What would I miss out on quitting judo?

Question

My goal is to be a great well rounded fighter...On the street, in the ring, At your mamas house ( lol jkjk you know what i mean though,anywhere ya know?) So Heres the thing I want to join a place where they will teach me boxing ,kick boxing thai boxing and MMA and they will also teach judo and wrestling and bjj but they say basic judo bjj and wrestling....You will never get a belt and you won't be as good at judo as if you go to a place like where i'm going right now. I would keep going to my first place so that someday i could be a black belt in jujitsu but i would quit the judo for the boxing /mma place. Could any of you judo guys tell me why I would want to pass up the boxing and mma and muay thai and basic judo and wrestling for advanced judo. My goal being to be a great fighter

Answer 1

Jujitsu and thai boxing with mma once a week and some grappling classes to refine technique would be best, because if you want to fight you gotta be able to strike and wrestle and the other option you put up doesn't offer any strikeing. Let me ask you if you get jumped on by three people and you go straight for the take down and because all U know is judo and jujitsu, what are the other two ppl gonna do while your wrestling on the ground looking for a submission. Or what if your fighting a guy who is simply to big to take down, my point is that sometimes you can't win a fight based on judo alone, you need striking and wrestling , and thats what your first place brings to the table so take it.

Answer 2

trying to learn all themajor  martial arts styles at once isn't a smart idea. fighters train for years on just one style. jujitsu is always great to start with but u alwys wanna perfect ur striking. i would would start with boxing and kickboxing then jujitsu, then submissions.

Answer 3

Ask yourself that.

Answer 4

if you want to be a great judo-ka....stay in judo.

other than that there is nothing judo can teach you that jujutsu/mma cant.

however the opposite is not true.

if you want to be a well rounded fighter...you need to train and learn like one.

its quite simple really.

however there's a big difference between being a good cage fighter...a good tournament fighter...and a good street fighter.

mma would serve you well in all of these areas. however for street self defense, id suppliment my mma training with a more street oriented art.

it isnt that a mma guy cant win a fair street fight...sure he could..they are some tough guys!!! it's the training that i speak of....mma, judo, boxing, muay thai...will NOT fully prepare you for what you could potentially face in a street fight ...period. alot of pro mma fighters will tell you the same.

just yesterday i saw a fight stopped because of an eye poke....in a real fight there is no ref to stop the fight. there are no rules for your safety...there are no gloves protecting your girly soft hands from breakage (punching a face or head hurts)

what i mean is the environment dictates how you will fight. in mma you must follow the rules. in a tournament you may only have to tap your opponent with a bad version of a kick to score a point. in a wrestling match you may have to pin the guy for so long...in a bjj match you have to win by points or submission. in a street fight you dont necessarily have to "win" at all...simply survive.

but there are many many things sport arts do not address. they ignore things like...multiple assailants (very common)...federal reports state that in 40% of all street attacks the attacker had an edged weapon! ...40% of street attacks also were initiated by multiple attackers! ...what if there is a hidden knife you dont know about?...are you REALLY going to pull him into your guard and find out the hard way? ..i hope not.

there are many scenarios and variables that sport arts just ignore.

ps....you mess with my mamma...you gotta go through me first lol

Answer 5

do judo and muay thai for now then do bjj and boxing. then do mma.

if your in highschool do wrestling

Answer 6

So basically you wish to be a "Jack of All Trades and Master of None"  If you train in this manner scattered in 6 directions at once you will have no center.  If you trained this way for 1 year, 2 years, 5 years or 10 years you would still lose to some one that focused on only 1 or 2 arts in the same amount of time training just as hard as you.  Train to be great rather than greatly "well-rounded" and you will find grater things.

Answer 7

i dont know i dont like it when someone tries to become a great fighter by trying to learn all these diffrent martial arts at once... cause most of the time they ussually suck and are only seen as good cause they are just physically fit.  just dont be a g*y fighter and stay forever in the clinch or floored on the ground.  do somthing!!!  when i watch ufc and the fighter does that.. i change the channel.  (go ANDERSON)

Answer 8

In my mind what you would miss out on judo would be endurance and strength training against a resisting opponent apart from the obvious in techniques,although I mainly trained in Japanese jiu-jitsu my own instructor was a 4th Dan in judo and an ex Scottish champion and he always included intensive judo workouts in our jiu-jitsu class (btw he was a 3rd dan in jiu-jitsu also ) So in my mind you'd be missing out greatly if you quit.

Just my humble opinion best wishes :)***

Answer 9

no fighting style is perfect what works for you. the only way to get better is to do it

Answer 10

In my opinion Zen has given you a god answer on what you would miss. On the other hand Robert doesn't know or understand Judo or Jujitsu. In Judo or Jujitsu you don't have to go to the ground. Although your opponent usually ends up there. We can apply a choke or joint lock while standing. We often use one attacker as a shield when several attackers are involved. Our martial arts are about controlling your opponents while defeating them. You still take them out quickly while protecting yourself.

My personal interest in learning more than one arts wasn't to make me a better fighter or as some would say invincible. By the way no one is invincible. But my goal was knowledge. I like the culture and the arts. I enjoy learning martial arts and self defense.

Answer 11

Karo "The Heat" Parysian is a great MMA fighter and Judo practioner, my advise to you, is to take a martial art for clinches,  I.E. Judo. A martial art for the ground, I.E. Sambo, BJJ. And a martial art for Striking I.E. Karate, Muay Thai, Kick boxing.

Answer 12

It seams like you and I have a same goal... well you could go my way... find a crew that is learning most common martial arts... find a place where you can train your self and with your crew... Get the basics from every school you are going, Jujitsu, Muay Thai and Judo... By the basics I meant learn to fight with the single style... Then quit every school... Go with the crew and continue to learn with them all the things u know  and try to learn form your crew... Do a little acrobatics, Try punching and kicking in muaythai style in some wood, or hard material, so your bones would become stronger, and do a lot of wrestling... BUT... The thing that u will miss if u quit jujitsu is only if the main trainer is high rated... I mean, if he knows some secrets of the M. Art... every M.A. has its own secret techniques for street fighting... but the best way is to go JKD, with Bruce Lis philosophy... take all the good parts and put it all in one, and make a single technique for many situations... be formless, like water :-)... try to be flexible for ur opponent, try to fit your self to his moves and his weaknesses, but to do that you wont need too many techniques, you just need to practise the main ones so many times... and learn the AiKido or Wing Tsun hand grappling techniques, trust me they are useful in street fights, but not so with professionals.