...In my life, I was beat on both mentally and physically but only recently have I realized that these beatings have been preparing me for this ruthless world. These beatings are making me tougher and are preparing me for the unforgiving, cold world after I turn 18 and go to college. They teach me to keep fighting and to strive to better and to always get back up when I get knocked down. I started wrestling when I was 5 years old. I used to wrestle Greco-Roman, which is upper-body only. I used to be pretty good but when I turned 7, my family moved from Toledo to Sylvania, and I quit wrestling for the time being. I was not used to the environment because Toledo was way more urban to the semi rural and close-knit community that is Sylvania. I soon fit in and found my place only after have being picked on. I enjoyed the end of elementary school and middle school but towards the end of 8th grade one of my father’s close friends, Rada Eltatawy, ran into my dad and I into the mall and asked what grade I was in. After we told him I was in 8th grade he asked if I would come out freshman and tryout for Northview’s wrestling team because he was the head coach their at the time. We agreed so I did not tryout. During December of my Freshman year my dad and I went to the hospital and my dad did not tell me why, but when we got there and I entered the room I did not want to to believe it. Rada was hospitalized for what he said was a punctured lung and asked if I tried out. I told him that I was...
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...JAPANESE TERMS FOR YELLOW BELT Anza - Cross legged sitting posture Ashi Sabaki - Foot movement, can also mean leg and foot movement Chudan - Middle (area from neck to belly button) Dojo - “The way hall”, the karate practice area Gedan - Lower (area from belly button to knees) Gi - The Karate uniform, also called “do gi” Hiza - Knee, “take a knee” used for children; actual command is ashi orishiku. Jisen Dachi - Full contact sparring stance Jisen Kumite - Full contact sparring, “actual combat sparring” Jodan Tsuki, Chudan Tsuki, Gedan Tsuki: High punch, middle punch, low punch Jodan Uke - Chudan Uke, Gedan Uke: High block, middle block, low block Jodan - Upper (area from top of head to neck) Kamaete - Assume the posture, a command Kata/Gata - “Mold”, as in forming from clay, term used for formal karate training forms Kiai - “Energy release”, the name of the karate sound made when striking Kihon - Basic Kiotsuke - Energy all together, a command for the class to stand at attention as a unit Kumite - “Touching hands”, sparring Mae Geri, Yoko Geri, Mawashi Geri, Ushiro Geri - Front kick, side kick, round kick, back kick. Naihanchi Dachi - The stance used in the ancient Nahanchi Kata Naihanchi - Ancient Okinawan Kata, obscure meaning, likely meaning is “gripping the ground as an animal” from an ancient Okinawa Hogen dialect. Obi - Belt Rei - Courtesy, bow Ryukyukan - “Dragon Ball House” , Ryukyu’s are the islands of Okinawa, kan is house Ramtown Karate ramtownkarate.com Yellow/Orange...
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...ThrowsLeft throws:1. O Goshi 2. O Soto Gari 3. O Uchi Gari 4. Ko Soto Gari 5. Ko Soto Gake | O Goshi – major hip Koshi Guruma – hip wheel Ashi Guruma – ankle wheel Mizu Nage – water throw Uki Goshi – floating hip O Soto Gari – major outer reap Ko Soto Gari – minor outer reap Ko Soto Gake – minor outer hook O Uchi Gari – major inner reap Ko Uchi Gari – minor inner reap Ippon Saio Nage – 1 point back carry throw Saio Toshi – back carry drop O Tsuri Goshi – major lifting hip Ko Tsuri Goshi – minor lifting hip O Soto O Toshi – major outer drop Harai Goshi – sweeping hip Hanai Goshi – springing hip Eri Saio Nage – lapel back carry throw Tsuri Komi Goshi – lifting pulling hip O Guruma – major wheel Taio Toshi – body drop Shiho Nage – 4 direction throw Morote Seio Nage – 2 Hand Back Carry Throw Yoko Otoshi – Side Drop (Sacrifice throw) Uke Waza – floating technique (sacrifice throw) | Arm Locks | I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX | Leg Locks | I, II, II, IV, V | Ankle Locks | I, II, III, IV | Head Locks | I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII | Wrist Locks | I, II, III, IV, V, VI | Kyushu | I.i. taisho bridge of nose, hisa I.ii. Ki kau ken I.iii. Uraken uchi, kakato I.iv. Shuto, sekuto I.v. Hisa small of backI.vi. , nukute, Higi I.vii. To floating rib, gake II.i. Dayubi ippon ken (eyes) II. ii. Rake over eyes (shuko ken), double shuto to collar bones...
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...Judo Strategy is: • The mind set of not opposing strength to strength • Three Principles of competition: movement, balance, and leverage • A toolbox of tactics and techniques Use Judo Strategy if: • You’re a small player facing off against stronger competitors • You’re a large player moving into areas where powerful opponents may already be entrenched. • You have the capabilities(speed, agility, and creativity) to outmaneuver your opponents, no matter what the balance of strength may be. Use Judo Strategy when: • Dealing with the competition is one of your top strategic priorities • Competitors have the advantage of strength and size. • You’re unlikely to win by going head to head. Judo Principles • Movement o Don’t invite attack-“The Puppy Dog Ploy” Keep a low profile and avoid giving away your game Position alongside competitors instead of attacking head on. Don’t moon the giant – unless you want to lose. o Define the competitive space Change the paradigm by redefining standards for the market Segment the market and make focus the key to success Use first-mover advantage to build a market where you choose the rules o Follow Through Fast Stay focused and sequence growth to avoid becoming overextended Make maintaining internal alignment an early priority – before the challenges of growth emerge. Use partnerships to leverage resources beyond your immediate control. • Balance o Grip your opponent Design joint ventures and equity...
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...1) If each buyer has a willingness to pay $200 for each unit of either the incumbent or the entrants products then the buyer is indifferent among the two. The choice made by the buyer will be based on the consumer surplus. Both the firms have identical cost structures of $100 per unit of serving buyers. The entrant would have to reduce his price to increase the consumer surplus from his product. As a result, the incumbent would respond by cutting the price to match of the entrant. This would lead to a price war with prices in a downward spiral for both the firms. The strategy for the entrant should be to price the product the same as the incumbent to avoid getting into a damaging price war. The entrant can make $100 per unit of sales. 2) If the buyer has a willingness to pay $200 for one unit of the incumbent’s product and $160 for one unit of the entrant’s products it means the entrant is already at a disadvantage. The costs are $100 per unit for incumbent and $120 per unit for entrant. The incumbent can drop its price knowing that it has a better cost structure than the entrant. If the incumbent prices its product at $ 120 per unit, the entrant cannot compete with him as at that price it won’t be making any profits and would have to stop sales. The strategy for the entrant should be to not enter the market as it has no chance of winning the market share and make any profits. 3) If the buyer has willingness to pay $200 for either the incumbent or entrant’s product...
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...Consider a game with one incumbent, one potential entrant, and 100 possible buyers. (The incumbent has sufficient capacity to serve all buyers.) The game unfolds in four stages: In the first stage, the potential entrant must decide whether or not to enter the market. If it enters, it incurs a small, irrecoverable entry cost. In stage two, the entrant decides simultaneously on two things: --the number of buyers to target, and --the price for its product (the price must be the same for all its buyers). In stage three, the incumbent responds to the entrant’s choices by deciding on a single price at which to offer its own product to all buyers. In the fourth and final stage, buyers make their purchase decisions, and each firm serves the buyers that decide to purchase from it. Each one of the 100 potential buyers is interested in purchasing one unit of product from either the incumbent or the entrant. However, only those buyers targeted by the entrant have the option of purchasing from it. To see how this works, think of the buyers as arrayed in a certain order and labeled as buyer 1, buyer 2, …, buyer 100. Suppose, as an example, that the entrant has targeted 10 buyers. Then, buyers 1 through 10 each get to decide whether to purchase from the incumbent or the entrant (or from neither). Buyers 11 through 100 each get to decide whether to purchase from the incumbent (or not at all). This second group of buyers does not have the option of purchasing from the entrant...
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...Palm (Yoffie, 2001). Currently the CEO at Palm, Inc is Edward T. Colligan. For the period ending May 31, 2006, Palm had sales of $1.578 billion and a net income in excess of $336 million (Yahoo Finance, 2006). This is a significant increase over the previous two years. SWOT ANALYSIS: Strengths: The biggest strength that the case study focused on was strategy. Palm employed a judo strategy starting with the “puppy-dog ploy” (Yoffie, 2001, p. 56). This strategy allowed Palm to stay in business and stay undetected as a threat to their competition, especially Microsoft, for quite some time. Yoffie (2001) stated that strength of Palm was their “tightly integrated software and hardware design” (p. 59). Because they were so integrated, they were allowed to stay simple and move faster which was a definite strength. Weaknesses: Ironically, their strategy also seems to be their biggest weakness. As Yoffie (2001) said, “By investing over time in specific skills and strengths, you create opportunities that perceptive rivals can exploit. In other words, you risk becoming the target of another and possibly better judo...
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...Language is very powerful, if it was not for language and communication we would not be living the life we live today. I realized the power of language when, I encountered a situation where I was not able to communicate to a group of people, in a way that they understood me. This situation occurred in Bulgaria, when I got lost on my big day, at Junior Judo World Championship. The ability to communicate is what made the world such an amazing place. If language and communication were never developed we would have never progressed to where we are today. The human race would be living like caveman for eternity. Language and communication is the root of success. It is what makes us so smart and gives us the ability to educate ourselves. Language and communication is the reason why the world has become so advanced, the reason we have so much medication for sickness and illnesses. It is also the reason why our world is so technologically advanced today. Language and communication is what makes the world go around. Lack of communication would cause tension among each. Without language or communication the world would be a complicated place. As a little kid I was always active, I would always pick fights with my classmates and kids in my age group where I felt comfortable in my home country Georgia. I understood and Spoke Georgian and knew most people in my town, which is where I felt powerful. Until the day my parents told me we would be moving to the United States, I was in shock....
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...Mixed Martial Arts (abbreviatedMMA) is a competition between two combatants that has evolved from deep-rootedhistories throughout different cultures and continents, and it continues toevolve through competition today. Sincethe beginning of humanity, unarmed combat has been a part of ourexistence. Just as MMA has existed (inone form or another) for thousands of years, so have the detractors of MixedMartial Arts. Often criticized for itsbarbarism and the risk involved in competition, MMA has faced opposition fromthe likes of Alexander the Great to United States Senator John McCain. Mixed Martial Arts has adapted due to thiscriticism, evolving into a sport whose legitimacy is acknowledged throughoutthe world. Theearliest instances of mixed forms of combat being implemented as a sportoccurred in ancient Greecewith pankration. Pankration may indeedbe ��among the oldest [martial art], having been well documented before thecoming of Christ�� (Arvanitis 1). Theancient Olympic games of Greecewere geared mostly towards running events. In 708 B.C., wrestling, or pale, was introduced. Pale consisted of two styles � kato pale andorthia pale. Kato pale consisted ofground wrestling, with the loser signaling his submission by raising the indexfinger of his right hand. Orthia paleconsisted of only standup grappling techniques, where the victor was the firstto throw his opponent to the ground three times. The majority of Greek soldiers and otherathletes felt that orthia...
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...Language is very powerful, if it was not for language and communication we would not be living the life we live today. I realized the power of language when, I encountered a situation where I was not able to communicate to a group of people, in a way that they understood me. This situation occurred in Bulgaria, when I got lost on my big day, at Junior Judo World Championship. The ability to communicate is what made the world such an amazing place. If language and communication were never developed we would have never progressed to where we are today. The human race would be living like caveman for eternity. Language and communication is the root of success. It is what makes us so smart and gives us the ability to educate ourselves. Language and communication is the reason why the world has become so advanced, the reason we have so much medication for sickness and illnesses. It is also the reason why our world is so technologically advanced today. Language and communication is what makes the world go around. Lack of communication would cause tension among each. Without language or communication the world would be a complicated place. As a little kid I was always active, I would always pick fights with my classmates and kids in my age group where I felt comfortable in my home country Georgia. I understood and Spoke Georgian and knew most people in my town, which is where I felt powerful. Until the day my parents told me we would be moving to the United States, I was in shock....
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...| Syllabus | | | |Year |2014/2015 | |Semester |VIII Spring | | | |Course ID |MGT405080 | |Course Name |Strategic Management | | | |Type |core | |ECTS Credits |5 | | | |Language |Georgian/English | |Classroom Number | | | ...
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...AnnMaria began teaching her the basic foundations of JuJitsu when she was eleven and she quickly developed a knack for the sport. She continued to train with her mother, and after dropping out of highschool (later returning to earn her G.E.D) she earned the title of the youngest American fighter to be the number one ranking in the women’s half-middleweight division at the age of sixteen. When Rousey turned seventeen she qualified to enter into the 2004 Olympic Games. Her attempt was abortive and she lost the medal to Driulis González (Cuba) and Urška Žolnir (Slovenia); the two bronze medalists of the 2004 Judo Summer Olympics. That same year however, she went on to collect gold in both the World Junior Championship and Pan American Judo Championship. She continued to defend her status as the gold medalist of the Pan American Judo Championship in 2006, while still going on to develop her career even further. In April of that year, she won a gold medal at the Birmingham World Cup, becoming the first female winner from the U.S. in ten years to succeed at taking the A-level gold medal, scoring...
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...Judoka Tuvshinbayar Naidan If you are a judo fan, you sure know the name of Tuvshinbayar Naidan, because he is the most triumphant judoka Mongolia has ever seen. Even when once his sport's career will be over, his fame as the first Mongolian who won the Olympic championship will live for many years to come. Tuvshinbayar was victorious at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China. He became the first Mongolian ever to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games. On 14th August 2008 he was inducted as a State Honoured Athlete of Mongolia as well as a Hero of Labor. At 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London he missed closely the gold medal due to an injury in the semi-final round. Despite his severe injury he continued to fight and got the silver medal. Thus, he became the first ever Olympic multimedalist from Mongolia. Tuvshinbayar certainly looks like a super star. He is tall, well-built and handsome with friendly brown eyes. He always manages to look well dressed, whether he is wearing casual closes, which he prefers, or a smart suit for important occasions. His personality, too, is as outstanding as his wrestling ability. He grew up in the countryside in a nomadic herder's family. He is the youngest of seven siblings. From his childhood on he has learnt to work hard as all children in the countryside do. He used to take care of family's horses, sheep and cattle in bitter frost in winter and on broiling days in summer, in cold rain in autumn and during the dust storms of spring....
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...1. Je ne passione pour le judo. J'aime tous les art martiaux mais j'ai choisi le judo parce que mes amis et font et c'est bon pour la forme. J'en fais depuis deux ans. Je m'entraine deux fois par semaine, le lundi et le mercredi soir. 2. A College, je participe en deux sports. A lundi, je joue au tennis. J'adore le tennis parce que c'est bon pur la sante. Au weekend, je joue au foot. La semaine derniere, j'ai joue dans une equipe. C'est tres fantastique! 3. À la télé, j'aime regarder drame montre par exemple Breaking Bad. C'est parce que je les trouve très agréable à regarder. Cependant, j'aime aussi regarder la comédie. Qu'est-ce que vous aimez regarder? 4. L'année dernière, je n'ai natation. Cependant, il est devenu ennuyeux, alors j'ai arrêté. C'est parce que l'enseignant était très strict et mon ami a quitté aussi. 5.Dans l'avenir, j'espère pour essayer le parachutisme avec mon ami. C'est parce que nous aimons tous les deux montagnes russes et des expériences d'adrénaline. Voulez-vous essayer un sport extrême? 6. Un week-end idéal pour moi, serait de détente sur une plage en Espagne. C'est parce que j'aime détente au soleil et vacances à la plage sont mes préférés. 7. Le temps libre est important parce que sans elle, je ne serais pas en mesure de rester en bonne santé. J'ai besoin de temps libre et pas seulement pour les loisirs, mais exrecise à parce que nous ne recevons pas assez à l'école. 8. Je me sens, le gouvernement pourrait sensibiliser par la publicité à la...
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...Quartile 1 | | Median | | Quartile 3 | Max | Table [ 1 ]. Ages of 10 randomly selected students in a Judo school in Brisbane. (a) Mean (x) : 19.5 Standard Deviation (S) : 7.24568 (b) Median: 16+182=17 When comparing the mean and the median it tells the distribution is skewed to the right, which is positively skewed. The skewness of the dataset is positive due to bigger mean value than the median, as mean pulls the dataset to the right. (c) Coefficient of Variation: CV= Sx= 7.2519.5=0.37157 (d) Using Excel: * First Quartile (Q1) = 13.5 [=QUARTILE.EXC(array,quart)] * Third Quartile (Q3) = 25.75 [=QUARTILE.EXC(array,quart)] * 80th Percentile = 27.4 [=PERCENTILE.EXC(array,k)] Working out by common sense: * First Quartile (Q1) = 12+142=13 * Third Quartile (Q3) = 25+282=26.5 * 80th Percentile = Lp=n+1×P100=10+1×80100=8.8 ≈9th value * Therefore, the approximate of 80th percentile is 28 (9th value in data set). (e) Range: highest value – lowest value = 32 – 11 = 21 IQR: Q3-Q1=12.25 (Used excel values) (f) Data Set | | | | | | | | | 11 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 18 | 24 | 25 | 28 | 82 | Min | Quartile 1 | | Median | | Quartile 3 | Max | Table [ 2 ]. Ages of 10 randomly selected students in a Judo school in Brisbane (Corrected data set) Mean: 11+12+14+15+16+18+24+25+28+8210=24.5 Median: 16+182...
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