Is JUDO going to be the new MMA fad now?

[SevenStar]

I don't think Judo will ever be popular. One or two classes will convince most people to give it up.

 

Judo and soccer are the two most popular sports on the planet...

[White Warlock]

Judo is very tough and injury is a certainty. At least in BJJ you can concentrate on mat work without getting thrown over and over.

Ugh! I must admit your posts are frustrating.

 

Injury in judo practice is not a certainty. In fact, it was designed specifically to allow for a very small chance of injury, in order to allow for competition, as well as to encourage the 'pacifistic' beliefs that Jigoro Kano adopted. In truth, it is far more likely that you will obtain injury in bjj, primarily due to the encouragement of its founders to allow for far more 'open' competitions. I.e., bjj instructors are still very much geared towards 'proving' to the world that bjj is a viable study that substantially differentiates itself from the traditional Japanese instructions of jj.

[daoshi]

mean think about it, a martial art based on being gentle. the only turn off to judo is that if you don't know what's going on it's extremely boring.

 

Boring maybe, but gentle never. Gentle is a mistranslation of the Ju character. The only thing more brutal than Judo is Olympic Wrestling training. I have been involved in a very small dojo for a few years and almost every player has suffered a broken bone or joint injury requiring surgery. The paramedics are on hand at every tournament and someone is usually taken out on a stretcher.

[SevenStar]

he's right - injury is almost inevitable. Gentle is in the sense that you are using minimum effort to beat your opponent...you are using his energy to throw him. Judo is brutal. Competition is rough and injuries will happen., Broken toes and messed up knees are common, as are other injuries. In the dojo, you will have less of a chance of getting hurt, but competition is a battlefield.

[White Warlock]

Bah! Competitions are rough, regardless of what system you practice. Take it out of context and you will validate any argument posed.

[SevenStar]

not really. point fighting is not rough at all. forms competitions are not rough at all. the nature of judo, thaiboxing, etc. is rough. even in the dojo, you have a better chance of getting thrown and breaking/spraining something than you do in many other styles.

[White Warlock]

Bah! You're right. I hate it when i get stubborn.

 

Almost all of my mat-induced injuries were from wrestling and judo, so for me to argue this point further would be hypocritical.

 

On a side, my reference to competitions were in regards to full-contact, wrestling, judo, or mma-type. I competed once in point contact, and never again. I never entered forms competition. No interest. I suppose, subconsciously, i do not include point and forms as 'martial art' competitions... although that is clearly not nice on my part.