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IJF Judogi rules delayed

International Judo Federation

International judo fédération / fédération internationale de judo - Institut du judo 21 25 avenue de la porte de Châtillon paris XIV cedex 14 01 40 52 16 09 – 01 40 52 16 66 fax 01 40 52 16 60 president@ffjudo.com
Mr. President,
Our federation fit into the process of modernization of its activities and development of its attraction for public and media.
In this framework we first put in place the organization of a network of legible and attractive competitions. Then we wanted to make judo more spectacular without removing its fundamental and educative principles by changing the referring rules. This was successfully realized.
In order to complete this point and enable judoka to realize spectacular techniques, we put in place a norm which permits to grip the judogi more easily, to facilitate in this way the projections and increase the number of “Ippon”.
The norm is validated since May 2010 and the official laboratories verify the conformity of the IJF label judogi.

The President Mr. Marius Vizer, at the origin of this idea, wished to delay the application of the obligation, initially fixed on the 1st January 2011, to wear a judogi complying with the IJF new norms for participating in the official competitions.
This obligation will take effect starting the Individual Senior World Championships of Paris in August 2011.

Until this date, only the judogi conform to the current IJF norms as well as to new norms will be authorized.
We advise you to be equipped as soon as possible with these judogi conform to new norms near the official manufacturers.

This decision gives an additional period to the manufacturers for being conform and to equip the national teams, as the problem linked with the cotton market delayed some manufacturers in the conception of these new judogi.
Only official suppliers’ judogi will be authorized.
Sincerely yours,
Jean-Luc Rouge
IJF DPM Director

The list of the official judogi suppliers:
1. GREEN HILL GMBH
2. ADIDAS Double D
3. MIZUNO
4. FIGHTING FILM
5. HAYAKAWA (KUSAKURA)
6. SFJAM - NORIS

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Drilling

I find that in the BJJ world many people get bored of drilling and want to learn something new. Then they do that new technique 50 times and want to learn something else. But in Judo we do uchikomi and we do 10,000 repetitions of the 1 judo throw and we just keep on doing it forever.
Yes we have slightly different setups but to get very very good at a particular technique you must just keep doing it and doing it and doing it, until it becomes natural and almost second nature.

I found this clip of female World Submission Grappling Champion and she is getting interviwed but the footage is of her drilling basic techniques and positions but that's why she is world champ. Not because she knows alot of stuff but because she drills over and over and over again the same technique until its perfect.

There is a Bruce Lee quote that is something like "i don't fear a man who knows 10 000 kicks, i fear the man who has done 1 kick 10 000 times." - what a great saying and there is a lot of truth in it.


So just keep on Drilling

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