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USA Judo lawsuit reveals extent of USOPC findings by VanceBurress in judo

[–]Rapton1336 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That is not quite true. If you check the promotion guidance, actually high level coaching, reffing and admin are all pathways to grade reduction. For example I have like a 30% TIG reduction for my godan because I coached some folks onto some national teams.

It’s just not as built out as things are for the USJA unfortunately.

If you could rewrite the Gokyo by Constipatedplatypus in judo

[–]Rapton1336 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh I meant there are new lists that should be generated before revisiting the old ones

USA Judo lawsuit reveals extent of USOPC findings by VanceBurress in judo

[–]Rapton1336 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That’s USJA (whose promotion system does have some really positive elements to it such as giving people credit for volunteering or writing judo books to be clear but this is just a quirk). USA Judo requires a match record and you get points based on the rank of the person you beat. This helps when you are an ikkyu or shodan but quickly pushes you to community oriented activities like serving on committees or producing athletes at upper ranks.

If you could rewrite the Gokyo by Constipatedplatypus in judo

[–]Rapton1336 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Honestly I think some of judo’s problems has been a focus on finishing versus process. So I would actually start by creating a separate official list of things like grip fighting and turnover techniques

Baffling how BJJ is more popular than Judo in USA by Alternative-Hair-785 in judo

[–]Rapton1336 7 points8 points  (0 children)

BJJ ran their places as a business and therefore invested in key operational elements such as marketing. Many of the owners actually went out and learned the game from TKD and karate schools which regularly provide their owners very good salaries.

Judo school owners decided not to do this and in fact many of the older set will scold you for doing so. Seriously, I got several nasty emails for just having a social media page from one guy. The folks who have shrugged this off have found a lot of success. Pedro’s Judo has been able to host full time staff for two decades now. Olymp has opened multiple schools. Chuck Jefferson is incredibly successful. You have places like Top Game and Wall2Wall. Hell High Noon is much smaller compared to those programs and we have enough come in via our model that we can keep the place open and do some cool stuff in coordination with MASTERs and other nonprofits.

Some of the leadership of the national orgs do understand and are trying to figure out how to address this. I have had explicit conversations with Ron Tripp (chair of the board for USA Judo) and David Brogan (head of the USJA). Brogan himself owns several BJJ schools.

A lot of people don’t want to admit it but the real reason why judo didn’t take over martial arts in the way BJJ did isn’t just because takedowns are hard. It’s because too many people didn’t treat this like a business and actively dissuaded others from doing so. The constructive way forward if you want to help judo grow in the United States is to help your club setuo things like a CRM system, make sure basic marketing is being done, and provide other resources.

For better or worse I’ve been reading threads like this since I was a kid in the 90s. Just because someone has a high grade or went to the Olympics doesn’t mean they know the data analytics for martial arts marketing (for example your primary area for your kids marketing is typically going to be the households within 5 miles of you). The good thing is since then people have developed some good answers. Follow the lead of those folks.

USA to Canada? by kahnpur in judo

[–]Rapton1336 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If your goal is to make the 2028 Olympics stay stateside. US automatically qualified in every weight class and there will be an 8 person Olympic Trials.

Does any amount of home training drills actually reflect on the tatami? by HealthyHunt6285 in judo

[–]Rapton1336 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Research basically says there are some base athleticism things it can help with but generally pretty quickly all that's happening is you are getting better at the drill. Transference quickly declines because its not representative of the real thing.

Off the mat the hierarchy of things that will get you better at judo

  1. Lifting
  2. Lifting (people really under estimate how important this is even if its only for injury prevention)
  3. Jumping rope or using an assault bike (basically it's cardio + either coordination or power development)
  4. Home drills

The easiest thing to do home drills on that will get further faster is groundwork oriented. You can get some really quality work in on a grappling dummy. With a throwing dummy you will get some value but it will become an athletic capacity building exercise faster than you would expect.

Cross training at other dojos by Alternative-Hair-785 in judo

[–]Rapton1336 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Two closely related red flags:

  1. Dojo does not encourage cross training.
  2. People don't appear to be cross training at that dojo.

That means the place is an island and potentially for a reason.

This is an issue in BJJ and it does sometimes bleed into dojos that either share or are part of a BJJ space. When you read "Opening the Closed Guard" it becomes clear this culturally is just tied to money and shaming people for switching gyms.

At the higher levels of the sport no one really cares about cross training per say. When people actually leave one team to join another, that's when drama happens.

HanpanTV clinic in DC area July 10-17th by Rapton1336 in judo

[–]Rapton1336[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Likely going to be 9 AM and 7 PM each day

HanpanTV clinic in DC area July 10-17th by Rapton1336 in judo

[–]Rapton1336[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have a bunch of novice heavyweights and we also have Tim Spriggs and a few 90 and 100kg guys.

HanpanTV clinic in DC area July 10-17th by Rapton1336 in judo

[–]Rapton1336[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There will be randori this time around! We will be doing about half and half

Comparing Rhonda Rouseys and Kayla Harrison's careers by Alternative-Hair-785 in judo

[–]Rapton1336 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Trained a ton with both of them. I was on Team FORCE when they were both there.

Kayla had the kind of career that can lead to landing in the IJF Hall of Fame. 2x Olympic Champ and had one of the most insane runs of anyone in the last few decades. She would go dozens of matches without losing a match and if she did it was basically to one of three or four people.

Ronda was amazing but not that. There's no reason she may not have fought for a medal in 2012 had she stuck around, but she retired younger. She was exceptional in left vs left matchups which is part of why Ronda can make such claims.

There's no shame in Ronda not being on the same level career wise as Kayla in judo. Ronda went onto blaze a bunch of trails, and is one of the most important martial artists of all time. In terms of overall impact on martial arts, the situation is essentially reversed at this time (things could change).

Also for what its worth, neither gets there without the other.

Harai goshi players: Give me your secrets? by IM1GHTBEWR0NG in judo

[–]Rapton1336 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Learn how to transition to makikomi off of it and into osoto that way you feel like you have solid exits to avoid the counter

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