It is impossible to see judo done at the highest level and be unaffected. There's a lot of discourse online here in the US about judo being "neutered," "watered down," etc. - but if you sit down and actually watch an elite tournament, you can't pretend that it isn't "real judo." These athletes are fucking animals and their judo is incredible. You can't help but be inspired.

@theogillan5510

Ай бұрын

if only it was easier to actually watch

You’re 40 Shintaro. Nothing wrong with competing at World Veterans with guys that age training everyday like you. All the respect to you. I enjoy your channel.

Man, this episode got real. I think people in many areas of life go through this. A reckoning with our own mortality. More philosophical musings Shintaro, love it.

Good heart-to-heart. It’s not just you.

I’ve never commented on your content. This compelled me to say Thank you! Sharing an unfiltered stream of consciousness hits so different. The elimination of pride and ego resonates because so many of us struggle with our very own daily demons and battles. Thanks for sharing. Really appreciate it!

Thanks for the insight and introspective video. Hats off to you for being honest and showing your weak side. Takes strength to do that! Keep it going. I'm interested in your future journey.

Whatever you decide Shintaro, thank you for modeling the ultimate goal of Judo - becoming the best version of yourself and making a contribution to society 🙇🏼Your teaching, seminars, content,and products inspire us to do the same. Wishing you the all the best!!!

It was one of my favorite episodes of your show. It was so honest. I could relate to it. I dont have the courage like you do. Wish you good luck in whatever you do.

Great episode. It’s not weird or unlikable, it’s very human. It’s great to hear the real you. We back you Shintaro, and thank you for what you do for judo.

thank you for your honesty and i hope you will finde whatever u r looking for🤍🤍

Your presence in the commentary team was a breath of fresh air! I felt you were shy the first day but afterward you knew how to take your place and make the live performance more entertaining. I hope we can see you commenting again in future tournaments! However, I do not share your vision of the IJF regarding the evolution of judo. I find that judotv still encounters too many technical problems, that the current rules do not make it possible to attract new viewers, that the communication/promotion of judo is still in its infancy and that there is no interaction with the judo enthusiasts (live chat, forum, etc.). Judo is growing in certain countries where it was poorly developed but is decreasing in countries where it was well developed and which are seeing BJJ and MMA arrive. Instead of having a negative position towards these other disciplines, the IJF should work on communication with federations and professional judokas to organize promotional days in schools in their country.

I love this sit down and real talk.

You are an absolute legend, would love to see you do a class sometime in the local Judo gym in Georgia.

I really appreciate your candor during this video! I’m in my sixth decade and I can understand the sadness of not being able to do some of the things I previously could. The question is whether there is another way of accomplishing the same outcome, that’s what I search for. Frequently there is. I found that jet lag and different time zones often resulted in dramatic emotional swings, I suggest giving it some time before taking action. I hope you have a great experience and some fun! Cheers!!

If you are thinking about it so strongly. Most likely it’s something you need rather than something you want. But it’s a high cost if you do it. That’s only something you can decide for yourself. Thanks for all the quality content.

Shintaro San, Judo is being popularized in my country Azerbaijan, apart from SOCAR the federation is being active and I’m happy because apart from Georgia, Azerbaijan always had good Judo school. Would be good to see you attending Baku Grand Slam as well

We regret things we did NOT! You live once man! Go for it and Enjoy the Jurney 🙂

Welcome to Georgia ❤

Your best video yet 😮 More of this please…

Thanks for sharing and being honest. As someone really passionate about BJJ at a younger age and currently battling through a few injuries I really empathise with that "competitor envy" feeling. Hearing you made me feel less alone

Bro respect for putting this out there I’m sure many can relate to a point grateful for ur content keep it coming and keep pushing the fight brother

This talk really got to me, you have no idea. Closures and being at peace with oneself are the hardest things in this life, but they have to be done regardless of outcome. Whatever you need to do for your closure do it. I was enrolled in judo when I was five, I still remember my mom holding my hand and leading me into the room and I was terrified. But it taught me to push back against the class bully. It didn’t last long, my father left and we couldn’t afford to eat. And it stuck with me, anytime I was mercilessly bullied growing up, I saw my judo teacher’s face in my mind. After I graduated college and started a career I knew I had to go back, I just wanted to go back and finish the job. At 27 I finish work and I take the bus to the dojo, I walk in I wear a white belt and the room was full of 14/15 years old in brown and black belts, and I felt so embarrassed and I was like “you’re an architect and a grown man, your friends are out there having kids and houses, what the hell are you doing?” But it had to be done, and I never dreamed I would be here today, a completely different life thanks to judo, and a stronger better human. Nothing is more important than inner peace, even if you get destroyed in the first round, or win gold, it will be done, and there will be no room for doubt anymore, because you did it and got to taste it first hand, and you’ll have your peace regardless of the outcome, and you’ll be a better judoka and father because of it. I’m cheering you on wholeheartedly. If you can provide for your family normally, there’s no reason not to try, don’t leave this world with a dream inside you.

For World Tour tournaments, you can send 2 athletes per weight (host can have 4), it's for continental/world championships where you have 9 spots. Commentating was great, are you going to be a frequent commentator on world tour from now on?

Great video shinatro, and you acting as a translator was really good, you’re a great translator, I don’t know about the commentating because I haven’t watched the matches

Great video ! With regards to competing, it would be great to see you compete with the vets, it would shine a light on this league that could generate an interest for a wider audience. Or just go with the flow of time and enjoy good health aha

Great commentary Shin!

Thanks

it was an interesting insights about ijf and definitely waiting for antalia follow up

Believe!!!!!!

Never clicked on a video faster

Thanks for sharing! How did it happen you ever stopped competing? Wasn‘t that a free decision?

What! Are you still in Tbilisi? I am atm and would love to train with you somewhere if you will have time for that Always been watching you and thought I'd never get the chance to visit in NY

Wow, what a fun trip it has to be!!! As a former part-time commentator, I'm sure you will enjoy it big time, it's really, really fun (including a minor dosage of stress, especially regarding mistakes, which are pretty much impossible to avoid during Live commentary). And Georgia is a great place to visit. In case of any issues, just say you are from Poland (only half joking, it's based on geopolitical support) and you will be okay :) Also, a few weeks ago I watched the European Open in Warsaw, which I found actually quite disappointing, way too many fights were decided based on penalties. Hopefully, you will have a better time. Edit: I've just realized you were in Antalya as well. I still wish you would do (with Brian Glick input as well) a video about Natsumi Tsunoda's style, in my opinion quite unorthodox for current IJF rules.

@RReppond921

Ай бұрын

Yes it’s insane that people know exactly what Tsunoda is going to do and they still can’t stop it.

I saw you translate for hifumi and uta abe. I have always wondered what kind of personality they have. To me they seem very introverted. What is your impression of them after meeting them?

Reminds me of Jason Morris making a comeback and running into Garry 😢

I think Judo in the us needs to go full IJF and start promoting itself as a sport and stop being baited by the likes of BJJ into arguing about self defence. Judo is a fun sport and it should be competing against football, wrestling and basket ball. not jujitsu and Karate.

@estogaza5827

Ай бұрын

What’s funny is that bjj guys haven’t realized this yet. But Judo, with like a week of sub defense, is far superior to BJJ. BJJ is slowly becoming irrelevant. Yes it’s popular, yea it’s fun. But over time, not being able to take people down will become more and more glaringly obvious that it’s a major weakness. And you can’t just learn to take someone down like you can learn sub defense. It takes years and years. So on the self defense front Judo is far superior.

Is there a link to the matches you paneled in Tbilisi?

Coach the next best US Judo super star!

I remember when tournaments like Nationals, RendezVous, New York Open, and US Open actually meant something, in regards to points. Back then, "World Cup" "A level" events were the standard. Nowadays, none of the elite athletes even fight in the World Cup/Continental Open events. Everything is Grand Prix and higher now. I guess if you're an international athlete, the closest you get to fighting locally, would be your respective Continental Games/Championships i.e Pan Am's. The system is way harder and more expensive now, and it kind of sucks for the players.

@t.weber64kg

Ай бұрын

Yeah especially as a former American competitor it really leads to two selection criteria for American athletes first being skill then the added criteria of who has the money. It also ends up being close to 50k a year to go to all the tournaments needed to qualify for the Olympics.

@MoneyOverFame

Ай бұрын

@@t.weber64kg it’s a very tall task, indeed.

@filippobertone4255

22 күн бұрын

Sadly that’s a really American problem. I’m an Italian judoka, and here even only going to the Olympic qualifiers (so State championship) is all paid by the club/state if you “qualify for the qualifiers” if you get what I mean

You could always give commentary on your matches instead of recording specific technique videos to save time. Hope you are capable of seeing to the dreams you clearly still hold :)

Majority of serious combat sports athletes have the thoughts of regret and considering coming back. But, it's like when you drop your car keys in lava - let it go man, they're gone.

34:15 did he say he had a stroke?

@skimND

Ай бұрын

Yes he had one a year or so ago

Relax the leg grab rule to make it either ippon or shido. You can only hit a definitive Ippon or be penalized. 2nd infraction is ippon or hansukomake. Get at me IJF.

While I’m down with the high penalties and safety-based rules, I’m still (as a longtime Judoka) unclear as to the rhetoric for banning leg grabs. And I’m not saying that from a “boohoo” kind of place or anything like that. It just seems like the current internal philosophy is: safety, encourage action, and promote Judo. That’s all great and I can get onboard with that. While in the past I’ve heard discussed that leg grabs were used as a stalling tactic, why won’t the IJF play test them under this new high-Shido paradigm? Unlike, head diving or something like Kani-Basami, these aren’t inherently dangerous tactics. Moreover, if we are promoting Judo, shouldn’t we be promoting the full curriculum at the highest level? I’m certainly not a champion, so in many ways I’m just a guy complaining on the Internet myself, but I’d love to hear how the leg grab ban fits into the IJF’s rule design philosophy. Especially now that stalling tactics are so ruthlessly punished. I can’t help but feel like they should be play-tested again under current-iteration rules. EDIT: Got the 25 mark where you discuss this a bit. I guess I’m confused as to how big, gorgeous throws are the defining feature of Judo, though. That seems awfully ambiguous to me consider they are in the corpus and discussions on Judo’s aesthetics are a very new phenomenon. It seems to me better rules ought to get made to keep people from bailing out of bad positions using the leg grabs. Although I will say this still doesn’t seem consistent with the rest of the IJF’s philosophy. Safety, action, and promotion are all reasonable and consistent across their decisions, but with leg grabs suddenly aesthetics is an issue for some reason. I don’t know. I just feel like an outright ban is a lazy solution and a problem that deserves more deliberation.

Will your involvement in Judo politics affect how you present yourself in your own content? Will you need to sanitise what you produce? Now that you are a deeper part of the system, it will become harder to criticise it. Did they see you as an element they wanted control over. If this sounds antagonistic, i don't mean it that way, I'm not anti IJF. I'm just trying to draw attention to the systematic use of power within all political organisations.

@dhimankalita1690

Ай бұрын

You can see uts clearly affecting his vies now he needs to please his judo pol overlords. Justifying not grabbing legs is absurd

@WayneManifesto

Ай бұрын

@dhimankalita1690 that's not really what this is about. You're taking too much of a basic view of what I mean. Leg grabs are fun but leg grabs are out. Crying online about it won't help. Take a more deep, critical analysis.

@dhimankalita1690

Ай бұрын

@@WayneManifesto you think banning leg grab was deep critical analysis of the game? ignoring 50% of the body is clownery

@WayneManifesto

Ай бұрын

Look mate, yeah people are upset but you're not looking at it in context. All people were using it for was stalling. Also leg grabs aren't remotely related to my initial observations. Go rub your 2 brain cells together somewhere else, Adults are trying to have a legitimate conversation

@WayneManifesto

Ай бұрын

Shintaro was being a real man here, pouring his heart out about something he's passionate about, and you want to make discourse into "DuH eR uM, LeG GrAb BaN bAd!"

Camera is moving. Never saw that before. Unless you have a severed head tracking your movements. 😅

@JudoHighlights2015

Ай бұрын

it's a apple ipad feature.

Man, by no means are you unlikable for bring candid.

Unfortunately, your responsibility to us and to everything else takes a massive 2nd place to your daughter.As dads we have to wait until they are older and don't need us around as much...now though, they need us. Our kids are our first and foremost and the days of "I wish and I still could "are gone.

Speaking the truth from the heart takes guts in a world of fake 🔥 much respect 🫡

Great vid Shintaro, but the camera is making me sea-sick!

Men shintaro really trying to please his judo political overlords

I'm a nobody but I have been watching Judo for a while now, and I agree it's more exciting but making a few good rules shouldn't minimize the bad rules aka leg grabbing.