{"id":1655,"date":"2010-05-18T23:23:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T03:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2020-04-09T07:09:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T11:09:35","slug":"budolin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/2010\/05\/18\/budolin\/","title":{"rendered":"Budolin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just got back from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Randori\">randori<\/a> with the Budolin brothers, who are visiting from Estonia for a week. They\u2019re a marvelous two man team. Alexsi is about my size \u2013 except in the \u201cwon a bronze medal in the Sydney Olympics,\u201d sort of shape. He\u2019s the talker, and he\u2019s also the coach of the Estonian national Judo team. His brother, Dimitri is the bigger, quiet one. My first thought on seeing him was \u201cgreat, they brought a tank.\u201d After working with him, I\u2019ve modified my opinion: They brought a <strong>fast<\/strong> tank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunday was the seminar, where we spent four hours learning material from them and another hour of randori. Today was a smaller group (only <a href=\"http:\/\/phoenixjudo.com\">my club<\/a>) and all randori. The nice part about randori is that you\u2019re not actually competing \u2013 you\u2019re training. People work techniques and play at a vigorous but respectful pace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We worked out for about two hours, and I wound up going a round with each of them. Working with Alexi was like being a mouse being trained by a cat in how to avoid and counter cats. I may be in good shape \u2013 but that\u2019s something else again. Working with Dimitri \u2013 well \u2013 fortunately for me he has great control. I have no idea how someone that big can also be faster than me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I dig judo. It\u2019s a small and close knit world community \u2013 such that I actually get to play current, active olympic medalists. What did you do today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just got back from randori with the Budolin brothers, who are visiting from Estonia for a week. They\u2019re a marvelous two man team. Alexsi is about my size \u2013 except in the \u201cwon a bronze medal in the Sydney Olympics,\u201d sort of shape. He\u2019s the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1656,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions\/1656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}