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

Other What’s your unpopular opinion on judo

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u/bjprev Jun 07 '25

Not allowing arm bars until brown/black is stupid.

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u/_Throh_ sankyu Jun 07 '25 edited Jun 07 '25

Also not allowing chokes until brown/black

Edit: dont get the downvotes, I literally got DQ for it a few months ago lol

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u/Hemmmos Jun 07 '25

what? Where I trained they were allowed since yellow

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u/ejecuepefi Jun 07 '25

They taught me chokes like a week after I started

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u/Hemmmos Jun 07 '25

I mean we were strangling (or attempting to) each other in randori at white belt and we were damned kids. Yellow only applied to competitions.

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u/_Throh_ sankyu Jun 07 '25

Allowing it in your dojo is not the same as in competition. Got DQ for it a couple months ago.

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u/Hemmmos Jun 07 '25

I mean competition. You got a yellow - you could choke. Althrough armbars were from green up.

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u/_Throh_ sankyu Jun 07 '25

Are you in the USA? If yes then I dont know why we change rules from state to state, what is even the point of USA Judo?

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u/Hemmmos Jun 07 '25

nah, not US. But from what I heard in us beginner rules vary from tournament to tournament