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Judo

Of the important variety of martial arts practiced in our country, what many may not know is that judo is preferred by the Spaniards, with more than 100,000 licenses distributed in 1,000 clubs.

Starting by judo, which literally means “path of softness”: soft JU; DO, way. The judokas, that is, the practitioners of this sport, wear the judogi which is always attached with a belt, the obi. The kyu, specifically, it is the belt that the apprentices wear. According to its color, this is the level reached: white (6th kyu), yellow (5th kyu), orange (4th kyu), green (3rd kyu), blue (2nd kyu) and brown (1st kyu ).

The judokas, train in the dojo, the campus or school, and fight over the tatami, the surface. The sensei, “He who was born before” is the judo teacher or teacher in charge of teaching this martial arts discipline.

At the time of the fight between the two judokas, the cry of Hajime! It is equivalent to the starting shot in a race. It literally means Start! Thus starting the shiai, the fight between two judokas. And this is where the different positions are put into practice, the shishei, and the displacements, shintai, such as the tai sabaki, the pivoting displacement of the body (tai), the ayumi ashi, the natural displacement of foot or the sumi, in diagonal. During the fight some of the screams that you should familiarize yourself with are Maitta, which means I give up !; osaekomi, which means immobilized. There will always be a sosha, winner and a haisha, a loser.

If you want to know more about this discipline, we encourage you to discover who they are and what some of our most prominent judokas have achieved, such as María Bernabéu or Nikoloz Sherazadishvili.

Fencing

It is the only Olympic sport of Spanish origin. An exhibition of this discipline is a real show. These terms will help you better understand what it is:

TO Araceli Navarro, going to a fencing exhibition at age 9 changed his life. The 12 times Senior Spanish Champion of this sport, – the only one of the Olympic category of Spanish origin – has had to reconcile this sport discipline with other works to pay for their trips through the different world championships. In order not to get lost in the terms of this exciting, but not very popular sport, here we leave you a few to challenge in a Trivial game …

In garde: This is the expression in French to describe the basic position of the fencer during training. In a duel, it is the warning that the judge makes to both fenders to prepare for combat.

Lunge (lunge) / Parry (stop) are two of the fundamental words which are frequently used in a fencing match of any level.

The thrust is the attack while the stop It is the defense against the attack. To detect them, in the lunge the fencer bends with the flexed front leg, so that the knee slightly exceeds the ankle, and leaves the back leg straight at an angle of 45 degrees, lengthening the sword so that the tip reaches Almost to his opponent. The stop describes the movement of the defender's weapon to deflect the attacking weapon.

The famous touched or touched occurs when the tip of the attacker's weapon touches the valid surface of the attacked fencer and that surface differs according to the fencing category: in the fencing with foil only the jacket or the call is valid lick; in the fencing epée, the valid surface is the entire body of the opponent from head to toe; and in the fencing with saber upper body is valid, which includes torso, arms and head.

To declare a headdress, it must be the combat director who assesses that it has been produced in compliance with the established rules.

Araceli Navarro It is one of our most prominent representatives in this discipline.

Artistic gymnastics

Precisely the great Spanish promise in this discipline, Rayderley Miguel Zapata, has given name to a type of jump, the Zapata, a double mortal forward with a turn and half length, that is, add half turn to maximum difficulty performed and the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) has listed it as G, when the maximum difficulty of exercises is classified with the letter H.

So, the Zapata is already another word to add the usual ones of this sport discipline, as they are the reception, the way a gymnast lands on the ground or extended tips.

In this discipline it is essential to know the jumps, and the mortal It is one of the most complicated: it consists of a rotation or rotation with respect to the transverse axis in the flight phase and without the support of the hands. Also, you can add turns on the longitudinal axis that are called pirouettes.

The jumps can also be done with different positions, grouped, when the body bends shrinking completely; the extended, when gymnasts put the body rigid; and the famous carp, when body and legs adopt an angle of 90 degrees.

Windsurfing

The wind is part of the life of Blanca Machón, sixth winner of a Windsurf World Championship.

Regarding the parts of the table with which Blanca moves in the water, concepts such as shape, shape or design of the windsurf board, sleeve, the measure that refers to the widest part of the table, carena, bottom of the windsurfing board that is in contact with water on the contrary, the cover, the upper part; footstraps, the tapes that secure the feet on the deck while planning on the water; boom, the handlebars where a windsurfer is attached and hung, are common in the jargon of this discipline.

Similarly, the sea and the winds and everything related to them give rise to concepts such as spot, the place where windsurfing is practiced; dead calm, the scenario that no windsurfer wants, since it means that there is no wind; like plate, which is when the sea is completely calm, like a swimming pool.

A situation of choppy / chopi It occurs when the surface of the sea is blurred by sudden changes in wind direction. Glassy describes the ideal scenario for surfing, almost like when talking about series / set, since it is a series of waves in the direction of the coast that any lover of the waveriding want.

To ride on the waves, you also need to handle concepts like empowered, navigate in the same direction of the wind, through, navigate perpendicular to it, tack (tuck) and trasluchada (Jibe / Gybe) which is about the basic turns that are made for or against the wind respectively, forward, jump with forward rotation or back loop, jump with rotation backwards.

With this brief review of the vocabulary of some of the disciplines that sound increasingly strong in the world of sports, it will be better understood what each one consists of.