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	<title>Welcome to Laurie&#039;s Blog</title>
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		<title>Judo Training and Cool Down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back to the normal session. Once we&#8217;ve been through some throwing techniques and we&#8217;ve done some free practice we would move to some ground work. We would show some techniques on the ground and then we would demonstrate the technique and then we would demonstrate an escape from that technique, and once again we may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judo Training</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once the class has been through a few techniques, they should be warm.  The next thing that we might do is combine the techniques we&#8217;ve been taught, so we might put two techniques together to be done in conjunction with each other, we may get one of the partners to perform a technique and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Warming up for Judo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After the bow there will be a period of warm up, during this warm up there will be some movement around the mat, usually quite slow building up a little bit of speed.  Once the body is &#8216;warmed up&#8217; there might be a little bit of light stretching, not a lot at this stage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>About Judo Practice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So what can you expect when you join a Judo club?  Well the first thing is you will be exposed to a degree of Japanese culture, for example when you enter the Judo club as you enter the main door it&#8217;s customary to stop and bow.  Depending upon the layout of the club [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.lauriedalton.com/?p=32</link>
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		<title>Ready to step onto the mat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[O.k. so now you&#8217;re ready to step onto the Judo mat, so you&#8217;ll leave the changing rooms and go to the Judo mat and take off your flip flops and step onto the mat.  It&#8217;s customary at this stage to turn and face the mat and bow.  At the start of the class [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.lauriedalton.com/?p=33</link>
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		<title>Different Clubs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whatever your reason for wanting to study Judo or for your children studying Judo it&#8217;s most important that you visit the club.  Go to the club on a night when the club&#8217;s training so you can see how the class is run, and also go to the club at the start and the finish [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.lauriedalton.com/?p=31</link>
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		<title>Judo is for everyone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The next group of children are those from over 10 years of age and under 16 years of age.  Children in this age group are taught armlocks and strangulations, some organisations permit these to be used in competition and others don&#8217;t, so it&#8217;s important for the children to learn these techniques because once they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.lauriedalton.com/?p=30</link>
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		<title>Judo for children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the case of children, many parents send their children to a Judo class because there is still a degree of discipline, which has to be maintained, because some of the techniques can cause injury if not followed correctly.  Of course in any good Dojo the hardest thing that a child is likely to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.lauriedalton.com/?p=29</link>
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		<title>More on Judo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Judo competitions there are a number of ways of winning the competition, the first and most spectacular is with the throwing techniques, you can score points by throwing your opponent cleanly onto their back, or you can earn lesser points for a less accurate, or less controlled technique.  Once the throw is completed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.lauriedalton.com/?p=27</link>
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		<title>More on Judo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So that&#8217;s the general introduction to Judo and it&#8217;s been very quick and has covered only one small aspect of Judo which is the competition and it&#8217;s origins.  The important thing about Judo is that there are immense amounts of other bits of Judo that we&#8217;ve not discussed yet and we&#8217;ll come on to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.lauriedalton.com/?p=28</link>
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