Judo Pays Off

[Khandro]

In a recent daft AB chatterbank thread asking us to tell of something unusual about ourselves, one of the things I posted was that I had once given the future Lord Queensbury a black eye, - quite true, practicing judo with him in the Budokwai dojo, he was older and a couple of belts higher that I was, I accidentally caught him in the face with my elbow, for which I apologised profusely, but the result was a shiner.

I've just seen this in today's paper;

https://archive.ph/K4QCQ

So at 94 he's been able to still see off an attacker -  marvellous !

[ToraToraTora]

Karera wa sore ga kiniiranai!🥋😆

[retrocop]

My older sister was quite a looker in her teens (and in her latter years). My father got her enrolled in a police colleauges judo classes at Hendon where she became an honorary member of their display team. Later she studied under a Mr Otani who was about a 3rd Dan black belt.She achieved a Brown belt but then University interrupted her sport. She never suffered mysogony or goosing etc and worked on a Indian reservation where she could more than handle herself with hands,feet and a shotgun. Those drunken  Indians could be a handful and the nearest Mountie outpost was a few hundred miles away.😁

[Khandro]

Retro; She would have known of and admired as everyone did the Englishman, Trevor Leggett, one of the most amazing human beings I never actually met, but like many, held in awe;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Leggett

[retrocop]

 Khandro

We had three Black Belt judo instructors on the PT staff at Hendon Police Cadet School. One was a PC called Reg Whiteford who affected a hissing japanese accent. If a cadet made a good throw he would say, 'Ah soh. Good one'. The rest of the class would take the rise out of him and continue to copy his 'Ah sohing.' He got fed up with this mickey taking and had the class sit around the edge of the mat. He picked each of us one by one to a fight  (was it called a randori or similar) and the inevitable happened. We ended up in the middle of the mat in a stranglehold.The next thing we knew we were restored to conciousness by some hefty kneeing in the middle of our back. That was a 'resucitation class' Whiteford style. No more mickey taking and a bit more respect shown in the future.

 

     // Leggett also held a resuscitation class once each year.[2][4][9] In these classes, students would pair up and take turns strangling their partners to unconsciousness, and then reviving them under his supervision.[2][4]//

[Khandro]

I think I owe hin an apology for refering to him as a future (mere) Lord. He's actually a marquess which ranks him even higher, not only of a Lord, but even an earl.  

Still, well done him.

[Peter Pedant]

oh Lor' ! - - you can call him Lord Queensberry - tragic kids - two have predeceased him

Times - the  throw was an omigoshi - which I recollect as out-leg sweeping throw - just about the first you learn

reminds me of the time I took a knife off a man - I must looking back have been absolutely fracking crazzy - seemed a good idea at the time. Oh he was trying to use it on someone

[Peter Pedant]

Oh we had ( knife class) Phil Hughes of strangways - not mad at all. weeks of practising overhead knives ( shower scene in psycho gneet gneet gneet) both left and right handed - - and then the more common liver jab.

Very grateful to him - I wrote to him afterwards to say it all worked.

 

[Khandro]

More on this topic & tips, from today's Telegraph;

https://archive.ph/LxoAs

[tindrum]

The throw was osoto gari a backward leg sweep