HOHENBOSTEL (red).
The judoka from VSV Hohenbostel recently had a very special guest at their holiday training. The Hohenbostler were able to win Wolfram Diester (from TuS Bothfeld) as a guest trainer for a holiday training session. The first thing the VSV judo kids noticed was: “He doesn’t even have a black belt, but a red and white belt“! Contrary to what is often assumed, judo does not end with a black belt. There are five consecutive black master belts (Dan), not recognizable by the belt color. Wolfram holds the 6th dan (red-white) and is therefore graded higher than black. Due to his impressive historical, theoretical and practical knowledge of judo and Japan, Wolfram is well known in the judo association. Kata also plays an important role in his judo work: As a long-time trainer at the Kata training center in Hanover and as a Kata evaluation judge, he is not only a valued judoka and speaker in Lower Saxony, but also in demand nationwide.
During the holiday training at the VSV, the focus was accordingly on the topic “Judo-Kata”. Kata are fixed, mostly traditional and named sequences of techniques that are intended to convey technical principles to those practicing. Many of the traditional kata forms were developed by the founder of judo, Kanō Jigorō, more than 100 years ago and are still practiced today in an almost unchanged form. For the joint training at the VSV, Wolfram had a child-friendly cross-section of parts from various traditional kata with him. The program was loosened up by a Japanese full-body game variant of rock-paper-scissors, which caused a lot of enthusiasm among the children.
The assessment after the training was unanimously positive for all participants – it was a particularly exciting training session, in which a lot of interesting information was conveyed and some new things were shown. And there were many techniques that were already known, but which had previously been practiced in a completely different form. This first-class training will certainly remain in everyone’s memory for a while.
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