

Judo for Equestrian Sports?
We recently organsied a collaborative session with Swanson Racing and Black Belt Judoka Phillip Jeans at Rolf Valley Sport & Health where he taught The Zimbabwe apprentice Jockeys falling techniques to prevent catastrophic injury. Research from the USA suggests that Jockey injuries occur more than 51% of the time they fall in a race (Hitchens et al., 2013). Jockeys are likely to fall every 500 race rides where 18-25% of the time, they sustain injuries to the lower limbs, foll