[Happy Boy]

Originally Posted by PSJJJJ

Might aswell sway this thread into a "who's your favorite judoka" thing.

Kosei Inoue
Nicolas Gill
Pawel Nastula

Shinohara - as best I can I try and emulate this dude's style and throws as I have a similar body type with long arms and legs.

Koga - who couldnt love this dude, spectacular throws and all action.

Inoue - when hes on form there are few better in history, amazing technique, like watching kata.

[Happy Boy]

Originally Posted by YeahBee

I'll throw a question out for the judo people who coach/train other people/kids

How do you focus your technique training?

quality or quantity?

I mean kids techniques when they do them outside of randori is often quite bad from my experience, very hard to teach them the finer points of it.

do you focus on jsut a few throws and get them to be really good or do you teach them basics for alotta throws?.

I don't really have to follow any curriculum when I teach because as a blue belt I don't rank people

Anyone Ive trained Ive just pounded "action/reaction" into them and made them always break balance before throw no matter how bad the execution of the throw is. Usually only do 3 throws at the start, one going back, one goin forward and a basic leg sweep, and for drills just do big kazushi with these 3 over and over and over.

[PSJJJJ]

Originally Posted by Happy Boy

Koga - who couldnt love this dude, spectacular throws and all action.

What weight does Koga fight at? He seems very small, and I've seen him fight some bigger dudes at time.

[vince89]

He has an olympic gold at 71kg I think.

Hes fought bigger guys because he said that he liked the old days when there were no weight classes, it added the dynamic of size and made for more interesting competition.

[Happy Boy]

Originally Posted by PSJJJJ

What weight does Koga fight at? He seems very small, and I've seen him fight some bigger dudes at time.

He won the olympic gold at -71 and then fought up at -76 later in his career. He would have had a second gold except Bouras of France did some dirty French tactics to win the decision in the final in 96.

He was short but he packed such a wallop for his size. Amazing power in his shoulder throws and he invented his own variations on a lot of them to get around his injuries.

The things you've seen are prob when he entered the all-Japan tournament which is open weight. He beat a lot of the 140kg+ guys to get to the final, lasted 7 and a half minutes against the reigning world open weight champion Ogawa Naoya before getting ipponed. Pretty famous, doesnt happen too much anymore for risk of injury.

[Ozfight]

Masahiko Kimura
Tadahiro Nomura
Toshihiko Koga

[Thrawn33]

I'm an assistant coach at a kids club.

Its one of the hardest things ever. You try to teach quality throws but the kids are impatient and just want to throw someone down. You can't keep drilling the same throw because then they get bored.

I'd say exposing them to many different throws will allow each to find their favorite one. As we know, most kids only do one well in comp, best to find out witch one.

[Q mystic]

How much newaza do you guys do at your 'strictly comp' judo club? Thats Olympic score judo. Not kosen, not open mat, not anything but what your coaches teach.

I had a recent but short thread on this and would like to see it with many, occasionally, over time. Thanks.


Also,

Its funny, but when I was younger we always did 50/50 at my judo clubs. Thats a shitload of newaza! Yet I can't remember the names of anything, or if we even had names for them.LOL

I know the basic osaekomis and subs but we never had a judo name for whats commonly known as the 'eckersly roll'(Yoons common armbar movements) or names of any other movements like wrestlings 'switch or sit-thru/sit-out'. Gaurd was always there in english but nothing much from that that there are names for these days.

Are there names for that these days?

Mighta been that groundwork was very boring but names for most of what they have names for now totally escape me.

[PSJJJJ]

Originally Posted by Q mystic

How much newaza do you guys do at your 'strictly comp' judo club? Thats Olympic score judo. Not kosen, not open mat, not anything but what your coaches teach.

I had a recent but short thread on this and would like to see it with many, occasionally, over time. Thanks.

I've been to 3 clubs. All between 60:40 and 50:50.

[Q mystic]

Originally Posted by PSJJJJ

I've been to 3 clubs. All between 60:40 and 50:50.

edited above could you answer the rest, thanks.

Those are straight judo olympic style clubs right?