Judo: Isao Okano O Soto Gari

Okano's unique o-soto-gari is an example of a pure technique throw. Amazing.

These few luck western Judoka who got the chance to train with Okano are mostly unidentified but thanks to contributors we're getting to name a few:

Roger Cadière: The big guy by the end of the Video is a 6th degree black-belt professor of self-defense traditional ju-jutsu and also a Judo instructor for Judo Sport Rochelais (location: Cacaud 17000 La Rochelle).

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Sports

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• soto
• gari
• o-soto-gari
• isao
• okano
• judo
• sport
• uchikomi

[judorican973]

Sensei Edson carvalho train with Okano! Nice very OSS

[loudenvier]

@judorican973 I didn't heard about Edson training with Okano. I know that Edson trained with my own sensei. George K. Mehdi, but after his fight with Wallid he had to stop practicing there... I know that he trained in Japan for a time before this unfortunate event with Wallid, maybe he trained with Okano as Mehdi sensei considers Okano as his own brother, and would certainly advise Edson to visit Okano's dojo!

[39silver]

i just jizzed in my pants...

[Dudongo86]

It makes wants go trainning Judo again.

[loudenvier]

@FartJokeResearchLabs The translation to "gentle way" or arte-suave is something that started mostly with the Gracies (I'm Brazilian, writing this response directly from Rio de Janeiro in the middle of Carnival! Am I crazy??? :-) By the way, you should come to Brazil in Carnival, you'll go crazy!!!) They got many things from Judo without knowing the deep reasoning/meanings behind and they had to discover/reinvent many things themselves, even the meanings of their art!

[loudenvier]

@FartJokeResearchLabs You are not correct. Ju-jutsu does have weapons. Mostly small weapons. You are romanticizing the meaning of ju. It does NOT mean that. Ju-Jutsu simply means, if you can trace it to a single meaning, a way to overcome stronger/more powerful opponents, turning their forces against themselves. The result IS NOT GENTLE. Ju should be understood not as GENTLE but as YIELDING as you shouldn't oppose force directly. Many jujutsu schools employes weapons.

[FartJokeResearchLabs]

@loudenvier If you think jujutsu involved weapons, you are mistaken. Kenjutsu, bojutsu, and other -jutsu arts were the samurai arts that pertained to training with weapons. Jujutsu by definiteion is an unarmed form of combat. Any form of jujutsu you see that trains in weapons is a corrupted blend of the original form.

Jujutsu = the gentle way = not killing a peasant with a sword, but disarming them using your hands or body.

[WARXDEVILXALAN]

Ohhhh snap that's what I do X)

[loudenvier]

@FartJokeResearchLabs Jiu-jitsu means gentle because it is opposed to use brute strength in favor of technique. The translation to "gentle" is misleading. Jiu-jitsu also encompasses fighting with weapons. Don't mix jiu-jitsu with Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, which is a form of Judo. It is not "gentle" in comparison with sword fighting. It only became a LOT less violent when changed from -jitsu (occupation/job/art) to "-do" by Kano Jigoro view of "jiu-jitsu" as a pedagogic system

[FartJokeResearchLabs]

@loudenvier "Gentle Way" makes more sense when you think of its history as a part of budo. They would call it "gentle way" (judo) or "gentle techniques" (jiu-jitsu) because its a lot more gentle than taking your sword out and chopping a dude in half.

[loudenvier]

@pjmalamo You're welcome!

[pjmalamo]

Hey @loudenvier you are the idiot.