The importance of Kumi Kata
Posted on February 26th, 2010
The definition of Kumi Kata is grip fighting. By grip fighting it is meant to take a grip that will provide you with advantage over your opponent, but also to not let your opponent take is comfortable[...]
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2 athletes allowed per country/weight in World Championships
Posted on February 10th, 2010
The IJF has announced last month that it will allow all nations to send 2 athletes in each category to World Championships, starting at the Tokyo 2010. This development came as a consideration to p[...]
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A small change to the rules as 1 January 2010
Posted on February 10th, 2010
The new year is here, and new rules are in effect. As mentioned in an earlier post, a player cannot grip or block an opponent with his hand(s) or arm(s) under the belt. The rule had been tested in a f[...]
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Explaining the new rules
Posted on November 20th, 2009
Following an earlier post, this post will try to explain the new rules, as there are a lot of grey areas, which players might feel uncomfortable with. The new rules dictate that a player mustn't gr[...]
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Judo Training at home - Part 2
Posted on September 9th, 2009
This second part will focus on complementing the exercises described in the first part (read about it here) with some free exercises. I use these exercises to focus on other movements, such as sweeps.[...]
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World Junior Championship 2009 moved
Posted on September 4th, 2009
The IJF has announced that that the World Junior Championship that was to be held in Athens, Greece on 22 to 25 October 2009 has changed location to Paris, France. The reason given was that some re[...]
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World championship 2009 - Medals tally
Posted on August 31st, 2009
The 26th World Judo Championship has ended and it’s time to count the medals. This year we have had 27 countries on the list of medals. Leading the medals tally, as always, Japan, with 7 medals [...]
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World championship - Day 5
Posted on August 31st, 2009
This day brought us the heavyweights of both men and women, with men under and over 100Kg and women over 78Kg. Men -100Kg This category, with 43 entrants, had several competitors that in a given d[...]
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World championship - Day 4
Posted on August 31st, 2009
Today we had the men under 90Kg and women under 70Kg, and under 78Kg. Men -90Kg This category provided a few upsets when the World champion under 81Kg, Camilo Tiago from Brazil, lost to Kyu-Won Le[...]
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World championship - Day 3
Posted on August 31st, 2009
Today we had the men under 81Kg and women under 63Kg. Men -81Kg This category, with 54 entrants, was dominated by the 2009 European champion from Russia, Ivan Nifontov, who at his first fight stra[...]
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