DustyMars
4th October 2008, 16:39
I moved this to a more appropriate location: Judo.
“Mr. Beish you added man handled, I did not, what I said was. He through me over and over again until I was dizzy. It was not a shia we where in randori and I had just failed to throw him and he was teaching me Ashi Harai because my Kuzushi was to weak. I assure you the attitudes where correct.
He was the Sensei on the matt that day.
My point was that Sensei McCarthy had just ipponed Scott over and over with clean technique and with the proper attitude.”
My point being that as flawed as my old memory is now what you stated sounded strange. I didn’t mean to be mean, or whatever. My days in Judo remind me of how cautious our higher friends would take care of us younger guys; and throwing us all over the place was frowned on by the higher ups..
During my visit there in 2002 the curator of the Kodokan museum, , Murata sensei, and I sat and talked for some time about our days in the early 1960’s. He remembered many times when we GI gaigin would be there for some event or special Judo type instruction with Kotani sensei, Murata occasionally helped out. He showed me a photo of him taken then and I recognized him as one of our Judoka partners (friends) in some smaller dojo in the Kodokan. His cauliflower ears showed he had done his share of shiai. We also talked about the changing Judo and our mutual disapproval with it.
In those days we would work with Judoka, young or older, and never paid any attention to who they were or their rank, or whatnot, we all wore the same colored obi and paid respect to each other as though the other was Kano himself. For some higher ranking Judoka to bully or rattle someone’s brains, or over work in randori was unheard of. The only brain rattling there or any other dojo in Japan or Okinawa was done during training for shiai, period! The fundamental aspect of Judo training is mutual respect, and other stuff.
“Mr. Beish you added man handled, I did not, what I said was. He through me over and over again until I was dizzy. It was not a shia we where in randori and I had just failed to throw him and he was teaching me Ashi Harai because my Kuzushi was to weak. I assure you the attitudes where correct.
He was the Sensei on the matt that day.
My point was that Sensei McCarthy had just ipponed Scott over and over with clean technique and with the proper attitude.”
My point being that as flawed as my old memory is now what you stated sounded strange. I didn’t mean to be mean, or whatever. My days in Judo remind me of how cautious our higher friends would take care of us younger guys; and throwing us all over the place was frowned on by the higher ups..
During my visit there in 2002 the curator of the Kodokan museum, , Murata sensei, and I sat and talked for some time about our days in the early 1960’s. He remembered many times when we GI gaigin would be there for some event or special Judo type instruction with Kotani sensei, Murata occasionally helped out. He showed me a photo of him taken then and I recognized him as one of our Judoka partners (friends) in some smaller dojo in the Kodokan. His cauliflower ears showed he had done his share of shiai. We also talked about the changing Judo and our mutual disapproval with it.
In those days we would work with Judoka, young or older, and never paid any attention to who they were or their rank, or whatnot, we all wore the same colored obi and paid respect to each other as though the other was Kano himself. For some higher ranking Judoka to bully or rattle someone’s brains, or over work in randori was unheard of. The only brain rattling there or any other dojo in Japan or Okinawa was done during training for shiai, period! The fundamental aspect of Judo training is mutual respect, and other stuff.