Mike Liptrot – Beginning Judo

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LIPTROT, MIKE (in his own words) I’ve been preparing this blog for a while with the intention of being helpful to judoka, coaches, and martial artists.
I hope you find the approaches and training methods useful and that you like the site.
The method will be presented in the form of photographs, video clips, and step-by-step instructions on how to make throwing and grappling work for you.
My judo training I began judo at the age of six on a Saturday afternoon in 1969.
I was a member of Kendal Judo Club while attending Bluecoat School in the town center.
Over the following 38 years, the sport became my obsession.
Tony Macconnell moved to my town when I was 13 years old; he was the British team manager at the time and was to be the most influential figure in my competitive career.
I was a member of the British team for ten years, a medalist in the German Open, and I earned medals all around the United Kingdom and Europe.
In the 1980s, I trained at the town’s full-time center, traveling to Japan and around Europe. This was without a doubt the pinnacle of my athletic career.
Coaching Tony Macconnell (my coach) told me the day I stopped full-time training, “Don’t worry lad, you’re going to have a terrific time.”
You were a fantastic player, but you will be a better coach than you ever were a player.
And he was correct.
(He claims he is never incorrect and is almost always correct)
JUDO
Judo (, jd?, meaning “gentle method”) is a contemporary Japanese martial art and combat sport invented by Dr Kano Jigoro in Japan in 1882.
Its most distinguishing aspect is its competitive nature, in which the goal is to either throw an opponent to the ground, paralyze or otherwise subdue an opponent with a grappling move, or compel an opponent to submit by joint locking or performing a choke.
Hand and foot strikes and thrusts, as well as weapon defenses, are all elements of judo, but only in pre-arranged forms (kata) and are not permitted in judo competition or free practice (randori).
Judo’s concept and subsequent education provided the paradigm for various modern Japanese martial arts that arose from ancient schools (kory).
Judo’s global proliferation has resulted in the development of a variety of offshoots, including Sambo, Bartitsu, and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, which was established when Mitsuyo Maeda introduced judo to Brazil in 1914.
Judo practitioners are referred to as jdka.
Philosophy and history Jigoro Kano (Early life of the founder) Judo’s early history is inextricably linked to its inventor, Japanese scholar and educator Jigoro Kano ( Kan Jigor, 1860-1938).
Kano was born into a prosperous Japanese family.
His grandpa was a self-made guy from Shiga prefecture in central Japan, a sake brewer.
However, because Kano’s father was not the eldest son, he did not inherit the firm.
Instead, he became a Shinto priest and government official, having enough clout to get his son into Tokyo Imperial University’s second entering class.
The founder studies jujutsu.
Kano was a little, fragile youngster who, even in his twenties, weighed less than a hundred pounds (45 kg) and was frequently bullied.
He began studying jujutsu, a fading discipline at the time,[4] at the age of 17, but had little success.
This was owing in part to difficulty in finding a teacher who would accept him as a pupil.
When he entered university at the age of 18, he continued his martial arts studies, eventually gaining a referral to Fukuda Hachinosuke (c. 1828-c. 1880), a master of the Tenjin Shin’y-ry and grandfather of Keiko Fukuda (born 1913), Kano’s only surviving student and the world’s highest-ranking female jdka.
Fukuda Hachinosuke is reported to have prioritized technique above formal exercise, laying the groundwork for Kano’s emphasis on judo’s free practice (randori).
Fukuda grew sick and died a little more than a year after Kano started at his school.
Kano later enrolled in another Tenjin Shin’y-ry school, that of Iso Masatomo (c. 1820-c. 1881), who emphasized the practice of pre-arranged forms (kata) more than Fukuda.
Kano rapidly obtained the rank of master instructor (shihan) and became Iso’s assistant instructor at the age of 21.
Unfortunately, Iso became ill shortly after, and Kano, believing that he still had a much to learn, switched to Kit-ry, becoming a disciple of Iikubo Tsunetoshi (1835-1889).
Iikubo, like Fukuda, put a high value on free practice.
Kit-ry, on the other hand, placed a considerably larger emphasis on throwing techniques than Tenjin Shin’y-ry.
Kano was developing new techniques at this point, including the “shoulder wheel” (kata-guruma, sometimes known as a fireman’s carry to Western wrestlers who utilize a slightly modified version of this technique) and the “floating hip” (uki goshi) throw.
However, he was already considering far more than simply expanding the canons of Kit-ry and Tenjin Shin’y-ry.
Kano, who was full of new ideas, envisioned a comprehensive reformation of jujutsu, with methods based on good scientific principles and a concentration on developing the body, mind, and character of young men as well as their martial skill.
Kano took nine pupils from Iikubo’s school to learn jujutsu under him at the Eisho-ji, a Buddhist temple in Kamakura, in May 1882, when he was 22 and about to finish his degree at the University, and Iikubo came to the temple three days a week to assist instruct.
Although it would be two years before the temple was given the name “Kodokan,” or “place for teaching the way,” and Kano had not yet been given the title of “master” in the Kit-ry, this is today considered the Kodokan’s inception.
Judo was first known as Kano Jiu-Jitsu or Kano Jiu-Do, and then as Kodokan Jiu-Do, Jiu-Do, or Judo.
In the beginning, it was also referred to generally as Jiu-Jitsu.
Judo Definition (“The way of gentleness”)
The words “judo” and “jujutsu” contain the same root ideogram: “j” (? ), which can signify “gentleness,” “softness,” “suppleness,” or even “easy” depending on context.
However, such attempts to interpret j are deceiving.
Each of these terms has a clear allusion to the martial arts philosophy of the “soft way” (, jh?).
The gentle approach is distinguished by the use of indirect force to beat an opponent.
It is the notion of utilizing one’s opponent’s strength against him while also reacting skillfully to changing circumstances.
For example, if the attacker pushes against his opponent, the opponent will move to the side and enable his momentum (sometimes with the help of a foot to trip him up) to fling him forward (the inverse being true for pulling).
Kano perceived jujutsu as a disjointed bag of tricks and tried to unite it using a premise he discovered in the concept of “maximum efficiency.”
Techniques that depended entirely on greater strength were abandoned or modified in favor of ones that included redirecting the opponent’s power, off-balancing the opponent, or utilizing superior leverage.
Judo and jujutsu have different second characters.
Whereas jujutsu (, jjutsu?) refers to the “art,” “science,” or “techniques” of softness, judo (, jd?) refers to the “method” of softness.
The usage of “d” (? ), which means way, road, or path (and is the same character as the Chinese word “tao”), has philosophical connotations.
This distinction is similar to that established between Bud and Bujutsu.
The use of this term is an intentional break from old combat arts, the main objective of which was to kill.
Kano considered judo as a way of self-government and self-improvement on all levels: physical, cerebral, emotional, and moral.
He even applied the physical notion of optimum efficiency to everyday life, transforming it into “shared prosperity.”
In this regard, judo is seen as a comprehensive approach to life that extends well beyond the bounds of the dojo.
Judoka (practitioner)
A judoka or “judo practitioner” is a judo practitioner, however originally only those with a 4th Dan or higher were termed “judoka.”
When the suffix -ka is added to a word, it denotes a person who possesses competence or exceptional understanding on that subject.
Other practitioners below the 4th dan rank were referred to as kenkyu-sei, or “trainees.”
However, the term judoka is now used globally to refer to any judo practitioner, regardless of level of competence.
A sensei is a judo instructor.
The term sensei is derived from sen or saki (before) and sei (life) – that is, someone who has gone before you.
Any teacher of dan degree is commonly referred to as sensei in Western dojos.
Traditionally, such rank was designated for 4th dan and higher teachers.
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