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/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/mdabek ikkyu Dec 18 '24

What you've just wrote invalidates the point of only judo has a difficult rules among grappling sports. Another example from BJJ are points for takedowns, this seems crazy that abusing the rule is being taught in academies. Ruleset in any form of grappling is everlasting arms race between competitiors and judges.

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u/powerhearse Dec 19 '24

Reaping isn't a difficult rule, the issues you're talking about are the result of poor refereeing not complicated rulesets. And oh buddy does Judo have a problem with poor refereeing too!