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*From: *Jerry Hays <jrhays at cox.net>
*Date: *February 14, 2013 6:40:31 AM PST
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                Upcoming Events - Events listed in bold are new additions
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            THE NEW IJF RULES at the GRAND SLAM; 9/10 FEB 2013
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            February 14 - Nanka Kata Clinic, Cypress, CA. Please see
attached for more info.
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            February 16 - Pacific International Judo Tournament, Richmond,
BC. For more info, please visit http://stevestonjudo.com/.
            February 16 - Arizona State Open Judo Championships, Phoenix,
AZ. Please see attached for more
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            February 17 - West Covina Judo Tournament, LA Puente HS, Puente
CA. Championships - Please visit
http://www.nankajudo.com/Calendar2013.htmlfor more info.
            February 23 - San Fernando Judo Clinic with Sayaka Matsumoto
and Nate Torra.
Championships - *Please see attached. * San
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            February 23-24 - 84th Annual San Fernando Valley Judo Club
Invitational Kohaku, Senior Team Tournament and Judo Clinic.
*Please see attached.* San
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            March 1-3 - 2013 San Antonio Open Judo Championship, San
Antonio, TX. This is a Junior USA Judo Point Tournament. Please see
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            March 3 - Mojica Spring Tournament, Baldwin Park CA. Championships
- Please visit http://www.nankajudo.com/Calendar2013.html for more
info.

            March 15-16 - National Collegiate Judo Association
Championships, Ames, IA. Please see attached for more information.
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            March 16 - CHP Broderick Crawford Club Tournament, Claremont,
CA. Please visit http://goltzjudo.com/CHP%20Club%20Tournament.pdf for more
info.
            March 16 - SoCal Kata Tournament - Please visit
http://www.nankajudo.com/Calendar2013.html for more info.
            March 17 - Taishi Judo Invitational Tournament. Championships -
Please visit http://www.nankajudo.com/Calendar2013.html for more info.
            March 23-24 - USA Judo National Scholastic, Miami, FL. Please
visit
http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Judo/Events/2013/March/23/USA-Judo-National-Scholastics-Championships.aspx
            April 5-7 - Edmonton International Judo Championships,
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. For more info, please visit
http://www.edmontonjudo.com/.
            April 7 - City College of San Francisco Invitational Judo
Tournament, San Francisco. Entry form will be published shortly.
            April 7 - Nanka Novice Judo Tournament - Please visit
http://www.nankajudo.com/Calendar2013.html for more info.
            April 13-14 - USA Judo Senior National Judo Championships
Virginia Beach, VA. Entry packet can now be found at:
http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Judo/Events/2013/April/13/USA-Judo-Senior-National-Championships.aspxFor
on line registration, please visit:
https://webpoint.usjudo.org/wp15/Events2/ViewEvt.wp?EventID=3536
            April 20 - Ryoku 2nd Annual Invitational, Las Vegas CA.
Championships
- Please visit http://www.nankajudo.com/Calendar2013.html for more info.
            May 4-5 - California Judo Inc., State Championships, San
Francisco, CA. The will use satellite registration. Location of the
Satellite registration centers will be published at a later date.
            May 11 - South San Francisco Boys and Girls Club Judo
Tournament. Please see www.ssfboysandgirlsjudo.org   for entry form and
details.
            May 19 - 2013 West Coast Invitational Judo Championships -
Please visit http://www.nankajudo.com/Calendar2013.html for more info.
            May 19 - Nanka Team Trials for 2013 USJA/USJF Jr Nationals -
Please visit http://www.nankajudo.com/Calendar2013.html for more info.
            June 9 - Barstow Judo Tournament, Barstow, CA. Detailed info
will be provided when received.
            June 22 - Sensei Gary Club Tournament, Claremont, CA. Please
visit http://goltzjudo.com/Gary%27s%20Birthday%20Club%20Tournament.pdf for
more info.
            June 28-30 - USA Jr. Olympics, Irving, TX. Please visit
http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Judo.aspx for more info.
            July 5-7 - The Junior Nationals Championships JF/JA Pittsburgh,
PA. More information will be provided, when known.
            July 14 - California State Games, San Diego. Please visit
WWW.Calstategames.org for additional info. Venue will be Town & Country
Hotel & Resort, San Diego, CA
            July 26-28 - Junior US Open Championships, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Please visit http://www.judonationals.com/ for more information.
            August TBD (Sun) - 2013 Nikkei Games Judo Tournament - Please
visit http://www.nankajudo.com/Calendar2013.html for more info.
            August 4-10 - IJF World Cadets Judo Championships, Miami, FL
            September 14 - South San Francisco Boys and Girls Club Judo
Tournament. Please see www.ssfboysandgirlsjudo.org   for entry form and
details.
            September 14 - SoCal Kata Tournament - Please visit
http://www.nankajudo.com/Calendar2013.html for more info.
            September 15 - Nanka Fall Jr & Sr Judo Tournament - Please
visit http://www.nankajudo.com/Calendar2013.html for more info.
            September 29 - West Covina Novice Tournament, West Covina,
CA. Championships
- Please visit http://www.nankajudo.com/Calendar2013.html for more info.
            October 12 - Dr. Z Memorial Club Tournament, Claremont, CA.
Please visit http://goltzjudo.com/Dr.%20Z%20Club%20Tournament.pdf for more
info.
            October 20 - Nanka Open Team Judo Championships - Please visit
http://www.nankajudo.com/Calendar2013.html for more info.
            November 2 - South San Francisco Boys and Girls Club Judo
Tournament. Please see www.ssfboysandgirlsjudo.org   for entry form and
details.
            November 10 - Pacific Southwest Judo Association Veteran's Day
Tournament. More information will be provide at a later date.
            November 17 - Mojica Fall Tournament, Baldwin Park CA.
Championships
- Please visit http://www.nankajudo.com/Calendar2013.html for more info.
            November 24 - USA Judo President Cup, Irving, TX.
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THE NEW IJF RULES at the GRAND SLAM; 9/10 FEB 2013

*Preliminary observations of an impartial judo coach.... *

CAVEAT
Keep in mind that the following are personal opinions and observations and
should not be construed as anything official or representative of any
organization other than the "battered and bruised brotherhood and
sisterhood of the international judoka." Just for background, I arrived in
Paris 10 days prior to the Grand Slam so had the opportunity to observe
training with several international judo teams and to discuss the new rules
with several international coaches. At the championship I was the guest of
the former head of Paris judo for the French Judo Federation and was seated
with a number of former Olympic medalists, World and European champions,
and IJF officials. This offered significant insight into how the new rules
were implemented and received at the Grand Slam.

GRAND SLAM - PARIS 2013

The official draw for the 2013 Grand Slam in Paris had a total of 390
athletes (242 men and 148 women) from 55 countries. It was held under the
supervision of Vladimir Barta, IJF Head Sports Director, and Daniel Lascau,
IJF Sports Director. Over 24,000 spectator tickets were sold for this
event, and the Paris Grand Slam is considered the premier event outside of
the Olympics and World Championships.

NEW RULES
PURPOSE

As an introduction, it is important to understand the motivation behind the
various rule changes over the past 20 years.

   1. The IJF is always striving to make judo more attractive to spectators
   and for television coverage without detracting from good judo. In most
   cases they have been successful.
   2. Judo is not just wrestling with a judogi. It is a unique sport that
   needs to be showcased as a unique sport. The last thing we want is for judo
   to be dropped from the Olympics because it is too much like wrestling, or
   there is insufficient spectator interest or television viewership.
   3. Keep in mind that the spectators play an important role in the
   success of judo, both financially and for growth potential. Using very
   rough round numbers, 300 competitors at $100 entry fee generates $30,000;
   but 10,000 spectators at $30 entry fee generates $300,000; and this does
   not include television rights, sponsorship, advertising, and the positive
   impact on the local hotels and restaurants. So even the judo purists must
   accept the important role of spectators, television and advertising in any
   international sport.
   4. Judo is still working to remove many of the eastern European
   wrestling techniques that crept into judo over 30 years ago - primarily the
   tackles and leg grabs. To maintain our identity as a sport, competition
   judo must look like real stand-up judo with good ippon.

NEW RULES

>From a coach and competitor perspective, the key elements of the new rules
are designed to discourage scrappy defensive grip fighting and encourage
good aggressive, stand-up judo. To this end the new rules could work. The
referees sent a loud and clear message by consistently dispensed shidos, by
the boat load, with the objective of getting the players to fight. Players
were eliminated with four accumulated shido - immaterial of ranking or
experience. Gripping blocking and playing "patty-cake" were two of the most
common shido. The others were being totally defensive, stiff-arming,
bending over and stiff-arming, non-combativity, failure to attack every 30
seconds, false attacks, cross-gripping for too long, etc.

Keep in mind that the new rules apply to all competitors equally, so
everyone was on a level playing field. For weeks before the championship I
was able to watch several international teams training to the new rules and
witnessed very few issues. One evening at the Judo Institute, with over 100
judoka on the mat, doing a several randori each, I saw only 3 instances
where a player went for a leg grab reflexively. And at the Grand Slam I
only witnessed four instances of leg grabs resulting in hansoku-make. Nick
Delpopolo benefitted from one but Hannah Martin paid a heavy price for
hers.
Hannah's leg contact was not even a standing leg grab or counter. I haven't
found the video yet, but what I saw was she went to the leg when both
players had already gone to their knees. It was essentially a transition to
newaza - but apparently did not meet the requirement for an identifiable
pause between tachi-waza and newaza. Had I been the ref I would probably
have given her the benefit of the doubt (but need to study the video more).

The competitors who seemed most affected by the new shido rules were the
ones who appeared to be inexperienced at high level competition; those who
could be seen as 2nd division players in a 1st division event. For simple
survival on the mat these players are often very cautious and defensive,
blocking any attempt by their opponent to get a grip, while making no
effort to prosecute an attack. These players could accumulate four shido in
2.5 minutes and the match was over.

The other players that suffered were those who had been trained and coached
to get a yuko and ride out the time; or when their opponent was awarded a
shido, simply stop attacking effectively. These defensive fighters were
penalized immediately and repeatedly. So the answer is quite simple: get a
grip and attack or risk "shido, shido, shido, hansoku-make!"

As for newaza, the referees seem to be giving more time for a ground attack
to develop, unless the opponent simply goes completely defensive on their
stomach. Where the referees used to allow about 5 seconds for something to
develop on the ground, now they are giving 10-15 seconds resulting some
nice armbars and strangles. The extra time also allowed for turnovers and
osaekomi-waza, but keep in mind that osaekomi has been shortened to 20
seconds so you need to hustle to escape.

REFEREEING

With the support of a team of off-mat referees and video replay (CARE) it
has been deemed that one referee on the mat is sufficient. This seems to be
working. Since the edge of the mat is also "dynamic" there is less need for
corner and line judges. The hantai decision has also been eliminated.
Golden score continues until a point or shido is scored, but there were
fewer Golden Score because invariably there were already shido on the board
at the 5 minute mark.
The referees at the Grand Slam had obviously been briefed on the new rules
and were prepared to enforce them uniformly and unequivocally. It did not
matter if the competitor was a first time rookie on the international stage
or a seasoned elite competitor. If the individual was overly defensive and
not attacking they were penalized without prejudice or favor.

The referees were definitely communicating with the referee on the video
monitor and depending more on the video for clarification. There was no
hesitation down-grading an ippon to wazari, or a wazari to a yuko, if the
table had a better view; and a referee invariably called "mate" and waited
for clarification from the table before issuing a final shido for
hansoku-make.

Overall, I have never seen such consistent refereeing. For the You-tube
spectators back in the U.S., you cannot judge a referee or even the new
rules by watching one or two fights. At the stadium I was able to watch
over 200 fights and had the benefit of immediate replay on the overhead big
screen monitors. The replays from four different angles were invaluable for
the spectators in clarifying the referee's call. Any booing from the
spectators was driven more by national fervor and patriotism than any bad
calls by the referees.

Finally, the referees showed more courage than I have ever seen at an
international event in awarding penalties - even when penalizing favored
French athletes in front of a passionate French crowd of over 15,000.

SPECTATORS

I took the time to track down some spectators who had never seen judo
before and had never attended a championship. Most all of them found the
Grand Slam interesting and engaging. They also quickly came to understand
the shido system and were able to predict when a player was about to get
shido. The refereeing was so consistent that anyone watching could predict
that a player was going to get a shido after 30 seconds of scrappy
defensive fighting, stalling, or trying to run out the clock.   Even top
players were penalized and eliminated in the semi-finals and repechage for
ugly judo.

CONCLUSION

At the end of the day, the principle of judo competition is quite simple
and has never changed: get your grip and throw the other guy. If you don't
get an ippon then get a grip and do it again. The really good players know
this and systematically and aggressively go after their grip and then
attack. They risk one shido in getting to the grip they want, but once they
ahd the grip the attacks were strong. There were some really nice
techniques and ippon during the Grand Slam, right up to Teddy Riner's (FRA)
uchi-mata in the finals of +100 kg. Even Lucie Decosse's defeat was a
spectacular counter. I watched over 200 fights from 9 am to after 6 pm both
days and, to be honest, the competition held my interest. As long as you
see a good ippon every few fights, the overall impression of judo and
stadium experience is good. Whether you agree with the new rules or not,
the overall standard of refereeing was consistent and unambiguous.

Advice to coaches and competitors: train to the new rules and train for
aggressive gripping and attacking judo. While France and Japan dominated
the medal count at the Grand Slam, Mongolia, Uzbekistan and Georgia were
all taking medals and doing some nice judo. Russia's "A team" is still in
the USA at Pedro's training center, but after watching the way Ezio Gamba
has been coaching them, it is evident that they are moving away from
sambo-style judo and into some really nice fast moving judo. But we shall
see at the Worlds in Rio later this year....

Good luck to Hannah and Team USA on the rest of their European tour.

Mark Lonsdale
Judo Training Development

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