 25 2015, 04:56 PM.
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19nate79

wish i'd gotten into judo when i was younger. my body can't take it or competitive kickboxing any more
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19nate79
Apr 29 2016, 10:26 PM
wish i'd gotten into judo when i was younger. my body can't take it or competitive kickboxing any more
I hear what you're saying. I have a couple of students (I teach for free once a week at my BJJ academy) who are over 30. It's tough to take hard falls and put your knees and shoulders at risk doing big throws. Besides uchimata, my game has become heavily tilted toward ashi waza.

Great sport though. I strongly encourage BJJ practitioners to work their stand up game diligently, whether with judo and wrestling, or just hard drilling/sparring in BJJ (with proper coaching). There are a lot of sport BJJ players who think far more highly of their self-defense acumen than they should given that they have no effective path to avoid being on bottom.
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I am still trying to show up at Judo regularly, and I started late with no prior athletic pursuits of note outside of a semi-regular gym habit and some personal training Muai Thai sessions.

I can physically describe my body as 'gently used and mildly neglected' prior to getting into Judo. Since I work a desk job, my joints do not have as much hard mileage on them compared to someone in a more physically active job, or who had any background in athletics. My weight peaked at about 240-ish pounds for most of 2002 to 2009, so the extra weight may have had an impact for general wear and tear on my joints.

My point, such that it is, would be that it is probably not as much about getting into this when your younger as it is getting into it before you accumulated the wear and tear from other shit.

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19nate79

i'm 36 now and about 230, terrible division to compete in. they're all fat.
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You know judo competition isn't for everybody, and that's especially true if you're older and/or start later in life.

I have a student who is about my age (mid-30's). He doesn't compete in judo or BJJ even though I strongly suspect he'd give your average BJJ purple belt or judo brown belt trouble in tournaments. He's strong and a diligent student but he has some chronic knee issues from playing soccer all his life and he has a successful family business (contractor) to help run. For him it's just not worth the risk.

He still loves BJJ and judo though. He favors practicing his throws and working technique. I still make him do kumikata (grip fighting) and randori (sparring) in class because I think it's important to get some work with full resistance (or at least near full), but I don't push him to compete. There's judo for everybody.
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