Welcome to the return of an old project. The Almost Heaven Judo Monthly Newsletter, hopefully it finds you in good health.
Notices and News:
The Big news is that we have moved to 800 Camden Ave. South Parkersburg about 1.5 miles from our old location. Hopefully in the near future we will get a sign up letting the masses know who and what we are.
A lot of people have asked me, “Why did you move?” The answer is this, The old place built with a lot of Budoka hands was just at the end of it’s life span. The roof was shot, and the mold there was getting to everyone, whether they would admit it or not, I know it got to me. This new place is a lot better. We got the same canvas mats along with some Excellent Swain mats Thanks to a great Martial Artist Matt W. Don’t worry for all you people out there this place too was built with a lot of budoka help.
Judo as Physical Training:
The Pedro Guard Pass by Jimmy Pedro
6th degree black belt, 1999 World Champion
In Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, the following position is referred to as the “Open Guard.” Since there is no formal name for it in Judo, we will also refer to it as the open guard.
Throughout his career, Jimmy Pedro had a lot of success attacking from the top position in the open guard, and was able to pin numerous opponents with his signature guard pass. In this special technique development section, Jimmy will demonstrate and explain how you can master the Pedro Guard Pass.
Here is the link study it: Pedro sensei open guard escape
Randori:
A lot of talk about this subject as of late. This is mainly do to last semester’s Judo class at the College. I think the message is getting out on how I view randori, especially for the college students. How I view randori is plain, simple and to the point it is a learning experience. I know arts like BJ-j’s “rolling” tend to be more competitive than ours, that is cool, and that is how I grew up with judo randori. While I had fun and did learn, I was and I saw people hurt needlessly through trying new things way too fast and with limited knowledge of what was going on. While I returned as some others did, a lot of others did not. At first, I thought them weak and they couldn’t hack it, then I learned no, they viewed the pain as not worth it. That is when I started formulating my idea of randori, which to me, is more in line with what Kano Shihan wanted. My randori is simply to pay heed to the second principle of Judo, Jita Kyoei or mutual benefit and welfare. When you randori with someone of lower rank give them a good workout but stay at 1 rank higher to do that. One should not be slapping arm bars on white belts that have never been introduced to arm bars in connection to randori. In closing I just want to say that everyone is coming around and randori is becoming less and less injury laden.
Thanks.
Kata:
I found this on You tube and thought I would post the link so you can also enjoy:
Something cool I found:
We all know of Dave H.’s Story about his adventures being a blind Judoka.
Here is another’s story
Ohashi
Photos this Month:
More next month
Anata no juudoo sensei
Dai saru
