Freestyle Judo looks interesting.

[Human Bass]

So lately here there has been a lot of debate about Judo rules and all that jazz, and Ann Maria shared on her blog an email about the rules of Freestyle Judo and those rules really seem to give attention to most of the complains of sherdog judokas.

Here is the blog post http://drannmaria.blogspot.com.br/2013/03/freestyle-judo-questions-and-answers.html


Ippon remains, but only if it is a hard landing, and the coolest part if the part goes to the ground, getting better position is awarded!

"This not only includes scores for throws and for the time in hold-downs but also for what is best described as "effective aggression" in groundfighting where a point is awarded for breaking an opponent down onto his or her back from a stable to an unstable position (breakdowns) and a point for getting past the opponent's leg or legs (guard passes) and a point for turning or rolling the opponent over from the bottom (guard sweeps)."

Here is the official page of the freestyle judo crowd. http://www.freestylejudo.org/

 

[RJ Green]

Freestyle National AAU Championships are on the 30th in KCMO.

 

[loyalyolayal]

interesting. It's like the best of both worlds.

 

[Saenchai]

All support Freestyle Judo!
Now we need Judo clubs to attend Freestyle Judo tourneys.

 

[Thrawn33]

Kano JJ FTW!

Back to the Way!

 

[radman]

That's awesome, problem is that there's no competitions in the NYC area or within the Northeast. :icon_cry2

 

[loyalyolayal]

http://www.freestylejudo.org/about.html

Kyle is making the big mistake of laying flat on his front in the "chicken Judo" position.

I'm loving it already.

 

[Carrera26]

I would go, but Texas and Pennsylvania are both pretty darn far from Florida. Looks great!

 

[jclaudevandamme]

It surely looks good, but the problem with everything that new is that it will take decades until you can even hope that it becomes something huge (. something that you can actually find somewhere to train it like thaT)

 

[Darkslide632]

Lots of talk about this kicking around for a while. I'd like to see it take off, but we'll have to see.

 

[Shemhazai]

I hope this comes to Europe.

 

[Carrera26]

I could see some friendly inter-dojo competitions using these rules. You don't always have to have an NGB to have fun.