Syllabus
ST ALBANS JUDO CLUB SYLLABUS - FROM THE YEAR 2000
Guidelines and notes on syllabus teaching and grading:
The syllabus is intended to form a core of teaching for our club instructors. Our order of teaching techniques, especially nage-waza (throwing techniques), is strongly influenced by Kodokan advice and instructors will aim to stick to this order of teaching. Instructors all hold national coaching qualifications, and will be mindful of the methods and the repertoire of techniques they have learnt in their studies. However, each instructor will bring his or her own style of teaching, may include additional techniques or variations, and will try to make each training session suit all the participants. Often students with a range of grades will attend a session, and it will be impractical for the instructor to teach each student completely individually. Students may then be grouped, and may study techniques which go beyond the minimum they require for their next grading.
St Albans Judo Club aims to cover at least the BJC and BJA syllabus for a given age or grade, and generally a little more.
The requirements stated at each grade are additional to the requirements for earlier grades: Grading examinations may re-test what was already tested for an earlier grade. This is to encourage students to build up their skill and their store of knowledge and not to forget techniques after being upgraded.
The ideal is that randori (free practice) and shiai (competitive contest) should consist of a continuous application of linked techniques by both judoka. To encourage this approach, each throw will not only be taught alone, but also as part of at least one combination, and either as a counter to another throw, or with another throw as its counter. The other throws may be from the same stage in the syllabus, or a previous stage.
It should be remembered that katame-waza (grappling techniques) can be linked with nage-waza (throwing techniques), and that katame-waza can themselves be linked to each other. Escapes, defences and combinations of katame-waza will be taught. It is recognised that instructors will differ from each other in the techniques they link together, and in the way they teach them.
Pupils under 10 are not required to demonstrate kansetsu-waza (joint locks) or shime-waza (strangle holds) except to comply with the BJC syllabus.
Practise of the kata (formal sequences of technique) is as fundamental to judo as randori and shiai. Some kata appears in the junior and senior syllabus from 5th Kyu (yellow belt). Primary pupils are not required to demonstrate kata until the 'blue tabs' stage, but may be enouraged to begin earlier, at the discretion of instructors.
As well as the listed Japanese terms, students are expected to learn the names of the techniques and their application.
Ukemi are important techniques and for reasons of safety are the first that a novice will be taught in St Albans Judo Club. Ukemi will be demonstrated at all grades.
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