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| Anton Geesink |
"Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece." Ralph Charell
Let's listen the gigantic Dutch judoka Anton Geesink , first western to line up the Japanese, what writes in the book's margin notes of his “the Judo” year 1971: “About the strength development”: "Strength exercises, like lifting weights, bars, etc, that once I used, are, to tell the truth, useless. Anyway if people like Peter and Jan Snijders, Ernst Eugster, which are optimal technicians, train themself for an hour in the uchi-komi they can handle from 70 to 80.000 kg of weight. think about it a moment. Peter Snijders, in one minute, esecute thirty times a good ones uchi-komi, over a partner like Ernst Eugster. This means that in that single minute it raises a 30X95 kg from the ground. It is Easy to observe how much part of weight, technical preparation for competitions and practices, can be carried out in an hour, when the matter of the exercises is properly planned. If it was limited to lifting weights and bars, at the same time it would miss the preparation to the competition and the technical practice. It is advisable therefore to give the preference to some minute of practices sukui-nage and utsuri-goshi in the form uchi-komi and by means of an adapted practice, it will be found to us in front of an incredible number of possibility.”
