My thoughts on the 2014 IJF Rules

Just when you think the IJF rules can’t corrupt Judo anymore, in rides Neil Adams with more insanity from the IJF.  Neil has bought into the notion that Judo needs to remain an Olympic sport, and that in order to do that, Judo must be made purely an offensive minded sport with big throws.  Sorry, Neil, that’s a load of crap.  What the IJF is proposing makes a mockery out of what used to be Judo.  At my club, we will continue to have none of this nonsense.

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2010 Tokyo Grand Slam

This year’s Tokyo Grand Slam was held in the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, which is right next to the 1964 Olympic stadium. Half as many countries participated in this event as did in the 2010 World Championships in Tokyo just three months prior. I wonder if it had anything to do with the fact that, as the host nation, Japan could enter four players per division.

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