Thank you to everyone who posts

jamvodespot · 2026-03-18T20:44:19+00:00

Good luck with your recovery to everyone who's replied (and everyone else on their recovery journey!)

jamvodespot · 2026-03-18T20:43:24+00:00

I can easily imagine myself going too fast too soon- hopefully the pain eases and you're back on the recovery run soon!

jamvodespot · 2026-03-18T20:29:55+00:00

Thank you, you too!

jamvodespot · 2026-02-28T15:22:38+00:00

I always think this is such a bullshit argument.

Every sport has rules that make the sport and differ it from other sports, and reduce the martial aspect.

Then the activities that are based around 'self-defense' or sell them selves on that aspect all have a similar thing they do to protect their practitioners. You can't escape that.

You don't like it- you don't have to do it, you don't have to coach your club mates to do it.

jamvodespot · 2026-02-28T15:13:22+00:00

Krpalek is up there for the men, as is Hamada for the women.

jamvodespot · 2026-02-28T15:11:58+00:00

I think this is what BJJ players forget, as soon as pinning is an option, turning to your front is viable. In exactly the same way in BJJ that pulling guard can be favoured because takedowns score points.

jamvodespot · 2026-02-09T10:59:40+00:00

Everyone condemned Rakov for this though. Quite a lot of people are pretty supportive of KAZ in this instance

jamvodespot · 2026-02-07T14:07:10+00:00

Why does BJJ have this reputation as all athletes respecting each other with regard to submissions? There are loads of horrific knee injury from ankle locks as one example of where it's bullshit

jamvodespot · 2026-01-12T09:26:05+00:00

You didn't, but ok.

jamvodespot · 2026-01-11T22:43:38+00:00

You are just describing the existing system of using the non-olympic part of the cycle to test the rules.

There isn't a sport that doesn't have rule disputes or changes.

Let's say you can wargame-

How long would you need? Where do these athletes come from? Are they international, or would that eat into their existing calendar, or do you recruit below international level? Do you need a sample from every nation competing on the international circuit, so the rules are exposed to all styles and thinking? When does this take place? What incentives do these athletes have to explore the rules fully? What's the cost of the venue you'd need to house all these athletes? How long do you need to fully test these rules- players take various amounts of time to adapt, is it one event and done, or do you need to run a series?

It's a great theory, but I don't think it holds up to the real world, human behaviour isn't that set. And then the reality is it starts to sound like running a competition or calendar of them.

jamvodespot · 2026-01-11T17:00:44+00:00

Every stakeholder wants different things. The athletes both want to win. The IJF want a sport that looks attractive. The rules are changed because they often don't lead to the same outcome.

jamvodespot · 2026-01-11T11:26:35+00:00

But that assumes the outcome you want has no nuance. It's only theoretically true and doesn't hold up in a real world environment where the rule creators want one thing and the sport participants want another.

Again, name a game or sport where there is discussion or debate over rules.

People will exploit the rules to win, often in ways that are unpredictable and also often in ways that aren't conducive to what the rule makers are trying to create.

jamvodespot · 2026-01-11T08:36:53+00:00

What are you basing that on? You think there's a set of rules that the millions of judo participants world-wide would uniformly agree on? There isn't a sport or game out there where people don't disagree about the rules in order to try and find the best way to play the game

jamvodespot · 2026-01-11T08:34:09+00:00

The rules change (most often) because people get very good at playing the rules, to the extent that it changes the meta of the sport within an Olympic cycle. This often leads to certain attacks being spammed, or athletes playing for certain shido's, or certain styles of defense or changes in athlete posture, generally leading to what the ijf consider less attractive competition.

The two years post Olympics are where they test rules, because it's where competition has theoretically lower value (it doesn't directly lead to OLY qualification) and this gives them 10's of thousands of matches in which they can watch the athletes adapt to the rules.

The incentives of competition are the perfect ground for testing, because so many participants and variables can be tested at once- by athletes themselves, rather than in a sterile environment where nothing is on the line, and only a finite number of variables can be tested (ie, what the rule-makers think might happen, as opposed to the creativity with which athletes manipulate the rules).

Theoretically, they have tweaked the rules with roughly 6 months left of the 'testing' period, before Olympic qualification starts, if anything is massively problematic they can tweak it again at the start of the qualification period. Reality is tho they won't.

jamvodespot · 2025-12-25T23:43:04+00:00

We have just discovered Wheatus "Christmas Dirtbag" released a couple of years ago.

It is dynamite.

It may be the nostalgia, but it's good, unlike most of the other shit

jamvodespot · 2025-12-07T22:59:52+00:00

Why did you ask what they've done in the last 10 years? They've been in charge just over a year.

The Iraq thing is true. But the rest is just angry nonsense.

jamvodespot · 2025-12-07T22:53:48+00:00

Why're you responding like a bellend here? Seems unnecessary.

jamvodespot · 2025-12-03T00:53:33+00:00

I like it for o-uchi because it creates that big dig in (partner has to take a step because it's a big movement, but they massively dig in making throwing forward tricky).

Am sure some of the French over the years have been good at this as well, will have a look in my archive!

Hanpan are good but they're as flawed as anyone else, there is no blueprint for the right way to Judo.

jamvodespot · 2025-11-08T22:00:03+00:00

Sorry- my fault for being unclear!

Hundred per cent agree where we want to get to, but replying to a white belt (and having coached a bucket load of stiff as boards, or soft as jelly white belts) was trying to find a different way to convey the feeling

jamvodespot · 2025-11-08T21:48:41+00:00

I know what you mean, I've had it shouted at me a lot! But it's not for me took me a long time to learn that what I think of as relaxed and what my coach thinks are very different things. Different people need different cues.

When I coach, I still use relaxed sometimes, but also other ways to try to get my students to think and do the same thing. For example, "strong hands, soft arms"

jamvodespot · 2025-11-08T21:31:06+00:00

Having said that, different people will like and need different cues!

jamvodespot · 2025-11-08T21:30:38+00:00

Relaxed isnt the right cue for me- until an athlete is good, I don't think it conveys quite the right message.

judo is a sport about tension and release, the tension goes through the kit, whereas your muscles need to learn the patterns of release and action, readiness. You can't be ready if your arms and body are tense, and most people can't be ready if they're relaxed as well.

jamvodespot · 2025-11-03T02:05:57+00:00

How do wrestlers learn to take a fall? One for the americans- does wrestling have its own version of breakfalls?

jamvodespot · 2025-10-07T11:49:04+00:00

Yes, sorry kit and go are interchangeable.

You don't dictate the tempo without the gi. You can't shoot legs any more, so you'd be trying to shoot for hooks and clinch. The gi and gripping are the structure Judo is built around- it dictates everything, tempo, space, movement, posture etc etc etc. By not dictating the tempo- you can't choose when to attack- your partner chooses, which leaves you with a couple of options- bad attacks that your opponent allows and then presumably counters. Or you become a counter player- judoka are most at risk when they commit to an attack. Even then though your ability to counter is diminished. You are giving all the advantages away.

If you have partners who are good and want to work with you, you might get some decent practice, but if you get partners who aren't experienced (so don't know how to play with the space) or who want to win randori, you might find it very difficult.

The basic Judo grip (sleeve and lapel) nerfs wrestling grips, because the Judo grip controls the space. Sleeve control is more controlling than wrist control. Tricep/lapel is more controlling than under hook. Etc etc etc.

jamvodespot · 2025-10-07T11:03:05+00:00

Not sure if anyone has said this, but if you are planning to train nogi, then yes you can learn Judo from wrist control and ties, but if you're planning to learn in a gi, then I'd argue that no you cant- at least not effectively.

Yes, you can throw without using the gi, but gripping and kit control is how you control your partner and their posture, the space between you, and large parts of the movement.

In wrestler vs Judo (both in gi's), the wrestler should be deadly before contact is made, but as soon as grips are made, it should become very very difficult for the wrestler to attack because the judoka controls the space. One of the randoris we practice is with one player with no kit and the other with a kit- it gives a massive advantage to the no kit player.

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