- Paperback: 112 pages
- Publisher: Ippon Books (1 Jan 1992)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0951845519
- ISBN-13: 978-0951845516
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 16.4 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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Uchimata is one of the most popular techniques in judo. Every major international competition, many smaller events, and most club randori sessions throughout the world are punctuated by uchimata, the inner thigh throw.
Its basic principle of the lifting leg has endured decades of changes in judo. While other throws have gone in and out of fashion, uchimata has remained solidly at the top of the scoring tables. Though initially regarded as a tall man's throw, the introduction of weight categories made it necessary for judo exponents of all sizes to study it.
As a result, the old form enshrined in nage-no- kata has been expanded to encompass different situations and opportunities. An uchimata expert must be able to cope with opponents who are bigger and smaller than himself or herself as well as opponents who adopt a variety of offensive and defensive postures.
Yet despite the popularity of the throw, few top champions have shown such a wide grasp of the technique as hitoshi sugai, Japan's world light heavyweight champion in 1985-1987. In those two events, and in many other competitions at home and abroad, he demonstrated the effectiveness and the versatility of uchimata. This was all the more distinguished because, unlike many of his opponents, he used pure technique almost exclusively, rarely training with weights to harness extra power.
In this masterly exposition of his favourite technique, he considers old and new forms of uchimata, as well as combinations, defences and counters that every uchimata specialist must understand.
His analysis is based on the gripping situation. Ai- yotsu (same grips) and kenka-yotsu (opposite grips-left against right) call for different solutions, and sugai considers all the main options.
And, as with all volumes in the Judo Masterclass Series, Uchimata is strengthened by outstanding competition photographs and chapters on history and training. It is a classic judo literature.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Extensive analysis of an advanced judo technique,
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This review is from: Uchimata (Judo Masterclass Techniques) (Paperback)
This book is 112 pages long, and of course focuses on Uchimata. While this is a very popular technique at high levels of judo, it is also in fact quite advanced. Throughout the book all the techniques are illustrated with many photographs along with additional useful advice provided by the author. Although of note, the author is left handed, and so generally it is from the left handed perspective that the techniques are shown. The early chapters in this book on the history of the technique and the author's personal view set the scene. But it isn't until the 3rd chapter on techniques that the book really gets going. The chapter on techniques forms the bulk of the book. It begins with a discussion on grips before moving on to describe the different versions of the technique. The author considers whether the opponent is moving forwards or backwards, the height of the opponent and also different grips. Further variations of the technique are also described. However in many cases throughout this chapter the points the author makes seemed quite subtle to me, and will probably require multiple read throughs before they are fully understood. The next chapter describes how Uchimata can be used in combination with other techniques, and this is followed by a chapter on defences and counters. As with all books in this series, the chapter on training is once again very interesting. It describes how to practice the technique with a partner and by yourself. Although while the author makes reference to two ways of practicing the technique solo, frustratingly, only one of them is described in the book. A chapter on competition Uchimata completes the book, which is really just an excuse to provide more illustrations showing the technique in action. In conclusion I found that many of the points that the author makes are often quite difficult to understand, which may be more due to my lack of experience in judo than anything else. And so i suspect this book is aimed more at the experienced player who already has some knowledge of the technique. For the more novice player, i would instead suggest the Fighting Spirit of Judo which provides an overview of a number of techniques including Uchimata, the advice in which is pitched at a slightly lower and more understandable level.
3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Another fine edition to the Ippon Books series,
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This review is from: Uchimata (Judo Masterclass Techniques) (Paperback)
No one, and I mean NO-ONE, can afford to be uninformed about the place of the throw Uchimata in modern judo. It is consistently one of the most popular scoring techniques in competition. Uchimata though simple, powerful and elegant, is not an easy throw to come to grips with. This versatile attacking throw simply has so many effective variations! But this book strips it back to the essential dynamics, and from there builds up an exciting armoury of options depending on the grips you take and the size & style of your opponent. Very practical, very clear. I now feel I understand why the throw works so well.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
What a throw!,
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This review is from: Uchimata (Judo Masterclass Techniques) (Paperback)
Loads of variations on how to perform this excellent throw. Benificial reading for anyone involved in gi grappling from white belts to black belts.
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