Last week Daniel Kelly and the Assisting coaches ran a National Talent Identification training camp. Daniel invited a high school team from japan to come down and rumble with the Aussie youngsters. And it was a great camp on all fronts. I was sick most of the first week but managed to attend 3 training sessions and it was good training.
They had a Japanese player from each weight division and i think the stand out guy was the -73kgs Japaneses guy who was a weapon as well as the very crazy cheeky -90kg player.
The best guy by far though was their coach Matso. He was only 36 years old but an absolute weapon.
He absolutely smashed me to pieces, one of the worst beatings of my life. He smashed everyone. He was only around 64kgs but chiseled and so so so strong. He annihilated me to pieces.
I have been bashed pretty bad in my times and the worst ones were Roki from Slovenia last year beat me to pieces. Choi (the guy who won Beijing Olympics) bashed me to pieces everyday for 3 weeks in Korea as well as Hiroka and Kanamaru from Japan (both 2nd in the world.) But this guy Matso was so so good probably one of the best Japanese i have ever fought. It makes you feel a little depressed when there are probably about 20 guys like him in japan. And you have to get through them in order to make the Olympics, but hey competition is different to training and you only need 1 good opportunity to get in there and dump them for ippon.
i have been doing alot of groundwork lately and i thought i was getting a stack better but this Japanese guy once again beat me to a pulp. His guard was so strong and his gi chokes were really strong and his groundwork just flowed so nicely and soooo Japanese style. Butterfly hooks and awesome pins.. no arm locks.
All in all it was a good camp and i think with the Japanese visiting it made a few of the younger ones really doubt whether they really wanted to pursue a career in judo or maybe just do it recreationally.
My PT client Ash go to come along and watch the camp and he was very impressed by everyone not just the Japanese. And he really like seeing Danny the coach bashing up a few of the Japanese heavy weights.
For me that training camp kick started off my really hard training in lead up to Samoa so i am looking forward to that comp. Apparfently Russian, Czech, china Brazil and Luxembourg have all entered players so it should be pretty big. The biggest event in the History of Oceania.
Have a great day
Matt
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