Judo for Everyone: Not Just for the Athletically Inclined
By Sid Kelly
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NOT JUST FOR THE ATHLETICALLY INCLINED
Judo for Everyone addresses the following problems that have always existed in judo:
PROBLEM – Beginners being abruptly placed in the sink or swim pool of standing
randori.
SOLUTION – To have a method that gradually introduces beginners to the
competitive skills needed for standing randori.
PROBLEM – Having only one type of standing randori which has a concrete
boundary of contest at one end and an ill-defined, indistinct, boundary at the other end.
SOLUTION – To have three types of standing randori whose boundaries are well
defined and practical to work within.
PROBLEM – Having only one type of contest that is too difficult and too physically
demanding for many people.
*SOLUTION – To have three different types of contest with varying degrees of
challenge.
*Catering to different levels of skill, interest, fitness and age.
How exciting! It’s so cool to see the finished product, I hope you are happy with it all. Thank you again for allowing me to be a test dummy. We have already started teaching everyone at our school your system and it’s very interesting to see how people’s randori changes because of it. Just the other day, I was doing randori with a Shodan and he went for Ippon Seoi Nage and I floated around without a second thought. It wasn’t until he made a comment about it that I even thought a thing of it.
Parker (One of the yellow belts in the YouTube films)
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Judo for Everyone - Sid Kelly
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CONTENTS
Introduction
Comparing Judo with Other Sports
Analyzing Judo’s Categories
Summary of Analysis
Going Nowhere Randori
Going Somewhere Randori
The Five Steps to Standing Randori
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Testimonials
Kata (Form Practice)
The Kata Chart
Kata (General)
Learning Techniques
Solo Form Exercises.
Informal Form Exercises.
Formal Form Exercises.
The First Two Steps to Randori
Floating Drills — Step 2 Of The 5 Steps
Avoiding Throws
Throwing Avoidances Described
Kadori (Randori Preparation)
Why The Need For Kadori
The Kadori Chart
Kadori (General)
The Advantages Of Kadori Exercises
Sting Drills
The Bull and The Matador
Floating Randori
RANDORI (FREE PRACTICE)
The Randori Chart
Randori (General)
Intangible Randori Skills (Can’t Be Learned By Kata)
Throwing Randori Entities
The Three Types of Randori
1) Floating Randori
2) Regular Randori
3) Contest Randori (Shidori)
Summation of Randori Types
SHIAI (CONTEST)
The Shiai Chart
Shiai (General)
The Three Types Of Contest
Contest For Beginners
Beginner’s Contest Chart
Judo Contests For Beginners
Contest For Recreational Players
Recreational Contest Chart
Judo Contests For Recreational Players
The Ultimate Contest (Athletic Players)
The Ultimate Contest Chart
Judo’s Ultimate Test
Summary
Closing Notes
About The Author
This book is dedicated to
the late Bill Myers (4th Dan) who sadly passed away December 2018. He was one of the first to regularly use the Five Steps to Randori with his beginner’s classes at Cornell University Judo Club, where, as he once quoted, they went from zero to competent and confident randori in three months, not knowing they were doing randori. To them it was just an extension of the drills they were practicing.
INTRODUCTION
It wasn’t that long ago that lots of people smoked in the US. Whole families smoked while the kids watched and waited for their turn to come around. Rich and poor smoked. Friends smoked. Movie stars smoked. Movies were inundated with cool movie stars elegantly holding cigarettes and smoothly inhaling and exhaling smoke. Fast forward to today and now hardly anyone smokes in the US. After people became informed things changed. Women fought for hundreds of years for the right to vote. Men thought women were too emotional and incapable of making logical decisions. Even some women didn’t think women should vote; Florence Nightingale was one. Work that one out? Fast forward to today and no one questions a women’s right to vote. After people became informed things changed.
Many other things were staunchly accepted in their time: slavery, blood-letting, and lack of hygiene in hospitals, to name a few. In each case all these things were accepted by the experts of the day. And in each case trying to change them was tenaciously fought against to maintain the status quo. Then a trickle of understanding turned into a flood, and after the light of reason prevailed, the thing being fought against was accepted.
In the above examples, people at the time thought nothing was wrong with the way things were being done. Could it be that such things are happening and have always happened in judo? Are there things that everyone does, and previous generations have done since the founding of judo that could be improved upon? If judo is such a wonderful thing, why aren’t the phones ringing off the hook? If everything is fine with the way judo is taught why do so many people leave? If everything is fine with the way judo is taught why is the US judo population around 20,000 or so where the US yoga population is around 35,000,000? Is it the subject matter itself, (liking or disliking throwing and being thrown — one example) or is it how the subject matter is presented to the public, (randori without prior preparation — one example) that is the cause of why the judo population is so small?
Regarding the title, ‘Judo for Everyone.’ It literally means this is about everyone who enrolls in judo classes. Those that enroll are hoping to find something that is fun, and challenging, all within their limits, that they are able or