New Judo Rule

[jsteczko]

But you still can train these takedowns on judo classes? This is just tournaments... and martial arts tournaments are in most cases just a sport and not a martial art. This is the same thing in karate, they remove a lot of techniques in karate competitions.

Unfortunately judo or any martial art that is practiced as a sport is not effective. This is at least my opinion, because in martial arts sports you don't learn many things. Too many techniques are removed.

[bushido_man96]

I think Martial Arts sports are very effective, especially because they usually have a higher level of contact and resistance in their sparring. Olympic TKD and Boxing fight to knockout, Judo, BJJ, and Wrestling all are 100% resistive. This is very good training, even with the rule sets in place.

[Toptomcat]

Perhaps a better way to phrase it might be:

Sportive training can be very martially useful, but if taken as an end to itself rather than as an aid to martial training it can be counterproductive from a martial perspective.