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Posted 26 January 2010 - 08:01 PM
Hanon, on Jan 26 2010, 01:56 PM, said:
Beginning of February I shall have been a dan grade for 40 years................Where the hell did the time go?
Mike
Mike
congratulations!
When you first received your black belt, could you have envisioned your judo journey over the last 40 years? How is today different from what you envisioned?
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Posted 26 January 2010 - 08:24 PM
Congratulations Sensei, do you still have your certificate?
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Posted 26 January 2010 - 08:35 PM
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Posted 26 January 2010 - 08:41 PM
stacey, on Jan 26 2010, 08:01 PM, said:
congratulations!
When you first received your black belt, could you have envisioned your judo journey over the last 40 years? How is today different from what you envisioned?
When you first received your black belt, could you have envisioned your judo journey over the last 40 years? How is today different from what you envisioned?
I was, in my opinion, looking back, graded too early. I was too young and much to light, 63kg, to carry a dan rank in 1970. I got killed and injured for the next 3 to 4 years. Not a happy time for me at all.
I wanted a black belt so bad, it is what drove me. I eat, slept and drank judo. I failed at school becuase my head was in judoland rather than the class. I recall taking one of my dan ranks at exactly the same time I was presenting my Ph.D and I put my graduation for a higher dan in front of my Ph.D. Scary when you see the level of obsession I had with judo.
How is judo different today? In my own dojo it is similar. In general there are tons more competitions and the emphasis has changed from working to improve ones judo for the sake of good technique to winning at a championship regardless of the quality of the technique.
Fighting for grips has become the done thing even though a percentage of that is done now as it is expected and one is no longer taught to apply ones waza from a variety of grips, we used to want to thrwo and the only way to do that is grip and attack. It is what we did, we would not spend 50% of a shiai trying to get a grip.
Head down arse out appears to be a common trend. My sensei would castigate us for that posture.
There are now commercial teachers and coaches of judo. To some judo is a business. Not sure that that is good for the pupils nor the coach. I am pleased to have had a professional life away from judo as this gave me balance. If work was going badly I had judo to keep me going and vice versa. I would never ever teach judo as a business. Different philosophy, different judo education.
Then came koka and yuko. I am not going there.
I have seen judo diminish rather a lot, not only in quality but the numbers of dojo. Some of the cities I used to visit had 100 dojo in them, today maybe 20? Some non at all.
Judo has always been hard work and is not taken to easily. With the opptions of TV games etc today what motive do the young have to find self entertainment it is being pushed at them by the likes of Sony and Nintendo, they are the childrens sensei today in many families.
I think one of the biggest shifts I have seen is in the idea that winning is important not HOW we win. We wanted Ippon. It is still wanted today but too many settle for koka, not now, and yuko, yuk yuk yuk.
Kata was part of the judo lesson and not seen as something appart from it. Atemi waza the same thing.
Sensei where not so friendly as they are today and seldom socialised with pupils. Very much a them and us.
To this day I am very sad to write that the politics in judo have caused more trouble than the black plague. I hated meetings and refuse to attend them today unless there is good reason and NEVER at the expese of keiko, stuff that.
There was an awful lot more of us and courses of 150 dan ranks where common in France.
We used to sleep in visiting dojo all over Europe, it was great.
I can't realy think how my life would have been without judo as I started judo as a small boy so have never known a time without it.
Enough already!
Mike
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Posted 04 February 2010 - 12:43 AM
Hanon Sensei,
Congratulations on a wonderful acheivement, Your Ruby Anniversary as a Dan Grade.
In 20 days I will have been studying Judo for 45 years, maybe one day I'll understand
what it is I am supposed to know about this great art of ours.
Heres to your next 40 years.
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Congratulations on a wonderful acheivement, Your Ruby Anniversary as a Dan Grade.
In 20 days I will have been studying Judo for 45 years, maybe one day I'll understand
what it is I am supposed to know about this great art of ours.
Heres to your next 40 years.
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Posted 04 February 2010 - 04:16 AM
Hanon, on Jan 26 2010, 11:56 AM, said:
Beginning of February I shall have been a dan grade for 40 years................Where the hell did the time go?
Mike
Mike
congrats, Mike. Only 37 years for me, you old man, :-)
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Posted 04 February 2010 - 06:38 AM
Congratulations Mike!!!
I have only 38 years.
I have only 38 years.
If I am doing "win," sloppy and sissy is fine; if I am doing Judo, beautiful is my rule and goal. Judo is far more important and rewarding than "win."
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Posted 04 February 2010 - 10:49 AM
Hanon, on Jan 26 2010, 09:41 PM, said:
I was, in my opinion, looking back, graded too early. I was too young and much to light, 63kg, to carry a dan rank in 1970. I got killed and injured for the next 3 to 4 years. Not a happy time for me at all.
I wanted a black belt so bad, it is what drove me. I eat, slept and drank judo. I failed at school becuase my head was in judoland rather than the class. I recall taking one of my dan ranks at exactly the same time I was presenting my Ph.D and I put my graduation for a higher dan in front of my Ph.D. Scary when you see the level of obsession I had with judo.
How is judo different today? In my own dojo it is similar. In general there are tons more competitions and the emphasis has changed from working to improve ones judo for the sake of good technique to winning at a championship regardless of the quality of the technique.
Fighting for grips has become the done thing even though a percentage of that is done now as it is expected and one is no longer taught to apply ones waza from a variety of grips, we used to want to thrwo and the only way to do that is grip and attack. It is what we did, we would not spend 50% of a shiai trying to get a grip.
Head down arse out appears to be a common trend. My sensei would castigate us for that posture.
There are now commercial teachers and coaches of judo. To some judo is a business. Not sure that that is good for the pupils nor the coach. I am pleased to have had a professional life away from judo as this gave me balance. If work was going badly I had judo to keep me going and vice versa. I would never ever teach judo as a business. Different philosophy, different judo education.
Then came koka and yuko. I am not going there.
I have seen judo diminish rather a lot, not only in quality but the numbers of dojo. Some of the cities I used to visit had 100 dojo in them, today maybe 20? Some non at all.
Judo has always been hard work and is not taken to easily. With the opptions of TV games etc today what motive do the young have to find self entertainment it is being pushed at them by the likes of Sony and Nintendo, they are the childrens sensei today in many families.
I think one of the biggest shifts I have seen is in the idea that winning is important not HOW we win. We wanted Ippon. It is still wanted today but too many settle for koka, not now, and yuko, yuk yuk yuk.
Kata was part of the judo lesson and not seen as something appart from it. Atemi waza the same thing.
Sensei where not so friendly as they are today and seldom socialised with pupils. Very much a them and us.
To this day I am very sad to write that the politics in judo have caused more trouble than the black plague. I hated meetings and refuse to attend them today unless there is good reason and NEVER at the expese of keiko, stuff that.
There was an awful lot more of us and courses of 150 dan ranks where common in France.
We used to sleep in visiting dojo all over Europe, it was great.
I can't realy think how my life would have been without judo as I started judo as a small boy so have never known a time without it.
Enough already!
Mike
I wanted a black belt so bad, it is what drove me. I eat, slept and drank judo. I failed at school becuase my head was in judoland rather than the class. I recall taking one of my dan ranks at exactly the same time I was presenting my Ph.D and I put my graduation for a higher dan in front of my Ph.D. Scary when you see the level of obsession I had with judo.
How is judo different today? In my own dojo it is similar. In general there are tons more competitions and the emphasis has changed from working to improve ones judo for the sake of good technique to winning at a championship regardless of the quality of the technique.
Fighting for grips has become the done thing even though a percentage of that is done now as it is expected and one is no longer taught to apply ones waza from a variety of grips, we used to want to thrwo and the only way to do that is grip and attack. It is what we did, we would not spend 50% of a shiai trying to get a grip.
Head down arse out appears to be a common trend. My sensei would castigate us for that posture.
There are now commercial teachers and coaches of judo. To some judo is a business. Not sure that that is good for the pupils nor the coach. I am pleased to have had a professional life away from judo as this gave me balance. If work was going badly I had judo to keep me going and vice versa. I would never ever teach judo as a business. Different philosophy, different judo education.
Then came koka and yuko. I am not going there.
I have seen judo diminish rather a lot, not only in quality but the numbers of dojo. Some of the cities I used to visit had 100 dojo in them, today maybe 20? Some non at all.
Judo has always been hard work and is not taken to easily. With the opptions of TV games etc today what motive do the young have to find self entertainment it is being pushed at them by the likes of Sony and Nintendo, they are the childrens sensei today in many families.
I think one of the biggest shifts I have seen is in the idea that winning is important not HOW we win. We wanted Ippon. It is still wanted today but too many settle for koka, not now, and yuko, yuk yuk yuk.
Kata was part of the judo lesson and not seen as something appart from it. Atemi waza the same thing.
Sensei where not so friendly as they are today and seldom socialised with pupils. Very much a them and us.
To this day I am very sad to write that the politics in judo have caused more trouble than the black plague. I hated meetings and refuse to attend them today unless there is good reason and NEVER at the expese of keiko, stuff that.
There was an awful lot more of us and courses of 150 dan ranks where common in France.
We used to sleep in visiting dojo all over Europe, it was great.
I can't realy think how my life would have been without judo as I started judo as a small boy so have never known a time without it.
Enough already!
Mike
Hi Mike,
sounds all so familiar :-), congratulations and good luck for the next 40 years.
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Posted 04 February 2010 - 11:39 AM
Hanon, on Jan 26 2010, 03:41 PM, said:
I was, in my opinion, looking back, graded too early. I was too young and much to light, 63kg, to carry a dan rank in 1970. I got killed and injured for the next 3 to 4 years. Not a happy time for me at all.
I wanted a black belt so bad, it is what drove me. I eat, slept and drank judo. I failed at school becuase my head was in judoland rather than the class. I recall taking one of my dan ranks at exactly the same time I was presenting my Ph.D and I put my graduation for a higher dan in front of my Ph.D. Scary when you see the level of obsession I had with judo.
How is judo different today? In my own dojo it is similar. In general there are tons more competitions and the emphasis has changed from working to improve ones judo for the sake of good technique to winning at a championship regardless of the quality of the technique.
Fighting for grips has become the done thing even though a percentage of that is done now as it is expected and one is no longer taught to apply ones waza from a variety of grips, we used to want to thrwo and the only way to do that is grip and attack. It is what we did, we would not spend 50% of a shiai trying to get a grip.
Head down arse out appears to be a common trend. My sensei would castigate us for that posture.
There are now commercial teachers and coaches of judo. To some judo is a business. Not sure that that is good for the pupils nor the coach. I am pleased to have had a professional life away from judo as this gave me balance. If work was going badly I had judo to keep me going and vice versa. I would never ever teach judo as a business. Different philosophy, different judo education.
Then came koka and yuko. I am not going there.
I have seen judo diminish rather a lot, not only in quality but the numbers of dojo. Some of the cities I used to visit had 100 dojo in them, today maybe 20? Some non at all.
Judo has always been hard work and is not taken to easily. With the opptions of TV games etc today what motive do the young have to find self entertainment it is being pushed at them by the likes of Sony and Nintendo, they are the childrens sensei today in many families.
I think one of the biggest shifts I have seen is in the idea that winning is important not HOW we win. We wanted Ippon. It is still wanted today but too many settle for koka, not now, and yuko, yuk yuk yuk.
Kata was part of the judo lesson and not seen as something appart from it. Atemi waza the same thing.
Sensei where not so friendly as they are today and seldom socialised with pupils. Very much a them and us.
To this day I am very sad to write that the politics in judo have caused more trouble than the black plague. I hated meetings and refuse to attend them today unless there is good reason and NEVER at the expese of keiko, stuff that.
There was an awful lot more of us and courses of 150 dan ranks where common in France.
We used to sleep in visiting dojo all over Europe, it was great.
I can't realy think how my life would have been without judo as I started judo as a small boy so have never known a time without it.
Enough already!
Mike
I wanted a black belt so bad, it is what drove me. I eat, slept and drank judo. I failed at school becuase my head was in judoland rather than the class. I recall taking one of my dan ranks at exactly the same time I was presenting my Ph.D and I put my graduation for a higher dan in front of my Ph.D. Scary when you see the level of obsession I had with judo.
How is judo different today? In my own dojo it is similar. In general there are tons more competitions and the emphasis has changed from working to improve ones judo for the sake of good technique to winning at a championship regardless of the quality of the technique.
Fighting for grips has become the done thing even though a percentage of that is done now as it is expected and one is no longer taught to apply ones waza from a variety of grips, we used to want to thrwo and the only way to do that is grip and attack. It is what we did, we would not spend 50% of a shiai trying to get a grip.
Head down arse out appears to be a common trend. My sensei would castigate us for that posture.
There are now commercial teachers and coaches of judo. To some judo is a business. Not sure that that is good for the pupils nor the coach. I am pleased to have had a professional life away from judo as this gave me balance. If work was going badly I had judo to keep me going and vice versa. I would never ever teach judo as a business. Different philosophy, different judo education.
Then came koka and yuko. I am not going there.
I have seen judo diminish rather a lot, not only in quality but the numbers of dojo. Some of the cities I used to visit had 100 dojo in them, today maybe 20? Some non at all.
Judo has always been hard work and is not taken to easily. With the opptions of TV games etc today what motive do the young have to find self entertainment it is being pushed at them by the likes of Sony and Nintendo, they are the childrens sensei today in many families.
I think one of the biggest shifts I have seen is in the idea that winning is important not HOW we win. We wanted Ippon. It is still wanted today but too many settle for koka, not now, and yuko, yuk yuk yuk.
Kata was part of the judo lesson and not seen as something appart from it. Atemi waza the same thing.
Sensei where not so friendly as they are today and seldom socialised with pupils. Very much a them and us.
To this day I am very sad to write that the politics in judo have caused more trouble than the black plague. I hated meetings and refuse to attend them today unless there is good reason and NEVER at the expese of keiko, stuff that.
There was an awful lot more of us and courses of 150 dan ranks where common in France.
We used to sleep in visiting dojo all over Europe, it was great.
I can't realy think how my life would have been without judo as I started judo as a small boy so have never known a time without it.
Enough already!
Mike
Thank you for sharing this. It was a fascinating read!
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Posted 04 February 2010 - 04:22 PM
Hanon, on Jan 26 2010, 08:41 PM, said:
I was, in my opinion, looking back, graded too early. I was too young and much to light, 63kg, to carry a dan rank in 1970. I got killed and injured for the next 3 to 4 years. Not a happy time for me at all.
I wanted a black belt so bad, it is what drove me. I eat, slept and drank judo. I failed at school becuase my head was in judoland rather than the class. I recall taking one of my dan ranks at exactly the same time I was presenting my Ph.D and I put my graduation for a higher dan in front of my Ph.D. Scary when you see the level of obsession I had with judo.
How is judo different today? In my own dojo it is similar. In general there are tons more competitions and the emphasis has changed from working to improve ones judo for the sake of good technique to winning at a championship regardless of the quality of the technique.
Fighting for grips has become the done thing even though a percentage of that is done now as it is expected and one is no longer taught to apply ones waza from a variety of grips, we used to want to thrwo and the only way to do that is grip and attack. It is what we did, we would not spend 50% of a shiai trying to get a grip.
Head down arse out appears to be a common trend. My sensei would castigate us for that posture.
There are now commercial teachers and coaches of judo. To some judo is a business. Not sure that that is good for the pupils nor the coach. I am pleased to have had a professional life away from judo as this gave me balance. If work was going badly I had judo to keep me going and vice versa. I would never ever teach judo as a business. Different philosophy, different judo education.
Then came koka and yuko. I am not going there.
I have seen judo diminish rather a lot, not only in quality but the numbers of dojo. Some of the cities I used to visit had 100 dojo in them, today maybe 20? Some non at all.
Judo has always been hard work and is not taken to easily. With the opptions of TV games etc today what motive do the young have to find self entertainment it is being pushed at them by the likes of Sony and Nintendo, they are the childrens sensei today in many families.
I think one of the biggest shifts I have seen is in the idea that winning is important not HOW we win. We wanted Ippon. It is still wanted today but too many settle for koka, not now, and yuko, yuk yuk yuk.
Kata was part of the judo lesson and not seen as something appart from it. Atemi waza the same thing.
Sensei where not so friendly as they are today and seldom socialised with pupils. Very much a them and us.
To this day I am very sad to write that the politics in judo have caused more trouble than the black plague. I hated meetings and refuse to attend them today unless there is good reason and NEVER at the expese of keiko, stuff that.
There was an awful lot more of us and courses of 150 dan ranks where common in France.
We used to sleep in visiting dojo all over Europe, it was great.
I can't realy think how my life would have been without judo as I started judo as a small boy so have never known a time without it.
Enough already!
Mike
I wanted a black belt so bad, it is what drove me. I eat, slept and drank judo. I failed at school becuase my head was in judoland rather than the class. I recall taking one of my dan ranks at exactly the same time I was presenting my Ph.D and I put my graduation for a higher dan in front of my Ph.D. Scary when you see the level of obsession I had with judo.
How is judo different today? In my own dojo it is similar. In general there are tons more competitions and the emphasis has changed from working to improve ones judo for the sake of good technique to winning at a championship regardless of the quality of the technique.
Fighting for grips has become the done thing even though a percentage of that is done now as it is expected and one is no longer taught to apply ones waza from a variety of grips, we used to want to thrwo and the only way to do that is grip and attack. It is what we did, we would not spend 50% of a shiai trying to get a grip.
Head down arse out appears to be a common trend. My sensei would castigate us for that posture.
There are now commercial teachers and coaches of judo. To some judo is a business. Not sure that that is good for the pupils nor the coach. I am pleased to have had a professional life away from judo as this gave me balance. If work was going badly I had judo to keep me going and vice versa. I would never ever teach judo as a business. Different philosophy, different judo education.
Then came koka and yuko. I am not going there.
I have seen judo diminish rather a lot, not only in quality but the numbers of dojo. Some of the cities I used to visit had 100 dojo in them, today maybe 20? Some non at all.
Judo has always been hard work and is not taken to easily. With the opptions of TV games etc today what motive do the young have to find self entertainment it is being pushed at them by the likes of Sony and Nintendo, they are the childrens sensei today in many families.
I think one of the biggest shifts I have seen is in the idea that winning is important not HOW we win. We wanted Ippon. It is still wanted today but too many settle for koka, not now, and yuko, yuk yuk yuk.
Kata was part of the judo lesson and not seen as something appart from it. Atemi waza the same thing.
Sensei where not so friendly as they are today and seldom socialised with pupils. Very much a them and us.
To this day I am very sad to write that the politics in judo have caused more trouble than the black plague. I hated meetings and refuse to attend them today unless there is good reason and NEVER at the expese of keiko, stuff that.
There was an awful lot more of us and courses of 150 dan ranks where common in France.
We used to sleep in visiting dojo all over Europe, it was great.
I can't realy think how my life would have been without judo as I started judo as a small boy so have never known a time without it.
Enough already!
Mike
Congratulations Sensei - A remarkable achievement!!!
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