Titan Judo

Turnovers

This is a pretty cool Youtube video, featuring 15 turnovers from some top players.

Kosei Inoue’s Tip 2

Tip 2. Use your head

Your head is the pilot of your body. Inoue insists that whatever direction he is throwing in, his head must be looking and driving in that same direction. He also points out the importance of his head at each point of a throw. For example when turning in for Uchimata, his head flies downwards at first to help lift his opponent. It then rotates around at the last moment, in the direction that he wants his opponent to land.

Thanks to Fighting Films

Kosei Inoue’s Top 10 Tips: No. 1

Fighting Films are releasing a triple DVD boxset produced by Kosei Inoue. To help advertise it, each week they are publishing a new top tip from the great man himself.
I thought these were just too good to not put on here.

TIP 1. Always remain faithful to the fundamentals of judo

Inoue insists that it is essential when practising judo to always keep the fundamentals of the sport to mind, regardless of what technique you are executing. By remaining faithful to these fundamentals a judoka can gain the ability to adapt to any situation and successfully apply their skills. For Inoue this means always keeping perfect, upright judo posture and making sure everything he does on the mat is technically flawless.

With Uchikomi every repetition needs to be 100 percent perfect. Inoue says that any imperfections in your form, even if only slight, can compound errors and come through in your technique. It is pointless doing hundreds of Uchikomi at a fast pace unless every single repetition is perfect. Only once you have achieved this level of perfection should you progress on to repetitive training. And then its repetition, repetition, repetition!

Scottish Age Bands video

Paul put together this video of the boys fights from the recent competition.
It did originally have music in it, but Youtube said we were in breach of copyright because of it, so, no music now. Sorry.

Anyway, enjoy. There’s some nice Judo here.

Titan Judo – Scottish Age Bands 2008

Western Open videos

*update*
I was a bit bored today, so I edited the footage from Kilmarnock down into this highlight video.

Malky’s fights:
Fight 1
Fight 2
Fight 3
Fight 4

Mark’s fights:
Fight 1
Fight 2

Craig’s fights:
Fight 1
Fight 2
Fight 3

Peter’s fights:
Fight 1
Fight 2
Peter v Stuart

Stuart’s fights:
Fight 1
Fight 3

I’m not sure if we’re missing one of Stuart and Peter’s fights, but this was all that was on Stuart’s camera.

David’s fights:
Fight 1
Fight 2
Fight 3
Fight 4

The semi final and final fights might be on Peter’s mobile, so I’ll upload them if/when I get them.

First post!

First post…and theres not a lot to say…so for now, just enjoy this video.