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IJCA Discussion Topics

  • Speed Training
  • Periodization
  • Availability of videotapes and Fighting Films' monopoly
  • Nomenclature for "new" international Judo techniques
  • The relationship between national and personal coaches
  • When to start competition for juniors
  • Use of knee braces for competition
  • IJF suspension of coach
  • Should players be allowed to celebrate after a win
  • New Osaekomi rules
  • Alternative double elimination bracket system
  • Ukemi training
  • Sideline coaching
  • Recent IJF referee commission decisions
  • Promotion systems for juniors and seniors
  • Sequence of skill learning
  • Solid, striped and bi-color belts
  • Moshe Feldenkrais, Judo pioneer
  • Quality of referees
  • Need for more than 3 referees
  • Shinohara-Douillet decision in Sydney
  • Use of videotapes for rendering decisions
  • New "overtime" rule instead of Hantei
  • Performance problems in competition
  • New IJF Forum

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