Wed
09
May
2012
London or Bust
April 29 2012 will be a day I never forget. It was on this day I realised my dream of qualifying for an Olympic Games. I may have ruined the ending of this story just then so I will give you a play by play of how the day went for me.
Tue
13
Dec
2011
Progress – How the hell do you measure it?
Judo is one of the easiest sports to make you feel miserable when you are not winning, and the complexity of the sport can lead practitioners to feel like they are getting nowhere or even going backwards.
Sun
06
Nov
2011
Finishing 2011 With a Bang!
So I am writing this from my tiny flat at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra. I’m here for a week-long training camp with the Australian Judo Team in preparation for the Samoa World
Cup next month.
Since the Worlds last August I’ve had some ups and downs. I had torn a ligament in my knee just days before Pan-Am Tour in July, but kept it under wraps and nursed it as much as I could. However, by the time the competition care round, it was really impeding my game. The only solution was a couple of weeks of significantly scaled back training.
By late September the knee felt okay, and I entered the Australian University Games for some fun and to test the muscle out. I ended up having a bunch of fights, winning my division and the Champion of Champions event, without getting injured.
Training has been a million miles an hour since then in preparation for my final three events of the year. I will be entering the Samoa World Cup in November where I will be looking to improve on last year’s bronze medal and hopefully contest my first world cup final.
I will then come home for a couple of weeks before attacking the Tokyo Grand Slam and Qingdao Grand Prix - and hopefully taking a big step towards securing my qualification spot for London 2012.
Well, I quite literally have to go and start the taping up process to make sure I get through the next training session in one piece.
Will post again soon. Hopefully with some good news.
Ivo
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