Judo
Overview
Judo includes a great quantity of elements such as push and traction power, balance, direction shifts, throws, holding-techniques and so on.
How Judo is played
The main idea of Judo is to throw your partner in any of the eight directions so they land on their back. In a competition situation if a player is thrown on their back cleanly the fight is won at that point. Failing to throw an opponent cleanly one will receive a score for the throw. Then fighting will continue on the ground. Where the objective then is to hold the player down on their back for 25 seconds or to apply a strangle or arm lock until the player submits (Junior players under the age of 16 are not permitted to do or learn strangles or arm locks).In vision impaired Judo competitions players are brought together where they take grips of their opponent. Then the command to start fighting is given. When competing against sighted players athletes are approximately two meters apart when the command to start fighting is given.Players with a vision impairment can go all the way and represent their country at the highest level at the Paralympics. Nothing prevents a vision impaired person from representing their country at the highest level against fully sighted Judokas.The forerunner for people who are blind and/or vision impaired participating in Judo in South Australia was Anthony Clarke.
His achievements and Awards· Awarded the Order of Australia Medal in 1997 · Paralympic and Duel World Vision Impaired Champion · 2003, 1999/98 Australian Champion (against sighted opponents) · Awarded Judo Federation of Australia, South Australia Outstanding Judo Player of the Decade · A 3rd Degree Black Belt and Accredited Level 1 Judo Coach · Wrote and published Autobiography and Motivational Book "Achieving the Impossible"
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Club Report
Updated 21 August 2009
Hello,
I am the senior coach of Elizabeth Special Needs Judo Club Inc and in collaboration with JudoSA we are holding the "Adelaide Special Needs Judo Friendship Games - 2009" on the 26th September, 2009 at the Starplex Sport and Recreation Centre in Gawler.
This is a special event as it is a first for South Australia with interstate competitors coming to South Australia to compete under a modified rules used throughout Europe. I have been working on this for over 14 months and now with the grants won from Office for Recreation and Sport (South Australian Government) and donations from the playford city council we are set to have fun in this unique event.
The competition will run back to back with another judo event, however specific funding has been made for our special needs event.
As a Judo club we focus on ability rather than disability - and the benefits of such as diversed group of people with both a physical or intellectual disability does not mean the cant gain learn, exercise and interact or play judo.
We are proud to have Mr Anthony Clarke AND Katrina Webb as Elizabeth Special Needs Judo Club Inc patrons and both are a valuable resource of information and a worthy peer for our members.
Do you think this would be news-worthy?
Kind Regards,
Paul Reeves.
ELIZABETH SPECIAL NEEDS JUDO CLUB INC
Diability Liaison Officer for JudoSA
MOBILE: 043 769 2168
P.O. BOX 1567, GAWLER.S.A. 5118
paulreeves@ozemail.com.au
The guy Anthony lost to came 5th and Anthony came 7th.
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