Beginning Judo by Jeff McCall

Author:Jeff McCall [McCall, Jeff]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Published: 2015-04-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7 – Tips to Avoid Injuries from Randori (Sparring)

In Japanese, randori is translated to mean, “free practice.” When doing randori, a judoka may be able to do whatever he wishes (hence, being free), though in reality, randori must be done deliberately with the effort to improve in techniques. Dynamic, with a lot of intensity and action-packed, randori may resemble contest fighting and allows a judoka to attack and defend freely in a democratic setting.

Some tips to be able to avoid injuries in randori is about stiffness and robotic movements. It is not advisable to stiffen the body for a variety of reasons. For one is it gives a judoka away to an opponent and the opponent will be able to anticipate his movements, thus being able to prepare because stiff movements telegraph easily. Furthermore, stiffening one’s body neglects the development of rhythm and flow that is necessary to become a good judoka. Moving with flow and rhythm is needed to be able to attack.

Also, being stiff is only conducive in defending, thus preventing a practicing judoka to experiment with attack and defense, lessening variety. And last but not the least, being stiff or robotic will waste a lot of valuable energy, making a judoka to tire faster compared to a judoka who is relaxed. Being stiff uses too much strength and lessens fluidity, which is the main ingredient to develop rhythm and timing. One important key in randori is “letting lose of one’s power” temporarily to achieve the state of emptiness or kyo. By doing this, a judoka would be able to relax his body so that his fluidity, timing and rhythm would vastly improve. Fluidity is very crucial to be able to prevent a judoka from injuring himself because it extinguishes the stiffness of the body. It is a safer procedure to practice to be able to improve the body and to go with the flow.

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