I am 43 years old. I practice around 45 minutes each day (except weekend days): some jogging and power drills. Feeling quite in shape. For the past five years, I made an effort to participate in Judo sessions and managed to sustain a routine of an average three times per year (yes, year). The reason […]
Read MoreThe Fight is not Over Till You Hear the Buzz
…Or, in other words: “Nothing is over till the fat lady sings“. It is very easy to give up to despair during a difficult match and throw in the towel. But, regardless of your current status, and even when you are behind and losing, as long as you were not knocked out with an Ippon, […]
Read MoreConfidence and self-confidence
One of the added values of training and practicing is to increase your confidence in what you do and increase the confidence in yourself. When it comes to physical sports as Judo, repetition of drills and techniques is essential to maintain good proficiency. The muscle memory needs to be as such, that you don’t have […]
Read MoreMaking changes
This claim is corny, but it’s also true: if you don’t try, you won’t succeed. The problem is that even when you do (try), it does not really mean that you are guaranteed to succeed. What it does mean, is that you’ve made the first step towards success, which is much more than most of […]
Read MoreWin before getting on the mat
My dad always said: “you win first of all in your head, then on the mat. Don’t get on the mat in a losing state of mind, because your opponent will see that, and that’s exactly what’s going to happen. You’re gonna lose”. State of mind is the most important thing in a competitive type […]
Read MoreIs Judo boring?
People that do not practice Judo, think it’s boring. Nobody I know, whoever looked at a Judo match on TV, didn’t tell that this is boring shit. They just can’t understand this. Basically, for the Judo-lame person, it looks like grown-ups hugging, pushing, pulling or kicking each other. The “kicking” part might be interesting, but […]
Read MoreBeing on your back does not mean you are losing
Mainly in the 70’s and 80’s action movies, a hand to hand fight included, some of the time, a move by one of the actors that involved him rolling on his back, lifting his opponent with his leg. Now, this is NOT a judo kick, but you might say it’s pretty close. This move is […]
Read MoreBleeding
Not a very nice start, but what can you do: there are times in life when you bleed, and I am not talking just about those paper cuts and other wounds you get falling off your bike… I had Orange belt (which was the third level those days). One of the Judo training sessions, during […]
Read More“Lets do Karate”
When I was five, my father came back from work one day, and took me to the center of town.”Where are we going?” I asked him anxiously since I noticed he was very excited, “I want to enroll you to Karate, there is a class at the local community center, I saw kids with karate […]
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