Judo. Renegade's blog

Seo-nage demonstration

2012-02-03T15:24:00.000+02:00

Here is a solid seo-nage demonstration:

This is Judo video montage

2012-01-21T01:17:00.000+02:00

Here is another great judo montage:

Judo pick ups video compilations

2012-01-13T16:00:00.000+02:00

With new rules most of the techniques in these videos would no longer be possible, still good compilations:

Best of judo compilations

2012-01-12T19:58:00.001+02:00

Youtube does provide good video suggestions at times. Judo video compilation to kickstart the year:

Judo tachi waza defensive techniques

2011-12-27T00:24:00.001+02:00

AllJudo.net have recently posted their top 10 video choices for the past year. Here is the tachi waza defensive technique video which I found interesting. The rest of their top 10 videos can be located here.

I have also started G+ circle dedicated to judo. You can find it here.

Olympic ippon video compilation

2011-12-23T16:17:00.000+02:00

Excluding the some 30 seconds beginning titles in Russian at the beginning of the video, some great ippon footage:

IKSU Sparring session (December 17th, 2011)

2011-12-18T13:05:00.000+02:00

Yesterday, there was a sparring session for all of the martial arts down at IKSU Kampsport, judo, brazillian jiu jitsu, and sport jiu jitsu. Went through 5 sparring sessions, which was nice. The problem was that there were only 2 people doing judo, so we sparred 4 times out of 5 sessions. I wish we had this type of thing every week.

Someone had recorded one of the sparring sessions, and I re-uploaded that to my youtube channel. Managed one good throw but otherwise it was somewhat boring since we train together for 1.5 years now, and pretty much know each others capabilities. Still nice to have a video. I am in white:

Подхват, зацеп, бедро, подсечька...

2011-12-14T15:23:00.001+02:00

На днях один знакомый кинул линк Вконтакте клип про дзю-до. Дзю-до - приятно.

Judo essence video montage

2011-12-02T22:48:00.001+02:00

A good judo video compilation:

Sambo World Cup 2011 Finals. Vilnius, Lithuania.

2011-11-25T00:42:00.001+02:00

Earlier this month Sambo World Championship took place in Vilnius, Lithuania. Here is the finals video from the competitions. It did not turn out as spectacular as I thought it will be but never the less there have been several good moments in the fights.

There were several somewhat long breaks specifically in Combat Sambo for medical assistance, but apparently each fighter is allowed up to 2 minutes for that sort of thing. Also 2 knockdowns equal a TKO win. Aside from that the commentator was pretty much useless.

Judo in MMA. Ronda Rousey video.

2011-11-23T16:25:00.001+02:00

I have been browsing G+ for some judo news and stumbled upon this video. I am not big on MMA, but there are some good judo techniques right there :)

The return. Södra Judo Open 4.

2011-11-21T14:26:00.001+02:00

I haven't been really training or competing in judo for the last 10 years. The details aren't relevant but it sure wasn't my choice. About a year ago I returned to active training, and last weekend went to Stockholm for a small regional judo tournament Södra Judo Open 4.

The whole travel was somewhat poorly planned on my side because I did not know if I was going to participate not until a day before the competition, consequently I was doing the regular workouts and did not prepare had time to shed the weight to compete in my weight class. Consequently, I decided to go for U90 kilos (my actual weight is about 83-4) but there was no way I had time to sweat it out and going for the competition without proper meal and not 100% guarantee of making it to U81 I decided to sign up for U90.

The other thing was that I had to leave early in the morning to make it to weight-ins at 15:00, and yeah taking a car ride for 7+ hours and than immediately hitting the mat, is something to be avoided in the future.;)

Anyway, I got to Stockholm semi-ready to fight, and confirmed my participation as soon as I arrived. It was really unfortunate that in U90 weight class there were only 3 fighters, so I immediately signed up for 90+ as well, cause traveling 1K kilometers for 1-2 fights is somewhat stupid.

The first match began about 17:00 o'clock so I had time for a nap after the weight-ins :). My first opponent was proper U90 kilo brown belt, and immediately lack of sparring experience made my life somewhat harder than I expected. Over here up North in Sweden there is only one guy I train with who is about my size, and consequently we often spar together, but it is clearly not enough and is somewhat harder to fight someone either much bigger or much smaller. Anyway, even though the guy was bigger than me I did score yuko in the first minute and continue pressing attacks and dominating the fight until the end. My opponent even though losing did not make much effort to change things around. Consequently I was very surprised by the refereeing since the guy was constantly blocking me with his right and more importantly being passive throughout the fight. No warnings have been given though.

The next or the final fight in U90 did not happen at all, because my opponent did not show up. I was disappointed but there is little I could do. So, I took gold in U90 in rather hollow and meaningless victory.

In 90+ things were a bit more peachy, the first fight was again against the same guy I won in U90. Again I was pushing the pace, attacking, but as the guy continued to defend I got in into left sided uchi-mata fall on my front, and as the dude rolled me over on the ground the referees gave a wazaari to him. That was a questionable call, but unfortunately I don't have a video to elaborate more on that. From there on my opponent was pretty much on defensive and blocking but the refs did not decide to give him any warnings this time around either.

The next fight was almost immediately after the previous, I got 4 minutes to recover. As I began the fight I felt rather winded, but again the guy I was fighting wasn't that good and he did not do much on the offensive either except for kicking me in the leg with his right. Again after a minute into the fight I managed to recover, and in the 2nd or 3rd minute into the fight I went for left low tai-o-toshi and scored an ippon.

The last fight in the 90+ I fought against the guy from my actual U81 weight class. At this point I was a bit winded and lost the focus, consequently standing on straight legs. The guy got into left sided uchi mata and clipped my foot flipping me on the back. I did see him getting in, but I was sure he will not be able to do much from that position. I guess due to the lack of randori practice on my side he managed to roll me over. I was somewhat surprised, but given the level of my current condition and rather poor prep specifically on the mat it ended up disappointing in the 90+.

On the upside, I did feel alright regarding the conditioning. I got a little bit sick on the way to the competitions which was all my fault, but given the rate of my attacks in all fights I am doing the right thing at the gym. I have also felt much stronger in terms of physique than my opposition, even though some dudes where bigger than me. On the downside, lack of sparring accumulated to the poor technical performance. The last time I competed I weighted in 55 kilos, and I was never the stronger side in terms of physical power. With this in mind I came in into the fights, which was tactically stupid thing to do. But all in all, it was a good experience in terms of upcoming national team competitions in which I will hopefully take part. I have specifically outlined 3 tactical changes that will certainly improve the performance.

...and hey I also got a gold medal:

Moscow Judo Super-A tournament Finals 2004

2011-11-07T16:57:00.001+02:00

Moscow Super-A tournament all finals men (2004). A long video but the quality and replays are well arranged.

Impossible judo

2011-10-24T16:37:00.001+03:00

You know how some people love to say "well, I almost scored." Here are three videos about that ;). Some epic escaping skills!

Brief SAMBO history.

2011-10-12T15:06:00.001+03:00

Although initially the idea for this blog was to focus solely on judo, sambo has close relation to judo, and on top of that I did compete in sambo a while back. So I will post some interesting videos from sambo as well.

Today I've come across a short video focusing on the origins of sambo:

World Judo Day. October 28th.

2011-10-03T15:22:00.002+03:00

International Judo Federation has just announced on their facebook page that this October 28th is the World Judo Day. They have also launched a brand new website (www.worldjudoday.com) dedicated to the event.

"October 28, the birthday of Jigoro Kano, will from now on be an annual day of awareness about judo and its values."

Marius L. Vizer
IJF President

This is a formidable effort from the federation to promote the sport. Visit the website to learn more about the event.

SAMBO throws compilation

2011-09-30T23:57:00.002+03:00

The other day I was digging through some of my old diplomas and I found quiet a few in SAMBO. Well, to be honest back in the day when I competed for the judo/sambo competitions everyone could show up. I remember one particular occasion when we had regional competition in what used to be a stable, they just put a mat on the ground, and back then I pretty much had to fight everyone wrestlers, sambo fighters, and judokas. I bet nowadays things are a bit more civilized, which surely detaches from the whole epicness of the gig.

Anyway, here is good SAMBO video compilation. Some throws like scissors, and leg grabbing techniques are now forbidden in judo, but others are pretty good and fun to watch.

On getting first dan (black belt)

2011-09-30T19:46:00.003+03:00

Earlier this month I've requested my coach to mail me a judo certificate and, well, yesterday I've received a document stamped and signed by the Ukrainian judo federation president officially acknowledging my rank and place in the federation. Apparently the rules have changed and the coaches and the federation awarded me with the first dan. Here is what I am on about, we used to have the Soviet system under which your rank and belt depend on your performance in the national and international tournaments, meaning that to get a certain rank, say a black belt, you'd have to win a national championship. But then again I can back it up with a bunch of diplomas, but now it's all official I guess.

I would like to thank my coach - Vladimir Kuspish, for providing me with the documents. Before this I wore a white belt, which was a little misleading. Well, off to the store or what?

Judo. European U20 Finals

2011-09-19T15:09:00.002+03:00

I have recently subscribed to European Judo Union YouTube channel and they've got a lot of great matches from recent championships. Here are European U20 finals from recent even in Lommel, Belgium:

Judo: throwing techniques and combinations. 1986 Soyuzsportfilm.

2011-09-11T22:13:00.000+03:00

Another relatively old film from Soyuzsportfild demonstrating judo throwing techniques and combinations.

Modern Judo montage

2011-09-11T11:51:00.000+03:00

Couple of weeks ago I've stumbled upon several decent judo compilations. Took some time to find them for this post. Hats off to the author of the videos, well done!

Part 1

Part 2

Judo technique. 1985 USSR training film. Soyussportfilm

2011-09-05T12:08:00.000+03:00

As of today I will be posting some interesting Judo videos I come across. This is the sport that I love and have been doing for a long time.

Training videos from the USSR national team back from 1985.

Film 1. Arm bars:

Film 2. Throws.

Film 3. Ground fight. Newaza.

Updates 2011

2011-09-04T20:07:00.000+03:00

Tweaked the design of the blog a little.

I guess it would be nice to focus the blog on one specific issue, and try building up community from there. There are several topics I could cover, but the bottom line is time and effort required for it. Composing another B$ blog about day to day issues is something I would really like to avoid...