There was a lot hypothesis concerning rule modifications, and sadly that’s all we will proceed to do till subsequent month when the official new guidelines are launched by the Worldwide Judo Federation. After already a substantial amount of deliberation, nationwide federations, teaching commissions and unions had been invited to provide their opinions and ideas for potential alterations.
Following the announcement from the All Japan Judo Federation, in collaboration with the Kodokan, that they’d be permitting leg seize strategies within the All Japan Judo Championships, the hearsay mill has been turning at an excessive velocity and naturally it has grow to be one of the talked about potential modifications.
Talking with a member of the EJU Coaches Fee and Head Coach for the Italian Ladies’s Judo Workforce, Francesco BRUYERE, we had been eager to listen to the opinions and ideas that had been handed ahead.
For me, bringing again the strategies grabbing the legs can be an excessive amount of. We took the choice a few years in the past to vary our sport, to distinguish from others like wrestling, much like us within the Olympic Video games. I imply, I like these strategies, these large leg grabs, however lately I noticed a superb sport with out them.
It hasn’t been such a straightforward transition nonetheless, and there have been rising pains as with most modifications, however it have to be famous that guidelines are repeatedly underneath remark and judgement for the betterment of the game. Bruyere mentioned the preliminary elimination of the leg grabs,
Once we began, they gave hansoku make for touching the leg, this was an excessive amount of, then grabbing the leg was given a shido, somewhat higher, and now if I contact the skirt, underneath the belt, a shido. Think about an enormous motion, ippon, after which eliminated as a result of they touched the skirt, I believe it’s an excessive amount of, so now now we have to seek out one other means. We now have a whole lot of data to go in a superb route, for me I believe you may contact the leg or under the belt by accident however not seize the leg to throw. My private opinion is that grabbing the jacket underneath the belt is okay, however not the leg.
As younger judoka are usually not versed in utilizing such strategies, many juniors having by no means practiced, Bruyere determined to let his gamers attempt,
In my membership I attempted to see how they’d handle with leg grabs and instantly the younger guys, they had been scared! They don’t know what to do! Instantly they’re low with the physique and tried solely to seize the legs as a result of it’s easy, extra instinctive, than to use a standing approach. They had been bent over and it wasn’t good.
So collectively, the EJU Coaches Fee, headed by Shany HERSHKO and consists of; Driton KUKA, Christophe MASSINA, Yvonne SNIR-BÖNISCH, Pedro SOARES, Chiel WILLEMS and Jamie JOHNSON, despatched proposals, like nationwide federations, to the IJF.
We’re additionally not fully agreeing with the pinnacle diving, sure whether it is direct, however there are instances the place head is brushing the tatami, and these are skilled athletes, so we don’t imagine in these instances it’s harmful. Generally, we speak about it being ‘towards the present’, so we see a giant motion, after which the aspect of the pinnacle brushes the tatami and it’s a disqualification. Judo is a dynamic sport, so analysing nonetheless frames I believe can be not one of the simplest ways, any story could be instructed from a nonetheless image. So we’re in settlement about this, the leg grabbing, and there’s additionally the subject of a whole lot of shidos.
At first of matches, they’re given shidos in a short time, however on this time, the opponents are finding out each other, to get a grip in the appropriate means, however as an alternative they’re each given a shido, for me it’s too fast. Maybe, it’s higher to ask the athletes like a warning and solely then if it continues, shido-shido. It isn’t a easy sport, and lots of of my pals watched judo throughout the Olympic Video games and requested me ‘what’s going on? why so many shidos? I don’t perceive who gained.’ I don’t assume it’s good for our sport, and our present.
For me, I don’t assume there needs to be any massive modifications. My brother can be a coach, he instructed me in the event that they reintroduced leg grabs, he’d should restart his instructing, altering the perspective of the athletes. I’ma. little afraid for this. No matter occurs although, now we have 4 years to attempt them and see how all the things works.
I need to say, I’m actually blissful that the IJF Committee took the opinions of all of the nations, it is extremely open minded and I like it. Plenty of nations had related concepts which is nice after which they focus on them to see how it might work, I believe it’s a nice concept, after which on the opposite aspect, Japan have one concept, France could have one other and it’s a good approach to have this dialogue. Solely with the opinion of everyone can we discover a good answer.
Now judo is a very massive present, once I was combating right here in Rome 20 years in the past, it by no means seemed like this, now it’s a present, and why is it like this? Due to new guidelines and expertise, so after all now we have to proceed on this means.
Writer: Thea Cowen
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