Zitat:
Japans Judoverband steht unter Schock. Mitglieder der Nationalmannschaft wurden allem Anschein nach regelmäßig von ihrem Cheftrainer Ryuji Sonoda verprügelt. Der Verband hat die Anschuldigungen zwar bereits zum Teil bestätigt, gibt Sonoda aber dennoch eine zweite Chance.
Zitat:
Eine im Januar 2011 veröffentlichte Studie ist schockierend. Sie kommt zu dem Schluss, dass in Japan jedes Jahr im Durchschnitt vier Kinder während des Judotrainings sterben. Dabei sind die nun bekannt gewordenen Vorfälle keineswegs allein für den Judosport typisch, sondern kennzeichnen eher das völlig „normale” Trainingsgeschehen in Japan, wie es sogar im japanischen Fernsehen (NHK) dokumentiert und landesweit ausgestrahlt wird.
Gewalt im Training ist ein offenes Geheimnis. Gewalt durch Lehrer und Trainer im Sport wird im Land der aufgehenden Sonne toleriert.
budo, ja?
Zitat:
I trained in judo for three years at one of the above-mentioned universities and for a shorter period at another. While in training at both of these two dojos I soon noticed the observance of a strict hierarchy among the Japanese students that lasts throughout their four-year period of training. The elder students customarily assume dictational authority over the juniors. Not only is this relationship maintained daily in the dojo but it is also observed outside training hours, since all judo club members ordinarily share the same dormitory facilities. Similar to life in some military barracks, slaps, kicks and the occasional hazing of juniors by one or more seniors are commonly meted out, and from time to time, these assaults result in injury.
Zitat:
For instance, it tended to make the juniors adopt a more serious, alert and disciplined attitude towards their training which in turn made them more effective as judo contestants in competition. For it must be remembered that to attain victory in top contest matches one needs to adopt the killer instinct. Some able judo men are occasionally too relaxed, or for want of a better expression, too kind-hearted to pursue an advantage in contest and so sometimes lose, which is of little help to one's teammates when they are trying to win a major championship. To give an extreme example of how a certain instructor dealt with this problem, he knew one of his contestants was such a man and so he took him to one side shortly before the start of his match and spat in his face, wiped it off and screamed some things to the effect, "Now get out there and WIN!" which the young man did, almost immediately after the contest started.
Being under such oppression daily can naturally result in the students feeling a sense of resentment and anger. However, provided this pent-up hostility in the juniors is expended in the dojo during training or directed towards an attempt at the successful outcome of some other worthwile objective, such as their studies, for example, bullying seems to be unofficially condoned and tolerated by university judo club administrators.
(ebenda, s.137 ff.)
