r/judo • u/MasterofLinking shodan • Dec 17 '24

Competing and Tournaments Kouchi while grabbing your own leg.

At a recent local tournament we had this situation, that was a little bit of a controversy. While Tori is not grabbing Ukes leg, in my opinion preventing the possibility of stepping back and thus defending the throw would still fall under blocking the leg. What's your opinion? Would you have given the score or shido?

>! decision was score !<

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u/powerhearse Dec 18 '24

Nah not really. Judo has a specifically complicated problem with this sort of thing compared to most other grappling rulesets

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u/mdabek ikkyu Dec 18 '24

Just look at the r/bjj and see all the rants there regarding leg reaping DQs.

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u/ChickenNuggetSmth gokyu Dec 18 '24

That is very specific to the recent NoGi worlds tournament and a few very bad DQs, or a bit more generally to IBJJF tournaments. But more broadly, while the reaping rules are disliked, they don't lead to a buge amount of DQs. And in many rulesets reaping is legal.

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u/mistiklest bjj brown Dec 18 '24

or a bit more generally to IBJJF tournaments

Which are still the most attended and prestigious tournaments, especially in the gi.