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Articles about judo (0-50 of 287)
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- Supply Professional Boxing Gloves,martial Arts Equipments, Boxing Shorts,rash Guards,mma Suits
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- Mixed Martial Arts In Folsom, Ca Find The Best Training Center To Help You
By: citymma | - One of the most efficient methods that you can opt for weight loss is to find a gym and start working out. But not all fitness centers around you will be able to help you. When you choose on a gym, you need to be extra cautious about the place you choose as a bad choice will always affect your body. You might be working out hard, but with no results.
If you can find a training center that provides the facility to learn mixed martial arts, this is the best place that you can choose. The re ...
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- The Three Reactions In Judo Technique
By: Jimmy Cox | - In excitation and message transfer, a time gap, like a physical solid, occurs between the stimulus and the contraction of the muscles. This time gap is called reaction time. It can be used to your advantage in your judo technique.
Evaluation of the use of these three reactions in judo:
a. Unconditioned reflex action
Since this reflex action is unrelated to the joint nerve center, it tends to result unconditionally from any given stimulus. In judo or b ...
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- Learn Judo - A Guide For Students
By: Jimmy Cox | - It is clear that your opponent in judo will possess a great deal of power against you if he is able to use his lower extremities to throw you off. It is therefore necessary for you when you learn judo to know how you may immobilize his lower extremities to gain the upper hand. There are a number of ways to do this, and they are outlined in this article.
Let us study the methods of immobilizing the force of your opponent's lower extremities:
First let us imagine your ...
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- Secrets Of Judo Exposed
By: Jimmy Cox | - The true proponent of judo must know a variety of strangles he can use on his opponent. This is one of the best-kept secrets of judo. In this article we will discuss kata-ha-jime (single wing strangle), hadaka-jime (bare-hand strangle) and ryote-jime (two-hand strangle). All these strangles can be very useful againsy your opponent.
1. Kata-ha-jime (single wing strangle)
Kata-ha-jime is a technique used in strangling an opponent from behind. With your left hand, grasp your o ...
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- Principles And Techniques In Judo Training
By: Jimmy Cox | - The student involved in judo training must be on the alert for the unguarded moment: the moment that enables you to attack your opponent successfully. The unguarded moment is set up by two steps: first, by taking advantage of your opponent's long reaction time and, second, by breaking his posture before he can react. Once his posture is broken, he is certain to give you enough time to attack him successfully. In broken posture he cannot change his position and his direction of motion convenientl ...
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- Essential Judo Tips - 5 Exercises To Try
By: Jimmy Cox | - Let us study the method in judo of creating centripetal pressure and of invigorating the waist and abdominal region. This is one of the best judo tips to learn.
a. When standing or sitting, keep your body erect without bending in any direction so as to put the center of gravity just above the center of the base.
b. Project the lower part of the abdomen to the front and the hips toward the back by bending the loins at the junction of the fourth and fifth lumbar vertebrae (ar ...
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- Mastering The Essential Judo Throw
By: Jimmy Cox | - Each judo throw, okuri-ashi-harai (sweeping ankle throw), o-soto-gari (major external reaping) and o-uchi-gari (major inner reaping), is explained in detail in this article. Practise them all so you can use them to great effect against your opponent.
Okuri-ashi-harai (sweeping ankle throw)
Knowledge of the rolling motion of a rowboat will help you understand the nature of okuri-ashi-harai. If you try to upset the boat for fun, you must push its lower side so as to create th ...
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- 4 Crucial Judo Throws You Need To Know
By: Jimmy Cox | - You will need to master certain judo throws to become proficient. Some of these throws outlined in this article are tai-otoshi (body drop), tsurikomi-goshi (lifting hip throw) and harai- goshi(sweeping loin throw).
Tai-otoshi (body drop)
In tai-otoshi you throw your opponent by making use of his own gravity and advancing force. You hold each other in a natural posture. Making use of the force with which your opponent moves forward, you make him lean forward to his right fro ...
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- Learning The 3 Key Judo Throws
By: Jimmy Cox | - Momentum can be classified into two types. One is the force that acts along a curved line; the other is a force that acts along a straight line. The technique that best illustrates the former is uki-goshi (hip throw), while the one that shows the latter to best advantage is uki-otoshi (floating drop). O-goshi (major hip throw) is another of the more important judo throws.
1.Uki-goshi (hip throw)
Let us study uki-goshi first, since it demonstrates most effectively how to pro ...
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- Judo In Practice And In Theory
By: Jimmy Cox | - Shime-waza (strangles) are an important part of judo. The strangles explained in this article are: nami-juji-jime (normal cross strangle), kata-juji-jime (half cross strangle), kata-juji-jime (half cross strangle): a modification and okuri-eri-jime (sliding collar strangle). These strangles are a most important part of judo practice.
1.Nami-juji-jime (normal cross strangle)
As your opponent lies on his back, you straddle his abdomen in front and place both your knees on the ...
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- Judo Strategy - Turning Your Opponent's Strength To Your Advantage
By: Jimmy Cox | - Take advantage of your opponent's long reaction time. This is excellent judo strategy. We must consider how to make the opponent's reaction time longer and make use of it in a practical manner. When your opponent focuses his attention on something, his reaction time to another stimulus becomes longer. We would like to take up here two instances in which you can avail yourself of your opponent's force and his long reaction time.
It often happens that if you attack your opponent con ...
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- Specialized Martial Arts Tips You Need To Know!-00-908
By: Steven Gib | - Are you wondering what the best martial arts tips are? I have broken them down into three simple moves that give you the most impact and cause the maximum amount of pain! These tips will make you a much stronger and better fighter. Or a better prepared citizen!
Martial arts techniques #1 - Attacking the groin. There are many different ways to inflict damage on a male groin. You can punch it, bite it, pull it, smash it, stomp it, kick it. All these different moves will work in caus ...
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- Free Martial Arts Techniques That Work!-00-805
By: Steven Gib | - The biggest thing in winning a real street fight against an attacker is protecting yourself as good as you can. I will share some free martial arts techniques that employ the art of limb destruction.
As you already know in the middle of a fight your end game is to escape with as little injuries as possible. You want to destroy the bad guy if you can't get away and you want to attack as hard as you can.
In this article I will expose a free martial arts technique on h ...
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 India win a gold, six bronze in Asian Junior Judo Championship - Others - More Sports - Sports Shared By: tessa_alfred - NEW DELHI: Indian Judokas rounded off their campaign in the 10th Asian Junior Judo Championship with a gold and six bronze medals in Beirut, Lebanon.
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 Camberley Judo Club » Camberley Judo Heats up Helsinki Shared By: lancew - Sam Lowe and Tomoko Kumamoto led the Camberley charge in a freezing Helsinki at the Finland Open last weekend. Sam at 78kgs won the silver medal...
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 Martial Arts News 11.15.09 « Striking Thoughts Shared By: bpatterson67 - Judo teacher Colin Russell, 42, left 74-year-old Alex Goodwin to take a drink off him.
 International Judo Federation Shared By: planetJudo - 16 Nov 2009 07:03 Twenty four (24) coaches took part to a technical course for coaches (level 1) in the city of Moroni, Comores.
 maigne_cantos ~ I guess from the three..am definitely gonna pick Judo, though I don't wanna take it Shared By: twentitoo - @maigne_cantos ~ I guess from the three..am definitely gonna pick Judo, though I don't wanna take it in the morning. Crummy...why is it to hard to...
 Tonys fight 2 - Nacka Dojo Shared By: nackadojo - Hos oss kan du träna Sport Ju-Jutsu, Brasiliansk Jiu-Jitsu, MMA, Submission Wrestling, Judo, Box&Kick, Yoga och styrketräning. Vi har tillhört RF och...
 REDS HELP LAUNCH PREMIER LEAGUE 4 SPORT Shared By: LFCTV - The Premier League 4 Sport scheme aims to introduce four different Olympic sports to youngsters in the region - volleyball, judo, table tennis and...
- Do Taekwondo Kicks Work In Street Fights? Find Out Here!-00-532
By: Steven Gib | - Years ago when I was younger I achieved a taekwondo blackbelt and learned an arsenal of kicks. However much of what I learned is useless when it comes to a one on one fight on the streets. If you are approached by an attacker I hope to show you that taekwondo kicks are not all cracked up to be what they are.
Taekwondo Kicks Problem #1 - Most of the kicking techniques are designed for tournament point based fighting. When you try doing a jumping spinning head kick and miss in a tou ...
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- 3 Hardcore Martial Arts Moves You Need To Know!-00-522
By: Steven Gib | - So what are some of the best kept secrets in terms of martial arts moves? I will explore and show you some great moves and tips to get the most from your martial arts training and make you an even better, stronger and faster fighter!
Martial arts moves #1 - The groin kick. You can use as many various ways as inflicting damage to the groin as possible, and it is not limited to the kick. You can grab, pull, twist, punch, elbow, stomp, even bite. It's a sensitive area on the male bod ...
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- Who Wants A Politician As Their Personal Trainer?
By: Samantha Gilmartin | - It's a new year and thousands have resolved to lose weight, join a gym and get fit. What can our politicians teach us about diet?
As Nigella Lawson finishes telling us how to have a super-sexy, calorie-crammed Christmas, it's hard to remember that her father made a name for himself by losing weight. Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson piled on the pounds while in office.
He weighed 17 stone when he finally cut out booze, fatty food and dairy products. He ...
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- History Of Judo In The Olympics
By: Tony Hackerott | - Judo is one of the many martial arts forms and is an offshoot of a much older martial art, jujitsu. Jujitsu began in the 1530s, and by the mid-1800s there were over seven hundred different jujitsu systems. In 1882, Dr. Jigoro Kano, then the President of University of Education in Tokyo, Japan, combined the best and most effective techniques from the numerous forms of jujitsu to form the marital art known as judo. Originally, judo was practiced in feudal Japan as a fighting method.
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- Mixed Martial Arts Continues To Grow In Popularity
By: Steve Doss | - There once was a time when boxing ruled the sports landscape. The heavyweight champion was the most feared and famous athlete on the planet. Boxers like Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali, George Foreman and Mike Tyson were household names throughout the world.
However, over the last decade, a sport with history and honor has lost its popularity to upstart sports like Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). The decline of elite fighters in the heavyweight division and the lack of knockouts have led many y ...
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- Benefits Of Martial Arts Training For Kids
By: John Parke | - Admit it. When the going gets tough at home, weve all plopped the kids in front of the television and breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, we can get started on dinner, maybe check email or sort that massive pile of laundry.
But when your five-year old yells at you Mom, Kids Rule! or your ten-year old horrifies you with language that would make a sailor blush, you realize there must be something amiss with what these family programs really teach our kids. And sadly, its happ ...
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- Bjj Vs Boxing
By: John Parke | - Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Boxing are both hugely popular combat sports. However, they differ in their approaches and techniques. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is a martial art that focuses on self defense. It aims at gaining control over a larger and stronger opponent with minimum effort and by using specific techniques. Boxing is a sport that involves movements to attack and defend at the same time.
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu has evolved from Jiu-Jitsu, which is known as the oldest martial art. It ...
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- A Woman"€™s Inner Strength - Judo!
By: Patrik Ewriter | - For Ryoko Tani, formerly Tamura, having her own family beats every gold medal and champion title!
She has been there when judo became an official sport in the Olympics; she was able to compete for most of them. She started in 1992 in Barcelona.
She became an icon not just for judo but for the Japanese women as well. They were relatively small by nature but she proved to all her competitors that a Japanese woman can bring down even Mt, Fuji if she wanted to.
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- How To Get The Most From Martial Arts Training With Meditation!
By: Steve Gib | - It doesn't matter if you practice kyokushin karate or taekwondo, a fact that remains with proper execution of reality based self defense techniques remains in the ability to stay focused and calm while in danger.
Within this article I would like to share how important
it is to meditate to maintain a calm mind for any of lifes encounters whether it be stress at work or for mixed martial arts training!
There is great importance on martial arts fitness & physica ...
Tags: kyokushin karate, self defence, martial arts, karate, taekwondo, kung fu, judo, martial arts techniques, meditation
- Hey 1950 Called... They Want Their Martial Art Back!
By: Matthew McKernan | - Most people know me as President of The Self Defense Company providing practical simple, easy to learn self defense training programs. But I am also a life long grappler both on the collegiate and international level. It seems that grappling has found its way back into the good graces of the martial arts community. Since 1990 the UFC, Brazilian Jujitsu and Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) has found its place to the main stage. Now every wrestler willing to get punched and choke has another means to make ...
Tags: Martial Arts, Self Defense, Martial Arts Training, Self Defense Training, Teach Martial Arts, Teach Self Defense, Judo, karate
- Charlie Nelson And His Little Red Book Of Self Defense
By: Matthew McKernan | - Today it seems like there's a martial arts school on every block and many of them are of dubious quality. Most of the students are children, and they're taught some form of combat sport. Some schools offer self defense training or promise a good workout, but few teach real combat martial arts. There was a time though when people did learn the practical skills they needed to survive a real street fight. Among the few instructors who truly understood combat martial arts and self defense was Charli ...
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- The Four Secret African Martial Arts
By: Madison Greene | - Martial arts in Africa? Yes, Africa, not Asia. It may seem unbelievable to some, but did you know that many African martial arts systems are actually over 50,000 years old? And today the applications are just as used and respected on the continent as they were when they first originated.
The Styles of African Martial Arts
There are four basic styles of martial arts that are practiced in Africa. They are:
* Hapkido
* Judo
* Ju-Jitsu
* Ta ...
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- The Karate Secret No One Wants You To Know
By: Chris Pizzo | - Have you seen the History Channel's new show Human Weapon yet? Its pretty friggen good.
The concept is that these two athletic dudes (one an MMA fighter, the other a former football player and wrestler) travel all over the world to train with, and then test out various cultures' martial arts. And while only two episodes have aired as of this writing, the show already has proven itself to be a very revealing diagnostic tool to those who are able to look beyond the romanticism and i ...
Tags: martial arts, self defense, karate, Tae kwon Do, Judo, Jujutsu, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, BJJ, TKD, street fight
- Sambo Russian For Judo
By: Chris Pizzo | - Sambo is an acronym for SAMozashchita Bez Oruzhiya or Self-defense without weapons martial art developed in the Soviet Union during the early half of the twentieth century.
This martial arts form is practiced as a sport and also as training for combat. Sambo was born out of the need for one standard sport combative for the military rather then the many diverse regional styles. Rather then being invented, Sambo is really a collection of techniques from many different styles making ...
Tags: Sambo, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, BJJ, Judo, karate, Tae kwon do, TKD, street fighting, Russia, self defense,
- The History Of Judo
By: James Dunn | - Unlike many forms of martial arts that have unclear histories and origins, Judo is one of the few forms of martial arts that has a clear founder and creation. Judo was conceived by Kano Jigoro (1860-1938) who was a very affluent and well-heeled Japanese educator and polymath.
Kano Jigoro's grandfather did very well in the sake brewing business, however, Kano Jigoro's father failed to become heir to this wealth as he was not the first born son. Kano Jigoro's father did very wel ...
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- Sport Combat Is Still Sport
By: Chris Pizzo | - Like many people over the Memorial Day weekend I took time out to remember our nation's fallen heroes, but afterwards I went to a friend's house to enjoy a barbecue.
The food was great and except for the whining of a few liberals I had a great time. At one point a friend of a friend came over to pick my brain about martial arts. He wanted to improve his health and get back into shape without injuring his back again.
He wanted to learn a good sport martial art that w ...
Tags: sport combatives, police self defense, self defense, boxing, karate, Tae Kwon Do, Judo, BTK, serial killer
- The Ultimate Fighting Secret
By: Chris Pizzo | - Last month, I sat down with a group of friends to watch the latest pay-per-view Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) event.
The host of the party was a major fan, and he laid out a nice spread for us with plenty of food and cold beer. The fights started and all seemed to be going well until my host started acting as if he knew something about fighting.
Oh, he knew plenty about the UFC athletes, but not much about an actual street fight.
For him, the b ...
Tags: mixed martial arts, BJJ, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Gracie, wrestling, ground fighting, Judo, UFC
- America Frees Women To Fight Back
By: Chris Pizzo | - In the shadow of the war in Iraq, America and her NATO allies continue to wage war against Al-Qaeda and the remaining Taliban in the deserts and mountains of Afghanistan.
As with the war in Iraq, the media fails to mention any progress in the region and reports almost with giddy anticipation the possibility of the Taliban's return to power. One of the more neglected, yet most important stories the media conveniently "forgot" in its crusade to end a war it knows nothing about, is t ...
Tags: martial arts, terrorism, self defense, karate, Judo, women, street fight, domestic violence, rape prevention
- Things Change Or People Die
By: Chris Pizzo | - Sometimes events in history force the creation of new ideas to replace what has becomes obsolete. Weapons, strategy and tactics have always been marked by change on the battlefields of history to deal with new threats.
While obsolete weapons wind up in a museum, and outdated tactics are preserved in text, once a martial art has been deemed no longer useful on the battlefield it still survives as a sport or as a hobby thanks to groups of enthusiasts who keep up the style to prese ...
Tags: Martial Arts, Self defense, Judo, Jujutsu, karate, street fight, police self defense, knife fighting
- Once A Marine Always A Marine
By: Chris Pizzo | - On Friday February 23, 2007, a 70-year-old man exemplified the motto of the Marine Corp League, "Once a Marine, Always a Marine." When three thugs boarded a tourist bus in the Costa Rican city of Limon armed with a gun and knives they must have thought the twelve senior citizens onboard were easy prey. They were dead wrong. And I mean D-E-A-D.
After witnessing a 20 year old terrorist put a gun to a female passenger's head, Allen Clady, a former Marine made his move. The senior cit ...
Tags: Martial arts, Marines, Self defense, MMA, UFC, karate, Judo, Jujutsu, self defense training, street fight,
- Kensei: Sword Saint
By: Chris Pizzo | - I guess every kid, regardless of where they are from, at one time or another bangs a couple of sticks together and pretends he's a swordsman.
Back in my 'hood, I was always Zorro, my buddy Scott was always Robin Hood, and my buddy Larry was always Lancelot. Then Max showed up.
A Japanese boy by way of California, Max came out to play wielding 2 pieces cut from a broomstick. We were amazed. After all, who the heck uses 2 swords? Zorro needs his free hand for his whip ...
Tags: Martial arts, self defense, Miyamoto Musashi, Kensei, samurai, judo, jujutsu, karate, Japan
- Tokui Waza Presentations
By: Chris Pizzo | - In Judo, Tokui Waza means "favorite" or "best" technique. It's the throw that fits naturally to your body type, and you have practiced it thousands of times to make it an instinctual response. Everyone at the club or local tournament knows that you'll use it, but there's nothing they can do to stop it...you're just that damn good at it.
Same thing goes in business. Everyone needs to have a carefully prepared and practiced Tokui Waza. Of course, you are not going to toss your clien ...
Tags: business, martial arts, goals, successful presentations, mental preparation, Judo, strategy
- A Brief On Muay Thai
By: Bamboo | - It is believed that Muay Thai, or Thai Kickboxing, is where most forms of modern kickboxing originate. It primarily utilitzes the hands, elbows, feet, knees and legs to strike, but practicioners can also combine grappling to strike their opponent. Grappling is normally performed while standing, unlike other martial arts such as judo. Techniques derive from the ancient manual of war, the Chupasart.
Though the Chupasart detailed the effective use of weapons such as the battleaxe and ...
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- About Judo Uniforms
By: NeonX | - Since it was created in 1882 by Kano Jigoro of Japan, Judo has become one of the most popular martial arts in the world. It is quite a rigorous and physically demanding sport, appearing in several major international sports competitions. As a result, when partaking in judo training, it is important that a high quality judo uniform, or gi in Japanese, be worn to avoid tearing and damage.
Judo uniforms are generally constructed out of 100% cotton, bleached white. Cotton is the best ...
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- Martial Art Belt Ranks - Where Did They Come From And What Do They Mean?
By: Javier Lozano, Jr. | - Martial Art Belt Ranks
Where did they come from and what do they mean?
There are many theories why present day martial art schools use belts and sashes as a ranking system and where the concept of using belts came from. We will discuss two philosophies, one that is widely accepted by many practitioners and another that can be considered as a legend, or story that was passed down by your grandfather. Please keep in mind that the belt ranking system has only been arou ...
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