Winning

Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.”

Vince Lombardi

Pic of the week

Pic of the week - Huge Seoi

A huge Ipppn Seoi nage performed at the Paris Grand Slam earlier this year, thanks to topjudo.com for the photo.

Pic of the Week - Sumi Gaeshi

Slovenian Rok Draksic throwing with a nice Sumi Gaeshi in the Dusseldorf Grand Prix

Pic of the Week - Rear naked Choke

This weeks Pic of the week is a young judo player from victoria, Jake Bensted. This picture is Jake applying a rear naked choke (hadaka Jime) in this years national titles. It is not very often you see a rear naked choke in judo due to the fact that judo players a usually good at defending their necks as well as the case of the thick lapel getting in the way.

The Judoka

"The judoka does not perfect himself to fight, he fights to perfect himself."

Brazil Highlight reel

Here is a highlight reel i made of the Rio Grand Slam and Sau paulo world cup. I just filmed that are real throwers
Enjoy

"Spirit"

"The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit."
Ken Doherty

Pic of the Week - Drop seoi nage

Cartwheels..

This is why we do cartwheels at training. It so we can cartwheel and 'spin' our way out of techniques

Sankaku Gatame?

Here is a sick photo of Travis Stevens whacking on a sweet armbar in Paris this year.
I think it is a Sankaku Gatame?

Pic of the week - Kosoto Gari

Zantaraya throwing choi for ippon with a kosoto gari in the 60kg final.

awesome highlight reel of dusseldorf world cup
http://www.blip.tv/file/3411803?filename=Tatami-2001IJFDusseldorfJudoHighlights222.mp4

Ippon of the Week- Armlock

Pic of the week - upside down

Pic of the Week - Flexibility

The flexibility of judo players.

Thanks to topjudo.com for the photos they are incredible.

Huge Uchimata - Great photo

This is a great uchimata that was one of the ijf's ippon of the day. It was an awesome setup and very powerful entry. You can see in the 2nd photo how both girls are in the air at the same time. that shows huge commitment from the thrower and tremendous power.

Pic of the week- Pickups

This weeks pic of the week is a marvellous shot of Dex elmont smashing his opponent with a huge pickup at last months Paris Grand Slam. Thanks once again to topjudo.com


You can alos buy many of these photos just check out his catalogue at http://www.topjudo.com/Catalog06PDF.PDF

"Attack with power...

not strength."


Thanks to TopJudo for awesome photos

Pics of the week

Judo is a very very hard sport to photograph because its so explosive and fast that sometimes you just miss what happened. But its also hard because a 'good' photo in the photography world is when you get both peoples faces in it. But because in judo you are facing each other its alot harder to get that sort of shot.

Or sometimes a referee is in the way or even when you take an action shot its so fast that it ends up blurry.

Awesome Pic of the week