Thursday, May 3, 2012

If _________, you might be a judoka.


  • You think “Single-weave or double-weave?” is a significant question deserving serious thought and debate
  • You use more Fabreze than mayonnaise
  • You think a girl who can lock in a triangle choke is cool
  • You think a guy who can lock in a triangle choke is cool
  • At an office meeting, you look at some guy’s blazer and think, “Yeah, kata juji jime would work”
  • At an office meeting, you are thinking about judo instead of the office meeting
  • You are responsible for 42 of the 2,867,982 hits on a Toshihiko Koga YouTube video
  • You can make that 200-pound guy at the dojo sweat and grunt
  • You sometimes throw well enough that the brown belts don't grimace when they get off the mat
  • You are constantly amazed at what the human body can do
  • You are constantly amazed at how stupid your body is, how very much it still has to learn
  • You have rehabbed an injury or two and have a whole new appreciation for what pro athletes go through every day
  • You go at ne waza so hard you want to throw up and can barely re-tie your obe
  • Someone taps because they can’t get out of your kesa gatame
  • You think regular pushups are just a warm up for other kinds of pushups
  • The idea of competing does not seem as far-fetched as it once did