r/judo Nov 19 '24

Other Unpopular judo opinions

What's your most unpopular judo opinion? I'll go first:

Traditional ukemi is overrated. The formulaic leg out, slap the ground recipe doesn't work if you're training with hand, elbow, and foot injuries. It's a good thing to teach to beginners, but we eventually have to grow out of it and learn to change our landings based on what body parts hurt. In wrestling, ukemi is taught as "rolling off" as much of the impact as possible, and a lot of judokas end up instinctively doing this to work around injuries.

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u/pianoplayrr Nov 19 '24

Traditional ukemi sucks.

Practicing falling solo does absolutely nothing to help with falling properly when being thrown

To "learn how to fall", you have to train your brain to accept being thrown and to not tense up.

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u/ukifrit blind judoka Nov 20 '24

But you need to learn the motions of breakfalling before you are thrown.