Insane Judo Anime Style

Many individuals define good technique or a person as being *technical if they display the techniques which they believe are sound moves and traditional moves which 1) appeal to their definition of the sport and 2) can be accomplished by the player in the environment in which he/she is competing.

This is the MYTH!

People look at those who have achieved Olympic Medals, World Medals, International Medals and various championships and place those individuals, which display the moves that they like as being technical players, when in fact their judgment is completely off, tainted with survivor bias and skewed via of an untrained eye.

This is the MYTH.

Another MYTH exists when arguments are made about how people win matches and the argument is initiated by phrases such as: Yes, she won, but she didn’t win on technique. She beat the more technical player with tactics and strategy. That’s not technique. That’s not the (insert sport here) that I want to teach my kids.

This is the MYTH.

The TECHNICAL MYTH lies in the fact that many people don’t know how to properly define and differentiate the following:

A TECHNIQUE FROM BEING TECHNICAL!!!

First up. Let’s look at the word technique.

Webster defines it as 
1: the manner in which technical details are treated (as by a writer) or basic physical movements are used (as by a dancer); also: ability to treat such details or use such movements
2 a: a body of technical methods (as in a craft or in scientific research) b: a method of accomplishing a desired aim”

JUDO FACTS!

Judo is little more than a hundred years old but derives directly from a much older martial art, that of ju-jitsu. Ju-jitsu is a generic term which describes a number of traditional Japanese martial arts systems. It has its roots in the samurai past of Japan and was originally conceived as a system of close quarter fighting techniques that could be employed with or without weapons in hand to hand combat. Ju-jitsu skills were the last resort of the warrior who found himself either disarmed or weaponless in battle. Classical ju-jitsu was just one of an estimated fifty kakuto bugei (fighting disciplines/martial arts). Others included archery, swordsmanship, spear fighting, horsemanship and more esoteric disciplines such as tessen-jutsu, fighting methods involving the use of the iron fan, and suiei-jutsu, methods of swimming and fighting in water even when wearing armour. Classical ju-jitsu was the product of a violent age and was never an independent weaponless system; its position was approximately similar to the role of unarmed combat for modern commandos or paratroopers.

By the end of the Heian period sumo was standard training for combat for many warriors and developed into the kumi-uchi form, which reflected battlefield practicalities rather than sporting concerns. The emphasis shifted from man-to-man combat based on punching, kicking and wrestling to group and mass tactics. As striking techniques such as punches and kicks were relatively ineffective against armoured foes, methods of taking down to the ground and immobilizing the enemy became of paramount importance.

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