Did for 8 years as a kid, massively helped any sport with balance and leverage requirements.
Only one club in my town and it's built around kids.
I don't like how abstract some of the rules can get but as an art it's fucking great.
I did it for about 6 months with my buddy Sgt. Alford for self defense training. We both broke our big toes<45>
It's good to hear. To me it seems like an obsecure style. The judo dojo I see seem to be in a dingy place.
Despite the MMA it seems like karate is still more popular. That being said judo has lot to offer.
Damn!
Was it night time classes or did they have morning classes as well?
I think Judo is second to soccer in terms of actual practitioners/players.It's good to hear. To me it seems like an obsecure style. The judo dojo I see seem to be in a dingy place.
Despite the MMA it seems like karate is still more popular. That being said judo has lot to offer.
LOL!i got judo tossed in a fight in school, pretty much tkod me, motherfucker got hold of my winter jacket and threw me.
during summer when it was summer break i spent entirety of my summer watching defensive wrestling techniques on youtube and lifting weights.
so 7 months later after my loss, i call him out and next break we plan to go fight, before this i go to toilet and rub olive oil on my arms and shoulder so if he grabs me it would slip (i was fighting in a wife beater)
so we start and i go with basic 1-2, he blocks the jab but the right goes through, hes dazed and tries to grab the arm but cant get a hold of becuse his grip slips away then he goes for a clinch but i move my hips away like was taught on youtube.
i manage to separate and hit him with a left and he drops.
i got shit for that throw for next 3 years becaue the airtime was impressive so i got the nickname "Air"
i still have a scar on my head from time he threw me
[url=https://postimages.org/]I did it for about 6 months with my buddy Sgt. Alford for self defense training. We both broke our big toes<45>
[/URL]As a kid, I took Judo for a short period of time back when I'd left my Isshin Ryu school after about 2 1/2 years. I thought it was OK but wanted to go back to striking so I quit & switched to Tae Kwon Do. I stayed with that for a little over two years but bailed after failing my red belt test because I didn't know my poomsae well enough. That's when I discovered boxing.
Later in life though, when I trained in Kajukenbo Kempo there's a fair amount of Judo in its curriculum but by then my knee was bothering me so I did the bare minimum to get by & progress in belt levels.
Just capoeira.
I think Judo is second to soccer in terms of actual practitioners/players.
LOL!
We got our resident Akiyama here.
Yes, it was a college team.
I'm more of a no-touch martial arts guy. I'd show you but it's lethal. I can't even UFC cuz of it.
JK I did Judo for a few years while I was in college.
You need to learn judo as a kid. Judo hurts when you're an adult where kids love to do cartwheels, rolls, basically falling all over the place. They're like cats that don't get hurt easily like adults.I do Judo at the moment and at bjj I'm known as the judo guy lol. Judo seems popular with the kids but not with the adults for what I have seen.
I heard this before but I just don't feel it being very popular.
Did the judo training come handy when dealing with boxing clinch fatigue?
I notice that boxing clinch would fatigue me like crazy but with judo/sambo there is a sense comfort of not needing to push or shove and it's less foreign being clinched.
Oddly enough this style was so much more popular than Gracie jujitsu. Specially in early 2000s.
I heard this before but I just don't feel it being very popular.