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I'm familiar. Most judokas practice sport judo which doesn't attack the legs. SMH. Thanks for your effort though.
Old school Judoka checking in.
Jacket or no jacket it's all wrestling.
The boys from my judo club growing up who transitioned to wrestling in high school did great. High school and college wrestlers who've come to the gyms I've trained at as an adult also did great if they stayed.
I've found what for me was the purest judo at an mma gym with plenty of wrestlers and sambo guys.
We'd rondori with no gi two nights a week and in the gi two nights a week, single and double legs in and out of the gi, tons of uchi mata in and out of the gi, reaping throws without gi, and knee reaping on the mat are perfectly normal, and white belts are taught heel hooks and kneebars as a matter of principle.
Judo rules are borked right now, mma grappling rules are liberating.
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