Abstract
The present commentary is aimed to contribute to the improvement of the judo specific test proposal elaborated and validated by Almansba, Franchini and Sterkowicz (2007) 1) with the aim of evaluating specifically the physical fitness of competing judo practitioners, 2) wishing the test to be representative both qualitatively and quantitatively of the effort sustained by the practitioners. All alone, the test proposal, which utilizes rapid repetitions of one judo technique off-balancing and body positioning by the same practitioner (Uchi-komi) may be usable instead of three non-judo specific tests: the vertical jump test of Sargent (1921), the multistage fitness test of Leger et al. (1984) and the Australian shuttle run test described by Cazorla et al. (2004). However, the judo specific test proposal 1) specificity is still to be increased and must ideally turn into test individualization (using the proposal as a template), as in judo, trained individuals have favorite techniques they use in preference to others; 2) represents competing judo practitioners efforts quantitatively but not qualitatively (throws are represented, but neither hold downs, arm-locks, strangle holds nor chokeholds); 3) brings subjects to physiological exhaustion but psychological exhaustion emotional component is left out of account. Uchi-komi utilized by the test proposal could better be replaced by continual completions of variable judo techniques by the same practitioner (Kakari-geiko) which allow the practitioner who is attacking by means of judo techniques (Tori) to utilize linked up techniques. Nevertheless, to date, the test proposed for assessing the suitability of judo practitioners to meet competition demands is the most judo specific and the most economic.
Highlights
In October 2007, Almansba, Franchini and Sterkowicz published an article titled “Uchi-komi avec charge, une approche physiologique d’un nouveau test spécifique au judo [An Uchi-komi with load, a physiological approach of a new special judo test proposal]” [1].The article has been among the most downloaded of the journal that published it
The test proposal, which utilizes rapid repetitions of one judo technique off-balancing and body positioning by the same practitioner (Uchi-komi) may be usable instead of three non-judo specific tests: the vertical jump test of Sargent (1921), the multistage fitness test of Léger et al (1984) and the Australian shuttle run test described by Cazorla et al (2004)
The judo specific test proposal 1) specificity is still to be increased and must ideally turn into test individualization, as in judo, trained individuals have favorite techniques they use in preference to others; 2) represents competing judo practitioners efforts quantitatively but not qualitatively; 3) brings subjects to physiological exhaustion but psychological exhaustion emotional component is left out of account
Summary
In October 2007, Almansba, Franchini and Sterkowicz published an article titled “Uchi-komi avec charge, une approche physiologique d’un nouveau test spécifique au judo [An Uchi-komi with load, a physiological approach of a new special judo test proposal]” [1]. The article has been among the most downloaded of the journal that published it. That witnesses both the curiosity it has raised and probably a need previously existing in the judo practitioner physiological capacities determination, need that the article content meets. The objective to achieve while dealing with their research work is defined in the article both at the end of the introduction and almost at the end of the material and methods: to elaborate and to validate a specific test usable to evaluate the physical fitness of the competing judo practitioner, a test representative both qualitatively and quantitatively of the effort sustained, what implies among other things that at the end of the test, judo practitioners have to reach physical, physiological and psychological exhaustion.
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