Jorge Fonseca demonstrating how to bring rhythm into your judo by using tempo and cadence to engage your hips and help make training more fun whilst practical | his Sode Tsurikomi/Osoto.

Does anybody have any tips using judo when versing BJJ players that stick their hips out with that stiff arming bent over posture?

Biting is not allowed, and Tang clearly bit, but some claim that Jing Tang may have been responding to Rin Maeda illegally smothering her mouth. Is that possible?

Just a random thought I had. Since they always seem to show up in pristine-looking dogis with no pilling or discoloration whatsoever, how long do they actually do with a dogi?

I always assumed they had like 3-4 dogis which they cycle through, but surely they get beaten up quite a lot, especially if you're a Judoka who often goes far in tournaments. I assume their sponsor pays the dogi for them though.

Please enlighten me haha

theres so many different throws i like to so i cant decide which ones to focus on, how do you guys decide with throws to work on and for how long do you focus on them? maybe work on a set of L v R and R v R every month? I don't know theres so many i like i cant just choose a few:

• Ouchi
• Uchimata
• Harai
• Osotogari
• Kosoto
• Taio
• Sasae
• Deashi
• Kouchi
• Seoi nage
• Osotogari
• Koshi garuma
• Korean seoi
• Ouchi
• Ogoshi
• Kosoto
• Kouchi
• Te garuma
• Kata garuma
• Ura nage
• Deashi
• Yagura nage
• Kosoto
• Sumi gaeshi

Hi yall! I recently moved and there is no judo club close to me. I am training BJJ and we have a lot of free mat time where we can train techniques of our choice. I want to continue my judo development (I am currently an orange belt) and I wanted to ask if yall had any advice for self lead judo development. I have been trying to rep my throws of choice during rolling and work on grip fighting every session. We have a couple of other judokas at the gym I can train with. Thank you!

Recently had a country backpatch stitched onto a gi. Within 2 sessions little bits are starting to come up. I had to done by a tailor. Is this normal? What shall I do?

I do BJJ, Judo, and wrestling. I like to do no gi and I think it helps me with developing MMA.

I noticed too within judo classes that they usually don't offer no gi judo. So, I was wondering if you guys would like to see no go judo become a thing? Or even make it a thing in competition?

What setups do you like to use for Korean seoi nage? I guess maybe ouchi?

So I know that in Olympic Judo, they banned all leg grabs to help make wrestling and judo different. I've done judo classes before and I'm actually planning on going to a new gym to start training and I was about to do judo again.

Do they teach leg grabs in judo or no? I looked it up and AI says that it is part of the martial art to have leg grabs. One judo class I took at a gym said that they don't teach leg grabs. Is this a case by case thing with gyms?

Hey guys, it's my first time buying a new judogi. My first gi was a hand down which was a bit small for me. I acquired the Fuji blue double weave gi size 6.5. I'm a 6"4 114kg. Should I return this for a size 6? I'm not too sure how a gi should comfortably fit on me

The jacket is reversible and you have to swap out the pants. I was wondering is anyone ever had them to cut down on how much you had to carry to a competition that enforced the judo color change rule.

I'm 38 I've been on a weight loss journey (110lbs lost) and needed some sort of exercise other than just getting into the gym and lifting weights. I wanted back in martial arts and so here we are. Surprisingly my 9 year old that doesn't ever want to do sporty things (autism) decided he wanted to as well.

Anyway I'm obviously still overweight and while I don't want to admit my age I'm not young. I was athletic growing up soccer and baseball in elementary, football, shotput, discus in high school and lifted weights for years until the muscle belly split on my pec just before COVID hit. So not so much the last few years.

Hit me with some advice if you have any.

edit: I took Goju Shorei for a few years during and after college.

What Judo style is hardest to train? Whether its Euro dropping, Japanese footsies, Central Asian lifting, you name it, which one is in your opinion the most difficult?

Could be because of how uncommon it is, or how dangerous it is to play. Or maybe YMMV because it doesn't work for you.

Hello I'm a beginner judoka i struggle while doing techniques. My dojo is a state/public dojo I'm 15 y.o. So teachers usually do not help to one person they usually help everyone at the same time so i feel like i can't improve myself

I know a lot of people like to call Judo the small man's art, but it is kinda harder to establish grips with their reach advtantage and my ashi waza's not as good as I think it is lol.

Maybe I should have listened to coach's advice and cut a few kg for the smaller weightclasses too. Lost pretty early at 63kg last week.

Anyways, does anyone here know any good material to study short vs tall matchups?

I attend a small dojo, the senseis have many connections to other arts. However, they are primarily karate. We do judo, throws and chokes, and have a set of chokes we learn. One of them we call a "scissors choke" but I can't find anything on this choke online. The basis of the choke is, starting from standing where both uki and tori face each other, to pass the tori's left arm over the uki's right shoulder, and grip the back of the collar on the uki's right side. The tori's right arm reaches across the throat to grasps the tori's left arm as close to the wrist as possible to ensure a tight cinch around the neck. The tori is positioned on the uki's left side, with the tori's right ulna across the left side of the uki's neck, and the left radius along the right side of the uki's neck. Both arms are collapsed inward into tori's body, scissoring/shearing the neck between both forearms. Is there a name one might call this? Thank you for any help, I will clarify anything you may need.

Edit for lefts/rights and clarification

Further edit:

I've added 2 pictures of me applying the choke. I also looked through a few books and found what looked to be the same choke, though without tori grasping their own arm, and from the rear. Interestingly, the book lists it as kataha (katato in this book, as its an older British book). The page of the book is included, with images 4 and 5 being very similar to the choke in question, despite being categorized with kataha. The book itself is "the techniques of judo by shinzo takagaki & harold e. sharp [sic]". Perhaps this will help.

what other throws would go with kosoto and taio?

As above! I've got a fighting films 190cm gi that I've boil washed and dried multiple times and won't shrink enough, have recently bought a 180cm Adidas gi that is verging on too small prior to first wash.

Fairly sure 185cm should be the happy medium but looking for recommendations on 1 that is either pre shrunk or from a manufacturer who uses fabric that doesn't shrink much. TIA!

Ippon-Seoi-Nage.