its run by a k1 kickboxing champion, and celebrities like rich franklin and even anderson silva have stopped by. chris leben also used to go there.
been wanting to join for a long time, but have been putting it off.
so yesterday i did “submission wrestling”. it was tight. i got submitted a dozen different ways but i kept going back for more. we did a drill where you spend 30 seconds trying to pass a guy’s guard and then move on to the next. great workout, i’m loving it.
can’t wait to learn boxing, muay thai kickboxing, and etc. my only concern is this school doesn’t seem to teach greco roman wrestling, which is unfortunate.
I was thinking more of the lines of controlling the individual and taking them outside, bouncers tend not to kick the shit out of people without good reason so that they don’t get sued.
Judo and Aikido were developed at about the same time in Japan. The most important difference is the Judo creator decided it is very important to incorporate a sparring environment where upon people can safely compete. Safely meaning, can be expected to be relatively free of injuries besides bumps and bruises, as opposed to broken fingers, dislocated shoulders, and the more serious side effects of strikes, eg concussions. It has become an Olympic sport practice world-wide, just to show it is pretty much universally accepted.
It is also meant to enrich your life. It makes you physically stronger and you should be able to handle yourself in a fight, but more than that it makes your mind and will stronger. Your mental body is something that can get pushed every day during free grappling training, where I think Aikido never pushed me anywhere near what Judo did. There is also the topical discussions that can occur during class, about any subject going on the world.
I think most people would agree Judo is a ‘practical’ martial art in that one learns how to fight, as opposed to Aikido or Tae Kwon Do. I would consider Judo to be ‘less practical’ when compared with the common training methods in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Sambo, Any Submission Wrestling, Muay Thai, and Eskrima, but only a little bit, and in fact little has to change to make it ‘just as practical.’ (or cross training by the individual)
What does one do in a normal Judo class? Where I went it goes like this:
Warm ups and stretches.
Break fall and more warmup exercises. (relatively quick)
Free grappling, switching partners every 3 minutes or so.
Then it diverges from there depending on what we’re working on:
Practice grappling techniques.
Practice standing throw/submission techniques.
Sparring practice under more or less standard Judo rules.
Sparring practice minus grappling, eg free practice for throwing techniques.
Sparring practice with only grappling.
Conditioning/strength.
Listen to the Master talk about something (he’s an interesting guy).
Almost always ends with more break falls and ‘shuffle steps.’
At any point during training we focus on each other’s bodies and how to feel it without thinking, such that our minds are free to think of strategies for our opponent.
Judo seems more practical simply because you’re better able to practice it, as opposed to Aikido, in which you’re trying to totally finish your opponent off.
Don’t make assumptions like this, especially when it comes to any martial art.
Judo isn’t a pratical style if you want to fight, it means you have to make contact (grapple) with your opponent(s). It should be considered as part of one’s arsenal.
lolwut? How is Judo not practical? An O Soto Gari vs someone that doesn’t know how to fall would be devastating and like a lot of Judo throws it can be easily modified to work on a Gi-less opponent.
Guys, even though I know how to fall, if I get thrown cleanly by a Judo throw on concrete, fucking ouch. I wouldn’t be done, but I’d be slowed down at best, and I’d have to be lucky to escape the impending submission and beat down.
Also, lol at Judo not being practical. Internet warrior failure is nearing completion.
I was able to watch that now. I am not saying he wouldn’t beat me to pulp, because I’ve never fought him, but I noticed some things, objectively speaking if I was planning on fighting him:
He telegraphs many of his attacks. I can see his shoulders and/or body stiffen up before many of his attacks. Besides that I can see his whole body moving before the attack comes out, such as a punch, so I should be able to feel it coming before hand.
My first instinct would be to try to get as close to him as possible. It seems he’s training in striking attacks and I would want to attack him with grappling and/or wrestling type attacks. I would test that of course. But of course this is an unknown and I shouldn’t be surprised if he’s skilled.
He looks like a fencer, if I were to get into a ‘striking’ battle I’d try patient lateral movement and in close fighting (think Eskrima).
Grain of salt, he’s demonstrating… I’ve just never though it practical to rely on strikes when someone sneaks up on you with an amateur choke hold. What if the guy is almost twice my size?
1st degree black belt in shotokan. Still can’t DP, but I still try to follow Funakoshi’s principles to this day.
Uncle taught me boxing.
took some Jeet Kun Do lessons while stationed in Sasebo Japan during my Navy Enlistment.
friend in the Navy also showed me some basic stuff with wrestling.
dabbled in Muay Thai.
Martial Arts are fun. It really shows you that it’s not worth fighting out there when you find out just how dangerous the human body can be. But it’s always good to know that you know when to defend yourself and that you CAN as well as wehn you need to defuse a situation and get outta there.