Judo Combat Phases
The Judo | What is Judo | Founder Kano Jigoro | Judo Techniques | Kodokan Judo Techniques | Judo Combat Phases | Judo Ranks and Grading | Judo Rules | Kodokan Judo | Judo Styles Judo assumes that there are two main phases of combat: the standing (tachi-waza) and the ground (ne-waza) phase. Each phase requires its own mostly separate techniques, strategies, randori, conditioning...
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The Judo | What is Judo | Founder Kano Jigoro | Judo Techniques | Kodokan Judo Techniques | Judo Combat Phases | Judo Ranks and Grading | Judo Rules | Kodokan Judo | Judo Styles Kano Jigoro (嘉納 治五郎, 28 October 1860–4 May 1938) was the founder of judo. Judo was the first Japanese martial art to gain widespread international recognition, and the first to become an...
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The Judo | What is Judo | Founder Kano Jigoro | Judo Techniques | Kodokan Judo Techniques | Judo Combat Phases | Judo Ranks and Grading | Judo Rules | Kodokan Judo | Judo Styles Judo rank is generally not of primary importance among jūdōka who participate in tournaments. Modern judo is primarily practised as a sport, so there tends to be more emphasis on tournament records...
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The Judo | What is Judo | Founder Kano Jigoro | Judo Techniques | Kodokan Judo Techniques | Judo Combat Phases | Judo Ranks and Grading | Judo Rules | Kodokan Judo | Judo Styles The object in a judo match is to either throw the opponent to the ground on his back, to pin him to the ground on his back, or to force him to submit using a choke or an armlock. Any of these score ippon...
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The Judo | What is Judo | Founder Kano Jigoro | Judo Techniques | Kodokan Judo Techniques | Judo Combat Phases | Judo Ranks and Grading | Judo Rules | Kodokan Judo | Judo Styles Kano Jigoro’s Kodokan Judo is the most popular and well-known style of judo, but is not the only style. Kano took the name “judo” from Jikishin-ryu Judo, which is an older school but not...
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The Judo | What is Judo | Founder Kano Jigoro | Judo Techniques | Kodokan Judo Techniques | Judo Combat Phases | Judo Ranks and Grading | Judo Rules | Kodokan Judo | Judo Styles While judo includes a variety of rolls, falls, throws, pins, chokes, joint-locks, and methods of percussion, the primary focus is on throwing (投げ技, nage-waza), and groundwork (ne-waza). Throws are...
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The Judo | What is Judo | Founder Kano Jigoro | Judo Techniques | Kodokan Judo Techniques | Judo Combat Phases | Judo Ranks and Grading | Judo Rules | Kodokan Judo | Judo Styles During the early 1880s, there was no clear separation between the jujutsu that Kano was teaching and the jujutsu that his teachers had taught in the past. Indeed, Kano’s Kitō-ryū teacher, Iikubo...
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The Judo | What is Judo | Founder Kano Jigoro | Judo Techniques | Kodokan Judo Techniques | Judo Combat Phases | Judo Ranks and Grading | Judo Rules | Kodokan Judo | Judo Styles Ukemi: Students first learn how to fall, and must master the fall exercises before moving on to the throws lists. Mae Ukemi, forward fall. Ushiro Ukemi, backward fall. Yoko Ukemi, side fall (accompanied...
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The Judo | What is Judo | Founder Kano Jigoro | Judo Techniques | Kodokan Judo Techniques | Judo Combat Phases | Judo Ranks and Grading | Judo Rules | Kodokan Judo | Judo Styles Judo, meaning “gentle way”, is a modern Japanese martial art (gendai budo) and combat sport, that originated in Japan in the late nineteenth century. Its most prominent feature is its...
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The Judo | What is Judo | Founder Kano Jigoro | Judo Techniques | Kodokan Judo Techniques | Judo Combat Phases | Judo Ranks and Grading | Judo Rules | Kodokan Judo | Judo Styles The early history of judo is inseparable from its founder, Japanese polymath and educator Kano Jigoro (嘉納 治五郎 Kano Jigoro, 1860–1938). Kano was born into a well-to-do Japanese family. His...
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