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Beck just got teched by Natami. Beck got in on a double, Natami sprawled, spun around and locked up a lace. It was over shortly after that.

Fujinami td into a semi-half to pin KAZ in 52 seconds

What's interesting about quite a few of these non-ranking tournaments recently is that: For the Klippan Womens International Tournament(seniors), Japan sent a team consisting of only 7 high school students and the won three weights(50, 57 and 62kg). They had one second place finisher(53), two 3rd place finishes(68 and 76) and one 5th place(65). For Dan Kolov, Japan only sent college students for all styles. Fujinami won the collegiate championships at 55kg with ease last year, but I'm sure this is just her testing herself against bigger opponents again. Only 3 more months to determine most of the spots for Japan's 2023 World team/Olympic team. Japan had a national team camp the other week and Fujinami was practicing with Susaki most of the time. You can see Fujinami pinned an opponent today using one of Susaki's signature moves-> Bent leg turk with crossface.

Yep. Leverage is everything in Judo. One of the best examples that I can remember in recent times was David Terao and his NCAA tourney run in 2016. Joey Dance went for a ride courtesy of David Terao and also got Connor Schram in the quarters to advance to the semis with a pin.

Blades was really fortunate on that last sequence...hung on tp win by 1

Tynybevoka and Luo in a super close match.

KGZ trying to turn Blades, slips and Blades on top. Blades with a td and turn to end it via tech 12-1. I said this 2 years ago, but if she is able to win the 76kg spot, a whole lot of people are going to have trouble with her length and speed. The main thing is what Mike mentioned...her inexperience.

KGZ has been looking to throw for the past minute

Blades looking good right now against KGZ. Her speed and length playing a big factor. Up 6-0 at the break

Didn't see Blades' first match, but she barely got by her quarterfinal opponent from ECU on criteria(4 pointer) Tynybekoa just teched Miracle. Was winning all of the positional battles. Bullen(NOR) and Koliadenko(UKR) had a Nashon/ADS match and Koliadeno won with very short time by getting a turn and a lost challenge, 14-12. Didn't get to see any of the other matches.

The strategy you just mentioned is big against Judo backgrounds. As soon as you push, you're going for a ride. I know from experience having practiced against a multi-time national judo champion in wrestling practice. He never shot. Only closed the distance and looked to hand fight into a throw. The complete opposite was Tony Okada of Savannah HS(Anaheim SS). He would always look for leg attacks in addition to using Judo. Tony made the 1992 Olympic team for Judo, but he was really, really good in HS. 2x California state champ in wrestling then went to San Jose state for Judo..

Yep. That's why almost all of the time I say that people need more attacks than just hand fighting. Especially in womens wrestling. I always like to see setups for leg attacks from neutral in addition to hand fighting.

The main thing was that Teshya had a baby in that time after she lost in the Olympic trials semis and when she was trying to make the senior team team again. Not a great thing when you're that young and trying to wrestle full-time. She's always competed in judo and BJJ, so she stuck with BJJ and won the IBJJF World Championships in the womens adult blue belt division last year

Susaki was waiting for Stadnik on the mat and I stepped away? MFF aka scared? I figured Zhu would beat Golston and Zhu is up 5-0 at the start of the second period.

Very tough match between Dolgorjav and Stadnik. Susaki vs Stadnik on the bottom half semis Golston vs Pawar(IND) now in the quarters. Jiang Zhu(CHN) awaits the winner in the top half semis.

Stadnik is looking very, very sharp

Womens 50kg- the bottom bracket is comically loaded. Susaki, Stadnik and Dolgorjav

For Japan's womens team, they basically have junior team aged wresters, but that's who won the Emperor's Cup spots(lol) 5 of their seniors-Susaki(23), Fujinami(recently turned 19), Nanjo(22), Motoki(20) and Sakano(28), replacing Risako Kinjo(Kawai) 3 juniors- Kiyooka(19), Yoshitake(20), Moro(18) and Sasaki. Sasaki is an interesting one because she's 18 and placed 8th at the Emperor's Cup at 59kg, but wrestling up at 68kg? Typo maybe?

lol I didn't even know they were streaming from there. I just happened to open youtube and it's one of my subscriptions, so it popped up. Didn't go to any other site because I forgot the tournament was happening.

UWW is actually streaming it on Youtube

lol

Meiji Cup is going to be insane next year. Shidochi and Okuno have to win the tournament to force a playoff match against Fujinami and I'm sure Fujinami will also enter that tournament to try and win the spot outright. Same goes for the other world number 1s at Olympic weights-Ozaki and Tsugumi Sakurai.

The biggest shocker of the tournament, Motoki gets the winning td with 22 sec left on Ozaki. Ozaki almost scored multiple times after that in the last 10 seconds, but Motoki's defense was very good. Motoki wrestled the best tournament of her life. Great match.

Forgot to mention this since it's the women's section, but Otoguro teched his way to the 65kg finals. He hasn't competed since the Olympics. As I've mentioned plenty of times, he and his brother(also a wrestler) are in the military and that could be why he hasn't competed in a while. Taishi Narikuni, who teched Zain in the 70kg world finals this year was slated to compete in Greco at 67kg as well as FS at 70kg, did not compete. I'm wondering if he got sick, injured or just messed up his body too much trying to cut to 67.

When all of the best wrestlers go to Olympic weights, fun things are going to happen: 50kg- Susaki dominates Yoshimoto in the finals. Yoshimoto is clearly the 2nd best 50kg in the world, but Susaki is just on a different level. Umi Ito easily techs Irie in one of the bronze matches. Irie should have just competed at 53kg and saved herself from cutting weight. In the other bronze match, Sakurai techs the high schooler, Morikawa. 53kg- Okuno wrestles great and beats Shidochi in the semis to face Fujinami in the finals. That's the first time she's officially beat her former college teammate. Their all-time record against each other is Shidochi 8 to Okuno 1. Fujinami teched her opponent to make it to the finals. If Okuno can wrestle at the same level as her semis match, the finals against Fujinami is going to be very interesting. The last time they met in the Meiji Cup finals back in June, it was really close and Fujinami won 4-0. 57kg- Nanjo pins Natami to win in the finals. Next year's Meiji Cup will be interesting with Risako dropping back down to this weight and Sakurai coming back again. Nanjo, Natami and Risako were all in the same college/club and practicing against each other for a long time. 62kg- Ozaki easily techs everybody to make it to the finals. In a big shocker, Motoki(2022 59kg senior bronze) beats Olympic champ Kawai 9-2 in the semis to set up a finals match against Ozaki.