Patrik Drid, PhD: Benefits of Judo
Patrik Drid, PhD from Novi Sad lectures martial sports at the home faculty, as well as at the Faculty of Sport and Physical Education in Niksic (the Univesity of Montenegro). We conversed with him in order to realize the manner in which these sports are useful and how frequent research and scientific processing of these disciplines are.
Professor Drid considers physical inactivity of youth and adults in our country and region high concerning becouse 60% of adults are not physically active, and 25% of all adults are not active at all. Almost 50% of our youth from 12 to 21 are not physically, whereas their physical activity declines during the adolescence. Judo is such type of sport and form of recreation presenting one of a rare henchman holistic approach to life and wellness. Appreciating all these values, judo is involved in curricula of physical education in Japan in 1911. Judo is perfect for the development of well proporcional body. Judo training does not only contribute to strengthening muscles and flexibility of ligaments, but also develops speed, balance, anaerobic and aerobic capacity of physically an active individual.
-Research my team deals with are focused on physiological responses on maximal and submaximal practice in judo and other martial sports. In addition to it, a molecular hydrogen administration with acid-base homeostasis biomarkers and recovery of judo players and other populations after practicing and effects of guanidinoacetic acid, creatine precursors, human nutrition are in focus in recent years.
Our research are directed on the resolution of certain real issue in sport. Out team has a large experience in sport, therefore, we abstract interesting subjects for research from that experience. We have an excellent relationship with the Judo Federation of Serbia and Vojvodina, and we organized four seminaries for judo trainers and one seminary for children parents involved in sport last year.
We maintain stable and solid relation with practice in that manner. We also held several seminaries for sambo trainers. Sambo sport was accepted in the International Olympic Committee (IOC) last year. We are glad the second part of the book titled ‘Dzudo-nauka i praksa’ (Judo-science and practice) was published by eminent publishing house the Data Status from Belgrade last year and is well-sold in bookstores. The book is written in a language easy to be read by trainers which is sihnificant bond between science and practice, as Professor Drid strated.
Professor Drid passed through all spheres of sport, he was a national player of judo and sambo of Yugoslavia, competed at the team for several seasons in wresting. Afterward, he shifted to trainer position, and also was international referee of the highes level in judo and sambo over 10 years. It enabled him to travel almos whole world. Professor Drid judged a large number of world and European championships, participated in the organization of international sport competitions from various positions, he is a technical delegate for sambo at the FISU, and a member of the Executive Board of the European Samba Federation (ESF). He is the chairpersom of the Commission for issuance of licences and permissions for work at the Judo Federation of Serbia. All this attests Professor’s fruitful practice.
Focus of Professor Drid is on the science in judo. 1360 scientific articles are published in the best world journals on the subject of this sport. Twenty three articles of that number are from the Combat Sports Lab, the University of Novi Sad. Professor Drid wishes to publishe a set of articles with his team in order to provide resolution of issues in judo. They are interested in determination of intervention impact on concrete sport performances in merfect conditions, as well as implementation and evaluation of applied intervention in a real sport environment. They want to accept a compklexity of sport through these attempts and not to ignore and decrease the significance of real occasions in sport, throughout the studying of isolated cases.
-When contemplating on judo, the first I remember are wrds of Jigoro Kano, the founder of judo ’Judo represents the manner for the most efficient use of physical and psychical power’. Kano has fortified judo as the integral part of school physical education at so-called ‘triple cultural principle’. It emphasizes balanced approach to education composed of intellectual, moral and physical disciplines. Judo is the method for adjustment and application of this principle in all spheres of life. Judo player learns how to fall and rise, to win and lose. As the part of physical education, judo is aimed to improve the state of complete emotional, psychical and body maturity and stability of a man through its methods and practices. The first immediate goal of judo is to defeat a rough power of a rival with loosing, velocity and skill, our interlocutor explains.
Since this academic year, Professor Patrik Drid has been the Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Sport and Physical Education of the University of Montenegro. He considers the CSA Conference, organized in cooperation with the Faculty from Niksic, increasingly larger and stronger, and election of lecturers on call excellent, therefore, this scientific conference is deemed useful for his colleagues and students who attend it, as well as for representatives of partner institutions.
Professor Drid considers publishing of papers in scientific journal for the purpose of promotion into title wrong, yet the point is in improvement.
-Professors who think this way probably missed the profession. If it was the only motive, as a Full Professor, I should stop with a scientific work at the moment when I have the most knowledge and the strength to deal with it. By publishing works in the most important scientific journals, each university professor extends his/her knowledge. We acquire more quality teaching and work with students in that manner. This is a way a university professor always has the latest knowledge in his field. Montenegrin Journal of Sports Science and Medicine is one of the strongest journals in the area of sports science in the region.
The way it is managed gives us a guarantee that it will receive a significant impact factor soon, which will further increase the quality of publications in it. The people who created it had to make great efforts. I know that well because I am the editor of the magazine. This means that I devote a fair share of my free time to the magazine, which certainly the editors of the magazine Montenegrin Journal of Sports Science and Medicine also do. The next step is that prof. Dusko Bijelica and prof. Stevo Popovic give their best to make journal they edit become quoted, as they as professors are, Prof. Drid asserts.
Through the interview with Professor Patrick Dryd, we ascertained the judo benefits because there is a positive correlation between judo and satisfaction with life and quality of life, and its contribution to health and prevention of diseases is immeasurable.
One study has shown that judo players with more than 10 years of experience have higher levels of gray matter in different brain regions that are related to motor learning, planning and implementation, as well as memory and cognitive processes, compared to a healthy control group. The authors give a hypothesis that mentioned adaptations are the consequence of the learning of motor skills characteristic for judo. A key component for health is aerobic capacity, which is measured by the maximum consumption of oxygen.
It represents an objective measure of the power of an aerobic chain consisted of respiratory, cardiovascular and metabolic functions. Systematic judo training, focused on the development of aerobic abilities, under proper supervision, increases work ability and reduces the risk of coronary heart and pulmonary diseases. This applies, not only to learning the techniques of throwing opponents, but also learning the ability to fall and mitigate the fall, which reduces the risk of injuries of the older population. Due to its comprehensive development of the whole body and internal organs, judo exercise reduces the risk of occurrence modern civilization diseases such as: hyperlipidemia, hypertension, diabetes, cancer and others, concludes Patrick Drid, PhD and says:
There are not limits and quotas to start an adventure with judo!
Text: Miomir Maros, PhD