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I have never seen nor experienced Kosen rules Judo so it is pretty interesting to hear your thoughts on the matter.
As a point of discussion it was mentioned earlier that it would make sense that a person that would devote a larger portion of time to groundwork would develop better groundwork.
I am not suggesting at the level of an accomplished BJJ player but considering the ruleset I would hopefully expect at least a respectable level of mat work.
I am also pretty sure that on the ground they would look very different indeed.
Komuro is one of the greatest examples of a Kosen taught Judoka. His BJJ belt is more or less an honorary title. Yuki Nakai is also another Kosen trained fighter, although he is a true BJJ black belt as well. He was already a great groundfighter from Judo before he ever laid eyes on Rickson. And he has stated before that Rickson is not the best groundfighter he has ever rolled with. He says that his master was the greatest ground fighter he ever rolled with. Kanae Hirata (I believe was the one who taught him), who was one of the last true Kosen Judo specialist. Pre WW2.
Ofcourse that could be true, or just a show of respect, who knows. Anyway, there are many fighters who have spent time training with the Kosen Judo guys. Hayato "Mach" Sakurai being one of the greatest examples and certainly one of the best fighters in MMA history. I think Akira kikuchi as well. And we all know that bost of these guys are exellent MMA grapplers and could beat most any BJJ guy in their weight class. Sakurai ofcourse when he's actually in shape. Shinya Aoki was a great University Judoka. He specialized in groundfighting, but I'm not sure if he's actually Kosen taught. He was an armbar machine. He destroyed many Jiu-Jitsu guys before he started actually training JJ with Nakai.
Kosen can be looked at, kinda in the same way as College wrestling and Freestlye wrestling. Both are just wrestling. But ofcourse the amount of ground time in college wrestling seperates them. Although Olympic Judo and Kosen are much closer related as they are identified as the same art. Kosen Judoka were allowed to pull guard, and have as much time on the ground as was needed. But the same rules reguarding what submissions were allowed was the same in both. They spend 80 to 90 percent of their time on the ground. So a great Kosen trained fighter is certainly gonna be able to hold his own on the ground. The problem that hurts it the most from putting out grapplers that compete on the highest levels of grappling, is the talent pool. There's only a few places in the world that actually practices Kosen rules Judo. And most of them (if not all) are in Japan.