Judo break fall - Forward roll

Break falls are the basics in Judo that practitioners should start off with first before the throws. Here is a video that you can see the break falls done by the practitioners. The break fall they did is called the forward roll. You can see that they have to roll further over more people at the end and this is to show the ability of being able to do cushion the impact properly as long as they technique correctly.

Different martial arts, same kind of principles

In fact sometimes I feel that as a judo practitioner, many of the martial arts principles are kind of the same. It is all about the body movements and the differences are the techniques used by each martial arts. Like judo, it has more emphasis on the throws and grappling. For Taekwondo, it is more on the legs. But sometimes in the self defense aspect of Taekwondo, there are also throws and these throws will have the same principles as those found in judo. Therefore principles can be seen from here that they are overlapped with one another.

Judo basics

Judo to many people is all about the throws but in actual fact, judo has other techniques such as locking, grabbing and etc. But before I will want to post on the other techniques such as the grabs and lock, the basic is always important. The basic is not the throws but the breakfalls and rollings. Judo is a physical sport where people will try to throw each other down, to minimize the impact of suffering from the throws, breakfalls are actually the important skills. Once the breakfalls and rollings are practiced enough, then moving on to throwings will be much easier as you can be thrown more times to get up and practice the throws.

Judo Olympian - 73kg Olympic gold medalist Lee Won-Hee

This is another video of a Judo match at the Olympic finals. The person from Korea is one of the well known Judo competitor and in this match watch how he win over his opponent. Notice how he attempt to do a drop-knee shoulder throw but his opponent reacted fast enough to counter it. Immediately he used an Ippon to throw down his opponent. Just watched how fast he reacted to the situation and threw his opponent to win the gold.

A better understanding of the art Judo

An interesting match between Korea and Japan at the doha asian olympic final. I was thinking that to have a clear understanding of the bigger picture at the faster instance, is to watch a judo match. The judo match will serves as a good introduction of what Judo is about. Of course to perform at the match, there have to be lots of practice of the techniques to be done over and over again to perfect it and to do it so smoothly.

Full shoulder throw

Nastula (POL) throws Kim Min-Soo (KOR). Just take a look at this one. Can you see who is throwing who in this picture? The guy on the ground is the one being thrown. Notice how the smaller build opponent gave it all out to throw the bigger sized opponent. This is like a full forward shoulder throw by the person. When the throw is done it happens real fast. The picture is really well taken catching the right moment at the right time.

Shoulder throw at the tournament

Emoto (JPN) throws Vandecaveye (BEL) see how beautiful the throw is done. Sometimes the beauty of judo can be captured at such nice moment. Noticed how the ball of feet acts as the pivot and stability for the throw. When you throw it is really about the technique making use of the opponent's body weight. That is why sometimes in judo, a smaller build person can always throw a much bigger sized person.