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DEVELOPMENT OF JUDO
Author: Professor Néstor Figueroa |
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The sport of Judo is an olimpic discipline, and like so a social phenomenon with arraigode masses.
Around as many factors develop quese materialize through the financial organizations, management, regulations, budgets, legal, political devices governmental, structure and policies of the national sport, image before the world, rules of the sport, technology, resources, athletes, leaders, trainers, journalism, population; all these factors conform what comes to be the Judo like sport national system, like in any other sport discipline that practices in nobody pais of the world.
Our interest in this article, is to bring the concern and the conscience, in the athletes, leaders, trainers, journalists, fans, parents of family, professors, and of all person who of some form has entailment with the sport of the Judo, in working united towards goals of planned strategies, and of a maintained development.
Also knowing, that one of the characteristics of slowness of growth of the Latin American towns, esla marked to centralization of its systems partner-económicosen the capital cities.
In such sense, we will try to raise some precisions about the organization, the promotion, the strategy, and the development of the Judo as sport - system in our Latin American nations. That it allows us to identify what leaves from the way we have crossed in the world of the Judo, and what vias we must follow for the development of the Latin American Judo.
Because abilities and talents we have them, asi also since we have shown it the world in the sport of soccer, and the most exquisite quality; I thing, that the Latin American Judo is the one that more close resemble itself the Japanese Judo, in its style, purity, elegance, effectiveness.
But also we are aware of the limitations of resources that we have, but in way some, had to be this incoveniente, an excuse to reduce efforts and creativity in the effective management of the sport in Latin America.
Will and dedicated work, are what less it must lack, the other pillar to look for desarrollodel Judo, is to close doors to the antagonism, the radicalismo, alnegativismo, to the improvisation; it is necessary to work with science and technology; and united, not as much in amount, but they másbien in quality; cooperating in the interchange of positive experiences; subordinating the personal interest, to the general interests.
Why the sport is important and why it serves this one. The sport as so it can be seen as a science, a social activity, a government program, or a recreational activity.
As it wants that it is, the sport can practice with competitive aims, and aims of recreation, without differences of sexes, neither of ages, nor of capacities, nor of social conditions economic.
The sport had to be, at least on the paper, within reach of all the population of a nation. The sport is a necessity in the human being and the social conglomerate, because it covers infinity with expectations, intentions, and accomplishments in the development of a nation.
But the essential of the purpose of the sport is physical, mental, moral and spiritual the formation of the individual; to make it an instrument useful, and acceptable to the society; to forge it in participacióny the social contribution; in the social interaction and the economical virtues; on watch, to educate, to cooperate, to take care of their health; to forge conscience in the conservation ecological the recycling of its ecosystem; and to include understand, that to through it sports is contributed to forge the development of the country.
For that reason, the sport can be focused in different layers from participation, the development and the administration of the same one; as in the individual plane, the plane of groups and neighborhoods, as in the plane of medium structures of sport and departmental leagues; and in the macrodimensional plane of the regional federations, national federations, and continental confederations.
When an sport amalgamates a organizacional territory at national level, it is that we spoke of the system of the national sport like so, in each one of his disciplines, and in its fenomenological surroundings; in such sense, if the sport apparatus does not work on bases of the one principles theory of systems, badly we do in speaking of a system of the sport like so.
The question is not to use strange names to the things or activities, any thing cannot be a system; it must work like so being considered a system, with his principles, sistemycs properties and characteristics.
Of another side, when one representacióndel deports Judo, or of any other sport, it attends an international event of competition; this human group or person, this representing its mother country, and the sport discipline like national system of his country.
And usually it happens, in many disciplines of competition, in which it attends a single athlete, and can obtain a medal or championship; nevertheless that merit, obtained with great personal effort on the part of the athlete and probably of the trainer; it does not say of the exact reality of the productividado sport effectiveness, organization, administration, technology, and economy, of that sport like system in that country.
Because the medal is not synonymous of which the sport has that first level in that country as far as resources, development and promotion.
These phenomena specially occur in ours countries in via of development, in where the sport is a social activity also in via of development. That it has not reached the growth, and the descentralization; in addition to the penetration and the population social segments promotion, by lack of infrastructural and suprastructural resources.
A thing is disffusion of information, acceptance, and the knowledge, in the sense that an urban or rural population has about of a certain sport; even, that could be very popular as the case of soccer; and another thing is the players practitioners with education programs, training and regular competitions established by the beings in charge and responsible for the massive promotion of the sport like national system.
This I complete fact or reality, is materialized in the formal number of athletes or medical instructors in that rural or urban area, in a sport also específico;en terms, of the number of competitions and matches programmed annually.
The formal number of medical instructors of a sport in mechanisms formal (matches), programmed anualmentea national level, and like part of a system with juridico, organizacional, administrative ordering, of resources, participacióndel government, support of socioeconomic sectors, is what comes to conform the system of the sport in its diverse disciplines.
In the economic phantom diverse elements exist or indications that allow to calibrate the social-economic development of country, as for example rates of death, rates of illiteracy, rates of unemployment, rates of morbidity, rates of social security, rates of technological use, characteristics of foreing debt, inflation, capacity of indebtedness, consumption capacity, internal gross product, scale of payments etc, are many factors that measure the development of pais.
In the same way, the sport development also has its parametric variables, that allow to know the state growth of one disciplinade portiva in pais, as soon as nonsingle to the fact to have infrastructural capacity, but to the effectiveness and perfomance of they resultadosen a certain period of time.
As of the effective use of its resources, their decentralization, participation, competitive organization, management, plans and programs, education and qualification, technology, events, etc.
Therefore reflects the size of the development reached of sporte sistem in a nation.
This factor of image, proclamation, difusión international of the characteristics of a national sport sistem, is reflected or materialized in the amount of participants by sport disciplines that pais annually presents displays in certain olimpicas competitions or world-wide championships.
Some forms in which the yield of a system can be moderate deport in competitions, is according to these indicators:
a) # of obtained medals x discipline x country / # of atletas x discipline x country
b) occupied positions x discipline to x country / # of athletes x discipline x country
c) # of athletes x discipline total x country / # of athletes x country
d) # of athletes x discipline x total match / # of athletes x discipline x country
e) # of matches annual / departmental, state, regional, national
f) # of annual matches / federations, country
To the margin of the obtained medals, the effectiveness and the development of a sport system of a nation, can be appraised directly in these following factors:
a) The individual factor like participation of the athlete.
b) The factor system like expression of the national sport development.
In the first case, it is possible to be appreciated by the amount of medals obtained annually by sport event of an athlete.
For the case of paises developing, this it is a beside the point commendable fact, because there are athletes who in spite of the conditions limited in his paises, they manage to gain some medals with many sacrifices.
Which says of the temperament, idiosincracia, effort, love, dedicacióny sport discipline of these athletes.
But that nevertheless will be only a suggestive element trying to consider as factor of evaluation of the system deports, to the result of individual athlete; in any case, that medal of that athlete not represent the effectiveness of the system, but rather identifies the system sports defects, and enaltece simultaneously the qualities of the athlete.
The other aspect, that of a general way allows to glimpse the characteristics of a sport system is the number of participant athletes by sport discipline; this says more than sufficient, and to the margin of medals, of the capacity of that sport system.
There are nations powers that in an Olympic match envian integrated delegations percent or more athletes distribuidosen different sport disciplines.
Asi for example, in Judo envian a full field equipment for each category; understanding, queesos athletes, are the best ones of a modern sport system that has all the necessary capacities; that there are past porvarias and exhaustive preliminary competitions of eliminacióno sieve; and that therefore, those, those that were, are the best ones of the world.
In Japan and Europe for example, there are thousands of judokas of competitive level, in schools and universities, that get to be national champions to the 18 years old. And in where we can noticing the differences between a professional sportsman and an amateur athlete.
Because the professionalism also gives the own system it of national sport, because it has all the facilities put to the service of but the competent ones; in order that they can be dedicated on time almost complete to his sport; being subsidized with scholarships of study, feeding, it calls to account, equipment, and gratuities.
In the professional sport of the USA, only, the annual pay of a player of Basketball, or Beisbol, or Football, would surpass long, the anual budget of sports of Latin American countries. It is incredible, yes a reality that surprises to us, but that we have compete generally with powerful nations in inferiority of conditions.
Of some boys in our Latinamerican reality, who have great attitudes for the practice of the Judo, but which often they do not have nor to buy a modest judogi, and the less the passage to go away to training. How then we can make sport system in ours countries, when the minimum conditions don¹t exist for the growth; is here where the opportunities for those leaders who are creative, of strong initiative, and disinterested love by the sport to work with dedicated and open service.
And on this subject of quality of leadership of the sport in general in Latinoamerica, there is much to also say and to hope; because in the positions of leadership, they are not all those that are, nor are all those that are.
The policy is the weapon of commando in the sport, in addition to to be so well-known the deficiency of knowledge and experience in the matter of administration of resources and management of the sport.
This evidence why the Latinamerican sport follows sunk in the late situation in which it has been being for decades. With very little three or two exceptions countries that some world-wide figurations in certain disciplines have reached, but that of those profits they are by the perseverant and the talents of such sport much also.
As it wants that these irregularities occur, and particularly in the Judo, the one that is not I referred, he is trainer or he is leader; but to the trips and estadías it is necessary to remove benefit, it seemed to them to be this the established and invisible policy. Although the results continue being of modest perfomance.
There are several forms to interpret, to analyze and to work projects and strategic policies for the development of the Judo, depending on the final intentions that are persecuted; be if these take care of the search of successes immediate, relative, and transitory; or to the search of mediate, permanent purposes, and of ample phantom.
Perhaps first they will be oriented and they based on the following expectations:
a) in # of competitions and international matches
b) in # of obtained international medals
Perhaps second they look for profits of this other type:
a) In the increase of # of judokas active in the system
b) In the increase of # of judokas participant by match
c) In the increase of # of levels of matches made annually at local, regional, national level.
The intentions that are aligned in the second case are more difficult to obtain, but also more stable and permanent; said in other words, the development strategy does not have to aim or to be defined based on medals; because these profits must arrive as effect of the systematized yield of coherent programs of work in the system deports through the time.
Rather, the things will fall by their own weight, and as a result of intermediate steps in the development process.
The Judo is necessary to promote it, to introduce it in the population, to make it popular, to amass its practice, to make it a necessity sport; it is necessary to also invite to the private enterprise sector, to jeopardize his cooperation and stimulus to the service of the sport; to the industralist it is necessary to create the necessity to him to identify itself with the sport, through his products and services that commercialize; the advertising mechanism will know very well like doing it.
Mind and healthy body with Judo, breathe, comma, and to conver itself of Judo; the Judo is healthful for stress, maintains it far from the bad habits, loses weight doing Judo; consume Judo, the activity of the class To, the sport of the successful ones. Judo, the smooth way.
That city or villorio does not have a site to play soccer. Who does not have a ball to amuse itself with the friends. Perhaps it does not support the enterprise sector to soccer.
For that reason, to the Judo it is necessary to give the mini facilities him for his practice; and this can lean in the physical facilities of the schools, municipalities, universities, jobs, churches.
Its practice must stratify in levels and categorias, and be developed to traves of matches by equipment or schools, with weekly encounter or combats, in several wheels; this would create expectations in the population, since it takes control of the Extreme one in Japan.
Of course, the problem noun can be in the mechanisms of diffusion, and idiosincracia of the population towards the discipline in if, but it would be necessary to try it anyway.
The concept of strategy and development we understand it in the scope of the discipline of the Judo as it leaves from the system of the sport; in such sense, which looks for to develop are the potentialities, that is, the human resources, the athletes or judokas, so that these actually have a line of race of the sport.
Of course, but there is suitable infrastructure is not possible to be made development sport, but it will not be possible either but suitable strategies and programs of action for the promotion of the Judo exist as it disciplines of the sport system.
There will be no sport development either while the policy introduced in the sport exists; the egoistic interests, the lawsuits of being able dirigencial, and ineptitudes in the sport management.
There is countries that comes more working around 30 years in the development from the sport, and particularly in the Judo; many think that their international successes are exclusive product of good coaches; he is not it really exactly asi, has much more behind all it; like discipline, spirit and unit of programs, control and evaluations, modern methodologies of training, suitable minimum infrastructure, professionalism, and exclusive dedication.
What happens is that the efforts of the strategies consolidated through three decades, are giving their fruits already, is the time of the harvest. These paises successful in Judo and other disciplines, teach to us actually, how it works planificadamente, with perseverancia, discipline and seriousness, unit of body and spirit; they are examples that must be followed, working does not stop the present ephemeral, but for the future stable and harmonious of the sport.
In Latinamerican exists the poverty, and nobody payment to the system to create more unemployment, although the payment of taxes to the state treasury would show it like this; educative centers declared for education do not exist either to learn to being poor.
This one exists because there are socioeconomic necessities very critics that cannot be solved for diverse reasons that already we know; which has partly originated the appearance of a delincuencial technology in the societies.
The modern delinquent uses sophisticated violence to damage the society.
The social problems and solutions also appear product of the social necessities.
This phenomenon of as certain social problems expand, has observarloslos, and to do pursuit to them of its mechanisms of expansion. Because the antipodal one of these facts would be to create measures at least in the sport, that allow the expansion, and the massive practice, for this particular case of the Judo as it deports system, that motivates the society to become involved to its members in healthful activities.
Because if science and the technology are used sometimes for badly, at the most it will have to be used in beneficial things as it is it the sport for the social development.
It is in the expansion, promotion of the Judo, in the decentralization and deconcentration of the sport apparatus; the way of as it would be possible to be begun to obtain important results in the international competitions; applying to the same principle of the Judo of contraction and expansion, to the fenomenología of the development of this one sport.
To concentrate efforts and soon to disperse them at national level, for but late, to integrate them and to prepare the best selected elements and to remove them to compete to the foreigner, but being these the sumum or abstract of a great mass or quarry of medical instructors of the Judo at national level, said of another way, they would be a genuine representativeness of the system deports national in Judo.
Application of cost-result of the objectives, policies, programs, and strategic decisions; for the promotion of an ample phantom of the Judo, and in the pick up and development of judokas for the future.
This it could be the summary of the ambitious work of, a necessary one, and sensible project of the sport like national system in Latin american countries.
