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03-23-2008, 07:26 PM
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I've seen a few Olympians at my clubs lately. One of which was in the '00 Sidney games; Keith Morgan.
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03-23-2008, 07:29 PM
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#122 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by PSJJJJ
I've seen a few Olympians at my clubs lately. One of which was in the '00 Sidney games; Keith Morgan.
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Thats cool, Morgan was a good player. Is Gill from Quebec? Only occured to me when you mentioned his stuff on sale that he could be from there, Ive never heard him speak!!
Im training at the moment with two brothers, either of which could be big shots in the future in Japan. The better of the two is actually the lazier and they have a hard time getting him on the mat and keeping him underweight, but dear Lord is he untouchable. His kid brother is an athletic freak akin to a gymnast and is incredibly good and motivated, not quite as talented. Getting beaten mercilessly the last few months by this pair, good times.
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03-23-2008, 07:33 PM
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#123 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Happy Boy
Thats cool, Morgan was a good player. Is Gill from Quebec? Only occured to me when you mentioned his stuff on sale that he could be from there, Ive never heard him speak!!
Im training at the moment with two brothers, either of which could be big shots in the future in Japan. The better of the two is actually the lazier and they have a hard time getting him on the mat and keeping him underweight, but dear Lord is he untouchable. His kid brother is an athletic freak akin to a gymnast and is incredibly good and motivated, not quite as talented. Getting beaten mercilessly the last few months by this pair, good times.
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Yeah, Nick Gill lives and trains in MTL. He's living easy now IMHO, training the National team brings him in aroun 80K/year (so I've heard) plus he has his popular judo company Gill Sports.
As Q said earlier though, my 1st coach Bill Thompson scored Ippon on him with Uchi Mata.
Brad Farrow also stopped by the club once. I've never improved more in one night in my life. His Osoto Gari (or at least the way he tought it to me) was just perfect.
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03-23-2008, 07:36 PM
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#124 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by PSJJJJ
Yeah, Nick Gill lives and trains in MTL. He's living easy now IMHO, training the National team brings him in aroun 80K/year (so I've heard) plus he has his popular judo company Gill Sports.
As Q said earlier though, my 1st coach Bill Thompson scored Ippon on him with Uchi Mata.
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Nice to hear some of these guys doing well, thats the tough thing about judo not being big ticket, unless they really make it not a lot of them can earn a great living out of it, glad to hear he is doing well. Poor guy kept getting to semi-finals and finals and meeting either Inoue or Jeon, and got canned each time. Great career though, even getting to an olympic final is a monumental achievement.
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03-23-2008, 07:38 PM
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#125 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Happy Boy
Nice to hear some of these guys doing well, thats the tough thing about judo not being big ticket, unless they really make it not a lot of them can earn a great living out of it, glad to hear he is doing well. Poor guy kept getting to semi-finals and finals and meeting either Inoue or Jeon, and got canned each time. Great career though, even getting to an olympic final is a monumental achievement.
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True, but if you ask anyone who knows anything about the sport, they won't hesitate to praise Gill as one of the legends of the sport.
I could take him though!
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03-23-2008, 07:42 PM
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#126 (permalink)
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True, but if you ask anyone who knows anything about the sport, they won't hesitate to praise Gill as one of the legends of the sport.
I could take him though!
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Thats the thing with it being so specialist isnt it, all or nothing in terms of knowledge.
I'd osoto him all over the mat....shhhh!!
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03-23-2008, 07:47 PM
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#127 (permalink)
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Oh, hey question for you HB.
Who are the pillars of judo? I know Mifune is one...Kano?
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03-23-2008, 07:49 PM
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#128 (permalink)
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Oh, hey question for you HB.
Who are the pillars of judo? I know Mifune is one...Kano?
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I actually dont know, it was revised in the 20's by a group of guys, one of which was Mifune, I think he is the only famous one but I could be wrong.
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Gospel according to St. John Chapter 1 Verse 17 (KJV)
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03-23-2008, 07:51 PM
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#129 (permalink)
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Just curious. I know people concider Mifune the god of judo... don't know if I believe that.
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03-23-2008, 07:53 PM
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#130 (permalink)
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Might aswell add something new to this thread. This is a short documentary of Doug Rogers living and training in Japan shortly after he won an Olympic Silver Medal for Canada in the very first Olympics for Judo.
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