I may need to order some belts before the next grading.
Basketball practice downstairs is loud enough without the stereo.
It's really nice to hear someone tell you they appreciate all the years you've been volunteering.
It never occurred to me that instructing at judo is volunteering, but of course it is.
Since when is Europe's "The Final Countdown" [...]
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Notes from judo class tonight
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Shiai '09
…or, Pat wears a suit.
We held our annual judo tournament (or shiai, pronounced "shee-eye") on Saturday. We had about 60 competitors show up, in divisions from kids' all the way to seniors (senior being anyone older than 16). There were only nine referees, which meant that if you came to ref, you were [...]
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Kata weekend in Gimli
This past weekend went like this:
Friday: Work, then pack, then go see Moon.
Saturday: Get up at some unholy hour, before the sun even deigns to rise, go pick up my friend and fellow judoka X, and then hit the road for Gimli. The town's named for Odin's shining hall, and it's a [...]
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All of a sudden
Things change in a twinkling sometimes. My judo sensei, who has had cancer for a year and a half — maybe longer, I can't remember what year it began — died this morning at 2 AM.
I saw him on Wednesday, and he looked fine, if a little thin. Now he's gone, and I [...]
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Mats
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.
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Nage-no-kata
…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.
__________
* Which impresses everyone, but really isn't [...]
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My medal
So I got a silver in the kata competition. Video will come later, once I've youtubered it.
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Provincial shiai
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!
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Whirlwind Weekend
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 [...]
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Doesn't that look like fun?
Ippon-seoi-nage, or the one-armed shoulder throw.
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