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Satoshi Ishii, campion olimpic anul acesta la judo in cat. +100 kg, a decis sa inceapa antrenamentele pentru o viitoare cariera in MMA. Mai jos, aveti relatarea unui sportiv, practicant de libere si, in acelasi timp, centura mov in BJJ, care se ocupa de primii pasi ai lui Ishii. Este remarcabila deschiderea unui nume mare al judo-ului mondial (si a colegilor lui) catre cross-training (libere, BJJ etc.), dar, mai ales, cat d econstiincios este la aceste antrenamente. O lectie pe care multi dintre practicantii de AM din Romania ar trebui sa o invete.

„There’s been a bit of talk about Satoshi Ishii deciding to he wants quit Judo and fight MMA, and people found it interesting when I trained subs with Ishii before… so I figured people might find this interesting too.

Yesterday 3 guys from Kokushikan’s Judo team came over and trained with the wrestling team. 130kg guy, a 97kg guy and an 80kg guy. We had a good session and I enjoyed it a lot becuase they were using techniques that I don’t get to see in wrestling much so it made for fun and interesting wrestling. Anyways they invite me to train with the Judo club today… but when I turned up it turns out they were having a day off, watching match footage. So the same 3 guys, plus Satoshi Ishii and a light weight decided to come and do wrestling today.

So yeah we did a bunch of live wrestling. I was really keen to see how Ishii was on his feet without the gi. So I did a bunch of rounds with him. He was pretty strong and had good balance. And as a Judoka was waaaaaaay unorthadox compared to your average wrestler. I couldn’t seem to use a lot of my favourite techniques because of this, but he left himself open to a bunch of other ones instead. All in all I scored a lot of points as he didn’t have much of an idea of leg defence. He kept trying to work foot sweeps, inside trips and uchimatas. But in about 7 minutes of wrestling only scored once when I went for an outside hook from underhook (hard technique to explain) and he countered it well with a nice uchimata. He also tried to do a bunch of singles and doubles, but you could tell he didn’t really know how yet.

Anyways after training he wanted to learn how to shoot a good double, so I and another wrestler took him through it. He was pretty much terrible at first, but I shit you not within like 8 minutes he was doing the most perfect massive powerful doublelegs!!! Fuck!!!! Never seen someone pick up a technique so fast and well in my life! Everytime I corrected or added in a detail he picked it up and did it properly from then on. Amazingly talented!

It was great watching him spar with the other guys cos everytime he got a big throw he’d scream like the Judo guys do when they throw for Ippon, which is way out of place on our wrestling mat but he didn’t seem to mind and I thought it was great 🙂 Screaming stuff like „AAAIIII!!! SHYAAAAAH!!!” Or „YOISHAAAAAH!!!” And during sparrign with me he kept saying „SHYAAH!!” which is kinda like a fighting cheer of encouragement to yoruself. Good stuff 🙂

Anyways after we were done training we started talking MMA. He wants to do a bunch of MMA training with me which should be heaps cool. He’s already been training at an MMA gym (forget which one) And has been doing BJJ at the same club as me for maybe 6 months now and is a brown belt there (Awarded on his first day I think) He already has boxing gloves, shin guards n stuff, so is keen to get into technique and sparring. So yeah we traded numbers and will start training together sometime soon.

Watching this guy train it’s obvious to see why he’s so good at Judo. He is a coaches dream student. From seeing him in Judo practice and from treaching him a bit tonight, he does anything a coach tells him. Doesn’t complain just does it no questions. And he seems to out train everyone else! I used to hear stories of how he would finish training at Kokushikan for like 3 hours (probably the hardest trainings I’ve ever done in my life) and then head off to another top university and do their full training too.

After training he said I should come to Judo training sometime and he will give me a gi with an Australian emblem embroided on it which was cool. So I said he could have the wrestling shoes I’d lent him (A coach gave them to me new but they were still in a box unworn cos they were too small for me)

Anyways he seems a pretty cool guy and is a super hard worker!!! So I’m really keen to start training with him. Hopefully I can learn some usefull Judo techniques 🙂

He is very keen to learn and does everything I say without hesitation. Perfect student really. I turned up early to get ready and he was already sitting there ready and waiting with all his gear on. He seemed very happy and appreciative at the end of training, and was looking forward to the next session. I’m Looking forward to seeing how his striking develops over the next few months. I feel pretty honored to be able to help him out and really wanna give him my best effort. ”

Cei doi:

…ca va doare un deget, ca aveti febra musculara etc. aduceti-va aminte de el: Tony Penny. A inceput BJJ-ul cand a implinit 80 de ani si anul trecut a primit centura albastra de la Roger Gracie.

Articol din Daily Telegraph Australia:

MEET the martial arts expert hired by Manly to help out-manoeuvre the Storm grapple kings in Sunday’s NRL Grand Final.
Only five days out from the big game, The Daily Telegraph can exclusively reveal Brazilian fighter Marcelo Rezende as the secret weapon in the Sea Eagles’ corner.A black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Rezende was given one mission this year: teach Manly to overcome a Storm team regarded as the league’s best wrestlers.