ONO seminar in Europe! What I learned.

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I attended the Fribourg session on 27 and 28 Jan 2024. Here are a few explanations by Ono firsthand: 1- he explained that Uchimata is a completely ashi waza and to prove it he does the no hands grip with uke already out of balance. I found it needs a lot of thigh power. 2- the armpit grip he explained should always be an upper sleeve or biceps grip and he said he liked it a lot. He didn't do komikata in Fribourg other than this grip. 3- he trained us on maruyama's Uchimata. It's here in this video. He said you do a single leg taio and turn and then you go for Uchimata. You can do multiple taios in a circle before you apply the Uchimata. He also said you can take your time between the Taio and the Uchimata because uke is out of balance anyway. 4- he did a sode tsurikomi goshi session and explained the difference between his technique and Abe's. To him it's a surprise last resort after making space with osoto fake. It also does not require any strength just remember to cross your arms like a cross and not let your upper hand to go over the lower hand. 5- he really loves his osoto with the hip and calls it osoto otoshi. He also showed us a secret underdog entry to it. The whole point is that you need a left huuuge step and never turn as it's meant to be a forward throw. Also posture up and have a neck grip. 6- he specifically said in uchikomi my Uchimata is always hanegoshi. In nagekomi or randori it becomes uchimata. There was no specific explanation why. In my opinion, I think it's safer. 7- he calls any judo that bends and does not keep a tall posture weak judo. He says his whole judo begins and ends in the hip being forward whether in attack or defense. 8- he said that in uchikomi you don't need the 3 o'clock philosophy. All you need to do is after holding the sleeve to touch your body with your elbow. Don't lift. Don't need to look at your clock. Also with the lapel hand always look at the hand or ukes chin. Don't look away when you turn. David paupaux did not allow filming so I took notes. But David had the whole event professionally filmed with at least 4 cameras. so it will be on a dvd somewhere if it's released. I hope this helps.

[@JudoHighlights2015]

Thanks for all of this information! Btw, who is this David guy?

[@LanguageHelp]

@@JudoHighlights2015 David Papaux is a Swiss judoka and lawyer who is friends with Ono and the administrator of Onodojo website. He's a very nice fellow.

[@LanguageHelp]

Edit: "meant to be a backward throw" "always look at your lapel hand or uke's chin. Do not turn your face away"

[@Bl2EAKIN]

re: uchikomi, what do you mean by tocuhing your body with your elbow?

[@LanguageHelp]

​@@Bl2EAKINtraditionally you pull uke's sleeve and look at your watch. Ono says you don't need to do that. Pull the sleeve to the point where your own elbow touches the side of your body and lock your arm like that during the throw.

[@emi-ni9bd]

as an uchimata player i can say that this video was incredibly useful as i wasnt able to attend his seminar! thanks for the video man

[@JudoHighlights2015]

Glad it was helpful!

[@peterreid9769]

Shohei Ono is an all time great. An absolute legend. He and Haruka Tachimoto are my two favourite players of all time.

[@Thejudonomad]

Very very nice to get these footages . Thanks for sharing

[@marcanthony5744]

Ono Osotogari is just a thing of beauty. It’s just so smooth

[@vinceocratic]

I believe he did his masters thesis on the technique,

[@hodgsoncatalin3243]

Thank you for this short video. it was very helpful to see this with your thoughts. Cheers ...

[@mieszkowisniewski835]

Thanks for that this episode. I am a huge fan of Ono Shoei. Never train judo but Shoei is a legend for me

[@Niedfyr]

Very interesting. im a yellow belt and did and do some weightlifting, but ofc i always struggle against faster and more technical randory partners who trained judo since childhood. The grip near the armpit may be a gamechanger for me. In randory, im always afraid to "go in" and just try to survive, but with the grip and the armpit i might put some pressure on the other judoka. Great video as always!

[@NoSavo_4980]

Valuable Content!!!

[@sergedelval5373]

Thank s for this video

[@eudesgi9121]

Very interesting video, good job

[@JudoHighlights2015]

Thank you very much!

[@Aname550]

Thanks for this man, I've been scrounging for clips of Ono's seminars, very helpful of you to get this rare footage and compile it for us

[@bagelpap]

Thanks for sharing this very interesting video.

[@xyosted1]

Thanks for that big explanation! ❤

[@GAmbA_OosAkA]

ono’s masterpiece

[@JudoHighlights2015]

I've updated the KuSakura judo gi ordering site - www.judo-highlights.com

[@chameleonpt]

Was at the seminar, can send you vids. Use line?

[@JudoHighlights2015]

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[@oneofakind8049]

Ono always throw me with the spinning variation

[@cejII]

Agreed he is doing hane goshi sometime

[@bolo4970]

Awesome

[@942mattu]

Very interesting! It's like a wise wizard revealing his magic tricks.

[@lb261benza-fu9wt]

Can we have an Italian kata guruma video?

[@CamerOneiric]

I wonder if Inoue’s coaching has something to do with the Uchi Mata looking like Hane Goshi; he acknowledged in his Kodokan waza video that his Uchi Mata is very adjacent to Hane Goshi. And I know Keiji Suzuki used that stabbing motion in his two step Uchi mata back in the day. Between those two, Ono probably had a wealth of knowledge to draw from!

[@Bl2EAKIN]

I think that the reason his and Maruyama's Uchimata often look like Hane Goshi is because Uchimata really is a hip throw, and so they would always aim for the far leg of the opponent as this gives a much better chance of placing their hip in the proper position. As I try to get better at this throw I realize that if I am aiming to reap the leg, the throw almost never works, unless you are doing the spinning Uchimata, but then I don't think it's even the leg or hip doing the throw, it's the "kuzushi". HanpanTV recently made a video on this topic where they demonstrate how little matters how far up you can kick your leg during Uchimata, because it's not the leg that makes the throw happen. Ironically, they make fun of the wall exercise for Uchimata, saying it's a waste of time and one should focus more on positioning, grips and doing the proper kuzushi instead of standing near a wall and kicking their leg up.

[@everydaywarriors]

they make fun of it? That's odd. Where is that?

[@Itzak15]

How do you find out about seminars like this? I'm from a small club in northern Europe and wouldn't mind to travel to make it to one

[@JonaJota7839]

Donde es que esta @flexcidine donde esta el buen pipas

[@jacobflores78]

Keep the hane goshi debate in the comments sections with the rest of the keyboard warriors

[@eladeponllepaulfrede5416]

I wish to know, the bicep grip he demonstrated. Is it allowed in competition?

[@Itzak15]

I think it still counts as a normal sleeve grip. It's just very far up the arm. If you use it to stall I would not be surprised to see a shido come as with any grip

[@mfp5585]

Is he going to give more seminars in Europe? Any place I could find out about it?

[@cristim9779]

In my opinion he only showed demonstration stuff. The real uchimata, the one he does in competition is not shown here. Recently Maruyama held a seminar in Romania and we've seen the same demonstration (hane goshi like) uchimata. Not the real one. The effective one. I guess they really don't want to share it. They just want to look like they are sharing. And is the same with all the japanese that i've seen so far. I've seen Suzuki uchimata on Superstarjudo and he said that you have to kick up the leg but when he demonstrated it he clearly didn't kick up, he rather lifted with the side of his leg. It seems to me that they don't want to show us really anything of value. Maybe they are afraid they would lose their supremacy in the sport.

[@СергейКальц]

как борец он легенда, посмотрим как он будет как тренер😂

[@alejandrocm5468]

Ono Seminar in Madrid in the Stage of AJM, Asociación Judo Móstoles. The best club in the world!

[@vigarpogarcia7482]

El Bruce Lee del judo

[@aaronsutich-ursell8670]

Kapai tahi

[@astrajopel.dasistauto.3867]

незнаю почему но мне кажется что они не показывают мелкие секреты они показывают то что все уже знают но что то они скрывают😂

[@meanchey6252]

L😊

[@moloned]

There's a video on KZbin of Kayla Harrison doing this clothesline variation of osoto gari so it's not unique to Ono Shohei

[@sonofsouth2800]

Ono coincidentally retired with the rule change, as he often posted his head on the mat when throwing with uchi mata. Today he'd be dq-ed for doing it, so he'd have to modify his favourite throw.