So smooth:

http://www.durangojudo.com/2010/01/con-un-poco-de-retraso-y-un-poco.html

Beautiful!
Who is he?

True Budo. To make those techniques look so effortless it has taken that man decades of study and refinement! Impressive!

Jake

Beautiful indeed.

Kashiwazaki Katsuhiko, 1981 World Champion. Check out his international matches. They don't do judo like that anymore. Lots of good judo in the 1980s. Check out Yamashita, Neil Adams and a few others. Glad that they're teaching. Kashiwazai also wrote a couple of books on judo, one of them focusing on pins.

I just read that he's a coach at the International Budo University! Damn. I should've enrolled when I had the chance.

These are awesome techniques! Did this guy make these up? Or are they traditional throws?

They're all "traditional." Some of the first techniques to leave competition judo were the sacrifice throws. Now groundwork is all but gone, and you can't grab the legs, thereby eliminating even more techniques.

You could always study the judo kata.

Abdullah,
So from what you said there is competition-oriented judo, and 'traditional' judo (kodokan?). Does the latter still practice those things that are banned in the former (groundwork,grabbing legs, etc)? Do they have their own tournaments?

Why yes, the Kodokan has it's own tournaments with its own rules. But only members get to participate in their tournaments, most of which are required for promotion to the next belt. So I guess you could say they are also, "competition-oriented" judo too. My distinction was between the IJF Rules, as they are interpreted now, versus what the Kodokan has used almost since its inception in 1882.

My first day at the Kodokan a few years back we practiced leg locks. We were only doing randori, but it was nice to see that they were studying the whole corpus of techniques, even if it wasn't a regular occurrence.

Thanks Abdullah. Did you mean that kodokan tournament rules have changed little since 1882? Where can I find those rules vs IJF rules?

When you talked about some techniques that have 'left competitions', is it by way of rules or just due to the nature of the strategies competitors commonly employed?

Thinking of putting my daughter to judo (she's 6 and feisty). It's much cheaper than other martial arts and you guys here seems to have very good opinion on it. I've only just found out that judo has several different affiliations with different rules, so still curious. Not that it matters; the only club around that teaches kids is of kodokan.

For more historical information, you should go here:
http://judoinfo.com/new/

After the War, things changed. Everyone you meet is teaching Kodokan judo, albeit focusing only on one aspect or another. The Kodokan is a private dojo in Japan, with 8 floors, and they teach many aspects of judo. When the IJF was created, they added many rules, such as weight classes and time limits. So with the exception of the Kodokan, the rules will be the same in any judo dojo in the world.

The affiliations, assuming you're talking about the US, were/are political in nature and have nothing to do with the competition rules. But, you should belong to one of the organizations as they offer secondary insurance, should you or your daughter become injured.

I hope your daughter enjoys practicing judo in your local club. Most kids that age tend to like rolling around on the ground. I guess some of us just never grew up.

Thanks for the quick reply and well wish, Abdullah. That site is great.

Yes she is of that rolling sort and in ball games seems to forget all about the ball and more on roughing up the other kids to the ground. I hope judo gives a systematic way of channelling her energy.

Not planning to join the classes. I'll sit back on the side and have a precious quiet time.

What a shame, i want to learn obscure judo!