Judo

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about the judo?

Dan Ballard fucking Judo flips him over his shoulder and goes fuck Penrith the amount of examples they could have given them for and then for it to be that one it's like you're doing that wrong

Robbie hauled down Calafiori in the first half waved away for the exact same thing I love the bro

when

Collison, a home run.

Neal, Mr. Judo, we've got all the stations.

I

might as well put them to listen.

Cool.

You know, I mean, look, whether it's Judo, Sama, Wrestling, Submission Wrestling, BJJ, Japanese Jiu-Jitsu, Karate, it doesn't matter.

The black belt isn't the end.

It's not what you get.

Um, you saw in the opening scene, um, veteran TV actor Lo Hoi-pang as the old judo master practicing among the grass.

Uh, you can hear the Sanshiro Sugata theme song from the Japanese TV series being sung by his son, Jing, who is mentally, uh, challenged.

Um, and also the film's Chinese title, Yau Dou Lung Fu Bong, which literally means Judo List of Supreme Fighters, is the same as the Chinese title for the, for the Japanese TV series when it was shown in Hong Kong in early 1970s.

We'll talk about the 1970 references a bit more later.

Notice the darkened dojo with no students, the empty board, uh, you know, the, um, past glory gone, and also a representative of Hong Kong in decline after SARS.

Uh, of course, this theme will return later in the film.

Um, talk a little bit about judo here.

Judo or Kodokan judo is derived from jujitsu, and during Japan's feudal period, jujitsu was part of the bushi samurai training.

Hello and welcome to today's episode of Judo Pod.

My name is Robin Willingham.

I'm joined as always by Thea Cowan.

And that's kind of, I've been exiled, so to speak a little bit.

So I don't really like that.

I feel bad about talking about USA Judo, but it's just something that I know I'm going to have to face at some point because now my son's doing Judo and he loves it.

This is what he wants to do.

And I've given him every other option of sports to do.

But he started Jiu-Jitsu in 1998.

So when he moved to Australia, he wanted to do Judo.

But it was just too far.

I think it was in the city, the closest one.

And then he needed to search for a Jiu-Jitsu place.

Or the next closest thing to Judo was a Jiu-Jitsu place.

And then he jumped in.

And I remember stories him telling me.

Yeah.

I know that Judo has an outrage against this homecoming, this holy homecoming, you know, which is very Christian-like, you know.

But yeah, I think that is a good connection.

It's totally not completely

And also traditional things were forbidden as well.

And so he never had the chance to, well, dive deep into Georgian tradition, into Judo or Judo.

which he loved at that time, but just didn't have the possibility to train.

And so he was very glad to put me there.

Right.

So that said, I want to ask you a question because you have a very interesting, I guess, ethos would be the right thing to say, which like training at the source, your ethos emphasizes training martial arts where they were born.

Wrestling in Georgia, Chidabu in Georgia, Judo in Japan, Muay Thai in Thailand.

What makes training in an arts native culture so radically different from training at a commercial gym in the West?

And they're like, yeah, the Gi makes it easier.

But then you see J-Flo and Juan Judoka, I don't know his name, they do a no-Gi, right? They do it without the Gi.

Then you saw Justin Flores.

He actually wrestled.

But he was an American guy too, right? But he just kept it, he went back to the tradition and

did it all in Japanese? Yeah, because that way everybody, it's kind of like Judo, everybody stays on the same page.

No matter where you go, you understand what each technique is in Japanese because that's usually how it's taught.

So how did you transition from that to judo? I got hurt.

Yeah.

And that's why I love judo because judo is, yeah.

Judo, it does apply to fighting.

It does apply to self-defense.