![]() ![]() Judo transfers well into wrestling which is better at groundwork with leg attacks and on sprawls and gripping by throwing – or threatening to throw, and relying on technique rather than strength that might be diminishing. Wrestling’s low bending makes the throws cheeky counters to intractable positions, because of how they stun the opponent by unbalancing them. That there’s an overlap is not in doubt – Georgia where plenty of fine skilled wrestlers come from has its own indigenous variety called – Chidaoba, which marries wrestling and judo techniques. The CWG at Coventry – some distance from Birmingham’s cluster of venues – put just judo and wrestling on the outskirts (Rugby 7s too, sensing the spiritual similarity) – where wrestling enthusiasts from north England – Manchester mostly and Scots drove down from judo-wrestling clubs. Moreover, the Japanese wrestlers – women too, but men mostly – look adept at borrowing either an outer leg reap or an inner thigh throw from judo into the mat. But Canada has been tripping over Jason Morris referencing foot-sweeps and upper body takedowns from judo by neatly hat-tipping them into wrestling. Khabib Nurmagomedov blends both beautifully – though the grapple is stronger. The proliferation of MMA actually pitted different fighting styles in the cage, making it possible to view in real-time how this hybrid might be utilised. It was that split-second surprise move that was lacking in Indian wrestlers at the World’s, and riffing off judo might prove a game-changer, which is where Dalvi says the north east ought to be mined for talent.īut it’s a judo hybrid of wrestling Ranjit Dalvi primarily believes is important to break free from the leg-defense limbo Indians are stuck in. ![]() Where wrestling relies on pummelling force, judo uses leverage and body position to unbalance opponents with flexible shoulder and hip techniques to employ swift, smooth throwdowns. His one-stop solution to the testing tangles and dead-ends Indian wrestlers got into, at the recent World’s – and well might again at next year’s Asiad – is in Judo’s throws through the air. ![]() Especially in the lower weight divisions, India’s north east could even take on the invincible Japanese, by absorbing their style.īut it’s a judo hybrid of wrestling he primarily believes is important to break free from the leg-defense limbo Indians are stuck in. And north east has the athletes to pull this off because of their body structure and skill set in martial arts,” he firmly believes. “India’s wrestling techniques need an injection of judo moves. Or atleast incorporating judo into the wrestling. Not too slyly, but he preaches poaching on the existing judo talent available in the explosive hilly athletes of the north east, and transplanting them into wrestling, if India has to broadbase and evolve in a sport, past its stagnant strength-based north style. Where Haryana started posing a danger to Maharashtra fifty years ago, he reckons Japan and Iran are going to leave India quite far behind in Asia, the gap widening even more than it was. Having minutely followed India’s top wrestlers over the last two decades of Olympic success, Dalvi pronounces another warning of a sinking boat: Indian wrestling itself is falling behind – never mind the two medals at Tokyo – because it’s not adapting quickly enough to international trends where quick agile grapplers will hold an edge over mere strong ones. He speaks with the same heft as tomes devoted to the Maratha’s Panipat defeat threadbare that loss in history in Marathi literature – with introspection and blunt honesty, a clinical look at history of dead men and why they died. He argues that Maharashtra lost out on technique on the mat, besides the brute strength that Haryana pounded upon. He spouts details, but his laments aren’t merely about dissing modern-day wrestlers running behind lucre. Dalvi is that insightful niche voice that airdropped journalists will seek out to get a ready reckoner on the accurate situation on the ground in the interiors, without crediting him for his deep knowledge. ![]()
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