The Importance of Uchikomi Drills In Judo

 https://youtu.be/wrx2X3-cQU4 

Outstanding Judo Lesson: Understanding Uchikomi.

In old school 1800s Judo they focused more upon drilling Kata and Uchikomi then did Randori which is why we see black & white films of lots of older guys training Judo in the older days but today it's mostly younger guys because the focus has shifted to competition so many dojos/clubs have become injury factories and we're told injury today is just part of the 'sport' when in the pre-war kodokan judo there couldn't have been a culture of injuries, it wasn't as overly competitive, because there never would have been so many middle aged judoka and senior citizen judoka as we see in old black & white early films. 

Uchikomi drills are key to mastering Kuzushi. One need not follow through with the throws and wreck the body to develop good throwing ability if one simply drills Uchikomi repetitively with intent to perfect posture breaking and destabilization. Just stop right before the actually throw. Of course this doesn't apply to many ashiwaza which require follow through. It applies to the more devestating turning throws across the body. 

Today, especially in the west, we're overly competitive, sado-masochistic and just want to fight so we've evolved into an injury factory mentality. It's sickness. 

In my opinion, Olympic competitive judo spawned this injury factory mentality because rather than training conservatively for the longivity & love of the arts of both Judo & Jiujitsu we became obcessed with winning. Every judo coach wants to create competitive champions & Olympic champions, at all costs, and to break a few eggs to make an omelate has become acceptable. So the obcession with competition has contributed to the dark side of the art and a long history of depressed, broken, athletes forced into early retirement. 

The stoics warn us to not let passion over ride logic. Logic is reason without emotion. Competition becomes ego and emotion driven thus illogical. 

We should ask ourselves, in our pursuit of glory, which is more glorious:

 longevity to train into our golden years 

or a brief competitive career followed by forced retirement, due to accumulation of injuries? 

Most of us busted up old guys wish we had trained for longevity now that life changing injuries have forced us into retirement from pursuing our passions. 

♣AnDrew Soldier♣

Is The Civilian AR-15 Carbine Rifle An "Assault Rifle"?

 

What are your thoughts on this federal judge overturning California's ban on assault weapons, comparing them to a Swiss army knife saying that they're the 'perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment'?

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/05/us/california-gun-ban-overturned/index.html

An Drew, 39yrs Combat Arts, Boxer, 11Hotel10, PrisonSurvivor, Author.R

The civilian A.R. 15 is a semi-auto, carbine, rifle protected under the 2nd Amendment. The 2nd Amendment isn't about hunting or sport shooting but about citizens being armed against government tyranny, foreign or domestic, and the right to defend themselves from foreign and domestic tyranny. Because governments have been known to order police to stand down while violent mobs of marxist revolutionaries burn, loot and murder their way across an entire country, leaving law abiding citizens without police protection and on their own.

Military M16-A1 weapons, unlike civilian AR15 carbine rifles, have a selector switch that rotates from safe, semi-auto fire and fully automatic fire.

Military M16-A2 weapon, unlike the civilian AR15 Carbine Rifle, has a selector switch that rotates from safe, semiauto fire and finally to three round burst. This three round burst capability, just like fully automatic capabilities, is what designates our Infantry weapons as “military grade” weapons.

As an Airborne-Airassault Light Infantry veteran, we refer to ALL firearms as weapons but we never refer to anything as an 'assault-weapon'.

We do however distinguish between Military grade weapons and Civilian grade weapons.

A double barrel shotgun, a Remington 700 bolt action rifle and an A.R. 15 Semi-Automatic Carbine Rifle are CIVILIAN weapons.

An M16-A2 or an M4 Carbine are MILITARY weapons because, unlike the civilian AR-15 Carbine, the M16-A1 and M4 Carbine military weapons have the fully auto and three round burst selector switch assault capabilities (respectively) for laying down supressive fire in combat.

NO CIVILIAN WEAPON HAS A MILITARY FULLY AUTO NOR THREE ROUND BURST CAPABILITY AND THIS IS THE IMPORTANT DISTINCTION BETWEEN A MILITARY GRADE WEAPON & A CIVILIAN GRADE WEAPON.

Now you may encounter veterans whom were POGs that can not make this distinction and they'll troll you with Marxist rhetoric while claiming their veteran status lends them authority on the subject of weapons (firearms) despite only approximately ten percent of the Army and Marines serve as active duty Infantrymen. The rest serve as support (POG) roles within the U.S. Army and USMC.

As an Infantry veteran, I teach my nephews that their air rifle, also known as a ‘b.b. gun’ , is a “weapon” but in no way does this insinuate that I'm somehow calling a 177 cal. Air Rifle a Weapon as an abbreviation for Assault-Weapon.

As an Infantrymen, a fowlers shotgun is a weapon. An elk hunter’s rifle is a weapon. A deer hunter's bow is a weapon. The civilian AR-15 Carbine Rifle is a weapon. A breach man's shotgun is a weapon. We have short, pistol grip, shotguns that an individual on a light Infantry breach team will carry for blowing apart locks or hinges on a door to gain access into a building during a military assault, but we don't refer to shotguns as Assault-shotguns.

Nowhere in the military do we use the term ASSAULT weapon. Noone whose ever used military grade weapons as part of their military profession in an Infantry, Light Infantry or Special Operations MOS would ever confuse a CIVILIAN Carbine Rifle with a MILITARY carbine rifle because we're fully aware of the major differences in the two. One having either fully automatic or three-round-burst supressive fire capabilities for military warfare and the other only possesses a civilian Semi-auto fire capability. Three round burst meaning each time you depress the trigger, three rounds fire in a quick automatic burst. Fully automatic meaning that each time you depress the trigger the weapon fires continuously til you release the trigger. And semi-auto meaning that each time you depress the trigger only one round fires until you depress the trigger again.

There's no such thing as a Civilian Assault Rifle and the AR-15 Carbine Rifle is a CIVILIAN GRADE CARBINE RIFLE. IT'S NOT A MILITARY GRADE CARBINE RIFLE. Nor is it designed with assault features.

Is It Possible To Knock Someone Out With A Karate/Jujutsu Chop To The Neck Or A Punch To The Body?

 The target is the "Carotid Sinus" where there are "barorecepters" that regulate blood pressure!  

It's not shocking the vegus nerve, it doesn't cut off blood flow to the brain, it's not a brachial stun and it's not mystical either. . .

the barorecepters within the carotid sinus are tricked by the trauma into believing the sudden influx of pressure upon the area is due to increased blood pressure so the baroreceptors response is to send signal to quickly lower blood pressure.

Since it was tricked and B.P. wasn't high the sudden drop in B.P. results in unconsciousness.

What these practitioners also don't medically understand is that this can be fatal in someone w/a pre-existing or undiagnosed heart condition! So demonstrating or practicing on students is irresponsible ego masturbation. Many pseudo-experts teach dangerous unarmed combat attacks, overconfidently, incorrectly, believing they understand what they're doing but lacking the advanced medical education to correctly understand what's actually taking place.

WWII SOE female agent Nancy Wake killed a Nazi by striking him here w/a backhanded edge of palm chop. It was the ONLY unarmed combat kill of the war CONFIRMED by the War Department. Pseudo-masters risk prison by curiously, selfishly, experimenting on some trusting victim. Low blood pressure can be fatal, if the recipient has a pre-existing weakness or is over 40 yrs old.

Also dislodging arterial plaque in the carotid artery by striking or strangling the neck can lead to a stroke.

By punching the “stomach”? No there's no medical possibility of driving a fist into the stomach bag to create knockout however into the abdomen or front of the torso, which may be your meaning, it's possible to knock a man out (not all knockouts result in unconsciousness. See: TKO, technical knockout) by knuckle punching the liver or the solar-plexus which was refered to as “the mark” by old time boxers and pugilists. This is where the English term derives from in saying, “Hit the mark” or “missed the mark”. The mark was the primary target for knockout in historical bareknuckle pugilism and later bareknuckle fisticuffs boxing. Bareknuckle Pancrase fighter Bas Rutten made a career knocking out opponents with bareknuckle punches to the liver and solar plexus. Many old time boxers did before the invention of television. With enough power and accuracy a punch to the spleen can also result in a T.K.O. or K.O. but per chance may also result in death just as a liver punch can if the recipient has an underlying medical issue. The escape artist Harry Houdini died from a punch to his abdomen when his appendex burst. There's also a chance of death when you use violence of any kind on a human being. Criminal courts will hold you responsible for causing any accidental death, sometimes even if you acted in self defense, and in prison you'll get to advance your gladitorial education….if you survive. To destroy is easy but to create is power.

Sincerely,

Drew

Studied both alopathic medicine & naturopathic medicine. 12 years studied & practiced criminal law. 39 years actively trained and taught combat arts. U.S. Army veteran: 5th Plt. Dco 3–327th Inf. Reg. 1st BDE, 101st Division, Ft Campbell KY. 42223. Formerly employed as a civilian bodyguard. Penitentiary Survivor. ESL teacher. Published book author. Consultant. Advisor. Member of Operation Underground Railroad.

"Pride made angels become demons and humility can make men become angels.

AnDrew 

What Are The Benefits of Learning Judo vs. Boxing?

 

What are the benefits of learning judo versus boxing?

An Drew, 39yrs Combat Arts, Boxer, 11Hotel10, PrisonSurvivor, Author.

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt was a competitive boxer, til boxing cost him his vision in his left eye, a competitive wrestler and a Judoka. Roosevelt wrote in a letter to his son that he believed Judo to be the best art for unarmed combat defense/self-defense.

Kodokan Judo has the advantage of training standing grappling, tachiwaza, and ground grappling, newaza, as well as giving one more options in a civil self defense altercation where it would legally behoove you to minimize the amount of damage you inflict upon another human being. Popular believe is that there are no rules in a street defense situation and that is true for the criminal but for the law abiding citizen or the law abiding police officer whom doesn't wish to risk going to prison for accidentally killing a man in a scuffle the laws that govern self defense must be observed.

Given the option of chin checking a drunk bully and risking him busting his skull on pavement after he falls from the jab-cross boxing combo or controlling his fall as I sweep him off his feet so he doesn't hit his head and then place him in a scarf hold or render him unconscious from a vascular neck restraint using Judo, which art provides me with safer options that will both allow me to effectively defend myself while minimizing injury to my attacker?

Which art provides me the options of restraining my attacker, disabling my attacker, crippling my attacker or killing my attacker, based upon the needs of the situation?

Boxing, despite being an outstanding art, only provides me with tools to evade injury or to knock an aggressor down with strikes.

Judo gives me many more options which can be modified to protect both myself & the aggressor, keeping me out of prison (in a civilian or police altercation), or modified to kill my attacker should situation require such a life changing response (as in military combat). Judo gives me many more options.

Lastly, Judo doesn't jeopardize one's hands with threat of life changing mechanical injuries the way boxing does when applied without reinforced hand and wrist protection.

Which Grappling Art Is Better To Train: Kodokan Judo or BJJ?

 

Which grappling martial art would be better to train, Judo or BJJ?

An Drew, 39yrs Combat Arts, Boxer, 11Hotel10, PrisonSurvivor, Author.

It depends upon the purpose. Context is everything.

For competitive one vs one sport dueling, BJJ has been proven to be the better of the two.

For women's self defense, which often involves spousal abuse, date rape and car jacking, between BJJ or Judo, a woman's better training in BJJ for the ‘unarmed' combat defense portion of her arsenal. (This question wasn't asking about self-defense so we're not addressing more important training such as awareness, counter-surveillance, understanding criminal tactics, tactical shooting, concealed carry firearms, edge weapons, O.C. spray, etc.etc.)

For males, unarmed hand to hand combat for self-defense, law enforcement, night club bouncers, security guards, where threat of multiple attackers is more common as a male, then definitely Judo is the better choice.

Statistically females are more likely to be assaulted by a lone male predator and more often by a male whom they know. Albeit there are numerous exceptions to the rule.

Statistically males whom are attacked without provocation, or whom work in high risk professions, are more likely to encounter multiple male attackers. In my experiences growing up in ghetto areas, living in non-permissive environments, serving in the Infantry, having lived around gangs, surviving jail and the penitentiary, I've rarely had the luxery of facing only one adversary outside the sporting ring. Even the altercations that began as one vs one quickly escalated to multiple attackers once things didn't go their way. Human males are tribalistic by nature and when facing a male of a different ethnicity/race, different family, different Infantry company, different platoon, different military branch, different demographic or anyone gang related, best believe it's not gonna remain one vs one even if it begins that way. Just like chimps, human males band together or often empathize more with their own. The world's not as homogeneous as many like to imagine it to be and humans will always harbor prejudices. It may be different in upper class, white collar, areas where wealthier people live (maybe) but I've never experienced that. I have experienced blue collar areas and below the poverty line to which it's understood you're not getting a fair one. And the cowards always run in packs. Gangs always run in packs. Violent young men often run together. Violent bigots often run together. Real life isn't like a BJJ match or vale tudo match where one can hold down an opponent til they gas out then start working for positions & submissions. Real life is more like a Judo match, where a man better take the adversary down, fast and hard. And if one happens to fall to the ground either quickly snap a limb and get back to the feet or instantly get off the ground and get back to one's feet. Mobility saves lives and being on the ground is where men die in real combat outside of a competitive sporting duel.

In prison, as a man, I never once wanted to use my Gracie Combatives training. Not once. I did use Judo tachiwaza, osoto gari, ashiwaza, te garuma, standing chokes, (as well as modified western boxing, keith fain wing tsun kunfa, krav maga global weapon defense and improvised weapons). But strictly between Judo & BJJ, I never wanted to use BJJ while in jail or prison. I did want to stay on my feet or get up immediately if I ever hit the floor.

For men, unarmed combat defense, Judo. For women, unarmed combat defense, BJJ newaza.