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The 1964 Olympics took place in Tokyo, Japan, where judo started back in 1882. At the beginning there was a discussion whether or not to include this discipline and if yes as a demonstration event or full event? Needless to say judo was featured for the first time as full event and even then for the judokas cutting weight was an issue they had to face. There were four weight divisions: up to 68kg, up to 80kg, over 80kg and Open (no weight), the only division where making weight was not relevant and the only one where the Japanese did not win the gold, which went to Anton Geesink from the Netherlands. An outstanding moment in judo’s history.

Twenty five athletes entered in the up to 68kg division ranging from 18 to 35 years, from 163cm to 177cm, some of them with no weight problems and other having to suffer hell in order to make it. There was one particular athlete who was found sitting on the scale early in the morning the day of his competition waiting for the official weigh-in to open as he was about to faint for all he had done in the previous weeks: for him, a strong judoka, making weight had become a nightmare.

In those days, the early 60s, most judokas had to rely upon “do it yourself judo cutting weight methods”, which consisted of cutting food, drinking, saunas and so on with no specific clue on a scientific approach to the matter. The athlete who was sitting on the scale the morning of his competition had been training four hours a day the weeks prior to the competition and eating two nashis (Japanese apple/pear) at breakfast, two at lunch and two at dinner with a special treat at lunch: the juice of a squeezed steak. What a great way to face an Olympic competition.

Today most of the high level athletes, that enter the Olympic judo squad, can rely upon different staff members taking care of their specific needs: physical (doctor and physiotherapist) , nutrition (dietician), psychological (psychologist). Therefore their performance might not be as affected when it come to cutting or making weight. Of course to this, one needs to add also all the studies, that have been made in the last decades on nutrition and their effects on the human body, which were not available in the early sixties.

Coming back to the athlete who was sitting on the scale: he had two big bottles of water under his arms, as he was totally dehydrated and as soon as he was over with the weigh-in procedure he drank them with big relief. The competition was going to take place in the afternoon, so he headed back to the Olympic village, happy to finally be able to eat everything he could. He immediately went to the cafeteria, got two trays and started to fill them  up with everything he could possibly find. He sat at a table and was about to jump on the food when a big hand grabbed his shoulder and stopped him.

It was his trainer, that had followed him to the village knowing what was going to happen. He shouted at him and told him that he could not eat all that stuff: he gave him a tea and a biscuit with honey on it. That was all, to the great disappointed  of our athlete. After all he had suffered in the previous weeks, training hard, almost no eating nor drinking, running around with a portable sauna, which consisted of a tent with a zip lock up to the neck and a small stool to sit on while sweating in the heat of steaming water, all he was getting was: a tea and a biscuit with honey on it?! At that very moment he wanted to kill his trainer… and you can imagine how his performance went at the Olympics!

A week after the Olympic Judo Competition,  this same athlete was selected for the team “Rest of the World” in order to participate at some tournaments vs Japan in the cities of Amagasaki, Tenri, Fukuoka, Nagoya and Sendai. When he stepped on the scale at the first tournament the Japanese officials were quite puzzled: they looked at him, at his id, at the picture on the id and asked him he was that very same athlete who fought in the up to 68kg division? The question was legitimate: he was weighing 76kg!

From that day on he always entered the up to 80kg division, with one exception in 1969 where he participated in the up to 70kg division. He had to lose 10kg in one week and of course did not do well at that championship. But this was the last time he had to deal with judo and cutting weight. He learned, that the best way to keep his weight around 80kg was to optimize his nutrition in order to always be at peak performance.  And today more than forty years later he still ways 80kg and is in good shape.

An athlete is like a top racing car, that deserves the best fuel in order to always win. If you always want to stay at your peak performance you should learn more about balanced nutrition, so in judo cutting weight would not be a nightmare anymore. What to do to always use your food as an outstanding fuel generating pure energy to win.

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Judo: The True Story and Legend

Rated: NRSynopsis: The History of Judo explains how the martial art was created, and quickly spread through Japan and then the world. The originator, Jigoro Kano, created Judo by borrowing from elements of other martial arts disciplines. The film also contains footage of some of the all-time great Judo masters.
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