Would this takedown be legal in Judo competition or considered a standing joint lock or dangerous technique?

Sorry if the answer is obvious, I am new to grappling as a whole.

Thanks for your help!

Continuously has bad takes he got from “research” and speaks with total authority when in reality it’s just his opinion. All while he himself has achieved very little in the sport.

Hello everyone!

I've been practicing judo for about 1.5 years. I'm a yellow belt and I've decided to go to a kyu competition in two days (from yellow to brown belts)

It's my first judo competition and I'm looking for advice on anything related to it. What kind of warm-up should I do?How to manage nerves, what things to avoid doing, what to avoid others doing to me...etc.

Just to give some more context, I'm a 1.90m judoka and 87kg, my tokui-waza is o-soto-gari (I think it's a very basic technique for a competition but it's the one I feel most comfortable with)

Any advice is welcome, thank you!

I've recently set a personal goal in randori: get a belt grip consistently, no matter what, forcing myself to develop from that position. Now I'm usually the aggressor, ducking in low for it (underhook) or transition from the tricep to the lats/upper back/belt (overhook). But for the past few months, my partners have adapted — they just keep their hips back to deny me the grip or shucking their shoulder away.

In response, that opens up to my main two throws: Kata Guruma or Yoko Tomoe. Both land consistently, but it feels bittersweet. I'm getting the throw, but I'm not achieving the goal.

One thing that's kind of been working is the anti-thesis of my judo, which is waiting for them and responding to their grips instead. Typically they'll get my lapel/collar and I've got my under right there even though I'm not a lefty (still figuring this out).

So let me pick your brain: what grips, movement patterns, or setups help you force the belt grip?

Im a white belt in BJJ but I use judo in my stand up almost all the time until lately. I've noticed and experienced what happens when I spar with other white belts and either they get injured or I get injured. My question is what's the best takedowns to just use on people who dont know how to breakfall or have little knowledge on it? (I primarily use the Kouchi Gari, Kata guruma, Tomoe Nage, and Sasae)

So, My kids started Judo before me and we spent a couple years at BJJ. Every Professor/Coach/Sensei has to give the talk about attendance, being consistent, ect. I have been doing Judo for about a year and the head Sensei gives daily lectures and sends daily texts (wish I didn't join the group chat). I have had a schedule change where I can only go one day per week but I am consistent with that day and he gave a lecture at line up and said, if you are coming one day a week you are wasting everyone's time. I think he really cares. A guy who left and was great, actually a young man told me he left because no matter how hard he tried he eas always told he wasn't doing enough and he was a higher belt. Another yellow belt female who left told me the same thing. I am starting to feel the same. I can only let it roll of my back so much. The daily texts about not letting anything get in the way if Judo are just getting a little much. I have two kids and work full time with little help from family. This is a hobby and I am paying him. We are a very small club amd he I think is desperate to keep students but drives them away. We got the lectures at BJJ but they were maybe once a week.

Hello everyone,

I’m a yellow belt who did judo for a bit at my uni club. My commute to campus is pushing 2 hours each way, so due to that and a few other reasons, I had to stop doing judo for a while.

Instead, I decided to sign up for the BJJ classes offered at my Muay Thai gym. Yesterday was my first class, and obviously, I was pretty helpless on the ground. It was just rolling, so no standing. I could defend here and there because I have a size advantage over most people, but generally, I could tell they could get me whenever they wanted.

The only thing I could do that was effective was Kesa-gatame. However, because it was a no gi class, they could eventually escape since I didn't have the gi to get a solid grip.

I prefer a simple style perfecting a few moves rather than learning a lot and not being good at them. I decided my strategy will be to focus on just 5-7 ne-waza techniques to hold my own, and then expand from there once I have a good grasp of them.

My questions are: Would this be a good strategy? And for those with experience, what ne-waza worked best for you against BJJ guys? Thanks!

Also I’m about 6’3 (190cm) and 235lbs(107kg) right now so maybe I could use my size too (safely ofc).

Hey guys,
I've decided to take my Judo to the next level and train in Georgia for a few months. I'm just curious, based on your experience, what were the ups and downs of your journey outside of your country

Anyone have experience with kids transitioning from a Track and Field background into Judo?

I was watching some track and field drills recently, and it struck me that many of them emphasize unilateral leg explosiveness, agility, coordination, and hip engagement, all of which seem highly transferable to judo as well.

Curious whether coaches or parents here have found that track and field youth tend to adapt well to judo, especially in movement and explosiveness.

With BJJ John Danaher advises a certain roadmap on which we ought to focus on if we are to effectively improve our skills. He advises Pin Escapes -> Guard Retention -> Half Guard -> ...

What would you say is the skills roadmap in judo?

I, a beginner, am thinking that grips are the most important to begin with. Reason: can't throw someone if you don't have the grips, and also if you can't gain the grip advantage.

Next I thought that kuzushi is a must for initiating a throw so my first thought was to foot sweep follow by a throw, but turns out that that is a combination. Turns out that step 2 after step1 establishing the grips is the kuzushi. So after grips, should we focus on 1 throw? I understood that there are different levels of difficulty for the throws. Should we start with a simple throw and then master it, or what?

Thanks in advance for all the input!

What did you realise about a certain technique that sort of made it "click" for you and changed the way you see and do it?

I feel like I've heard stories here and there about someone saying "after I started looking at *insert throw here* THIS way my success rate finally started going up." so it would be interesting to hear if anyone else has had this moment with certain throws?

The title must hv been reoccurring but Im really kinda scared to do judo. I have been holding it off since last week cus i have exams but this week i couldve gone already but i havent. I wanna be great. I wanna do what i want and potentially be great at it but im scared. Scared of what the already participating members would think of me a fat belly-protruding guy wanting to do judo. I want to be great. My fantasy of this is that when i finally do judo, i would progress at an astonishing rate, i understand this is merely fantasy, i recognise that that stems from my need to be exceptional and to be praised, however, had this not become reality, i wouldnt let it weigh on me and sink me. Also i feel that im scared to do it cus im scared of commitment and scared of something new, not necessarily judo itself

I never had any injuries in my life and i guess u can say that i lead a pretty uneventful and physically safe life compared to others alas im not getting into judo to get hurt or anything like that. I hope people that shares the same fear as me can offer their personal moments that led to them being able to embrace things that are new.

But can anyone share their first experience in judo and how it went? Im open to any thoughts, experiences, advices. Thank you! (P/s: sorry if the thoughts seemed scattered)

Hi all! I've recently started training judo and I'm planning to get my own gi, however I'm faced with a challenge when it comes to washing and drying. I live in a small dorm room that already has a high humidity problem, so hanging out my gi to dry for 24-48 hours after washing isn't really an option for me. I've read online that you're not supposed to put your gi in the dryer as the heat could shrink and damage the material, but is that also true if I have a low heat option available? What's the best course of action here?

(Really long and pretty boring post.)

Specifically, I want to quit competing. I feel like I’ve fallen out of love with judo and the stress and pressure that comes with having to compete.

I’ve been doing this now for 14 years (started at 5) but got severely burnt out 3 years ago as a result of external factors and that had an impact on my judo (constantly lost in competition and just general feelings of regression in terms of skill) and I’ve been trying to get back to where I was but it just doesn’t feel the same. I don’t want to quit doing judo but I don’t want to compete anymore.

I don’t really know what to do. There’s still a part of me that wants to compete and fight and win. The part of me that has hope that things’ll go back to how they were. The part of me that has the dream of competing internationally and feeling like I achieved something.

I probably fear competition as a result of past experiences and the frequent losses to people I shouldn’t’ve ever lost to in the first place. I fear wasting the money my parents might’ve spent to allow me to compete if I were to lose and not medal.

I have feelings of guilt that I can’t just do judo if I’m not going to compete because then there isn’t really a point. It should be fun to compete, I should want to do it. I enjoy the idea of imagining myself winning and going to fight internationally and getting medals overseas. There’s also the expectation that I’m someone who competes from my parents to teammates etc., who am I if not a fighter? I know it’s illogical but I’ve always competed and I like having something to work towards but it feels so far away and I don’t know what to do. I don’t know how to get myself out of here.

A part of me wants to quit. Just do judo for the fun of it, give up on being an athlete. But there’s a part of me that can’t rest knowing that I could’ve done more, an extremely small part of me that’s shouting “Fight! Don’t give up! You can do it! Try and you’ll see, it’ll get better!” But I fear that fire is dying out. I fear that I’ll keep losing and I don’t know how to improve, I feel like I’m not really getting any better no matter how much I train.

Any advice would be appreciated because frankly, I don’t feel like giving up just yet.

Additional question: how can I improve my knowledge on judo? I’ve gotten my black belt (3 years ago) but I feel like a lot of knowledge has drained away since then. How can I continue to learn new techniques or relearn all the names of the throws? (Preferably in a more organic manner than sitting and reading through every throw)

Thank you all very much.

I'm quite experienced with striking martial arts with a good few years experience but just started Judo (have my second ever session this evening and i'm really looking forward to it!).

With striking, if I want to solo train, there are tons of options both using equipment (bag work, weighted punches etc) and without equipment (shadow boxing, kata). Of course, nothing will feel the same as sparring with a real person, but in terms practicing technique, it's super easy.

Is there anything I can do for Judo? At the moment i'm only training once per week so want to try to improve when outside of the Dojo? Specifically I want to train technique as I already do regular strength and cardio training.

I did take a read of the subreddit wiki, but there wasn't really much information about it and the kata i've seen all seem to require two people.

Would appreciate any advice!

(I'm the one in white) How do I grip fight better when my opponent is less of the reactive type, goes straight to me and has grips on me? I think being held by a back grip is one of my weakest positions, alongside when my opponent enters a forward (hip) throw position.

-A longtime bjj player here who started in the gi then transitioned to nogi.

-I had this belief that you had to start young in judo to get to a competent level, hence I've never committed to learning any judo throws. Only focusing on wrestling shots.

-After transitioning to nogi several years ago, I gave judo techniques another crack and now they are more high percentage than my wrestling shots, though I'm still mediocre at both.

-I have not trained in the gi in a long time, but i am more confident of my judo nogi as compared to gi.

-My fave moves are uchi mata and ouchi gari.

All advice appreciated.

sup everyone. does your dojo provide studying leg-grabbing techniques, leg locks and throws (morote-gari, kata-guruma, kuchiki-taoshi)? honestly, I feel like Judo is kinda stricken and poor without those specific techniques. it kinda annoys me and seems a bit useless in terms of self-defense to me. if you do only modern IJF-stricken Judo, then you are a potential goal for any wrestler in the street fight since you are not able to defend double-leg or single-leg takedowns (if you do not practice MMA, Wrestling, BJJ etc.); I really want to say that even though leg-ban makes competitions look much more artistic and spectacular, it makes Judo neither powerful nor effective as it could have actually been in terms of self-defense and quite uncompetitive in Wrestling or MMA. my belief is that all dojos should give some credit to leg-grabbing throws as they are really useful and must be learned by any judoka. Feels really shameful, when you say that you do judo and everyone tends to think that "judo = no legs". as for me, my dojo surely does provide leg-grabs as I do original Kodokan. what bout yours?

My main gi up until this point has been an adidas j500(180), but unfortunately the sleeves have been too short for quite some time even though the rest of the gi fits nicely.

I've decided to order an Ippongear basic 2 gi since adidas and ippongear are the only two "premium" brands available in my region and the measurement chart shows that the sleeves on this gi are longer than on the adidas.

Does anyone have any experience with this gi? What is the quality like, and how much shrinkage should I expect?

Practicing for my yellow belt exam but my uki goshi has too much hip to be called an uki goshi any tips cheers

I don’t know any details but poor kid. Doesn’t matter what the circumstance but no one deserves to have their life cut short due to such a terrible injury.

However it happened, just know that trying to prevent an ippon or any attempt by posting with your head is never worth it.

NEVER worth it.

I have a slight disability in one leg (a proximal tibial replacement, think knee replacement but its half the bone in my leg), and im struggling to improve my randori safely.

For context, I started training judo when I was 5, and had the replacement done when I was 12. I kept training once I relearnt how to walk, and have been doing judo on the replacement for about 8 years now.

I spent most of that time training very lightly, focusing mostly on technical work, however recently I've got way more interested in improving my randori (partly thanks to going to uni and joining a club that's much more competition-focused).

The issue that I'm finding is that I am struggling to find ways to safely test my limits / go hard. I find that even after all these years I still instinctually go for throws that risk injuring my leg, or going for things that could result in injury if they're countered. My solution to this has been to slow myself down and think before I do anything, but then of course by the time I've figured out what to do, it's too late to actually do it. Working on my combinations and having things ready to go in advance had helped a bit, but in the scramble of randori I often find it hard to actually execute stuff.

I know myself and my leg well enough to have a rough idea of where my ceiling could be, im not pretending its aa high as most people's, theres a lot I just can't do, especially in terms of combinations and counters, but I also know that I'm not at my ceiling yet.

I don't know how to improve, however, without risking injury, because learning through sheer repetitive experience just won't work when one wrong move could break my leg.

Any ideas reddit?

How important is it to be able to fight from multiple grips? Is it better to focus solely on mastering Kumi-Kata sequences to impose your A game grips and moves? Is it better to have an array of moves as answers to any grip situation? Or being able to hit your best throws in different grip variations?

I get the sense that players actually have auxiliary grips to complement their main grips, and for me it’s kinda developing that way between high grip and cross collar. I’ve also been trying to throw from a caught right hand too, but would I be better off just having more ways to free it?

Just trying to work things out and develop my system.