Freestyle Judo – De weg die Judo moet zijn?

6 Comments

1. 

   d_rome

   Nice to see Freestyle Judo featured on BJJEE.com. The author said one thing that needs clarity:

   > I believe that any Jiu-Jitsu competitor looking for a competition to work on their takedowns in would do well to enter a Freestyle Judo tournament. For one, competitors who favor wrestling style shots will be allowed to execute their techniques, something they wouldn’t have in an IJF tournament.

   Yes, these techniques are allowed but according to the rules:

   >A contest shall not attempt a throw or takedown technique unless he or she first grips or holds the opponent’s jacket with one or both hands. This must be an actual grip or hold and not merely touching the jacket as the throw or takedown is attempted.

   02/09/2018
2. 

   mysteriousyak

   I don’t get the point of the arbitrary point changes, seems like it would just make matches go on longer.

   02/09/2018
3. 

   Absenceofgoodnames

   The way Judo ought to be:

   “Judo is a study and training in mind and body as well as in the regulation of one’s life and affairs. From the thorough study of the different methods of attack and defense I became convinced that they all depend on the application of one all-pervading principle, namely: Whatever be the object, it can best be attained by the highest or maximum efficient use of mind and body for that purpose. Just as this principle applied to the methods of attack and defense constitutes Jiu-jitsu, so does this same principle, applied to physical, mental and moral culture, as well as to ways of living and carrying on of business, constitute the study of, and the training in, those things.”

   I quite like leg grab techniques myself, but I don’t see anything there for or against them.

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   03/09/2018
4. 

   DarkHide

   To the title question: yes.

   03/09/2018
5. 

   CountBarbatos

   I do enjoy leg grabs on no gi day, they’re great for self defense too, but the fact that we can’t grab legs in IJF rules just makes our traditional judo throws all the better. More time to focus on seoi or Tai otoshi or uchi mata.

   04/09/2018
6. 

   tmf32282

   I think I can gather from the comments, but the difference between freestyle and other schools? My teacher is freestyle and as a novice I really didn’t know what the distinction was at this point.

   06/09/2018