Honestly loving this thread; my contribution is that I think parts of Ju no kata should be used for warm ups more— very good study of timing and yielding to force, and gets the body nice and stretched, also nage no kata style drills for waza should be more normalised, as it teaches movement theory and builds useful pattern recognition for randori in tandem with the throw [this is also how Kano writes to practice waza in Judo Kyohon, and seems more conducive to ecological approach(?)].
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u/TotallyNotAjay sankyu Jun 07 '25
Honestly loving this thread; my contribution is that I think parts of Ju no kata should be used for warm ups more— very good study of timing and yielding to force, and gets the body nice and stretched, also nage no kata style drills for waza should be more normalised, as it teaches movement theory and builds useful pattern recognition for randori in tandem with the throw [this is also how Kano writes to practice waza in Judo Kyohon, and seems more conducive to ecological approach(?)].