{"id":2072,"date":"2008-11-09T23:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=2072"},"modified":"2008-11-09T23:44:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T18:44:00","slug":"judo-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=2072","title":{"rendered":"Judo"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t written much about Judo since I busted my shoulder<\/a>. That’s because there hasn’t been much to write about. I go to work out, when I’m not on the road, and I say things like “no throws for me, bum shoulder” a lot. Along the way I’ve gotten a lot better. I’m perhaps 90% strong and flexible in that shoulder, and it doesn’t even ache anymore. Lately, I’ve taken to doing a lot of shoulder rolls and controlled falls in an attempt to get it to whine. No dice. The thing that really gets the shoulder, though? Backpacks. Going two-strap for any substantial length of time is a one-way ticket to next-day-sucks ville. <\/p>\n

Anyway, enough about me. Let’s talk about me for a minute. I went to a Judo tournament and kept score today. It was fun. You learn a lot keeping score … the refs tend to call a point – but you’re left to determine on your own who scored said point. Now naturally there’s a right answer. The refs know it, the players know it, the coaches know it … and the scorekeeper is expected to know it. I knew it about 90% of the time. The remaining time, I guessed right about 50-50. So, there were a couple of times where I was like “oops” and hit the “undo” button.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here’s video of a really good judo player<\/a> as seen from the scoring table. Observe how he throws exactly one attack during the entire match. “One point,” or “Ippon,” indeed.<\/p>\n

— UPDATE — link corrected. Thanks atgatg<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t written much about Judo since I busted my shoulder. That’s because there hasn’t been much to write about. I go to work out, when I’m not on the road, and I say things like “no throws for me, bum shoulder” a lot. Along the way I’ve gotten a lot better. I’m perhaps 90% . . . → Read More: Judo<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}