Russian Judoka are some of my favorites to watch, right behind the Koreans and the Japanese. Some of them fight with strength and grit like the Georgians, some of them play technical and upright like the Japanese. Russia has definitely earned its place as a top ranked Judo country.
I remember The World Championships in Vienna 1975 and shota Chocisvilli of Georgia ( USSR ) executing superb techinques like this typically soviet at the time , even with variations on ashi waza - deashi barai , okuri ashi barai they seem to committ themselves fully to the techinque ;literally throwing themselves onto it as it were ! now the Soviets have broken up you can still see it's remainants in the uzbeki , Khazakstan ,Dagestan judo .... Dagestan as we have seen in UFC /MMA have had success with the likes of Khabib Numeregodov and Russia with Fedor Emiliaenko !. cheers keep up the good work it's excellent !
Related to this topic I would recommend the book "Russian Judo" written by Soviet-era Latvian judoka and Moscow 80 Olympics silver medalist Aleksandr Iatskevich. In the mid-90's he moved from Latvia to Belgium and since then he is not very active in Russia but wrote an excellent book describing Russian judo in nuances.
Yes, I remember that great serios of Ippon books. As for the "Russian judo" by Yatskevich who got Bronze in 86 kg, that was a horrible and unprofessional approach by Ippon publisher. First, the book should be called " The Soviet Judo". Yatskevich was a Soviet judoka, member of a Soviet National judo team, he wrote about the Soviet judo, not Russian - including about Sambo, Georgian Chidaoba, Tatar's Kuresh, ets. Second, he was from Riga, Latvia and his judo credentials were intermediate, to put it polite. It should be Vladimir Nevzorov, the well respected Soviet 1st Olympic 1976 and World 1975 judo Champion. And thirdly, there are a lot of technical and factual mistakes in this book. Conclusion: the book about Russian judo could and should be written by the Russian judo chamions!
I am a big guy. I was always 6 feet tall, but I used to have very little fat. 😉 Makeokomi throws have always been strength and weight based. Whenever I faced a smaller guy, a makeikomi almost always worked. A bit too easy if I may say so. The drawback is that you seldom land in a favorable position. In conclusion, if you're a big guy, don't use makeikomi all of the time, if you want to learn. About this video, you could have mentioned what Russians brought to Judo, such as the flying armbar among others.
@@Chadi In fact, it was the Russians/Soviets who intruduced flying armbars to Judo in the 60s. I think they are beautiful, but now I heard they had banned them too. :(
@@Chadi I heard it from Travis Stevens. I may be wrong. But why would he say that if it wasn't true? It was a very recent rule change, and I can't figure out the reason why. If your "shoulder have to touch the mat" it isn't really a flying armbar, is it?
They should touch the mat but you can start it standing/flying i read the 2018 - 2020 rule book i didn't see a restriction, Matthias Casse even pulled guard and hit an armbar if that was legal then flying armbars are good, I'll check again just to be sure
Russian judo was born based on sambo at 1960 s when Judo became Olimpics sport. Almost all russian judokas have sambo background. There are few interesting matchups in the begining Team USSR sambo vs team Japan Judo - in both cases Sambo and judo won at own ruleset but 1 japan judoka won at sambo and 1 russian sambist won over Japan Isao Okano. Sambist usualy won by armbars (judo called newaza )
Additionally, you can easily watch "Старое кимоно" - An Old Kimono series on TH-cam covering all outstanding judokas of the Soviet Union. But series were produced in Russian. Very good series if you are interested in the nature of Russian judo.
I love your videos Chadi! Thank you for showcasing these varied styles of judo from across the world. They are styles that I love and try to emulate as its culturally close to me. I think this creative nature of judo, not having there only be one 'Proper' way to do judo, is my favorite thing about our sport. Much love mate, keep it up!
I have seen Judo styles in multiple countries. Japan is the most famous. I have also seen Mongolian and French judo. Russian Judo is good. (that is what Vladimir Putin does)
Chadi enough respect to and the channel Since I subscribed to your I'm eagerly looking for a club to give Judo try cheers mate 👍🇬🇧 Keep up the good work.
@@Chadi Your content as highlighted how judo is a great art but widely forgotten when compared with the likes of UFC MMA and M uay Thai for example so again keep the good work 👍
Russian judo is extremely blended up with wrestling and folk style grappling techniques. Lots of different nationalities inhabiting Russia for millennia and all of them has their own unique style of wrestling, in majority of cases it is jacket wrestling. Therefore, the DNA of Russian judo is folk style jacket wrestling techniques developed by local nationalities many centuries ago.
Your example for Obi Tori Gaeshi is The Georgian Grip, it's a same side belt or jacket hold - it only depends on your reach. The Russian Grip is an opposite side belt or jacket hold , and using the tie isn't about applying your strength but leveraging your weight. You really need to take a Wrestling class in order to better understand the differences between "Kizushi" and "strength." All Olympic Judoka are strength trained and fighting in weight classes, so all things being equal your "strength" argument is just ignorant of the technique behind weight distribution. Over and Underhooks didn't come from the Samurai, the original Judo uniforms had short sleeves and pants. The sleeve grip wasn't adopted until after Kano changed the uniform to protect his students from abrasions, with long sleeves and pants to cover their elbows and knees.
It's "kuzushi", and i showed the kata where they over and under hook and if you go to the original they explain samurais used it, i never claimed the samurais came up with it, they used it yes, don't twist my arguments, and all i said was they use a combination of good technique and strength which is accurate no need to go on a red herring about wrestling.
@@Chadi I didn't imply the Samurai invented Overhooks and Underhooks, there is simply nothing to suggest that the Samurai are the source of Overhooks and Underhooks in Judo other than they were both Japanese - the grips are only a function of the uniform. I am not even sure why you would refer to Samurai for grappling, when Sumo existed a thousand years before them. Wrestling isn't a red herring, all of the Mongolian, Georgian and Russian Judokas are cross trained grapplers under the Soviet system. You keep referring to any Eastern Block technique as strength based, which is both racist and a fallacy. Put on a singlet and take a wrestling camp, and you'll understand why your position is nothing more than a personal bias. I've tried to be as respectful as I can, but your videos are condescending and have historical errors and technical misunderstandings about other people's arts. Any Sambo Master of Sport on Reddit can help you with the lack of knowledge on how Wrestling intersects with Judo in the gi, all you have to do is write to them. The Kodokan and Japanese Judo aren't pedantic about grappling as a whole, there is a reason Japan became the home of Catch Wrestling and Imanari, Sakuraba and Aoki are internationallly renowned athletes.
Modern era Georgian, Uzbek, Azeri, Kazakh e.t.c. judo and their success on international tatami goes back to Soviet Union. I mean roots are the same: folk style wrestling.
Great videos, could you do some videos explaining newaza? Especially this choke: th-cam.com/video/3vpOUB_cduY/w-d-xo.html Do you need the grips of a high lvl judoka to pull this off? What is this called in judo? Is this fairlg recent?
It is a variation of okuri eri jime, commonly known as bow and arrow choke, no it is not for the high level, orange belt and up can do it, a very traditional choke
Russian Judoka are some of my favorites to watch, right behind the Koreans and the Japanese. Some of them fight with strength and grit like the Georgians, some of them play technical and upright like the Japanese. Russia has definitely earned its place as a top ranked Judo country.
My Judo teacher is an old Soviet guy and he does this. I didn’t know it was a trait of Russian Judo.
I remember The World Championships in Vienna 1975 and shota Chocisvilli of Georgia ( USSR ) executing superb techinques like this typically soviet at the time , even with variations on ashi waza - deashi barai , okuri ashi barai they seem to committ themselves fully to the techinque ;literally throwing themselves onto it as it were ! now the Soviets have broken up you can still see it's remainants in the uzbeki , Khazakstan ,Dagestan judo .... Dagestan as we have seen in UFC /MMA have had success with the likes of Khabib Numeregodov and Russia with Fedor Emiliaenko !. cheers keep up the good work it's excellent !
Thank you Alan always
Awesome video! and some awesome Judo on display!
Thank you! Big fan
Super 👍
Thank you 🤙🏻
Related to this topic I would recommend the book "Russian Judo" written by Soviet-era Latvian judoka and Moscow 80 Olympics silver medalist Aleksandr Iatskevich. In the mid-90's he moved from Latvia to Belgium and since then he is not very active in Russia but wrote an excellent book describing Russian judo in nuances.
Thank you Karliev
It’s 120$ man
Yes, I remember that great serios of Ippon books.
As for the "Russian judo" by Yatskevich who got Bronze in 86 kg, that was a horrible and unprofessional approach by Ippon publisher. First, the book should be called " The Soviet Judo". Yatskevich was a Soviet judoka, member of a Soviet National judo team, he wrote about the Soviet judo, not Russian - including about Sambo, Georgian Chidaoba, Tatar's Kuresh, ets.
Second, he was from Riga, Latvia and his judo credentials were intermediate, to put it polite. It should be Vladimir Nevzorov, the well respected Soviet 1st Olympic 1976 and World 1975 judo Champion.
And thirdly, there are a lot of technical and factual mistakes in this book.
Conclusion: the book about Russian judo could and should be written by the Russian judo chamions!
I am a big guy. I was always 6 feet tall, but I used to have very little fat. 😉 Makeokomi throws have always been strength and weight based. Whenever I faced a smaller guy, a makeikomi almost always worked. A bit too easy if I may say so. The drawback is that you seldom land in a favorable position. In conclusion, if you're a big guy, don't use makeikomi all of the time, if you want to learn. About this video, you could have mentioned what Russians brought to Judo, such as the flying armbar among others.
You're right makikomi is for the big guys, i thought everyone did flying armbars
@@Chadi In fact, it was the Russians/Soviets who intruduced flying armbars to Judo in the 60s. I think they are beautiful, but now I heard they had banned them too. :(
No your shoulder have to touch the mat and they can work, there's no restrictions
@@Chadi I heard it from Travis Stevens. I may be wrong. But why would he say that if it wasn't true? It was a very recent rule change, and I can't figure out the reason why. If your "shoulder have to touch the mat" it isn't really a flying armbar, is it?
They should touch the mat but you can start it standing/flying i read the 2018 - 2020 rule book i didn't see a restriction, Matthias Casse even pulled guard and hit an armbar if that was legal then flying armbars are good, I'll check again just to be sure
and what makes their individual styles great like Pawel Nastula, Teddy Riner, Irakli Tsirekidze, Robert Van de walle and etc...
Oh thank you! I will experiment it on stand up takedowns practices! Very accurate analysis!
Thank you!
Nice break down of moves...👍👍👍
Thank you
Great videos man keep it up I'm loving the channel 😀
Thanks Mico
Russian judo was born based on sambo at 1960 s when Judo became Olimpics sport. Almost all russian judokas have sambo background.
There are few interesting matchups in the begining Team USSR sambo vs team Japan Judo - in both cases Sambo and judo won at own ruleset but 1 japan judoka won at sambo and 1 russian sambist won over Japan Isao Okano. Sambist usualy won by armbars (judo called newaza )
Very good vídeo and information
Thank you Guilherme
Additionally, you can easily watch "Старое кимоно" - An Old Kimono series on TH-cam covering all outstanding judokas of the Soviet Union. But series were produced in Russian. Very good series if you are interested in the nature of Russian judo.
Ill check it out thank you
I love your videos Chadi!
Thank you for showcasing these varied styles of judo from across the world. They are styles that I love and try to emulate as its culturally close to me.
I think this creative nature of judo, not having there only be one 'Proper' way to do judo, is my favorite thing about our sport.
Much love mate, keep it up!
Thank you Tomasz i really appreciate it
U should make and video of the Euro top 10 or 25 judoka all-time...
Excellent to see!
Thank you Stephen
I have seen Judo styles in multiple countries. Japan is the most famous. I have also seen Mongolian and French judo. Russian Judo is good. (that is what Vladimir Putin does)
My favourite is the japanese
It is certainly the most famous.
Please do also a video on Azerbaijani judo :)
Sure
Thanks for posting :)
Thank you for always listening 🙏🏻
Your videos are amazing and full of technical details!!!! I love it!!!
Thank you!
Chadi enough respect to and the channel Since I subscribed to your I'm eagerly looking for a club to give Judo try cheers mate 👍🇬🇧 Keep up the good work.
Cheers mate, i appreciate it
@@Chadi Your content as highlighted how judo is a great art but widely forgotten when compared with the likes of UFC MMA and M uay Thai for example so again keep the good work 👍
@@xrayfish2020 thank you i truly appreciate it
I luv your voice and videos, plzzz bring more videos of akimotos seoinage 🙏
Wil do!
Russian judo is extremely blended up with wrestling and folk style grappling techniques. Lots of different nationalities inhabiting Russia for millennia and all of them has their own unique style of wrestling, in majority of cases it is jacket wrestling. Therefore, the DNA of Russian judo is folk style jacket wrestling techniques developed by local nationalities many centuries ago.
Chidaoba has massive influence on Russian judo
Your example for Obi Tori Gaeshi is The Georgian Grip, it's a same side belt or jacket hold - it only depends on your reach. The Russian Grip is an opposite side belt or jacket hold , and using the tie isn't about applying your strength but leveraging your weight. You really need to take a Wrestling class in order to better understand the differences between "Kizushi" and "strength." All Olympic Judoka are strength trained and fighting in weight classes, so all things being equal your "strength" argument is just ignorant of the technique behind weight distribution.
Over and Underhooks didn't come from the Samurai, the original Judo uniforms had short sleeves and pants. The sleeve grip wasn't adopted until after Kano changed the uniform to protect his students from abrasions, with long sleeves and pants to cover their elbows and knees.
It's "kuzushi", and i showed the kata where they over and under hook and if you go to the original they explain samurais used it, i never claimed the samurais came up with it, they used it yes, don't twist my arguments, and all i said was they use a combination of good technique and strength which is accurate no need to go on a red herring about wrestling.
@@Chadi I didn't imply the Samurai invented Overhooks and Underhooks, there is simply nothing to suggest that the Samurai are the source of Overhooks and Underhooks in Judo other than they were both Japanese - the grips are only a function of the uniform. I am not even sure why you would refer to Samurai for grappling, when Sumo existed a thousand years before them.
Wrestling isn't a red herring, all of the Mongolian, Georgian and Russian Judokas are cross trained grapplers under the Soviet system. You keep referring to any Eastern Block technique as strength based, which is both racist and a fallacy. Put on a singlet and take a wrestling camp, and you'll understand why your position is nothing more than a personal bias.
I've tried to be as respectful as I can, but your videos are condescending and have historical errors and technical misunderstandings about other people's arts. Any Sambo Master of Sport on Reddit can help you with the lack of knowledge on how Wrestling intersects with Judo in the gi, all you have to do is write to them.
The Kodokan and Japanese Judo aren't pedantic about grappling as a whole, there is a reason Japan became the home of Catch Wrestling and Imanari, Sakuraba and Aoki are internationallly renowned athletes.
Gripping rules limits judo. There not even be styles by country because everyone use all kinds of grips when needed.
Modern era Georgian, Uzbek, Azeri, Kazakh e.t.c. judo and their success on international tatami goes back to Soviet Union. I mean roots are the same: folk style wrestling.
Agreed
Chadi, I have a request...
Tell me
Can't really use eastern European style now . They effectivity made the Russian dominat style only for immediate attacks. Can't hold it
Russian Judo vs Mongolian judo or systema
I'll add it to the list
"That makes the Russian arms Russian " haha
suppport
Thank you
Great videos, could you do some videos explaining newaza? Especially this choke:
th-cam.com/video/3vpOUB_cduY/w-d-xo.html
Do you need the grips of a high lvl judoka to pull this off? What is this called in judo? Is this fairlg recent?
It is a variation of okuri eri jime, commonly known as bow and arrow choke, no it is not for the high level, orange belt and up can do it, a very traditional choke
@@Chadi are the mechanics of the choke more of a kata gatame or does the choke come from the collar side?
@@julesthewalker collar