Category: Class

Come one come all for the last night of practice at Rings-&-Things! We need everyone on Saturday to help us move, but come to practice tonight to enjoy our old space one last time. Hope to see everyone there!

Come one come all for the last night of practice at Rings-&-Things! We need everyone on Saturday to help us move, but come to practice tonight to enjoy our old space one last time. Hope to see everyone there!

You all have been listening to me go on and on about the importance of counters and combinations. Today Mike asked about combinations and I thought instead of me saying again that I think combinations are important, I would just post a link to this excellent resource.
This gives a nice list of techniques, with setups, follow-ups, and counters.
Memorize all of these and you will be fine.
The list is here.

We are canceling practice on Sat. 1/11/2020. The weather is just too bad. See everyone Monday night.

Sensei Bret here are pictures from the Katame No Kata, now please don’t beat me up for calling you a jerk on Thursday! 😀

Thanks!

If you missed practice last night, you missde:

Over the next couple of weeks, we have some schedule changes:

• Thursday, 10/24/2019 Pacific joining us for a joint practice. Kids and adult classes are at the regular times, there will just be more people.
• Saturday, 10/26/2019 Practice is cancelled due to a show at Rings-&-Things.
• Monday, 10/28/2019 Regular practice.
• Thursday, 10/31/2019 (Halloween) We are cancelling the kids class. We will have an adult practice from 6:00-8:30. Pacific is welcome to attend.
• Saturday, 11/2/2019 Katame No Kata Clinic all day.

Everything should be back to normal after that.
See everyone tomorrow.

Just a reminder that the tournament here in town is tomorrow. Everyone should come down and help out (even if your not competing).
There is always a need for more help at the tournament and anything you can do is appreciated.

On a related note, practice tomorrow (Saturday) will be cancelled because everyone will be at the tournament. Also, there won’t be practice on Monday due to the holiday. See everyone back on the mat on Thursday.
Good luck to all our competitors tomorrow.

Just a reminder that tomorrow is the first practice of 2019. Hope to see all our old members back on the mat and ready to work out.
I know some of you have been keeping up with the push-ups over the break, we can do them all together tomorrow.
Looking forward to seeing all our old members and hopefully some new ones on the mat.

Judo Info site is an excellent resource for information about all aspects of judo.

Judo Training Methods by Kazuzo Kudo has some good advice on important elements of judo practice. Sensei Anna Marie found this article and asked me to post it.
Specifically, she highlighted:

“Practice for practice sake is the basic element of progress. To repeat, practice for its own sake is the key to progress. Rather than thinking of throwing
or downing your opponent, think that he is actually being good enough to become the model on which you can both polish up the techniques you are good in
and learn many new techniques. Pay no attention if your opponent throws you or turns your own attack against you. Practice with the single idea of learning
the body movements and the techniques themselves. In practice sessions use as many right techniques, left techniques, and counter attacks as you can. Naturally,
with all this activity one of these practice bouts can only last two or three minutes. That is all right, but remember, work out, rest a moment, work out
again, rest again, and keep this process going throughout the entire practice session.”

The rest of the article is definitely worth reading too. I think all the advice he gives is good to keep in mind. We need to stop focusing on winning/beating our partner and instead improving our own technique.