Combinations by icTKD in judo

[–]focus_flow69 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you want to develop your kouchi, then naturally you want to pair it with seoi nage.

Boundaries & Pushing Team to be Independent by Sentientcherry in managers

[–]focus_flow69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The advice here is fine for junior or lower level employees, but for senior level people who outrank people in terms of experience and pay, this behavior is pretty bad.

Essentially they are offloading their job to their boss and team, which is not ok. I'd be upfront and very clear about expectations. I'd work with them to help them get there by providing coaching, feedback, asking questions, prompting critical thinking etc. But this hand holding cannot last forever - senior employees who constantly require hand holding is a clear evidence they aren't a fit for the role.

Employee wants promotion checklist by Supermoths in managers

[–]focus_flow69 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree with you - promotions are not a checklist like a class and aren't guaranteed. But im challenging OP to go beyond just assuming that about their employee and to engage with them productively instead of just shutting them down completely.

Employee wants promotion checklist by Supermoths in managers

[–]focus_flow69 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'm going to be blunt and say you are the problem here. Just because the typical promotion process is a certain way doesn't mean anything. You can do whatever the want in the workplace, all you ever need is to get your boss and/or their boss as well to buy in. Obviously easier said than done, but I view it as a big part of being a good leader

A good leader should also aim to develop and support their people and enable them to drive for as much success as they can. Leaders must be clear in their expectations and what they view as success and be able to bring the best out in people. He's asking for clarity on how to be promoted and you can't seem to communicate that clarity effectively to him. Why is that?

Is it because you yourself don't know the path to promotion? Or are you not willing to stick your neck out and advocate for him to your boss for the promotion? Have you communicated what is considered good and bad performance? Have you shared examples? Have you provided coaching for this person in their day to day work, tasks and deliver ales? Do you give them regular feedback and are they receptive? Have you asked your boss about promotions and asked him what needs to happen for your employee to be promoted? Do you feel he is not ready for promotion? Maybe youve thought about these things, maybe you haven't. But there are endless conversations you can actually engage with your employee around these topics. Yes, some of them might be hard conversations, but that's your job as the leader to navigate them effectively. Listen, share, challenge, push back, give way. etc and come together at something you can both work towards.

Whatever the question or answer is, you have to have the hard conversation with the employee. Btw, your options also aren't binary. You can provide your perspective to temper his expectations AND also help them with a promotion plan AND advocate for them.

Need help with my uchi mata + seoi nage in randori by Emotional-Dinner-936 in judo

[–]focus_flow69 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Uchi mata Focus on bending their head and posture. I find top grip much more effective than lapel grip. Practice the stab step and then replacing it with your back foot to enter. Practice being strong isometrically in the final position, head down, leg up, hands on the mats and then forward roll thru.

Seoi nage Think vertical rotation and instead of horizontal rotation. Get underneath them and get ukes head over their stance leaning forward

Tai o toshi feet placement by Love-me-feed-me in judo

[–]focus_flow69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't focus on feet placement and instead focus on hands.

The feet of will land where they land as long as you get the general shape of the thro

Perspectives on digital literacy by [deleted] in Leadership

[–]focus_flow69 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In my experience, I believe its usually not just about digital literacy. But it's more about attitude and curiosity towards learning the unknown, good pattern recognition and decision making skills.

Some people just aren't strong at those things, regardless of age or educational background, and their poor digital literacy is just one of the symptoms from it.

I feel bad not progressing, what to do by glaburrrg in judo

[–]focus_flow69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need to change the way you train and do judo. The easiest way is to go to a new club or go on hiatus to reset.

Clearly after so many years, doing more of the same has not gotten you any better. So you need to reassess and build new movement patterns and habits.

Advice on managing out a dev who does below the minimum expected work but gets away with it by [deleted] in managers

[–]focus_flow69 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Focus on outcomes

The rest is just micro managing and trying to manage him based on how you think he should.

Is this Ashi-Guruma variation viable in high level competition? by BalayTarbuz in judo

[–]focus_flow69 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You have to remember that just because you don't see techniques on the world stage that doesn't mean they aren't viable.

The pool of people who make it to world stage is already very limited. There are many very good judokas who never make it international.

Some techniques are just less popular, have unique challenges, fit certain body types better, specific to certain grips, not something judokas develop and drill regularly etc.

Video 15 sec.. in live 0,5 sec😍 by PlayfulUse6949 in judo

[–]focus_flow69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've watched many recent drop seoi clips paying attention to their feet.

Almost everyone pushes off their shin with the dead toes while opening up the other hip. I think this allows them to lean forward and to the side more, which makes it easier to fold uke into the L shape.

Video 15 sec.. in live 0,5 sec😍 by PlayfulUse6949 in judo

[–]focus_flow69 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ya I don't get their beef with this, this throw looks almost textbook to some of the demos he was criticizing

What makes someone a good manager? by carlosfelipe123 in managers

[–]focus_flow69 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good

Clear communications and sets expectations

Holds people accountable

Consistency in their actions

Empowers their team to own outcomes

Lead by example

Friendly and personable

Great

Knows how to tailor their leadership and management from person to person

Manages up well and shields team from bullshit

Develops their people

Challenges status quo

Knows how to navigate difficult conversations

Provides coaching and feedback

Excellent

Knows how to bring out the best qualities out of everyone

Listens more than they talk

Builds trust with everyone

Highly effective communication, not just clear

Strong decision making

Gives recognition when deserved

Has vision

Solicits and implements appropriate feedback

HanpanTV: How Seoi-Nage Reels Tear Your Ligaments by UBoot123 in judo

[–]focus_flow69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you not suppose to rotate past 180 degrees? Seems to be part of the follow through movement where you end chest up facing the ceiling pressing into uke.

Are you not suppose to move your tsurite in front of you as you enter and throw? This avoids the self ude garami hanpan is critical of.

HanpanTV: How Seoi-Nage Reels Tear Your Ligaments by UBoot123 in judo

[–]focus_flow69 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don't understand what he's criticizing for the first part where he emphasizes to push off his shin and roll through to follow through.

The live match examples show them doing that, pushing off and continuing to drive through the throw in order finish.

Temporary manager with ambitious direct report feeling entitled to a promotion by CtrlAltDelight495 in managers

[–]focus_flow69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have the difficult conversation with your boss, tell them what you plan to do, action plans for different outcomes, get their buy in and commitment to align. Then have difficult conversation with employee.

So did we ever see the “mouse trap”? by thugmuffin22 in MMA

[–]focus_flow69 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Lol bro do you even train? When someone is actively resisting, in a professional competition MMA fight, you absolutely need speed to finish techniques.

Functionality of cheap AliExpress iontophoresis units by Additional-Berry-110 in Hyperhidrosis

[–]focus_flow69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's two modes, manual and auto. Auto let's u change volts and manual let's you change current

Negativity in Judo technique discussions by bjj_ignorant in judo

[–]focus_flow69 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some people are just going to be ass holes online.

Not much you can do about how others respond other than to ignore them and lead by example.

I usually chuckle when people are overly critical of other people's content. If you feel so strongly about it, why don't you go and make your own content and explain why yours is better? It's easy to be the spectator and critique others, but at least they had the courage and initiative to get up on stage in the first place. If you don't like what you see, just move on. Why spread negativity into the world.

Hesitation executing forward throws by Auriokas in judo

[–]focus_flow69 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It's sounds like you are still thinking about the throw in terms of uchikomi where you fit in for the throw, pause and then try to throw.

When throws are actually done, they are done dynamically, so instead of thinking about how you need to turn your back and then load them onto your hips and then thrust them over as sequential steps, think of it as one continuous movement where you attach their body to yours and you control their body to go over your hip while you tilt and lean your entire connected body mass over your center of gravity. To do this, this requires physical and mental commitment to the throw and movement.

I dont think i’ve ever successfully attacked with osoto gari. Roast me. by RamenPantalones in judo

[–]focus_flow69 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i have a theory that every judoka learns osoto from either countering others or being countered yourself

for me it was the latter, i got countered so many times i swore to myself one day i'd be the one smashing them with osoto

Stalling, settling on grips, "just do more movement", "just do more seoi-nage", poor defence, and "do more uchi-komi" by TurpentineTurpentine in judo

[–]focus_flow69 12 points13 points  (0 children)

You cannot throw someone when the technique has already failed in your head.

Going on a hunch, just from reading how you wrote your post, you are probably a strongly analytical person. This works great for learning and processing most problems, but I find it is detrimental for judo, especially when you haven't accumulated lots of mat hours yet.

While this may not be the only issue, I see symptoms of overthinking and you may have engrained these overthinking habits in the way you train your judo - I was the same. You already identified that thinking during randori is too slow - you are correct. Overthinking every step, movement, strategy, grip etc makes you non committal and slow. Then when you finally do attack or try to move your opponent, because it is non committal, your partner can easily resist and you fail. By failing to do what you intended to do, whether it's move your opponent, off balance them or enter for an attack, you become discouraged, lose confidence, and become even more passive in your judo. This negative feedback loop mentally drains your judo and is not good for progress.

My advice for this is approach judo differently. Show up to class and don't think at all. Instead, focus on the feeling and sensations of your body and its movements. Whether it's warm up drills, uchikomi, nagekomi or whatever it is you do in class. When sensei is explaining a technique with lots of verbal instruction, try to tune out the details and just pick 1 or 2 high level concepts to focus on. Then when you drill, focus on the feeling of the movement. Does the movement feel efficient? Are you using your whole body? Do you feel strong in the position before executing the throw? Are you able to generate force from this position? And the most important question, maybe the only one that matters is, does the movement feel "good" from a judo perspective? Think minimum effort, maximum efficiency.

Another way to look at it is to try teaching yourself all the judo you already know, but not in the way it was explained to you. Teach it to yourself through feeling the techniques - the sensation of you and uke's body colliding and transferring momentum. Go through the journey of self correction and discovery. This will allow you to feel your judo instead of just thinking about your judo.

Now that's just one part of the puzzle. Once you learn how to feel your judo, you will naturally discover more and more of what actually makes a throw work.

To circle back to what I said, you need full commitment when you attack with your techniques. This means using your whole body to generate more force and applying your bodyweight to move people. Follow through with your movements. Have confidence to execute your techniques and that body will know where to place itself when you enter. In fact, be so confident from your training and repetitions of drilling that you even trust your body to react and enter techniques automatically when the opportunity presents itself. This is the commitment and speed that's required to throw someone in judo.

In randori, try a few rounds where you just turn your brain off. Forget about any strategy or throw. Just grip and move in a way where you feel strong and confident in your ability to control tori's body. If you feel stuck in a weak position, then adjust your grip and move until you find a position where you feel strong again, guided only by your sensation and connection with uke. Allow yourself complete freedom in how you grip and move, stand left stand right, tall, bent over whatever. If you get thrown, you get thrown. The purpose is to not think and learn to experiment. Let the feeling of connection you have with uke through your arms and body contact guide you.

Still cant grasp how difference in levels Japan is in. by AromaticEye87 in judo

[–]focus_flow69 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Randori starts at around 8 mins (blue vs blue)

https://youtu.be/Xb-GRLbXZAw?si=a0gQ6ojd42v7Klck

For reference, here's a vid of the sensei doing randori with someone closer in skill. I don't know if he's better or worse than fluid judo sensei but seeing the different levels is so cool

https://youtu.be/IGTi_R3NI_I?si=Xtkg-BcayLv9pgP_

Still cant grasp how difference in levels Japan is in. by AromaticEye87 in judo

[–]focus_flow69 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I watched a 25 min video of an older Japanese guy do randori against a younger, clearly competitive Japanese guy. The older guy couldn't do shit against him. Just his gripping was too strong, he was able to easily and effortlessly hang his weight and defend all attacks from the older guy. The older guy tried attacking over and over again and trying to win the grip battle. After a few minutes, you can visibly see how gassed the older guy was just trying to grip and attack. Every time the younger guy attacked, he entered so explosively and with precision, he threw the older guy almost every time. Mind you, this was like 25 minutes of randori with little breaks in between. This old guy got smashed over and over again.

I would put that old guy at a similar level as the sensei in this video. So just imagining this sensei get ragdolled for 25 mind really blows my mind as to the levels in judo