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Japan judo head to resign in August over abuse, sex scandals

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Cripes it took him long enough. Should have resigned months ago.

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And this comes after the J-Olympic committee was spouting about about a drug free Olympics. Yeah, there might not be any drugs, but corruption, sexual harassment and abuse are rife within Japanese sports.

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About time. Shame shame shame on him for trying with all his might to hang on.

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Better late than never but its clear this putz didn't want to resign, these daft old geezers are a real plague on Japan, way way to many thieving, bullying, kick backing old farts stealing our taxes & racking up the countries debt every damned day, needs to stop!

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I guess he finished the bogus report so now he can resign.

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It's Japan! Everything takes time. 3,000 people have to be told first how to vote/feel about the decision. There is a lot of paper to pass around the PC on their desk. And there is no rush, it was just chicks. Shame on the global community for making this an issue, the Taliban would never have made this an issue.

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Took long enough.

These are just figureheads though, for the organization to change, and average individuals to change, how many more decades?

Where will the next Olympics be?

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Good riddance. The more corrupt old oyaji leave, the better. Unfortunately, in this land of recycled ideas, there will be many, younger corrupt oyaji waiting to take over. If anybody thinks this will somehow make Japanese judo better (s)he is dead wrong. Japan is incapable of change.

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sorry, above,

"average individuals" meant "average individual coaches"

ALL J-sports are basically run on Gaman, hs baseball players playing til they piss blood is an honored rite of passage. Judo is definitely up there in that mentality.

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Come off it! Judo is a violent contact sport: People get grabbed, thrown, strangled and hurt. You have to be tough to compete, so you need tough coaching, military style. Maybe the 'contact' element should be removed and training should consist of Greek dancing on floors covered with pansies.

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Come off it! Judo is a violent contact sport: People get grabbed, thrown, strangled and hurt. You have to be tough to compete, so you need tough coaching, military style.

Gotta agree there. The training for some sports needs to be tough, mentally and physically challenging to become the best of the best. I can understand toning down the training for Judo at a local dojo just for fun competition, however, when you are talking Olympic level training, your mind, body and heart needs to be torn apart and built up again from the bottom.

For starters, Japan might as well say good-bye to anymore gold medals in any future olympics.

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DevilsAssistant,

when you are talking Olympic level training, your mind, body and heart needs to be torn apart and built up again from the bottom

So, you've done it then?

they already didn't get anymore medals last olympics. Well, they got a few, but compared to normal, and considering Japan is the progenitor of the sport, only a few.

In my dojo we have won several national tournaments, including women. 0ur teacher is strict sometimes, but he doesn't hit anyone with a stick, and he doesn't shout at the women that they are dogs or whores or whatever.

"Violence" is a mis-used word here. "Violence" sounds to me like anger or rage. In martial arts the person who wins is always the person who is the most focused and in control, unrattled, not someone thrashing about or in a rage. The thrashing person can do a good job of beating up someone who is scared or weaker than him, but they cannot win against someone who is in control. An enraged person can in fact be easily rattled when something unexpected happens.

Please do a survey of the French, Cuban, Russian, and US Judo teams (teams with some strong players) and tell us how they train and if they use the same methods the J women's coach was using, and if different, their coaches' opinions of said methods. I don't know how they practiced, but I saw them embraced and kissed by their coaches, and encouraged even if losing/ lost. In contrast I saw glares only coming from the J coaches.

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Lowly, Never said that this type of training isn't about embracing and encouraging you trainee. As a coach, when they are practicing well, you reward them, if you know they are not giving 100% you discipline them. "Go sit in the corner and think about what you just did!!" just doesn't cut it. This method of teaching has been around for some time in Japan for Olympic level training. The training matches the sport. I wouldn't see the need for this type of hard-core training teaching someone who does curling or archery.

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Well I guess we just disagree. You may need tension and "push" to get to the next level, sometimes, sure. But you need the the right kind of tension and push. But the wrong kind of negativity or overtraining will just tear someone down w/o building them up. I've seen a lot of this in my time here and in martial arts. The baseball boys pissing blood, and pitchers with their pitching arm irreprably "thrown out" at the old age of 18. Perfectly good MA-ists in tears or completely losing self-respect and derided by their peers. It is just not necessary, and doesn't produce the best. With respect to judo, this is shown in these results:

Severe drop in Judo medals in the last few Olympics.

The women, as a group, sued their own coach, doing this in public (tough in any close-training group environment, but really just unheard of in Japan). This is a group of tough women who between them have survived more than a litlle of the "tough love" you are talking about. Women who have had success at the top of their field on a world stage and know a thing or two about training. They told us the whatfor.

I can not see successful results for this method.

Saying it is because Judo needs it and archery doesn't, is just silly. Any good archery coach will bark at his students if stakes are high and they are not in line. Winning in archery and in Judo requires the same skill: FOcus, not violence. I imagine curling too.

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As with the thread on smacking children, there is a big difference between discipline and violence. Except for the sexual advances by the coaches of the womens judoka, I see nothing wrong with the method of hardcore coaching. Sure high level athletes require exceptional focus and physical skill, but in contact sports also requires an ignition of the heart, a higher level of willpower and the drive to overcome being broken down mentally and physically by your opponent. The only way to prepare a world class athlete in physical sports is to keep pushing that person past his/her limits, physically and mentally.

As Ive stated, archery or curling would not require in your face, hardcore, physical training techniques. Those types of sportswould require more emphasis on the skill and focus aspects of the training. There is no way possible to create a world class level athlete without training him/her full throttle, balls to the wall, and without tearing them apart and building them back up over and over again.

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You got my thumb-up, as I said before it is individual. Raised my son and other ma competitors.

There is no single/simple answer or method. :-)

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Either you are retreating or I misunderstood your original comment.

I said the same thing, strict and discipline is necessary, but not what the women's team were complaining about. This article (and my comment) is about the stuff the women's team went through in particular, not "strictness" in general.

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