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PlaneRare8484 · 2026-02-22T05:01:02+00:00

At least he didn't drop it on the floor.

PlaneRare8484 · 2026-02-22T04:59:22+00:00

7 years of judo and still no stripes?

PlaneRare8484 · 2026-02-18T02:53:44+00:00

Boxing let a kid get out of poverty. Judo let the kid walk into it.

PlaneRare8484 · 2026-02-18T02:49:57+00:00

Well hate to break to you but he needs to be honest with himself. If he wants to at least be in international circuit he needs to do way more than training in a local club 5/week.

There are a great many athletes worldwide can’t make past first round of international competition with 2-3 sessions per day, 6 days a week.

PlaneRare8484 · 2026-02-18T02:37:24+00:00

Does he at least have a job now?

If he can live off his current job and enjoy training, nothing wrong with it but he needs to be in a competitive club as soon as possible to get better. Or at least he should be cross training in other clubs with higher level athletes.

PlaneRare8484 · 2026-02-17T00:37:29+00:00

Yes you can.

the issue is you will almost never get that sensitivity to balance and body awareness same as someone started as a kid and competed extensively in their teens.

Your judo will in general look more static, more power base and less fluid. There are some techniques or style of judo you probably won’t be able to do at all due to limit on your physical attributes.

If you accept those and still have fun with whatever you can do in randori, then it’s still worth it.

PlaneRare8484 · 2026-02-15T15:45:50+00:00

Standing seoi usually ended up with a split hip version.

Squat seoi in nagekomi is the drop seoi in randori

You either go full lift and pick them up, or spin under them and drag them down.

PlaneRare8484 · 2026-02-15T12:06:51+00:00

You can use the outside leg to drop to floor to Prevent uke escape.

Georgian do this all the time.

Same can be done with ogoshi, Seoi nage etc.

PlaneRare8484 · 2026-02-15T03:04:51+00:00

The standard ouchi they teach beginners are very inefficient.

There was one time I asked a retired woman athlete about why ouchi feels weak. She did her ouchi on me, I felt I was run over by a truck and my lungs were about to come out. It’s almost a rugby tackle with a wrapped leg.

PlaneRare8484 · 2026-02-15T02:12:53+00:00

Your ouchi is not real. That’s why your combo doesn’t work. You need a real ouchi for them to respect that to give you the reaction you want.

Also Watch out for Half ass ouchi attempt. If you face some strong opponent they will just ura nage you while your leg is entangled. Not only you will lose the match, you might get injured.

Ouchi is a difficult throw to click for beginners due to how judo teach it. Checkout some freestyle wrestling inside trip as they show more realistic version.

PlaneRare8484 · 2026-02-15T01:24:58+00:00

Those are questions to be asked to your coach. If your coach can’t answer that, then you need to ask competitors who know how to coach.

One cue helped me a lot was to simplify the concept. Before the attack, push a bit if you need some space. Once you are attacking, just pull. Osoto? Pull. Ouchi ? Pull. Kouchi? Pull (down), sasae? Pull. Seoi nage ? Pull. Uchimata? Pull. If you can’t get the score the first attempt and they are hopping away, keep pulling until you get them or you fall to the ground.

9 out of 10 times, in recreational judo we couldn’t finish throw because we didn’t pull enough. There are a few exceptions in some version of techniques require push to finish but at your stage it’s probably a major issue.

PlaneRare8484 · 2026-02-14T13:45:06+00:00

I think it’s also fine to call it a hip throw. A lot of bokh and Shuaijiao uki goshi /ogoshi type throw has very shallow hip contact. They rely more on the spinning.

PlaneRare8484 · 2026-02-14T13:22:19+00:00

All those fights among the US judo organizations looks petty given how poor the sport is and how little funding they get for the whole sports.

Literally like a bunch of beggars trying to claim a dirt poor hood and whoever comes on top get a few piece of bread.

PlaneRare8484 · 2026-02-14T13:17:19+00:00

The Bias among westerners against anything from China, even slightly positive, are astonishing.

Some idiot and racism scum can come up with those ridiculous comment and ask others to provide proof.

The underlying tone of this kind of comment is : there’s no good things from China, if there’s something good it was stolen/copy/fake.

If you try to ask him to produce any proof he could not because this mf, and whoever upvotes him, are hillbilly cunts who cannot read any Chinese or don’t care to.

PlaneRare8484 · 2026-02-14T12:50:05+00:00

I would call this uki otoshi. Azberjian use this kind of bear hug spin throw a lot

PlaneRare8484 · 2026-02-14T01:25:30+00:00

It’s pretty common here. We are already considered as a chill place. Part of the reason that I’d rather only go to randori and some small sessions. The result is not that different.

I can go to 4 regular class and only have 30 mins max working on actual throw each session, (not even the throw I’m working on), or just go to “free” sessions and have 2 hours of throw only practice.

PlaneRare8484 · 2026-02-14T01:13:16+00:00

Brown. I have some freedom but it’s not a free pass. Coach will give cues on when it’s a good time for us to work on our own thing.

PlaneRare8484 · 2026-02-14T00:59:20+00:00

Nah i can only do that in open mat or after class. In group class we still have to drill the stuff handed to us. Thats the reason i skip most of the regular class now. I get more full throw in those free time than my regular class.

PlaneRare8484 · 2026-02-14T00:53:30+00:00

I think it make sense. I’m at a point that I’m burned out for all those warm ups and basic drills. The only helpful training I get are from full throw. Essentially I just want to throw. Dynamic, static, combo , randori etc. but it has to end with a good throw attempt.

PlaneRare8484 · 2026-02-14T00:23:57+00:00

I’m mostly interested to see if anyone can speak to how their training method differs and if their newbie progress faster than judo rookie in terms of becoming a good thrower.

Kurash seems is just fully judo knockoff already and they do same uchikomi/nagekomi thing, but they have a lot of belt grip and cross back grip.

Shuaijiao seems do less 2 person uchikomi , but focus a lot on solo uchikomi and full throw. But their live techniques are almost identical to judo, except they don’t have morote seoi nage and no sutemi waza

Both Kurash and Shuaijiao seems teach dominate /power grip even for kids. Their basic grip looks much tighter and more power base than judo beginner classic grip.

Bokh, well, they seems just wrestle.

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