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An old timer at my Dojo told me he trained falling on his head because the rules back then made that you avoid an ippon if you were landing on your head first. That gave him lots of health issues to this day because of concussions were not taken seriously in the 70's and 80's. That's wild!
Didn't start training Judo till I was 44 in 2017 because the kids started training. The coach said years ago they would train chokes and strangles to the point where their partner blacked out, wait for them to come round again then swap over... and repeat. 😂
Don't believe everything the old timers say. Unfortunately, the truth is that there are still a great many fallacies passed down as dogma within traditional martial arts. All the best.
Chadi I am impressed bye the variety of exercise variations found in Judo. Thank for producing another brilliant documentary/lecture. I enjoyed it immenselylp
During the pandemic, I took on a bodybuilder approach on my workout and the benefit I saw when I went back to grappling was less knee pain and back, because the nature of bodybuilding. Bodybuilding you don’t ignore body parts
Out of curiosity, why wouldn’t you target functional and explosive exercises such as in Olympic weightlifting or powerlifting? Bodybuilders aren’t as flexible, coordinated, strong, mobile, fast, or explosive as oly lifters and not nearly as strong as power lifters.
@@randybowman Current bodybuilders are inflexible, injury addled, mentally ill, and drug addicted. The older generations ate low carb, tons of animal foods, and did compound movements (which I’m all a fan of)
@@blahizake for my why? It’s simple, I find Olympic weightlifting boring. But later down the line I’ll consider to add some form of it. I did heavy front squats for a couple of months and saw wonders in my grappling performance
@@johnlopez9014 I wonder if it was a particular school of thought or training method that you experienced, because it’s surprising to me that Olympic lifting, one of the most dynamic, explosive, athletic, and multi-varied sports and training methods would be called “boring.” I’ve found bodybuilding or training through isolation movements and purely for hypertrophy to be supremely boring.
@ 3:55 almost looks like Judo's version of shadow boxing! I'm a white belt and just started a few months ago but i find that helps me learn the movements even without a partner or bands.
Another great video. I will say deadlifts and its numerous variants do have a place in most health/performance based exercise programmes, the issue is most people have poor form and use too much weight. This combination leads to so many injuries.
I feel like deadlift injuries are vastly overstated. It's just hard to run into a person who hurt their back deadlifting. Like you pointed out, if you do too much weight with a technique you're not familiar with, it definitely can lead to injury. But often times people tend to have used even that ugly technique for so long that their body has well adapted into it and is not in precarious state.
I've suffered from back and hip issues for decades. Deadlifts were very therapeutic for me and made lifting stuff at work a lot easier. Naturally, since I was already weary of my back I approached it more cautiously and avoided going too heavy, too early.
People say "bodybuilding" but what they mean is "general strength training". The common misconception is they want to look like Ronnie Coleman but its really just using isolation exercises, higher reps, and some kind of bodypart split routine instead of full body workouts with ONLY compound lifts. All lifting just just GPP either way.
Bodybuilding is a show. Teddy RIner and Wim Risks trained also for a better look. Chris Dolman tried to be the strongest by powerlifting. He was Dutch champion in judo, wrestling (both styles) and sambo. Geesink was Dutch champion in Greco-Roman. Risks was also a good wrestler and he trained the overthrow (similar Ura-nage) with a big doll. Dolman was the boss of the Chakuriki/Pancration Gym to Amsterdam. Maybe you should visit this dojo/gym. Did you make a video about pancration? Maybe interesting. Or do they just combat Sambo?
Well thanks for this video, my Uncle was my sensei, or as i called him, UncleSensei, he was a 6'5 Giant who taught some kids some value and gave gave us a chance at something. Made me think if he was doing some of that stuff back in the 70's.. I still want to Honor my Uncle in a few more Judo matches before i die, I'm only 49. My Sensei past last year @ 79..RIP Uncle... Rip Sensei.
Great video! I’ll say deadlift, deadlift, deadlift is also extremely important for everyone regardless of whether they’re a martial artist or anything else. What’s one of the most common injuries all of us are at risk for, especially as we get older? Back injuries from lifting things off the ground. I completely recognize that deadlift itself can be a risk first back injury. But you don’t need to go nuts and try to max out or go heavy all the time. Just doing light-moderate weight, in a controlled manner, with good technique, will strengthen the back and reduce the risk of injury from doing day to day lifting activities
Take a look at any articles by the great Donn Draeger and Jon Bluming concerning weight training in judo before you form any opinions on the benefits.. don't forget many Japanese used their methods to great benefit
It's very odd that martial arts have quite universally the fear of weights and this almost mythical belief in interesting exercises. Not to say that bodyweight exercises and other interesting training methods don't work and you couldn't get far with them, especially if you happen to have some good genetics and especially if you have been gifted with the will to put great effort into it. But also interesting how any sport that becomes an Olympic sport transfers to the same S&C proven stuff for the best bang for the buck. Shohei Ono is a great example of that how his S&C training was almost the perfect example of what an athlete's training for judo might look like. Then again, for someone who struggles to find time to attend all the weekly sessions of judo training and/or isn't particularly interested in doing other training (or doesn't even have time for it), most of the physical training methods are pretty effective. And seems like this video is trying to speak to the more casual judo practicioner, the interview with Rhadi Ferguson I'd describe more as directed to an elite athlete.
Blaming in the 60th? - Maybe his strength training is from yesterday. Chris Dolman is a bit more modern. Risks trained together with the young Hulk Hogan. Dolman was related to Bill Kazmaier. Kazmaier is up to date at least for wrestling, judo etc. - maybe. However maybe you still find something "new" in the Draeger. He was a doctor but he owned and managed night clubs in Tokyo as far as Bluming told the public.
In jiujitsu especially BJJ school. there is basically no warmups. only drills. me as a karate practicioner. i was baffled at how light the warmups is. when karate warmups already makes me like sweat hard and like say to myself, god damn that was a warmup and im already sweating... thats explains a lot, why these BJJ grappler in my school has a really bad cardio.
I understand this is about Judo, but just wanted to recommend you check out traditional Okinawan Goju Ryu conditioning as well. There is a lot of interesting overlap despite how different the origins of the two arts are, and the conditioning is so unconventional, yet fantastic.
This brought up a lot of thoughts, sorry to the person who happens to read it. A lot of nonsensical train of thought. Bodybuilding style training is an interesting term because without further specifying, it can imply just about anything. Like is it using hypertrophy training methods or does it mean training the whole body? Because hypertrophy training can surely be effective for becoming more efficient, being restricted by a weight class and fat doing nothing for your performance over muscle, so body recomposition is definitely useful for competition and in general. And with the proper exercises like high bar back squats, deadlifts and barbell rows, you can easily improve your strength even in hypertrophy training setting, power as well. I also think people slightly overrate grip strength training over grip technique and overall strength. I can't remember from the top of my head people saying things like "the reason why I always struggled to win against this guy was his pure grip strength". Rope climbing seems more like a great conditioning exercise, but perhaps a bit low on stimulus to fatigue ratio. Like you do a lot of effort without exactly being able to specify what traits and muscles you're improving effectively. For people who aren't very experienced in training, it can provide improvements for a good while. On the other hand for someone who is very experienced, it might not do anything for improvement, a bit much for maintaining. Sometimes trainers get a bit head over heels on going overboard in training specificity and ending up with just slightly inefficient workouts due to training the qualities necessary less and mixing sport training and strength/power training, where usually it's recommendable to build strength in sport specific areas with the most efficiency (say pulling, squatting, hinging, pushing type of movements in necessary ranges of motion like squat, row, deadlift, bench) and doing the skill work on tatami, adapting the gained strength to the sport. I find that it tends to help every single judoka just because it allows them to better access the positions and feel strong and in control in those positions. Like it's shocking how many people can't do a comfortable bodyweight deep squat, sometimes not even parallel squat, let alone another person on their back. Or not being able to lift their leg straight as their upperbody tilts forward. And it really hurts their technique, you can see how their body says "nope, we're not going there" in the middle of their technique and no amount of cues and advice will help them to improve the technique until their body gets stronger and more comfortable accessing those positions. After all, the best transfer from strength to producing powerful moves in sport is building the strength at the gym and then doing the desired movements powerfully in the sport itself with the least amount of weight required in the movement to avoid it slowing you down. Like practicing moves on a partner in judo. Very common to have curious workouts in martial arts that aren't olympic sports for example, most of the olympic sports athletes have a really serious system of S&C smart people behind them, like Shohei Ono. Looking at the best on the sport on their training is a bit like looking at top bodybuilders. Copying them will not make you them and can just be negative for you, and they might have a wide variety of contradicting philosophies with each other so you are left none the wiser about the effectiveness. Especially if you don't know the context of why they did what each one of them did. However the beauty of physical adaptations is that if the baseline is zero, anything will improve it for a long time effectively. Even a bit more advanced person if they ramp up the intensity/volume will keep improving if their recovery doesn't hinder them. It comes more of a question of how much effort you want to use per unit of improvement and how far you want to go. For someone it's enough to just get some fitness and be fine with what you get, for someone else the goal is to maximize the results for the effort and time spent. Personally I love tandoku renshu and uchi komi for developing that powerful technique, doing it with conscious effort. Banded uchi komi is also nice just to get that little bit of feedback from the bands to get the motorics feel right or to fix some oddity in the timing/synchronization. Of course for sport specific endurance development nothing beats randori after randori round. It kills a man, but it's hard to get more specific than that about using your cardio and strength, and you get more efficient in it while doing it. Also personally I think that everybody should be lifting at some regularity for life quality, even if they're not doing judo or grappling. But it's a solid reminder that in the beginning judo itself is plenty enough for someone who hasn't been training actively, and plenty of people who start judo don't come from sports or physical activity background, and the older they are when they start, the worse the situation is. It'll take a long time to build up fitness to be able to add anything on top of judo. Judo is so demanding until you develop that fitness required. At that point it makes sense to start introduce lifting and other exercises. I was myself the guy who struggled to join the third session of the week when I started, because I was hurting just sitting down in place at school. Even after I had lifted for a while and returned to judo, it took a while to get used to judo intensity to be able to add the lifting back. Not to mention that many instructors also like to run people down in the warm up with all kinds of mixed up training modalities like trying to implement power, strength, hypertrophy and cardio everything in one, that make a beginner not able to effectively train judo technique for the next 15 minutes or subpar effort for the rest of the 90 minute class, but also don't meaningfully develop any of the desired qualities due to competing attributes that limit each other's stimulus, just get you exhausted. But at least some of them make sure to have the warm up exercises to help you develop the motoric skills necessary like for newaza. On the other hand once you're fit and can tolerate judo and lifting at the same time, it's a nice ego boost to be able to do the warm up with good effort and still recover quickly afterwards. Sometimes it becomes a bit like those 80's fitness tv shows where you had no idea anymore if they're just trying to mess with you and call it exercising, like when it is so far away from being effective or being useful for what you're supposed to be doing in any way, just doing activity for its own sake and exhausting everyone. Personally I prefer training so that it has purpose and reasonable design. For beginner class all around fitness to build up to be able to do judo as they also learn basic things. But preferrably warmup is just warmup in the beginning, a bit of light dynamic mobility things and raising the heartrate. The end of the class after technique is the point where you can physically exert them and the ending is the spot for cardio. For a bit more advanced regulars judo during scheduled judo, physical training on your own time as you see fit, because you're in judo for judo's sake and gym and other stuff you can do in another time window that doesn't take away from judo. I also like to see more experienced people arrive just tad bit early and start warming up by themself for what they feel their body needs to be prepared for training. It shows dedication to the activity and understanding of what's important and what's not. Say in the days when there's no full class and group warmup, I tend to do a bit of speed/sport ladder drills because it gets feet moving with finesse and raises the heart rate and a couple of hip airplane/single leg rdl type bends to get used to uchi mata demands on balance and mobility. Perhaps a couple of morote seoi nages in tandoku renshu to get used to squatting low and keeping controlled upright posture. If I feel my thoracic spine is for some reason stiff, I do some moves for that. Whatever I will be doing, very submaximal and just getting heart rate up and body used to moving and positions. Shintaro Higashi has actually had multiple podcast episodes talking about how in his opinion a ton of judo classes for beginners (maybe for advanced too) are taught mindlessly, and he's gone to think about it and prototype and design a program where the beginners learn something useful that builds up to practical skills instead of running them down of exhaustion and focusing on some isolated nuances like drilling osoto gari. All the yapping aside, always fun to watch old footage. They figured out a lot of things and had interesting ideas. And good food for thought. Also the book seems just great, can't help but love deep diving history books on specific subjects.
Uchi komi and these band resistance trainings, Turkish getups, this takes me back to the entire 1980ies non-Olympic Judo. I loved it, sadly, when I started to work, I stoped with all sports, including martial arts.... I was better of in my teens, aduld life to me is .... well to demanding on the paying bills versus taking great care of my body.
Thank you Chadi. As always we are indebted to you. Serious students, regardless of their chosen art, need to develop both fast twitch and slow twitch muscle fibers. As we age the focus of our training will naturally swing back and forth in the other direction. Keep practice and train for life. Laoshr #60 Ching Yi Kung Fu Association
i think shuai jiao style of belt whipping takedown a really good exercise to replace bands. because bands are expensive and using cable pulls might be impractical
It’s really like a gym bro commenting on martial arts… or maybe a strength sport bro commenting on martial arts. Chadi’s opinion is a bit sophomoric and disjointed. As someone with as much experience lifting and Chadi has in Judo, I can simplify and clarify the message of resistance training in regards to helping someone doing a combat sport. Here’s the clarification of why: 1. If you were facing an opponent who was of precisely equal weight and skill as yourself, would you prevail? If you had a 200 lbs press, 300 lbs bench, 400 squat, and 500 deadlift but your opponent had never lifted, how confident would you be that you’d win a match? 2. Given equal body weight, which is more likely to get injured: an elbow knee or shoulder of a person who is untrained or an elbow knee or shoulder involved in heavy resistance training? The second part, what to do: 1. What is the definition of strength? The ability to apply force against an external resistance. Who is stronger: a person who can pull a barbell row of 225 lbs barbell 5 times, or a person who can row a 25 lbs resistance band 50 times? 2. Which muscles are not involved in a squat? Which muscles are not involved in a deadlift? Which muscles do you not want to become stronger? It’s really simple, and Chadi hit upon it, but didn’t realize: Train these lifts: Back squat Deadlift Overhead press Bench press Row or chin-up
This has been a repeated theme and I think it has to do with figuring out how to narrate old training clips. He had an interview with Rhadi Ferguson, being a phd in training related stuff, who talked about gym training being crucial for an athlete like judoka and Chadi himself trains at the gym to my understanding, so I don't think he is oblivious to training benefits. In fact he did sidenote in this video that for someone striving for athletic success the gym lifts are necessary. What we often times might miss, at least happens to me regularly with his content, is that it's more directed towards a casual judo practicioner. Judo is a heavy sport, many take a long time to build fitness even just for judo. Even after lifting for a while and coming back to judo, it still took me time to be able to add lifting back alongside judo. For a competitive athlete or someone striving to maximise it's a different story. A beginner or someone who just irregularly consistently attends judo outside his busy life schedule just can't do a powerlifting program alongside judo very often. They might not even have time in the week to exercise outside judo. Even though I advocate that everyone should lift for life quality, I think it's fair to say that Chadi has a point in that it's good that beginner classes and some judo classes have general conditioning type of exercises added, even if the competitive classes don't. They're not optimal but they have benefits for people who otherwise can't or can't bother to exercise. It might even be just the language barrier/communication style that his message comes off a bit odd, bro like. In fact my sales pitch for lifting with judo is not even that you gain competitive edge. I think it's just generally good to be able to access positions comfortably that some techniques require, like deep squat with control (with a load on your back), being able to extend your spine with a load on your neck and mobility to lift leg while standing on single leg while the upperbody tilts forward. It just makes things more comfortable and safe, you won't be pulling your back if you can deadlift over your bodyweight. I see so many people whose bodies clearly say "nope, not going there" in the middle of a technique in classes, and who can't even parallel squat, load or not. In general that's already an issue for everyday life quality. I'd add that pullup is almost necessary. The back is somewhat complicated so I'd have all three; some sort of deadlift, barbell or dumbbell row and pullup. Deadlift has all of the back and arm muscles in static hold, while row takes care of the horizontal movement and pullup takes care of the vertical movement. You can of course also adjust your row more to the upper back or lats.
When it comes to strength training, you only need the following compound movements. Push Pull Hinge Squat Lunge Rotation Personally, I train with kettlebells and clubbells 🙂
You can make impression by powerlifting style like Chris Dolman or bodybuilding style like Wim Ruska. Geesink Made all types of gymnastics (including playing football😅).
Excellent video as always! Chadi, i am looking around the internet for along time trying to find grappling exercises using the cable pulley machine ,which in my mind at least could be a valuable tool for wrestlers or grapplers. Unfortunately there is very little use of the cable pulley machine in contrast with the elastic rubber bands which wrestlers especially in the Balkan area and Russia use extensively. Could you please provide any information on that topic,if you have anything in mind? I would be very grateful !
The exercise bands are to provide feedback in technique practice. Potentially allows you to try and maximise your power output in your technique as well, from the strength base you built at the gym. But if you want to use a cable stack, do rowing and vertical pulling and horizontal and vertical pushing just like you'd do common barbell exercises. The force curve is even across the range of motion so it's slightly different from barbell exercises and potentially teaches you to control the movement better because you have to control the arm movement and the cable can go in any direction freely. Do the concentric movements with speed and intention to use force, and control the return of the cable to the stack. Then apply the gained strength in judo technique practice.
Haruki Uemura was a genius. He said that he was neither strong nor fast however more intelligent. He ran the steps downstairs instead of upstairs. So he strengthened other muscles and got a perfect balance and muscle concentration. Yamashita was strong even though they say the opposite. They trained Osotogari (Yamashita's genial special) with 2 opponents and so they found exact resistance in double the usual force. - Convinced? 😉 Benchpress? According to Uemura 120 kg is enough. The most force doesn't come from the arms and the chest but from the lower body ore best from the whole body. It is ths same in the most sports (even weightlifting). - However not only in athletics it is popular, also in judo because it makes the chest looking imprrssive. Teddy, Guram, but also Henk Grol and Roy Meyer from the Netherlands make a good figur through and without the gi. - I don't think that Uemara would have had the idea to spring a salto mortale like Meyer and some wrestlers. However it is interesting that some judoka and maybe wrestlers over 120.kg (Teddy may be an exception, Karelin.anyway because of doping) cannot have even an average condition (endurance) but they are successful (Hitoshi Saito more than his son). - If you are of another opinion say why you mean this. The word "momentum" is not easy to understand because it has normally to do with torsion or rotation. Or do they just mean dynamic force instead of static strength? Dynamics are created in complex ways elastic or by rotation. Uemura will have a simple explanation less scientific.😮
If you are worried about longevity, be really careful with bjj. So many joints gone in that sport. But heavy barbell lifts surely do build resilience against injuries, although they do happen in bjj even to people who squat 300 kg (referring to Sika Strength).
Having trained mostly back in the 1960s, let me point out that the deep knee bends with a man on your back, band training, duck walks, etc. were later paid for with rotator cuff, knee and low back problems. In the short run they are effective, in the long run, destructive.
Would you say the issue was that nobody teaches you proper technique in all those exercises? Because as is, with good technique they should be great in fighting those issues. Not too different from strength training at the gym to build resilience towards injury and wear and tear. Like deep knee bend with a man on your back is almost identical (but less demanding) than heavy high bar back squats, which are probably the most universally useful exercise to prevent knee and back pain and improve judo movement.
just reading motobu choki .. my art karate is mentioned : kano jigoro once visted the daidokan where he & motobu sat eye to eye engaging in a battle of wills goodin wrote kanos student sat behind him & leered at motobu . in responce motobu told kano to have the student get up & attack him . kano declined ,left the dojo with his student & never returned any thoughts ?
I wouldn't say the bands are nonsense,so okay they ain't the be all to end all but they help for the mobility and conditioning training side of things to judo.its good fitness too💪👌👍
Because in Judo the room for improvement is much small than the Bjj which is more complex to learn. So judo need conditioning and repetitions while Bjj require a lot of time spent on technique and sparring.
I don't think this is a fair assessment. Obviously majority if not all of judo's focus is in technique and sparring. Repetitions are number one way to build a skill/technique for human body. You literally can't get good at judo without sparring a lot because that's the sport. Bjj athletes also need S&C but for some reason martial arts or sports that aren't Olympic sports have the weirdest fads and beliefs about training, how improving physical performance wouldn't benefit literally everyone that is doing a physical sport. It's also a mind-boggling statement that room for improvement in judo is small. There's literally canyons of skill gaps even when you watch the best in the world compete. There are athletes that haven't lost in years.
i started my Judo journey in 1978..... stopped in 2006 due to injuries fittest i have ever been in my life . Arthritic fingers and Knees were my downfall ..but great memories ...dabbled in BBJ later on for about 5 years ....but body couldn't cope anymore . Judo will always have a place in my heart
I just turned 65 and I understand arthritic pain. I have four different types of joint disfunction. I suggest trying Tai Chi Ch'uan. (I might stop hard training, but soft styles are for life.) Good luck!
@@stefanschleps8758...let me suggest Absorbine Veterinarian lineament for arthritis and take vitamin B3 niacinamide for arthritis. Lord Jesus bless you.
