Somebody asked me just recently how he could be a medalist at the National Championships. He said that he didn’t have any Olympic or World Championship aspirations but he just wanted to get on the medal stand at the Nationals. 

Well I asked him, “What do you think is holding you back?”

He said, “Well, sometimes I’m a little hesistant when I go into throw and I don’t commit.”

I IMMEDIATELY told him to stop doing uchikomis because the uchikomis were probably training him to do that in-and-out motion, thus causing the hesistation when it comes time for his body to do something that it is unfamiliar with. ……. That was the training fix.

On the mental side I told him that hesitating to throw and not throwing is the same thing.  You may as well let go off all your inhibitions and just go in with all your might. You’ll be surprised what you’ll get. And it can’t be any worse that what you had to begin with.  Just think, most people don’t throw because they are afraid of getting countered and losing. Well, heck, if you don’t try to throw or at least attack, you’re gonna lose anyway.

So remember, You can only get it (the win), if you let it (your inhibitions) go

Keep makin’ em fly,

The Judo Crusader

Right now the traditionalists, the so-called experts, the look-alike professionals, and the non-instructing instructors have you hoodwinked and bamboozled about what it takes to win and what you have to do to win. Instructors are taking your money without telling you the real deal about improving; coaches are robbing you blind because they are charging you to teach you and they JUST DON’T KNOW what the pros know. And quite frankly there are a bunch of liars and scammers out there and I’m going to expose them RIGHT NOW!

C’mon, let face the facts. Both you and I know that sets, reps and moves don’t make champions. If it did, EVERYONE that practiced hard and trained smart would win, but such is not the case.

There’s got to be more, but nobody’s telling you EXCEPT for me. And I’ll tell you why…

I’ve committed my life to learning, training, coaching and teaching. My whole life! It’s not an on-the-side job that I do after work or after school. Its not a hobby. Its not something that I do to get my “rocks off” or because it relaxes me. This is my profession 25 hours, 8 days a week!

BYPASS THE HURDLES THAT I TRIPPED OVER AND ALLOW MY EXPERIENCES TO CATAPULT YOU UP THE LADDER OF SUCCESS!!!

And it is my desire to see you achieve and watch you bypass the hurdles that I tripped over and eliminate the barbed-wire fences in your life so that don’t have to get scratched up, scraped up and beat up, like I did. I want you to be able to advanced to the top as fast as possible. And here’s how you can do that. You have to…

MAKE SURE THE SOIL IS FERTILE –
IT’S THE ONLY WAY FOR GROWTH TO OCCUR!

Your skull is the hardest bone in your body. It is thick and very difficult to crack. You know why?

Because it protects the very essence of your being and the most important thing that you have – YOUR BRAIN! Once you RECOGNIZE that your brain is like soil, you will do what is necessary to make sure that the soil is RICH so that it can bear good fruit.

PROTECT YOUR MIND AT ALL COSTS!!!

During the day you are bombarded with so many negative commercials, billboards, songs, comments. You are hit with so many negative things on emails, forums and chat rooms. You are being fed images which, for all intents and purposes, are tearing you down and not building you up. And what you are doing is creating “mental soil” that will not bring forth fruit!!

Without taking care of the soil in a garden, the garden is USELESS!! And the same goes for you brain. Creating the possibility of thinking accurately is like giving your brain “mental steroids”. And I’m going to show you how you can utilize accurate thinking the same way I did to become one of the top martial artists and coaches in the world! And more specifically, exactly how you can use it to.

Because the truth of the matter is this –

IT’S THE THINGS THAT YOU CAN’T SEE WHICH SEPARATE THE WINNERS FROM THE LOSERS

And one of the things that cause this separation is not ACCURATE THINKING but the understanding of ACCURATE THINKNG. And now you can make the things which you could not see, very clear and very visible. You now have the opportunity to CAPTURE the things that used to escape you. You now that the chance to grab a hold of your career and put both hands around its neck until it gives you what you deserve.

THROUGH THE PROCESS OF ACCURATE THINKING YOU CAN ACHIEVE GREAT LEVELS OF SUCCESS IN SPORT AND LIFE – I GUARANTEE IT!!

Have you ever been to a judo tournament and sat in the stands and just picked out the winner before the matches have even begun?

Of course you have and the funny part is that you’ve done so with such assuredness that your “pick” is  definitely gonna win.

Have you ever been a competitor and looked at the brackets (draws) the night before the tournament and got upset because you didn’t have a “good” draw? 

Or worse, have you ever just resolved to get second or third because you kew you couldn’t beat”the other” guy?

Many of you have.

The question that I have for you.. Well, I really have two questions for you. My questions are:

1. How did that person *create* in your mind that they were the obvious choice as the winner and….
2. Why do you believe it to be true?

Now I’m not talking about obvious situations like a child playing Michael Jordan in a one-on-one basketball game. I’m talking about situations like the Super Bowl where the Indianapolis Colts are playing the Chicago Bears.  How can you say that one team will be the other with such conviction? How?

I’ll tell you how.You BLINDLY believe that one is going to win and the other is going to lose. So my question is – WHY CAN’T YOU DO THAT WHEN IT COMES TO YOUR OWN JUDO MATCHES?!?!? WHY?!?!?

I’ve personally seen people beat themselves at the weigh-ins. As a matter of fact, before I could learn how to fly, I did this too. I can remember, when I was a mere mortal, being in line in Budapest, Hungary preparing to weigh-in and saying, “Wow, these are the same people that I watch on the video tape.” I was amazed. I was so amazed that I was a FRC. 

For those that don’t know what a FRC is, its a FIRST ROUND CLOWN! That means that I paid a couple thousand buck to participate in a tournament and get pummeled at a camp.

When I started to look at the winners, I found out something. Most of the losers had AGREED to lose before starting and most of the winners had set their minds on winning. And you could tell when people were absolutely SHOCKED when they lost and those who just expected to lose. The reaction is so different.

After winning the 1999 World Championships in Judo – my friend Jimmy Pedro was on top of the world. He went into the 2000 Olympics with the expectation to win. He had a phenomenal tournament but he ended up 5th. Now 5th in the world is not bad, but Jimmy really expected to win. The problem and the good thing about the Olympics is that it only comes around every 4 years and so – most of the people there are able to conjure up the belief or expectation to win because they’ve been injected with the Olympic Spirit, which has been shown to take a mere underdog and boost him to the status of CHAMPION overnight.

Well, the Judo Crusader has found out one of the ingredients in that spirit which creates such an expectation. And he has pinpointed it’s location. And if you want this thing and if you want to put it in your arsenal so that you, your kids, your team or your friend NEVER have to agree to lose again, well…. you can have it. All you have to do is start by going here –> www.accuratethinking.net

A great philosopher by the name of Sophocles wrote, “Wisdom outweighs any wealth.” The Judo Crusader says, “Wisdom outweighs technique. Its not the techniques you know, its what YOU can do with the techniques you know.”

Stop believing in the power of others, and start ACCURATELY believing in yourself!!

Up, up and Awayyyyyyyy

The Judo Crusader

I almost hate to give this secret away but as The Judo Crusader, it is my job to make sure that you have the things that you need so you can be successful on and off the mat. I told you last week that I can fly and I even showed you how I’m able to hurl grown men in the air and put 500 pounds on my back and knock it out with no problem.

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These are just some of the things that you can do when you master the art of Accurate Thinking!

Recently we’ve been talking about Gripfighting, judo in wrestling, wrestling in judo and many things about the grappling game in general.  Now the Judo Crusader wants to hip you to how you can become a tyrant on the mat.

There’s a process called Accurate Thinking that I want to let you in on and once you’ve got it, you will be unstoppable.

Let me tell you how I learned how to fly………. 

You see, I can fly, but there was a time when I didn’t believe I could. But my mom, Mrs. Crusader gave me a large towel,

told me to tie it around my neck,
run as fast as I could
and to throw my arms out in front of me.

And you know what. I DID IT!

I did exactly what she told me and……. (here’s what happened)

I damn near hurt my whole left side. And I scarred my damn face and hands up so bad that I have to wear a mask to this day.

And I was lying on the floor crying when my mother came to me.  I thought she was going to offer some motherly advice or a word of comfort or two, but do you know what she said!?!?!?!  She said,

“That’s good for you. I’m glad you’re hurt.
Because not only do you hurt yourself,
but you hurt others when you don’t BELIEVE!!
If you don’t believe you can fly, then you don’t belong
Amongst The High Fliers, The High Achievers”

After that day, I understood what she meant.

Now it took several years since that occurence for me to really be able to fly. But it didn’t have to take that long. I could’ve started flying immediately……

         if only I knew then what I know now.

Well in the next couple of days, I’m going to let you in on a little secret. I’ve let my friend Rhadi Ferguson know this secret and he’s been using it ever since. And now he and I are going to let you in on it too.

So check back here and make sure you read my next post entitled – “I can fly and YOU can too!”

Up, Up, and Away!!

Before one can go into or tackle gripping sequences, iterations, etc., it is important to understand the major goal (under normal circumstances) of grip fighting. 

In most cases, the individual who controls the battle for the sleeve and has sleeve control – will more than likely control the fight and has a good chance of winning.  Please understand that I am talking generically and not specificially. (There are so many styles and advance gripping iterations that his isn’t always true. An exaple would be the sleeveless taitoshi that was used by the Korean in the 73 kg weight class at the 2004 Olympics to earn a gold medal).

When you are gripfigthing one of the main things that you want to make sure that you control is the sleeve and if you lose control of it, you must gain control of it again as soon as possible.  And if you can’t get it, then make sure the match consists of you trying to get and the other person not letting you have it – and not the other way around. That way you will be the perceived aggressor.

That’s all for now. I don’t want to send you into information overload.

Take Care,

The Judo Crusader

Somebody wrote the Judo Crusader, “What’s funny is that you seem to think that anytime someone throws in a wrestling match they are suddenly doing judo!”

This bona fide dummy CAN’T read. The Judo Crusader nor any of the posters ever said that people who are wrestling are doing judo. What the Judo Crusader said is that Judo Throws WORK in wrestling competition.

And although you mentioned it, the Judo Crusader knows Sergei, Kevin Jackson, Van Arsdale and many high level wrestler and they all agree that the sport of Judo and sambo has helped develop and define the sport of wrestling, just like wrestling has helped define the current day sport of judo.

Only a man with a combative and argumetative spirit can find a reason to argue when one doesn’t exist. But you are more than welcome to post here at any time and I will allow and approve your posts.

Now moving right along………..

Grip Fighting

You cannot fight for grips without any grip strength. The first thing that you should do is increase your grip strength. We’ve all been in a sitiuation where we have just felt helpless because our opponents grip was just soooooo strong. Well,  now I want you to be that person. The person that locks on to your opponents gi like a vice grip.

So start strengthening your grip. If you don’t know what to do – start with:

Pullups
Towel Pullups
Farmers Walks
Curls
Reverse Curls
Deadlifts.

Until next time.

The Judo Crusader

Fighting for grips or gripfighting has to be one of the most important skill sets that a competitive judoka will ever learn. It supercedes throwing and technique nowadays because without being a good gripper, you’ll never get any of your techniques off.

Everytime the Judo Crusader get asked the question, “How do I get my grip?” He has a problem answering. The reason, because the question is so broad that there is no way to answer it in 30 seconds or even 30 days. The process of becoming a better gripper is one of the few skills that you have to be taught systematically and that you have to “learn”w within an environment via the immersion method.

The great thing about gripping is that once you got it – you got it. The hard thing about it is that NOBODY will teach it to you. There are a few people but more often than not people really shy away from giving away the secrets of judo. And believe me – gripping is one of judo’s best kept secrets.

Take care,

The Judo Crusader

The Judo Crusader highly recommends a DVD package called “The Grind” – and here’s why. There’s nothing like having a high level judo player and grappler sit down with you and breakdown film and show you what he was thinking and why they did what it is that they did.

Such practices move beyond the realm of watching film in order to be entertained and move toward studying film in order to learn. It is very difficult to explain to someone exactly how potent dissecting film is for your grappling career. And what’s more – MOST PEOPLE WHO WATCH FILM TO BREAK IT DOWN don’t really know how to do it.  Oh its great to know what somebody’s throw is but there much more to it than that.

If you are really interested in the DVD set called “The Grind”, my good friend Rhadi Ferguson will send you a FREE report about The Grind and a Free audio CD about the whole The Grind project if you go here –> http://www.thegrindvideo.com/   or you can just bypass all of that and take action and get the whole package right now http://www.thegrindoffer.com/ 

Now sit back, see and experience why you need to get The Grind right now and why the Judo Crusader highly recommends it.