I challenged a judo Olympian (and won?)

[@CatianaKeys]

1:37 I just realized I spelled "judogi" wrong here. It was such an honor to be allowed to wear their official judogi with the German crest on it, thank you for entrusting it to me for the training session!

[@notmozart1]

I thought that you did very well - well done. Dave Judo 3rd Dan.

[@CatianaKeys]

Thanks so very much Dave! That means a lot - especially from someone who’s so highly advanced. I can only dream of that! What Olympic sport(s) would you want to see? 🤔

[@estefanyoropeza4780]

No one cares. John, 2nd Dan.

[@Fuego958]

Really well produced video for such a tiny channel. Great work!

[@CatianaKeys]

You don't know how much this compliment means to me, thaaaaaank youuuu! So far I pay for everything out of pocket, but I hope it'll be worth it someday.

[@koenig_der_zwiebeln9094]

You're incredibly sympathetic, please continue these videos!

[@CatianaKeys]

Thank you so much! ✨ If you need a fix now you can check out my fencing and skateboard videos. What sport should I try next? It so hard to choose 😩

[@IMSColoradoSprings]

I've been a judoka for 58 years, now a nidan (2nd degree black belt). This is a superb video with the spirit of judo throughout. I love the introduction explaining how judo was started and some history of Jigoro Kano with some historical video. Catiana did a great job putting this together and the other judokas were a joy to watch. The Japanese translation of judo is "The gentle way." However, after years of experience, I can say there is nothing gentle about it! Catiana made some very impressive throws and overall did a great job in such a short period of training. I'm sure if she continued, she would move up the ranks and eventually achieving her black belt.

[@CatianaKeys]

Thank you so much for this lovely comment. As a sports journalist and fan of sports in general my initial idea with this series was to give a true glimpse into these Olympic events. I’m really happy actual judokas see themselves represented with this video and not mocked. You guys are so incredibly supportive and every comment saying I could turn out to be good makes me itch to get a yellow belt 🤞🏾✨ Mascha got 7th in Paris btw!

[@IMSColoradoSprings]

@@CatianaKeys IF you have time, I would go for the yellow. This is a great channel for people wanting to understand what it takes for each sport. My godchildren are starting judo and will send this to them. Their mother is Ariana Richards (Lex/Jurassic Park). I know she will love this as her children are male and female. I had the pleasure of starting the first all female high school judo teams in California in 1969 and wish this video was available at that time. Congratulations to Mascha!

[@Armanm0084]

‏‪15:19‬‏ although we all know that mascha fell herself but that was a beautiful throw. Perfect ippon osoto❤😊

[@CatianaKeys]

Aaaaaaand we all agree at the same time, that she had no chance against me, right? 🥲 Thanks for finally letting me know what that throw is even called! I’m honestly itching to learn more, it was so much fun.

[@Armanm0084]

@@CatianaKeys yeah it's obvious because you're such a strong girl.💪👌 And about the name of the throw, yeah it's a combination of ippon-seoi-nage and o-soto-gari which is really reliable especially when you perform it quickly because it'll make the opponent totally confused and that's why I often use this technique as my main combined technique.😉👌

[@Itzak15]

Such a nice looking dojo and training environment

[@CatianaKeys]

Yes, it is one of Germany’s Olympic Training Centers of judo. It was the perfect introduction 💗

[@greyfox3954]

Ich glaube das ist das Trainingscenter in Köln. Unser Dojo hat nicht Klättergerüste und Wände an den Mattenrand, weil Vetletzungsgefahr. Wünschte es wäre anders, Wände sind gut um Techniken wie Uchi Mata zu üben.

[@CatianaKeys]

Dieses Dojo is in München. ☺️

[@albertmuhe5529]

Everybody shout be like you,keeping mind of ‘’the beginning “of your the best player I had never seen . I love judo, and I had stopped because my health condition.

[@CatianaKeys]

Thank you so much! I hope find another Sport you love that you can do whatever you’re dealing with. All the best 🙏🏾

[@EbuzzNYC]

Great video, keep up the great work, judo is the best!

[@CatianaKeys]

Thank you! I’m so glad you enjoyed watching. Judo did turn out to be way more exciting than anticipated. What other Olympic sports do you like? Maybe I should try another one of your favorites next!

[@EbuzzNYC]

@@CatianaKeys I think swimming would be a great video!

[@CatianaKeys]

Great sport to watch for sure, I happen to SUCK at swimming lol Maybe I'll finally learn it properly!

[@EbuzzNYC]

@@CatianaKeys One of my goals in life, to get better at swimming.

[@abbie..freexx]

I loved watching this so easy to watch I gave u a subscribe!

[@CatianaKeys]

Yay - Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it, more is to come.

[@JustNichts]

nice , I also was part of that training that day . there are some seconds where I am in the video , but mothing spécial lol

[@CatianaKeys]

That’s so cool! I had to edit out close ups of everyone who didn’t sign the permit. By law I can only show larger groups or people in the background when they didn’t specify they are ok to be shown. But where can I find you in the final edit? 👀 Maybe I happen to have cool footage of you!

[@sbrix5755]

Now you have tried Judo, everything else will be a disappointment! 🙃 Nice Vlog - subscribed!

[@CatianaKeys]

Haha 😆 - I hope to prove you wrong. There are so many great Olympic sports. What’s your second favorite after judo? Thank you for subscribing! 🙏🏾

[@sbrix5755]

@@CatianaKeys Probably athletics ..... but until they wear a Judo Gi? Not watching! 🙃

[@CatianaKeys]

Oh no! Athletics is my favorite sport. I could watch it for days in end without ever getting bored ✨

[@dnl3144]

you should continue you are good for a beginner but she got the better of you during the fight 😂

[@CatianaKeys]

Mascha promised to be nice at the beginning, I’m glad she kept that promise, because she could have beat me at any time lol 🥲 It was still extremely fun and now I’m itching to get a yellow belt … Do you do judo yourself?

[@dnl3144]

@@CatianaKeys yes, I do with a little advice, you should have held up to her without any problem. I like it, you move well you must be a good sport. you should go to a club to get the yellow belts

[@CatianaKeys]

Oh that’s so cool! Thank you, I’ve been active in sports most of my life, bust mostly as a gymnasts and then sprinter (athletics). Never did I think I’d try martial arts tbh But my new goal is to one day earn a yellow belt when I’m done with this project!

[@terrykim2748]

@@CatianaKeysa gymnast will make a good judoka. I too think you should continue doing judo, and then maybe jiu jitsu as well 😀

[@bochica3562]

❤ I think you did awesome too! You have had the best introduction possible with these great masters. Give it a try for 6 month! And: most judo people are really cool, great way to meet people.

[@Sir-Complains-a-Lot]

Great frikking video!!

[@CatianaKeys]

Thank you so much! I’m glad you liked it 😊

[@Vangienator]

It's so confusing to watch ein Video in zwei Sprachen, die ich auch beherrsche. :D You did really well on the mat. Everyone knows that Masha was just toying with you, but she was letting you experiment and discover, of course that is also part of Judo. You should have gotten the 7. Kyu (white-yellow belt) at the end it would have been a suitable (and possible) finale.

[@CatianaKeys]

I had the same problem editing lol Of course I see how often (and easily) she could have just smacked me down, she’s a World bronze medalist and Olympian for a reason! But maybe we should have done a fight where she actually showed how powerless a noob like me is 😅 Wait, that would have been possible? Now I have to go back. I want that belt badly!

[@Vangienator]

@@CatianaKeys absolutely possible because the white-yellow belt is basically an honorary rank to encourage people to continue. Someone from the DJB should have told you and used the chance. In the video you already showed much of the necessary skills for the yellow belt too (I'm a judo trainer and examiner too).

[@CatianaKeys]

I’m internally screaming - I need to go back as soon as possible 😭 I want that belt BAD!

[@Stompi001]

very nice video please more of this

[@CatianaKeys]

I’m glad you enjoyed it! And yes, that’s the plan. What would you like to see?

[@Stompi001]

@@CatianaKeysi love martial arts, maybe a art thats forgotten something like that

[@CatianaKeys]

Wishing the Olympics taekwondo and karate do seem very interesting! Boxing seems soooo scary though 🫣

[@wobfam_2712]

It isn’t an olympic sport, but if you enjoyed Judo, i’d reccomend making a video trying Brazillian Jiu Jitsu, it’s very similar and a really fun expirence.

[@CatianaKeys]

Thank you for the recommendation! Judo was so much more fun than I originally expected.

[@tw4tchm3n52]

Tolles Video über einen tollen Sport

[@CatianaKeys]

Freut mich, dass es dir gefallen hat. Der Sport ist wirklich toll!

[@EvoGoody]

I bet you enjoyed it. Judo is amazing fun.

[@CatianaKeys]

You’d be right about that! I was great fun, so much more delightful than anticipated.

[@EvoGoody]

@@CatianaKeys Keep it up. I've been doing it for years and love it.

[@yolololboy5920]

something small that i noticed in judo you're not supposed to wear jewelery cause you can hurt your opponents or yourself. I also think this is the case in other combat sports in the olympics. For the rest i really hoped u enjoyed the sport and u did great.

[@CatianaKeys]

True, I was told that during warm up and took them off off camera then. I wanted to add that in, but the video already felt way too long 😅 It was a lot more fun than I excepted and I got to watch soooo much judo during the Olympics as a sports journalist and I could finally appreciate it. Thank you!

[@felixpineraperez8198]

nice vid!!

[@CatianaKeys]

Dankeschön, thank you, gracias!! 🤞🏾

[@twoblocksdown5464]

your german is sooo good. Where are youf from and how did you learn it?

[@CatianaKeys]

My parents moves us from Florida to Munich, Germany, in 2002 😆 I’ve grown up bilingual since.

[@HuBe-n2p]

its nice you try to do that with olympics sports!

[@CatianaKeys]

I’m glad you like the concept! ☺️

[@marcyeo8320]

Lovely video. ;)

[@CatianaKeys]

Thank you so much! ✨

[@marcyeo8320]

@@CatianaKeys No, Thank you! It's a very good introductory video to those wanting to know more about Judo.

[@CatianaKeys]

Thank you so much for all the love on this video! If you want to see more of the series check out my fencing video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mYPUZaNnqtKrarM

[@josec.llamas4422]

Your even better than me, and I'm an orange belt. Congrats ❤

[@CatianaKeys]

No way! You’ve worked really hard for that belt and I only know two throws 🥲

[@CatianaKeys]

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[@Yupppi]

Sorry for a very lengthy text, I got pretty excited about the video! Let's be fair you want your coach to have a black belt, that is a symbol that they're ready to teach, that they have "graduated" from studying the basics and are ready to become a serious student of the art/sport. That's when you're seen as ready to develop and practice your own style and advanced strategies and technique, when you have shown you know the fundamental aspects of judo well. I suppose it is implied by how there's 6 kyu ranks before the black belt, but in dans starting from the black belt there's still 10 dan ranks or potentially even higher than 12. The higher dans can have striped white and red belt and the top dans have red belt. Usually having a red belt means something like you travelled from Japan to another country and founded their judo federation or built up the judo in that country to a significant status. Usually olympic medalists can reach something like 3th to 6th dan depending on how decorated they are and if they for example have an educational youtube channel and a great dojo and teach judo in a bigger scale, but even up to 9th dan if they do a lot for international/national judo. It's probably no surprise after watching this or trying it out, that usually there's a beginner class that lasts for some months where you start slow: you do some ground pins and practice ukemis (break falls) and it takes weeks until you are taught your first throws. Also to build up the fitness (for previously athletic people they might progress a bit quicker for having some existing capacity and resilience, for people at their 30's without previous sports it's a challenging hobby to start just in physical terms). And depending on how serious the instructor is about your well-being and your goals, you might not be doing randori (free practice, sparring) for months, even year(s). Because randori is a good teaching tool for actual judo, but it easily leads to injuries, frustration and misguided focus if you don't have all the basic skills from the backbone. Meaning you can execute the throws without thinking, you know how to lead to the throws, you know how to move and create opportunities and control intensity of the play. Beginners usually have no idea what to do once they stand gripping each other and they're confused to why the techniques don't work and they quickly start just wrestling with force which leads to injuries and if you're let's say at 30 years old and have no previous sports background, that can easily lead to dropping judo altogether. The warmups of advanced players are also gruesome to a beginner. For experienced player their conditioning is so high that it actually does prepare them for judo, but for a beginner you could quit after just the warmup and call it a good day of exercising, not only cardio but muscle training as well. One thing your instructors might have missed that a big dojo (gym) etiquette in judo is removing all and every piercings and jewelry like rings before practice. For everyone's safety including the partners and yourself. Usually you see just white judogis unless/until you have higher belt competitive players. Blue gi was introduced just to make international competition more clear, in Japan the tournaments are still often white on white. It's also interesting how almost every country's federation has their own belt system even though in broad lines they are similar. With these athletes they are very good at throwing so it's also easier to take the throw, but it's still against your intuition as a human to take the throw relaxed and without the ingrained skill of breaking the fall, it can still be tough on the body (even if you know those things and have good training partners it is still something that takes up some recovery, just like running hammers your joints even if it feels relatively light). It might also look scary when they throw each other powerfully, but when someone proficient in the throw throws you, it feels so good compared to a beginner throwing you. It's so comfortable to land from a good throw. As you probably noticed, this level of athletes are also really good at managing their intensity and are good training partners, they let you play judo as well instead of dominating you. That's part of why randori is often better left for a little bit later, once you've understood how you should be training with partners. However it's truly fascinating to every now and then experience how it feels when a better player takes a grip on you and has total control over anything you do or want to do or they want to do. It's impossible to remove, everything you do ends up being worse for you and they might just have one hand on the gi and be flinging you around without effort and you just run around following their arm. Or when they are passive and just look to punish you for any mistake you do (and it happens quickly). I believe two waza-aris also add up to ippon. Waza-ari can be for example a throw that doesn't land fully on their back or two pins for 10 seconds. There are banned techniques in the sport competition of judo like leg locks, leg throws and you can't head dive when you execute a throw. Also you get penalties from crossing the play area and from inactivity (if your opponent tries to throw you for three times without you making any attempts to throw, you get a shido - a penalty, and three penalties means a victory for the opponent). Banned techniques and head dive are instant hansoku make - disqualification. And indeed it's more than just a sport. I think you can divide judo into two categories, the sport judo and the martial art judo. The martial art judo also has defense against blade weapons and includes strikes like punches and kicks, it also doesn't ban techniques. It's more like Japanese jujitsu. Of course you could get deeper and talk about how judo is a philosophy and lifestyle, since a lot of judo is about philosophy as well. For example the goal of judo is "mutual benefit" on top of the "gentle way" - which shows up in practice and treating your training partners. It's a fascinating sport where you start with the realisation that you have no idea what to do, then you think you are figuring out what judo is and then you realise how little you know and start to slowly accumulate the basic things and building up more and more technique and strategy and understanding little by little, becoming more natural and directed when playing judo. And you start feeling where your partner's balance is, and with the drilled in techniques reacting to the advantageous balance shift comes from the backbone. It's a fascinating feeling when you realize you have learned to feel what your partner's body is doing even if you have closed eyes, you can be staring in their eyes and know where their foot is and where they are going. It's at the point where you discover how little you know, when your knowledge is enough to know how much you don't know, that you really start to enjoy judo, at least in my opinion. Initially I didn't realize that yellow belt basically means that now you're allowed to start practicing judo, that you've learned the bare minimum to be allowed to practice. I thought I had achieved some sort of skill, graduated from a beginner. It motivated me a lot when I understood that in fact the learning of the basics had only started, I hadn't learned the basics and awarded a yellow belt for that - that's what you've learned when you get the black belt. And there's years and years of practice ahead if you want to, with benefits to how you move your body and your physique, but also for your thought process and life philosophy (for people who are already athletes the physique change might be less but it can still change to a different direction, but knowing how to fall and having a good balance is a huge thing for later in life and lowering injury risks). Thanks for a good glance at judo.

[@CatianaKeys]

Thank you so much for all of your insight! They did explain the dan ranks for the black belt, but that would have been a bit too in depth for the lenght of the video. But I hadn't known that it's not common to train in randori - now I'm even more grateful for the chance! And I was told to take off the jewelry during warm-up, so at some point then I did take it off. I just didn't have that on video - same with taking off my socks. Overall, my hope is for people to learn the absolute basics about a sport they might have never even watched before and walk away knowing the rules and itching to try it themselves. I know these videos will never be more than a glance into a new world, so thank you for all of your knowledge!

[@ronykottayam5329]

Very good super boxing🎉

[@CatianaKeys]

Thank you! Great idea, it sounds even scarier though 😅

[@xande485]

GÊmeas do Judô!!

[@CatianaKeys]

Such a great sport!

[@lotfi3605]

Try bjj too (jujiutsu) next time

[@CatianaKeys]

Thanks for the recommendation, unfortunately that isn’t an Olympic sport. But I might add to the series later and try non-Olympic activities. ☺️

[@oceaflow]

Awesome video really informative. I am learning judo at the moment and you did so good for your first time. The warm ups I still have to get used to 🥲🥲 🥋

[@CatianaKeys]

Thank you so much. I’m glad this helped in your journey to a yellow belt and beyond! My head jerked back so bad on the drop moves, that is so hard 😫

[@hamala7437]

its dēee art of throwing baddy balance outta âaaa balance, waiting for yäaaa baddy itself to get gathrd outta that scattery moment soonr possible and get on again ...

[@CatianaKeys]

“The art of balance” would be a way better suited wiring compared to “The gentle way” 😅

[@lotfi3605]

Do this again other place or somethin

[@CatianaKeys]

I will definitely try judo again in my free time. It was so fun!

[@youlovechika]

tuff

[@CatianaKeys]

Judo is a whole lot tougher than anticipated! Can't wait to try more Olympic sports. Let me know if you have a favorite.

[@DennisMuller-fi8ce]

Catiana is good for a beginner

[@CatianaKeys]

I had the best teachers! It was so much fun 🙌🏾

[@DennisMuller-fi8ce]

😊 Maybe you go to Training regularly

[@ColeSATurner]

👍

[@CatianaKeys]

Glad you enjoyed it! Let me know what Olympic sports I should focus on next.

[@anilphilip546]

I don't appreciate the clickbait title: "I challenged a judo Olympian (and won?)" It would have been better to have a straightforward title.

[@CatianaKeys]

But I did challenge an Olympian to a judo bout and technically did win, I actually put that part in brackets as a question instead of making the title “I won against a judo Olympian after two hours of training”, which most others would have done(, which despite being accurate still would cross the line to me personally as it implies it being serious.) From the start of the video I show how great the Ballhaus twins are and explain that I’m an absolute noob. Therefore, it isn’t clickbait, just a clickable good title. But we can agree to disagree. What would you have titled it instead to still engage and interest possible viewers?

[@cliffordrichardc]

haha

[@breannestahlman5953]

2 seconds should have done it: you lose our time and so do we.

[@CatianaKeys]

Oh come on. Let me have some fun. That doesn’t hurt anyone ☺️