r/judo • u/Eastern-Swordfish776 • Jun 07 '25

Other What’s your unpopular opinion on judo

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u/Psychological-Will29 sankyu - I like footsies Jun 07 '25

maximum time to be at a certain belt rank to prevent sandbagging.

looking at you the 3 year continuous yellow belt.

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u/127_Rhydon_127 gokyu Jun 07 '25

👀

I’m getting killed by “minimum classes in grade”

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u/obi-wan-quixote Jun 07 '25

I’m a 30+ year brown belt. I’m not sure I agree. I don’t think I should be a black belt. I kind of don’t think I should really be brown anymore.

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u/ejecuepefi Jun 07 '25

Where I live they have the belts in between for that reason, for example if you’re not good enough for green but also too good for oranges they give you an half orange half green belt

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u/obi-wan-quixote Jun 07 '25

We have that in the US for kids ranks. I actually think belt ranks are kind of dumb. I’d much rather everyone just be there to train the coach wear something that says “coach.” But I grew up doing boxing and Chinese martial arts where you identified the top guys by the skill they exhibited.

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u/danlei Jun 07 '25

That's similar to how it is in Aikido. (As anyone wearing a Hakama should be able to teach a beginner.)

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u/daleaidenletian Jun 07 '25

Look, I am trying but I am really bad okay.

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u/Fickle-Blueberry-275 Jun 07 '25

Lol makes me think of a guy on youtube posting his whitebelt division wins for like 2 years before which he had already been doing Judo a while.

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u/No-Musician-8452 Jun 11 '25

This! Promotion should take more time and require competition / real randoris.

Now people get promoted to stay motivated and the system is very different across countries. Green in US is not green in Austria or Germany.