New Rule “Clarification” from the IJF
Thanks to Yonah Wolf for this post, which is an attempt to clarify the new rules that were enacted at the Jr. Worlds last month in Paris. The experimentation has been tested and will continue to be in effect for the Grand Prix of Abu Dhabi, the Grand Prix of Qingdoa, the World Cup of Suwon and the Big Slam of Tokyo (love that name for a judo tournament). The following document explicitly demonstrates what you can and cannot do. The document clearly shows that grips of legs in sequence of technique, and in counterattack are legal.
At the bottom of the document, you will notice there is a note on the refereeing system, which looks like these tournaments will also use only one referee center mat, with the CARE system in place of 2 cameras filming the contest from 2 different angles. Let’s hope they have someone manning those cameras, and that said person doesn’t “accidentally delete” any content.
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Thanks for the news update Yonah! This actually clarifies it for me quite a bit, I just hope it does for the referees too:)
>The document clearly shows that grips of legs in >sequence of technique, and in counterattack are legal.
ive seen too many wrestling style takedowsn the past few years, I am not going to moan about the loses of these moves under certain conditions.
The clarification really makes it seem less bad than many claimed it was.
But again, NOTHING in judo is as embarassing and anti-sport as turtling or avoiding to engage an opponent.
I love soccer but italians style diving embarasses me.
I feel the same about judo and turtling.
Blödmann !
I havent minded the new rules but the hansoku-make for touching someones leg is the stupidest thing so far.
I dont even think Shido is justified for grabbing the trouser but I could live iwth it but when a simple touch of the thigh gets you DQed, it is ridiculous.
I can count about 12-15 times that Ive seen someone disqualified for simply touching a leg.
Both the severity is overblown and touching and grabbing are two different things.