Ryvai wrote:
I agree, but this is what happens if we want Judo to still be an olympic sport and TV-friendly. We can teach leg-grabs in our dojo as we want, just not perform it in shiai.
I am sorry, but now I am not following 'you'.
"If we want Judo to still be an Olympic sport and TV-friendly" ? How so ?
So, basically you are saying that from the moment in Ôten-jime from standing position you touch the legs, it is suddenly no longer TV-friendly ? I find that hard to believe. In figure ice scating they perform all kinds of figures. I fail to see why from the moment they touch a leg instead of an arm it would suddenly be no longer friendly.
Look, the IJF time and time after again 'fabricates' reasons towards the public that supposedly would explain why something is the case, fabricated reasons that oftentimes have nothing, but nothing to do at all with the real reasons. In this case, I don't know, but what I do know is that the IJF can be compared as a headless chicken. They don't typically come to decisions or suggestions after careful empirical and objective research preferably done by a third party which has nothing to gain from whatever the findings. The way the IJF works is that at one point in time you will see an announcement how starting at this and that date the rules will change as follows ...
What is ALWAYS lacking is the announcement many month or years PRIOR to that decision, where the refereeing committee on line opens a discussion about things it is thinking of amending and asking for people's opinions or solliciting research projects to actually assess the anecdotal nonsense they used to base their decisions on.
The interesting consequence of this is that ... the ... "IJF IS ALWAYS RIGHT" !! Today they will say "A" because according to the IJF that is best, whereas next year they will say "B" is best while giving the identical rationale. In fact, the IJF is a school example of a reductio ad absurdum since in its reasoning, in fact "A" is the same as "non-A".
Ryvai wrote:
kani-basami, do-jime and kawazu-gake was a good ban in my oppinion as it protects the contestants who train intensely for 3 years to become olympic champion, only to get your leg broken by a not-so-gentle- or skilled judoka in a world-cup event.
Kawazu-gake has been prohibited for a long, long time. The technique is problematic because even if well and carefully performed on a nonresisting opponent is has a very high injury risk to a critical joint.
Kani-basami is not quite the same. Kani-basami was banned by the IJF for about a year or so in the late 1970s. The ban was then lifted because the evidence showed that the fears were not entirely sustantiated, some, but not entirely. Injuries did happen, but it was mostly the spectacular way that some of the injuries occurred that stayed with people. The ban was only implemented again after Yamashita's injury against Endô, which largely was Yamashita's own fault for refusing to give Endô the success of an otherwise well-chosen moment. If Yamashita would have done what he supposed to have done, namely have himself being thrown on his back for ippon, which Endô totally deserved, he would not have broken his leg.
But as said, it remains a difficult case, and I am certainly not going to claim the opposite and argue it is the most safe throw of any judo throw.
Ryvai wrote:Defensive bent-over Judo is booring to watch, which results in low tv-ratings, hence no cash income.
Banning grip-breaks has done wonders for Judo, entertainment wise. The statistics speak for themselfs. There was an immence increase in scores and activity in Rio 2013 compared to London 2012.
You got to do better if you want to sell that here, we are not morons.
Statistics ? What statistics ? The IJF has statistics and knows how to apply and read statistics ? Before throwing that in, let's first talk experimental design, choice of statistics, confidence interval, statistical power and effect size, and then we'll see if one can actually derive any meaningful conclusion from those statistics at all.
"There was an immence increase in scores and activity in Rio 2013 compared to London 2012." You are being serious, right ? In essence, kôka has been abolished; it's now called ippon. Sure, in this way, all jûdôka must be so much better than the jûdôka we had 20-30 years ago. Shows how poor jûdôka Koga, Parisi, Adams, etc, all were if you see how many more ippon-scores today even the most unknown jûdôka can make, right ? The fact that for ippon there used to be a time you actually had to throw a person, and throw him full on his back, and hard, and with power and with control might of course be somewhere play a role in that equation, but sure, the obscure IJF statisticians no doubt have come up with an innovative log-log transformation make that effect disappear, no ?