I interviewed Austin Cook to see if he thinks you can learn judo without static drilling or uchikomi!
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Austin Cook, is a black belt judoka (https://www.instagram.com/badboymedicine) who has some nontraditional viewpoints on learning judo. This comes at the tail end of my search to see if it’s possible to learn jiu jitsu without drilling, using what’s been called the “ecological approach” (technically, the constraints-led approach under the umbrella of ecological dynamics).
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00:00 Intro
02:03 Do techniques exist?
04:57 How important is uchikomi?
07:22 What should we do instead?
10:47 Where to start with beginners?
16:40 How to choose throws?
18:59 How specific do we need to be with throws?
24:10 Closing thoughts
24:41 Tradition
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22 Comments
This guys does not know what he is talking about is he a world champion? NO! You have to master the technique then you can do it any way you want. Why are you giving this guy time?
Judo bros seething. 😂
CLA-focused content is guaranteed engagement 🤣
Sounds like the “ecological approach” is a science paper published for sake of publication. Judo is far too nuanced to allow for meaningful improvement by competing only.
Next time, please interview someone that actually knows and studied Judo as opposed to someone who got an idea of the movements who can apply them with some success in competition. A good person to talk to in your part of the world would be Shintaro Higashi.
4:38 I don’t there’s anything wrong with the names since the names are based on the principles of the throw. O guruma and Harai Goshi look similar but feel VERY different. And if you tried to teach someone Harai but directed them to O guruma they’d probably never get it because the throwing concepts are that much different.
These things don’t matter to a competitor of course but to an educator like Kano it makes sense why Judo is classified in a very certain way.
Uchicomis can be beneficial depending on the person, i think it is important in order to understand the principles of the throw but eventually it can actually be a bad thing, i think it all depends on the individual. It's kinda like song writing, you need to learn a language and grammar until it becomes an obstacle.
This is some nonsense.🙄
It is a difficult balance:
Preserve the body, but learn what combat intensity is about.
Loaded with nuance.
There’s still time to delete this video
Judo is not bjj…the timing required and precise footwork and body awareness is built through the drilling .
He is speaking as a guy who probly as a kid did tens of thousands of uchi Komis . Your average middle aged dad trying this brain training is going to get mauled. I think it’s similar to band training. Not a good way for beginners to actually practice because you don’t get good feedback on form or the feel from your partner. If you’re more advanced band training can help though more.
Imagine some 21 year old trying the scissor takedown cuz he saw it off YouTube and drilled it in his head…oh wait that basically happens already.
As the dirtiest judo player alive, a.k.a. real judo this guy in the interview is a man after my own heart. I hate the gross memorization of moves. Hence the reason why I never got my black belt But would repeatedly whoop black belts.
Interesting how many ass backwards Judoka found this video on a BJJ channel. The thing i find most amusing about Judo is how bad the average judoka is at it. No wonder eco dynamics fly straight over their heads. To know why uchi komi sucks, just look at the state of the median judoka who has been using it for 10 years.
Idk, I've been in BJJ for a couple years and pretty much stagnated for a long time until my gf (who also trains) and I got mats at home and started drilling over and over, increasing resistance over time. I started tapping people that always beat me and became better able to flow from one thing to another in a roll. My issue of just learning to do it live is that unless you get ample opportunity to roll with people at a lower level, that don't just muscle everything, you don't get opportunities to try something enough to get it because it just gets stopped. Yeah you get the occasional higher belt that lets you work it out but you can't always rely on that since they also want to train.
The part the dr is missing is the fact that when you learn a judo throw you do not learn the throw, you learn the principle of it. The only difference between ashi guruma and Harai gosh I is the principle: more leg action or more hip action. Like wise a seoi Nage can become ouchi gari so quickly I’d say that there is no difference in technique, just using different principles
In judo there is the concept of ”your judo”. Means you adapt judo to your body and mindset. You have to do this once you have learned the basics. Think of it more like engineering. There is no one bridge that fits everywhere, but there will also be no bridge without studying first.
Uchi-Komi is good to learn the basic movements and throws, but it will not make you a competitor.
The issue with a lot of uchi komi is that it is overly rigid. With my students, I focus on the students getting the right feel for the kuzushi. For example, morote seoi nage, I tell them that the uchi komi has to include picking up uke off his/her feet. If the lift is awkward or requires a lot of back and arm strength it is a sign they need to adjust. If the uke does not feel light on the lift something needs to be fixed. That's where they might need to adjust.
These video is one of the most superficial shit I've ever seen.
Most definately not…repetition of skill refines muscle fibre selection and smoothes out the complete movement by sequencing…so the whole skill can be produced and further refined. These skills are enormously complex all over body movements put into a combat situation with an exceptional variety of body type different opponents…YOU HAVENT DONE MUCH JUDO YOURSELF HAVE YOU ? 😂
good idea for a video and good way of finding someone to interview.
This guy is so smart
ashi-guruma is quite different from harai-goshi and take place on quite different situation. You force harai but ashi-guruma happens with right rythm and and situation. But yes there are too many names. Like tsuri-komi-goshi and harai are almost the same. just whether there is sweeeping leg or not makes very little difference