u/kernelchagi

Hello. I am BJJ purple belt that has been training judo for a year, im currently a 4th kyu in judo. As you can imagine i can handle newaza quite well but still a lot to learn in tachiwaza. The thing is that im traveling to Japan in december and im planning to train BJJ there at some nice places, but i was wondering if in my situation you will go for train judo at kodokan or other nice schools. For bjj i have no problems but for judo i feel that im still very new and there is a lot to learn and probably the average level in Japan is very high. What are your thoughts on this? In case that you will encourage me to train judo there, wich places do you recomend? Thanks!
I forgot to mention that is a "once in a lifetime" opportunity to train there, because i dont think i can afford to go there much more. Also i dont speak japanese.

As a small european i always wondered if everyone there in the USA is a wrestler and everyone so big because i saw so many people complaining about that. Here that is never happening, some judoka ocasionally but thats it. I always thought the average level in the USA will be higher for every belt, is that the case?

For people that trained in different continents how do you feel it?

Hello. I practice BJJ and Judo and i was wondering if there is a reasonable way to use fitbit while practicing. I saw there is a special brazelet for whoop and i thought about buying it, but man, 200€ a year subscription its a no go for me because i honestly dont think its worth it. Is there anything similar for the fitbit availible?

Not hurting its just little itchy. Its on my arm

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Hello. Ive been training judo since january and i just got my yellow belt. I have some doubts about newaza techniques for exams because i happend to be a bjj purple belt.

Here for the judo kyu exams it seems that you have to show how to develop your tokui waza, and you need one for tachi waza and one for ne waza.

For tachi waza you show some uchikomis, then the technique, then some counter, some chaining etc.

But my doubts come with newaza techniques as you have to show them transitions, scapes, counters and so on. I can only find the kodokan pure techniques in their youtube channel, but there they dont show any scape, counters, transitions or variations.

Are there anywhere? Do they exist a fix number of them? Or i can just use my bjj to transition from one technique to another or scape etc? Im not talking about randori, im just talking about the official exams.

Hello. Wich do you think is the best handheld for emulating tate shmups?

I was thinking in getting the TACO controller for my phone but im not sure if it will be great for that.

What are the options? Maybe a chinese handheld? I have the analogue pocket but the screen is too small for tate games.

Hello! It always amazes me how many "important" people from the scene are from Spain while the country is not that big. Specially with the arcade.

-Jotego wich is one of the main arcade core creators for fpga

-DarkSoft who created a lot of different multigames (everdrive likes) for arcade pcbs (like the neogeo mvs multi, cps2 multi, cps3 multi, taito f3 multigame...)

-TerraOnion who made everdrives for neogeo aes, pc engine etc

-Antonio Villena and manuferhi who sells and design different mister fpga hardware

-The creators of fightcade (Pau and Shine) are also from Spain wich is the main platform for online classic fighting games and one of the reasons of why street fighter 3rd strike made such a come back.

-In the world of microcomputers is also really big with people like Mcleod_Ideafix who knows a lot of zx spectrum, Calavera that made a lot of tools for the amstrad cpc development, Enguix that made the first msx emulator...

-Calamity is from Spain too, the guy who created the custom ATI drivers for using modern graphic cards at 15khz for using them in old CRT tvs

-The creators of RGBPi that for some time was the main way to use RaspberryPi to emulate games in old CRT tvs.

Also a lot of those people are not getting much money out of it and they made it for the love of the game. Im sure that countries like Germany, Italy or the UK has as many or probably more good engineers and geeks than Spain but for some reason a lot of the developers and people making the community move forward are from Spain. Why do you think that is?