Day after competition

Last night Cooky and i stayed up til bout midnight eating heaps of chocolate and lollies while watching a movie called Street Kings (about crooked cops.)
This morning we slept through the alarm but just managed to get on the bus to watch the opening fights today of the mens -73kg and women -52 and -57kgs.

Our teammate Dennis had his first ffight against an italian (who in the past have had awesome 73s) and Dennis was doing fantastic with footsweeps off thr grip that was really unsettling his opponent but the Italian just got underneath for 2 kata gurumas for 2 waza aris to win the fight.
Our other player today was Emily who had the Russian first off and Emily unlucky enough got armlocked but that Russian went on quite far through the compeition.

I was talking to Cooky yesterday about how once you finish fighting you just want to go home. We came to the worlds to fight and now that we have fought we just want to go on home, but we still have another 6 days left here in Rotterdam. But its not everyday you get to see Judo at the highest level in the world so we are still keen to go off everyday and help warm up and support our others aussies as they hopefully biff their way through the rounds.

I filmed some fights today and managed to capture a few throws on my camera. i have uploaded them to youtube so you can have a quick squiz, they dont go for very long.
The first one is the longest clip but has as a great pickup at the end. You can really see the inteseity these guys are fighting at and the adjustment the thrower has to use in order to place his opponenet on his back.. he pretty much does a cartwheel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_zsYyQ4w5A
The next is a really nice tome nage that Atilla Ungvari got abour 15 seconds to go in the match.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zR1ZY2-uEg

And with this last clip whenever you see an african vs a big country you know its gonna be a nice throw at the end. Thats why i filmed this next one. The guy from Senegal is gonna have a sore face i reckon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PYKnCzNw8Y

Thats it from me i havent really been doing too much really just watching Judo and trying to learn as much as i can regarding tactics, positioning and even the athletes 'presence' on the mat. The confident guy that is undoing his belt (even though its against the rules) and not getting penalised because he looks like he knows what hes doing. all these little things tthat when all rolled up together can get you quite far through a compeition before you even throw someone.

For example there are these fighters from hungary who dont havemany big attacks in the form of throws but they have fantastic grip fighting and unbelieveeable fitness. They engage mostly on the ground and waste 3 out of 5 minutes on the ground and the other 2 with grip fighting and they win off the small scores, but they are cool, calm and collected and back themselves in what they are doing. They dont stress, thehy just do Judo to win.

so anyway thats my little rant for the day i guess. Now me and cooky are going to watch another good movie eat some more choclate and maybe go to the servo and get an ice cream and then tomorrow warm up kylie,

Have an awesome day
Matt