I forgot to take pictures in the fights, but here are some other pictures, my first pictures ever taken in Judo.
I decreased about 2 kilograms here (and unfortunately gained them back on Saturday) so i felt a bit weak this practice, that is what happens when you do not eat enough and come to train.
this coming Saturday there is a
Judocan Contest but i am realy not sure if i participate. may be i will ride there just to take a look because its close to my home where i live.
anyway the weighting generally starts at 08:00 and ends at 09:00 after that all competitors together make a short warming (which includes running in cycles and a personal stretching) then the contest begins.
in order to have good chance i would better weight 73 kg in the morning of the contest, if i weight even 100 grams more i will end up fighting against 81 kilo judokas.
The last contestants will obviously stay there until the end approximately at 3 PM. other competitors will be kicked out much sooner from the tournament.
btw, if you do not like any of these pictures please leave a comment and i will delete it.
have a nice stay
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Max, a friend, his son 18 yo also trains here with us
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my bicycle are ready for a ride to Friday training in Petach -Tikva
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at the end we collect the matresses to 4 large piles
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myself after technical training with no fights at the end on last Thursday (generally there must be fights at the second half of any training, thats what we love and look after each practice)
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the training place is an ordinary school, this is their basketball court
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on Thursday, at the end of the lesson, Max demonstrated one a toss named "ippon soenage" on one of the army "kids" weights about 120 kg named Eli
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me at the middle,Max on the right side of the picture, Barak who recently won his brand new black belt -on the left.my coach proposed me long time ago to go for the brown belt, i am blue for about 5-6 years. even though i can do without contests (because i am veteran) i feel that first i have to earn some points wining at contests. to win a fight against one with the same belt color that you got -gives you half point. to defeat a belt over you (like for me to defeat a brown belt)-will rank you in 1 point. and defeating two belt ranks above you exonerare 1.5 points (for me to defeat a black belt). the belts color has its order in this fashion: you start at white, then yellow, purple, orange, green, blue, brown, black named Dan 1. after black there still ranks from Dan 1 and up. these are more honor and knowledge ranks given for senior instructors
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in this Thursday evening 3 boys have injured, two went home early because of that (i think both were girls) so the coach stopped the trainig to slow us down. this is rare bacause the injuries are much less then 3 at a day, maby 1 in a month. Eli stands in the middle, Max on the left and the kids
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on Friday, as you can see, many more trainees came. here we are loosening the muscles at the end of the fights (called Randori in Japanies): Eran choose five poeple to stand in the matress while others came to them one by one- the strongest stays, the one who fell by Yuko (5 points) or more- goes to the side
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my camera is Olimpus EF-45 only two days old at the time picture was taken, this is my first camera since the age of 15
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