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I started this January and by far I love it. But I have a issue when it comes to escaping Ne waza. I can’t get out from the mune gatame and Kesa gatame. I just get stuck. Im the youngest and smallest, I’m 165, but if we compare me to the other ones I’m like a rat sitting next to giraffes. And they can lay down like a pancake and I just cannot escape, do you guys have any tips on how to ”escape” or something that I can train to improve escaping?

Hey! I am in Canada and plan to do my shodan grading soon. I've had a lot if practice with the kata, but I'm having a hard time finding information on the randori and waza section of the grading.

I was wondering if somebody could answer some questions I have.

For the 3 sections, is one weighted more than another ? Eg. Kata vs waza vs randori? I see the grading sheets in the syllabus but I don't really know how it all comes together.

For the waza:

When they request you demonstrate a technique (not the kata), is it right and left or just your preferred side? Can they be performed stationary? I've been following the kodokan videos for each waza and trying to go by these.

Some of the videos show variations in grip or position e.g. mount vs seated for shime waza. Does it matter which you choose?

For randori:

Do you use the same uke as you do for kata?

Is it traditional free-flowing randori with resistance, or closer to shiai?

I'm very nervous about where to focus my energy. My sensei hasn't been involved in a grading in many years, and I come from a small town so I have limited resources. While I know a lot of the waza in theory, I haven't had a proper partner to really throw them consistently in a long time. I have been traveling to practice when I can.

Thank you!

Is ippon worth focusing on over morote? I’m thinking more for competition purposes. Should I focus more on one in particular? I would say I prefer ippon but I’m more of an Uchimata person anyways

Good evening folks. Do you have an injury that you work through? How has it changed your approach to judo?

For me I flipped a bike 6 years ago, tore everything in my shoulder, after surgery and a ton of pt I'm back in the full swing of training. I have full range of motion but any throws using your shoulders aggravate the heck out of it. So now I throw mostly left. I do alot of band workouts and modify other strength training to work.

Hi All:

Purple belt here. 46 years old. Just wanted to survey how many days a week does everyone train? I did 2x a week past 1.5 years and now stepping into 3-4 days. I think its a nice sweet spot. Our bjj class is coupled with judo so its 2-2.5 hours of training each class.

Hi everyone,

I’m planning to open my own judo dojo in the near future, and I’d love to hear opinions from people who train.

As a student, what do you expect from a good coach and a good dojo?

Any advice or personal experiences would be really appreciated.

Thanks!

I have a bad situation. I train judo and my trainig sessions at dojo are late in the day, we finish around 22:00 (10pm). By the time i get home and prepare for bed it's 23:00, i have to get up at 6 30 am to go to school. My question is do I skip my dinner so I can have good quality sleep, or I sacrifice my sleep for eating?

Hello wise friends, I am 44 years old and out of shape. I started dieting and doing a body builder split in the gym and have set a goal weight, but my bigger goal is to start martial arts.

A judo club opened up in my town and i find it super fascinating. I just wonder at my age if It would be a good fit getting thrown around a lot. Sometimes I feel like it just hurts to exist being old and heavier 😂. Anyone else start this late and over weight? I honestly think I'm going to wait another 50lbs before I consider anything but as of today Judo or Goju Ryu are my top two picks.

Any advice or suggestions would be helpful and appreciated. My knees, back and hips are still in good shape if that helps. I also have a long torso normal armspan and short legs.

Hi - hopefully I can make this question make sense.

Recently I've been working on a right sided seoi nage from a left handed stance (left foot forward, my left hand on their right lapel).

The problem is that I'm right handed and all my other judo is right sided, my other common throws being kouchi/kosoto/okuri-ashi-barai.

I've seen a lot of advice here that you shouldn't switch stance mid fight as it's a good way to get swept. How should I go about reconciling this? Do I just have to switch to working a cross grip/ morote seoi nage? Or perhaps try to work a left sided seoi nage using my right sided grip on the lapel instead?

Would be curious to hear some options. Cheers!

Suppose opponent attempts standing ippon seoi and fails. They might try to follow up with kouchi makkikomi or ippon osoto. Again, suppose I stay in balance and those fail. Assume RvR. So, they still have their right arm under my right armpit, with their left arm gripping my right lapel or sleeve. Say I have a right lapel grip, and my left arm could take grips wherever. What are my best attacks from here?

I just finished my second competition as a white belt and have found that I continue to gravitate towards getting a Georgian grip in the higher stakes Shiai setting. I won my first two matches through harai goshi and multiple sumi gaeshi’s from this grip. The 3rd and 4th matches, I didn’t get the grip once due to my opponent’s defense and body type (taller than me).

I’ve read that it is limiting to just try and stick with the Georgian or other belt grip. Is there an alternative grip system that can mesh with the Georgian for when I can’t get over the back or while I’m working towards it?

Don’t want to handicap myself to just the Georgian grip but also want to use it because it works really well when I can get it.

About to order the Yusho IJF gi which is the model thats manifactured in Pakistan if I'm not mistaken,
I'm 180cm/5'11 85KG will the 4 Size/180cm be good for me? Do they come larger than normal?

Does judo mainly relay on takedowns and locks if yes how would we control a fight against a boxer or Muay thai oponent if no does judo teaches punching kicking pound and roll. I just gonna sart my first judo class from tmrw just by dumb brain asking questions sorry if its a dumb question i was just curious

Hi, I'm looking to buy a new judo gi in Germany. I'd like something a bit thicker than my previous gi, so I'm looking for anything around 750g/m^2 - though it's not a strict requirement.
If possible, I would love to not spend way too much money - below 150 and preferably below 110. I'm around 175 cm tall and male. I also have the pants and belt already.

Any recommendations would be much appreciated.

(I am not a beginner, but I have never bought my own gi before, so hoping you kind people might have some advice. Thanks!)

I've heard and read dozens of anecdotes, online and in person, of people being kicked out or scolded for cross training at dojos other than their main one.

Seems like this is a pervasive attitude in judo. Why? Does the same thing exist in any other combat sport?

Have any of you built an informed view about whether it is preferable from a tactical perspective to have more slack in your jacket vs. a tighter fit? I was going to buy another slim fit gi, as they always look a lot better-fitting on me, but started to think about how I do my judo and whether maybe going looser would make more sense.

In the past, I always went with a more fitted jacket, thinking that this would be harder to grip, easier for me to deny a grip, and easier for me to break a grip. But I realize that I no longer think a lot about any of these things. My judo has evolved (hopefully) to where I think more like: get my hands where I want them to be and then shift my body around to find the right "fusion" with my opponent's body so that I'm putting the right pressure on him and allowing my own body to move in the ways I want it to to throw him. I now actually work to minimize the "grip-fighting" part of it to get to the rest of it.

My thought was that if I'm more concerned with being able to shift into the right position after I get my hands on and then being able to move freely so that I can slide or wiggle into throwing position, would some slack be better? I'm also thinking that if I can start twisting in a "vacuum", is it kind of like having a head start in my nage waza? By the time the slack runs out, I'm already moving with momentum ... more powerful and whip-lashy and also maybe less telegraphing of what is coming at my opponent?

The big ones for me that made the biggest difference in my Judo (as far as I can tell):

- keep your back straight, no matter what

- get an upper arm grip

- think about your planting foot (where it has to be so the throw can be done) before you think about your reaping foot

Might sound like no-brainers to some but just keeping these 3 things in mind has dramatically improved my defensive and offensive abilities. How would you teach a beginner with just 3 principles?

Hey yall, my judo club just disbanded so now im going into boxing. Now im wondering what are some ways to apply judo philosophy and principles like maximum efficiency and such into those sports.

Fact is, i still want to do judo, and since Kano posits that any time one uses the philosophy they use judo, i can be a judoka while boxing (sorta).
Any ideas on how to apply judo philosophy to boxing?