r/judo • u/likejudo • Nov 03 '20

Blind girls in Madhya Pradesh (India) learning judo for self-defense

Just saw this touching article on blind girls in Madhya Pradesh (India) learning judo for self-defense.

https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-43226807?SThisFB

Blind girls learning judo for self-defense
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u/2muchedu Nov 03 '20

My moment to shine: I have actually taught judo to blind kids in India (in Mumbai). My experience - they were rather gifted. The gripping fights were less common. But the throws were great!

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u/rtsuya Nidan | Hollywood Judo | Tatami Talk Podcast Nov 03 '20

how did you get into it? do you have any suggestion / advice for people who are interested in doing the same?

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u/2muchedu Nov 03 '20

In my case, I was a national level fighter already and my sensei was an ex-olympian who was teaching the program at the school for the blind. He asked if I would teach for him a few times. So, I agreed to do that. Seems like a good conversation for Tatami talk ;)

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u/rtsuya Nidan | Hollywood Judo | Tatami Talk Podcast Nov 03 '20

yeah I need to do more research about it! I've been interested for a while and casually looked up opportunities for it. It seemed like we used to have a program here with the blind institute here in LA but that program seems to be gone now. I should probably spend more time and talk to more people about it.

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u/2muchedu Nov 03 '20

Its quite rewarding honestly. Super fun.

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u/likejudo Nov 03 '20

my sensei was an ex-Olympian who was teaching the program at the school for the blind

An Indian Olympian judoka?

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u/2muchedu Nov 03 '20

Yup

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u/sam__bhav Nov 04 '20

By the way what's his name🤣🤣🤣.

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u/2muchedu Nov 04 '20

Sorry - not doxxing myself. But as you asked before - here is the list of indian olympic judokas again: http://onlinejfi.org/about-jfi.php

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u/sam__bhav Nov 04 '20

Surely i didn't know about that

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u/sam__bhav Nov 04 '20

Which national games did you participate in?

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u/2muchedu Nov 04 '20

As mentioned before - not doxxing myself.

Having said that - I have medals in more than one national level competition.

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u/sam__bhav Nov 04 '20

Ex-olympian......your coach......better be an foreigner because in India only one guy was able to qualify for olympics. So you know if ur lying.

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u/2muchedu Nov 04 '20

Ummmm... i have no idea where you got your information. Because there are teams of Indians who have fought in the olympics. I have personally fought against at least 2. (None have medals as best I know). Here is a list from the JFI: http://onlinejfi.org/about-jfi.php

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u/sam__bhav Nov 04 '20

And the guy who qualified for the Olympics was Avtar singh weight category (-90kg). The olympics was the 2016 summer olympics held at rio de janerio. Apart from that no other judoka have been able to go close to the points talley which qualifies you for olympics.

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u/2muchedu Nov 04 '20

I didnt say that it was in the last olympics. Not sure where you got that information...

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u/sam__bhav Nov 04 '20

No Indian judoka have been selected for olymics except (avtar singh) for any olympics till this date.

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u/2muchedu Nov 04 '20

I literally sent you the link twice already. Here it is the third time: http://onlinejfi.org/about-jfi.php

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u/JKDSamurai Nov 03 '20

This is wonderful. Good luck to them in their training. I hope they never have to use it for the purpose of self defense.