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Review of our Judo Tournament Matches

Outside of Judo I am an entrepreneur. I have been blessed to work with many wonderful people, and by all accounts have been pretty darned successful (there are some details here if you care.)

Through that, I have faced countless trials and challenges, many of which, at the time seemed nearly insurmountable. The biggest thing I have learned through this is that each and every trial in business is an education that you could not possibly have found anyone you could pay enough to really teach you the way you know now. You couldn’t buy the kind of education that trials and loss can give you.

The same is true in Judo. So let’s have a look at our trials (HUGE Thanks to Robert from Lehi Judo class for these pictures!!)

First we’ll take a look at Ty up against Jake. Jake is from our Judo class as well, and is really tough as nails.

This first picture shows Jake starting to throw Ty.

To Ty’s credit he really fought this one for a while… from this position they hopped several times each as Ty tried to get back to stability.

As a note here: Ty is actually a yellow belt. They generally make one person wear a blue belt for scoring purposes. (Just as another side note there: I was surprised to find that they seem a bit picky about people needing to wear a white Gi unless they are the blue fighter… I guess blue Gi’s to tournaments is a bit of a no-no.)

Here we see Ty start to go over. But here is also where the learning process begins… After this throw Ty and I spoke, and he determined that he was more likely to be able to compete with Jake on his ground game than the throws… and that his main focus would be to not go down cleanly enough to suffer a loss, so that he could then attempt to fight from the ground. He executed pretty well on that.

Next we head into another of Ty’s matches.

In Ty’s first next he stepped in and quickly executed a nice Osoto Gari to win the match.

Next Ty, who is currently 14 and weighs a whopping 115 pounds when clothed and wet,faced a much larger, much older opponent:

Just before this match Danny, from our Hidden Valley Judo class noticed some things about the buy’s previous match. His pointers were really great, and gave Ty a lot of insight on how to better attach the legs of this much larger opponent.

Thanks Danny!

In this match Ty began to use a technique where he would attach the leg, then attempt to take the larger person down. This worked really well for Ty, and he was able to not only take his down three times in this way, but also maanged to score a really brutal rear-naked choke that lamost ened the match.

Unfortunately, Ty’s would-be victim managed to make his way out of bounds, causing the two to be stood up again in the middle of the ring…and resulting in the following:

Okay, so this post is getting pretty long, and much of what I want to talk about wit my own matches is in regards to the Makikomi, a move that I will be doing a blog post all about tomorrow. So for now, here’s a look at a few failed moves: