My Judo club closed for the summer. This was a massive bummer for me since I’d only been to 5 sessions before Covid, then the club was at the mercy of Public Health England who would then determine when gym openings could take place. Even then it was a case of solo drilling. Now that […]
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In our sport of throwing each other around, the secret ingredient is to be doing the optimal thing in the right place at the right time. It’s great to have Herculean strength but you’ll always find a stronger adversary in your travels. Let’s place the fascinating aspects of feints, misdirection and other psychological trickery aside. […]
I’ve mentioned before that Judo is a bit of a “sudden death” combat sport where it could all end in an instant. You could step badly, be countered brilliantly, you could be lacking in concentration for just a split second. However, let’s take chance out of the equation and consider when a fight typically gets […]
Gi Number 1 Back in the 90s, when I was a young lad in college and failing at my sole task of winning women over, I took up a martial art at my university gym called Jitsu. I did this for a number of years, and had it’s plus’s and minus’s (see Bullshido’s reference to […]
If we’re to be Stoic about it, each day we live we get closer to our eventual demise/death. Our bodies may have adapted over the thousands of years we’ve been in existence as a species but we don’t just “pop off” like that – if we don’t succumb to a severe illness, accident or something […]
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Judo – the minority sport in the UK
Britain is not a Judo Nation by any stretch – there’s 66 million people here with roughly 47,000 registered Judo participants. It’s not a small number but compare that to France, a similar sized population but with over 600,000 participants. You could argue that Judo is not prominent enough within the early schooling system. Perhaps […]