Band Beyond Desu <the@aiko.com> wrote:
> chuckers <chuckersjp@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday, August 2, 2012 10:35:49 PM UTC+9, John W. wrote:
> >> My bmajw found it amusing  that Japan leads the world in bronze medals.....
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> > 
> > The Olympics are on?  You wouldn't notice for all of the Judo coverage.
> > 
> > Doing better than that one Winter Olympics where they only took home one gold medal.

> First they wanted the internationalization of judo; now they complain that
> internationalization has left them behind and worked against their
> interest, what with all those foreign referees, judges and rising judoka...

Actually, the problem seems that it promotes sloppy standup and gets rid of
the ground work. You rarely see a throw that would have been an ippon in
the older days.

Mike