Last night three of us carried 5,000 pounds between us, down a flight of stairs, and loaded it onto a truck.
This afternoon five of us carried the same 5,000 pounds back up the stairs.
Judo tournaments are a lot of fun.
…or "What I had to do for a silver medal".
I'm the one being thrown.
Enjoy!
The throws are, in order:
Uki-otoshi ("floating drop")
Seoi-nage ("shoulder throw")
Kata-guruma ("shoulder wheel")*
Uki-goshi ("floating hip throw")
Harai-goshi ("sweeping hip throw")
Tsurikomi-goshi ("lifting-pulling hip throw")
Okuri-ashi-harai ("sideways foot sweep")
Sasae-tsurikomi-ashi ("blocking lifting-pulling foot throw")
Uchi-mata ("inner thigh throw")
Each one is performed right-handed and left-handed.
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* Which impresses everyone, but really isn't [...]
So I got a silver in the kata competition. Video will come later, once I've youtubered it.
Tomorrow, sometime, I'll be doing something very much like this:
at a tournament. (Except I only have to do the first nine throws.) Wish me luck!
This weekend I: saw, and had a brief chat with, William Gibson; did nage-no-kata with the head of the Canadian Grading Board for judo, and also had a brief intro to the first set of ju-no-kata; drew Darth Vader in Crayola crayon; and heard the cutest version of the ABC song I think I'll [...]
Ippon-seoi-nage, or the one-armed shoulder throw.
…tonight at judo, one of the guys said I looked "intimidating". Because of my new haircut.
No idea what he might've meant by that.
Years ago—around 2000, I think—I took a coaching course at the urging of my judo sensei, Silvio. He actually team-taught the course with a member of the Phys Ed faculty at the University. We'll call her Nancy.
The course I took was Level I Theory, which should have been followed by Level I Technical [...]
…it went well.
That's my brown belt. I now hold the rank of ikkyu, which means "first grade". My next belt will be a black one.
I've been doing judo for eight full years—this is my ninth year—and I feel rather proud of myself right now.
So next Wednesday (October 4th), I will be grading for my brown belt in judo. This will put me one step away from my shodan, or black belt.
I'll have to do an abbreviated set of the nage-no-kata (the forms of throwing), as demonstrated below:
(The part that I have to do ends at the four-minute [...]
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