Today I gave a clip of a player called Steve gawthorp that I had on my lap top. Steve was 1984 Los Angeles Olympian. 1984 European Bronze medalist and 1985 World championships Bronze medalist and is renownd  for his Ne-Waza.

What I wanted the students to do was to to come up with some of their own ideas and drills from a simple starting scenario. They really worked hard and came up with some excellent ideas – Why not have a go?

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Started the week back after the easter holidays with some Strength and conditioning. The group have just started to be introduced to the Olympic Lifting Weights etc now and are looking at squats.

Todays technical session was all about movement on the Judo mat. Trying to encourage the students to move more around the mat and work to a game plan with regards to getting specific grips and executing selected throws.

If anyone is interested in enrolling for this course in September 2009 I have enclosed a document which gives more information and contact info.

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Today the students did a session on swiss balls to look at core stability and core excersises. This was followed by a garage Gym Session with Wayne Lakin who is the Manager of the BJA “enjoy Judo” programme and S&C coach at Leicester Tigers Rugby Club. This session was old school flipping Tyres and hitting things with sledge hamers, carrying etc. Excellent for conditioning.

Yes, today we did “Uchi Mata”, no surprises there. We looked at the technique in different scenarios and took time to practice. Again Mr Inoue stressed the importance of the basic fundamentals of judo being so important “KUZUSHI”, movement and co-ordination of your body movement. What struck me most was that for a -100Kg player he was not very tall. He was however like a little ball of POWER. You could see how dynamic his movement is, and he is overall a very nice and humble person who was more than happy to go through things and have photo’s taken etc.  A very good advert for JUDO.  

This week we are at Bath University to follow the lectures being delivered on the EJU Level 4 coaching course. The students will sit in on lectures which I feel will benefit their course works and participate in the mat based sessions. So far they have met Jane Bridge-Charlotte former World Champion, Lorretta Doyle (Cusak) former World Champion and finally Kosei Inoue former 3 x World  Champion and Olympic Games gold medalist. This is in the first 2 days. They have a technical session on the mat with Mr Inoue tomorrow and other mat based sessions with Jurgen Klinger and Jayne Bridge. This is a fantastic environment for the students to be in and they are thouroughly enjoying the visit. They also get the opportunity to randori on Wednesday evening, hopefully with Mr Inoue ????

Well not a bad day, Dale Jones and Ty Robinson both won Silver Medals so congratulations to them !!!!!  The rest of the team faught well but were beaten by better players on the day.

Tomorrow we are off to the British Schools Judo Championships being held at the EnglishInstitute of Sport Building. I am not too bothered about the students winning any medals. What I will gain more satisfaction from will be their application of the techniques and methods we have been working on over the last few weeks. Any medals will just be a bonus.

Dale Jones U90Kg

Rob Butcher U60Kg

Josh Shenton U66Kg

James Lawrence U81Kg

Ty Robinson +100Kg

Adam Dobbinson – Injured and now chief camera man

 

Will post results next week sometime.

Just thought I would promote this exiting opportunity for anyone who may be interested. please see the attched document.bja-revalidation-event

Today we continued the think for yourself attitude. I asked the students to work from a cross grip and find how they could get into different ne-waza situations transitioning from tachi-waza. The students took time to practice situations that would lead to a shimewaz and Osaekomi-waza. the need to think about not only throwing but transition then turnovers then armlocks then strangles and try to develop drills and situations to get into the positions.