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Cardinal Rules for Dojo Visitors

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Many players like to visit other clubs while on business trips or vacation.  Since every club tends to have different rules, culture and expectations, players can sometimes be caught making an etiquette faux pas.  By doing so, they can damage the reputation of their home club and coach.  A recent etiquette no-no prompted my colleague, Steve Scott, to put together what I’m calling the cardinal rules for dojo visitors.  I  was so impressed with the list that I asked for permission to post them in my blog.  So, here it goes.

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My thoughts on the 2014 IJF Rules

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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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Of Threats, Fear, and Courage to Change

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With the latest scourge coming from the IJF, discussions are heating up, and more and more disgruntled coaches and players are ready to go in different directions.  Some are leaving Judo outright, because they are unable to comprehend that options short of quitting Judo are available.  Some are saying that they are not leaving Judo, but that Judo has left them.  Fair enough.  Thankfully, many more are discovering Freestyle Judo and realizing that FSJ offers a return to the way Judo ought to be played, and that the Judo community doesn’t revolve around the IJF.

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Juji Gatame Encyclopedia

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Steve Scott’s newest book Judo Gatame Encyclopedia is out in bookstores, and it’s a whopper- over 400 pages on one Judo technique!  As the author was working on it, and kept adding to it, he’d jokingly tell me that he had OCD, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.  I’m no doctor, so I don’t whether he does have OCD or whether he’s simply being a detail-oriented, innovative educator.  I’ll bet my money on the latter.

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Experiment!

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A few weeks ago, Steve Scott emailed me wanting to get my opinion on whether the AAU should have a third set of competition rules to attract more grapplers who may not dig our stand-up game and the fact that in Judo it’s one good throw and you lose the match.  After much discussion, we came to the conclusion that Freestyle Judo rules were all that we needed for mainstream competition.  The only thing left to do is tell more people about Freestyle Judo.

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The International Freestyle Judo Alliance

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As a follow up to my last post (Show me the evidence!) I’m happy to announce that I’ve created a Facebook group, which is dedicated to bring together the Judo community that is disenchanted with IJF’s misguided leadership.  The group is called the International Judo Freestyle Alliance.  The idea for this group comes from Steve Scott, the founder of AAU Freestyle Judo rules.  He picked my brain, asked me what I thought, and voila!  A voice of sanity.

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