Paralympic Sports A-Z: Judo
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- Find out all you need to know about the Paralympic sport of judo, including the history, rules, classification and equipment.
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Judo, which first began as a martial art activity for practicing mobility, was included as a competitive sport at the Paralympic Games for the first time in Seoul in 1988. At Athens in 2004, women’s weight categories were included for the first time.
The sport is open to athletes with visual impairments in several weight categories. Contests last five minutes and the athlete who scores the higher amount of points wins.
At the London 2012 games, 132 athletes competed in 13 medal events.
How do visually impaired audience members watch the games? Is there a commentator?
How do they warn blind and deaf competitors that they're nearing the edge of the mat?
no one asked bro
Is there a reason why Judo is only a Paralympic sport for people with visual impairments?
Freddie Gormack-Smith people with missing physical limbs and the like have huge advantages or difficulties because they have different biomechanic function.
For instance if someone is missing an arm it is impossible to arm bar them On that side. Etc.
plus it’s incredibly physically dangerous to have two people who don’t have the same physical operations as a normal person to try to manipulate each other as if they did. If someone’s arm bent maybe 40 degrees less than a typical person, they would very easily suffer damage
You see my point? Combat sports for the severely physically impaired is almost morally wrong
because visual impairments are actually not that terrible in judo. but you will need all your limbs, because they will have a disadvantage in leverage, balance and whatnot, that will impede them from scoring normally. visual impairments, on the other side, still permit full control of the body and access to the whole art. and, to be honest, it is a game of feel. If you have your limbs and body awareness, yuo can compete in practically the same ruleset as a non impaired judoka.
I practice judo. and have done the exercize of purposefully not using my sight in training. its very doable and a rich experience, since your body and spacial awareness will go through the roof.
I can’t imagine somebody with cerebral palsy doing judo