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This is a fantastic Sambo video, which is absolutely PACKED with combinations and transition demonstrations. It is one of the best examples I have seen of this sort of thing. Uke avoids initial attack, what do you do next? It’s all here.
Being Sambo, this includes a few techniques which are not permitted in Judo shiai, such as leg locks. It also has a Bon Jovi soundtrack. You can’t have everything!
Lance Wicks was quick to post that the IJF seem poised to ban coaches from matside. As with the upcoming rule changes (removal of koka and so on), this is to come into effect from the beginning of 2009. Â Unlike those rules changes, this one has been sprung very suddenly! The BJA have confirmed it, and there is a copy of the announcement available for download.
An athlete is alone against his opponent in a fight. In the educational concept of judo, the role of coaches is to prepare his players for this autonomy. We must reserve for a Judoka the decisionmaking and ability to manage this confrontation.
Mainly for this reason we made a decision to remove coaches along the tatami from 1 January 2009. A specific location will be reserved for them in the competition hall.
Some outbursts on coaches’ side have also hurt the image of our sport at the Beijing Olympics. Unjustified and continuing criticism against referees had undermined our refereeing in public and media’s opinion.
It will be interesting to see at which levels in the UK this is applied at (if at all). Plenty of other sports allow coaching from the side, although the BJC do not allow it…
I feel this is a positive step. Â Shouting at the players aside, it also prevents abuse and attempted coercion towards the referees (it is annoying for a coach to scream for the same penalty you intend to give anyway!). Â By the time the players step out onto the tatami, they should be able to handle the contest by themselves…
There is now an interview with Patrick Roux on the BJA web site.
It is good to see a common sense approach is coming in. Especially emphasising the importance of Uchikomi and correct Randori:
“…Randori, in France, is not a bull-fight, as it is in some other countries. Randori is more often used to develop a wide range of techniques. Between Athens and Beijing, the French women’s team changed the way it was doing randori and was rewarded with much greater success.”
Of particular interest was a reference to a throw at the 2008 Olympic games:
Another area, on which he wants to work, is tactical appreciation, for fighters to make an instantaneous decision under the physical and mental pressure of a competition. In Beijing, we had a perfect example of what he means in the final of the under 63 kgs category, when Lucie Decosse of France attacked the defending champion Ayumi Tanimoto, with ouchi-gari, driving the Japanese girl backwards. However, Tanimoto used the forward movement of Decosse to bring her off-balance and counter her perfectly with uchi-mata. For me, it was probably the technical highlight of the Games and demonstrated exactly what judo should be.
This is a counter which I like myself. And it shows why I am struggling with my Uchimata. Performing it as a primary attack doesn’t work too well for me, as clearly I am not generating sufficient Kuzushi. If Uke has effectively done that for me by way of an appropriate attack, it’s a decisive Ippon.
Getting there…