Want to see how Judo works in a fight?

Question

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhKsGgUCaUI&feature=related

Give me some feedback, what do you think?

Answer 1

This video highlights Olympics judokas as well as MMA judo fighters such as Fedor Emelianenko, Pawel Nastula, Kazuhiko Nakamura, Yoshihiro Akiyama, Karo Parisyan, Hidehiko Yoshida & more. Beautiful throws and takedowns!

Answer 2

I think that Judo is a very good art and works well for obvious reasons notably resisting live opponents.

Also regardless what some Bjj people would have us believe Bjj has its roots mainly in judo as judo has its roots in Japanese Jiu-jitsu.

Best wishes :)***

Answer 3

judo is awesome.  hiromitsu miura flipped carlos condit quite a few times this weekend with his good judo.  and to the idiot who said mma is better, mixed martial arts includes parts of all martial arts, including judo.

Answer 4

no

Answer 5

Judo is a great and very effective martial art. It is the parent art of Brazilian Jiu-jitsu and some say it's better than BJJ. The Japanese police put Judo against BJJ and Judo won, so now the Japanese police are taught Judo. I'm not saying that Judo is better. BJJ is a very good art also.

Answer 6

That's BS, MMA is superior.  Judo and TMA are jokes.

jk

Answer 7

Awesome video.  I love to see throws utilized in the clinch.  Myself, being a very amateur Judoka, sees so many oppurtunities for throws in MMA matches.  I get so pissed when Joe Rogan calls a throw a 'whizzer', when it is Uchimata.  Less so when the ude gurami is called 'Kimura', because that shows who applied it to the elder Gracie, A Japanese judoka named Kimura.  Anyway...  

And for those of you who say that we all leared the importance of grappling when Royce Gracie was so successful in the early UFC's, understand that he was only really displaying half of Judo.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVE82gH-v...

The first UFC's were set up to showcase BJJ, which comes from Judo.  I do not mean to sound disrespectful to BJJ either, those who train in BJJ are formidible, but I just want to point out the geneology of the art.  The techniques aren't really any different.  

William P--

I think we all agree here.  Certainly Judo's history comes out of the Japanese Jujitsu arts.  Any triumph of Judo is a triumph of Japanese Jujitsu.  And of course...you can even trace those arts to back further to China and India.  But I think it is Kano's teaching style that makes Judo unique and important.  

Today, what has become MMA is a sport that tries to simulate reat combat.  Certainly there are limitations and we must be clear when we differentiate a sport from a martial art.  Sports have rules and real fights don't.   But you hear some say many times today "we finally know what works in a real fight."  And most people attribute that to BJJ.  I just like to point out that it is Judo (the parent art of BJJ) that works in a "real fight".  (which, again, is a competition with rules).  And that comes from the teaching techniques of Kano.  He took Jujitsu and made it a sport/training style.  And that allowed practice against fully resisting opponents.  And that is basically the forerunner of what we now call MMA.  

And when all is said and done, all we really learned is that in a one on one match with certain rules and limitations, grappling techniques work very well.  Ask any wrestler and they would tell you the same.  These can also be applied in real life situations, but they have their limitations there too.  Me, if I am ever in a situation where it looks like I have to fight my way, I think 'close the distance, and put them on the ground.'  Because I don't want anybody to mess up my pretty face :)  And yes, I know...the other guy could have friends who could kick you...but I still don't want to lose any teeth from a punch or kick.  Those same friends could break it up once we got in a clinch too.  And now you have avoided a fight, how novel.  But anyway, I digress.

Answer 8

Awesome.

Also, two words: Karo Parisyan, that guy really knows how to utilize judo in MMA.

Judo is a great grappling art.

Answer 9

Not to be too offensive here, but you're giving "Judo" credit for the works of traditional Japanese Jujitsu arts such as shorinji ryu and other Aiki Jutsu arts.  It's all jujitsu ........ http://www.alljujitsu.com/index.html and to prove it here's a traditional dojo and traditional jujutsu, juijitsu, jujitsu master teaching on video I think you like this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_npycHNuh... I love the title to this video as well.  Want to see how jujitsu works in fight?  Then check it out.  Watch the whole video because this is the way Jujitsu was meant to be taught, judo came along much later.

Edit: well like I said man "no offense meant"  "It's all Jujitsu" .... no changing that fact so I would prefer "jujitsu/iaido mix" because the hand to hand self defense was made to compliment the sword not the other way around since we're getting down to the bare history of "Feudal Japan" here ( way before the early 1900's I might add ).  At least we're being constructive about it eh Anti-Thesis and tackling it from a good debate stand point instead of a "I'm right and you're wrong angle"  

P.S. If I had my way about it Anti-Thesis we'd all be wearing samurai armor in the cage to prove the foundation of all "martial arts" through a truely "Combat Foundation Competition", because it seems that a great many people either don't know or forget their Japanese history all together.  Without any type of calvary Katana's of course.  I also think that Kyudo should be studied by more practitoners in America as well if we're to adhere to an historically accurate ( as close to historically correct as possible ) art form even the nagita for the female practitoners as well.  This is where my mind set is when it comes to "Traditional Arts" and I'll take traditional arts any day over what these young kids call "MMA".

Didn't mean to side track the question at hand either. So sorry, any way I think that Karo Parisian has proved judo has many viable techniques that work even in cage competition even though the cage isn't a street fight where the individuals are wearing clothes like they'd be on the streets where "judo's" techniques are greatly multiplied in a fight.  These types of "Japanese arts" are why I argue for and promote "Japanese arts" over all others, both, on yahoo answers and in my own little corner of the world out here in everyday society.  Any one who could argue against the original arts of Japan is basically misinformed or deliberately trying to undermine "knowledge" with urban legend and assumptions.  I hope that the jujitsu and Iaido sensei's of this nation never quit teaching in a traditional sense to play to the likes of a fad such as commercial MMA.  I think that "the few .... the smart" will figure out what works and what doesn't and go back and review then stick with the traditional arts that make the martial arts truely "tick" in the first place.  The samurai clans of feudal japan never get enough credit, but all combat begins with an understanding of samurai clan culture as well as the combat sciences that sprang from the clans in the modern day era.  Traditional Japanese arts for ever!! .... everything else has no clue as to their own roots.