Judo people have a strange hang up regarding people who train bjj. I train at both, but at judo gyms, more often than not I get the judo is better than bjj talk. Whereas when a judo guy visits a bjj gym, it’s always “that’s awesome” and often get asked a ton of questions with take downs etc.
The reaction to bjj training is SO predictable that I don’t even mention it when visiting other judo schools at this point.
This seems to be a weird western hangup to make eastern martial arts seem more mysterious. Here in Japan a lot of BJJ guys have judo background and some BJJ teams cross train with uni clubs . It’s just a matter of explaining the difference in rules and approach.
Agree, also live in Japan. Most gyms I've been to usually low-key encourage those with a bjj background to teach newaza techniques or even older judo black belts are quick to encourage bjj concepts that may work in judo. Our dojo has a black belt from Tokai University encouraging the white bemts to learn baseball bat choke because its sometimes a pin counter.
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u/kahleytriangles BJJ Black Belt / rokkyu Jun 07 '25
Unpopular opinion (here at least):
Judo people have a strange hang up regarding people who train bjj. I train at both, but at judo gyms, more often than not I get the judo is better than bjj talk. Whereas when a judo guy visits a bjj gym, it’s always “that’s awesome” and often get asked a ton of questions with take downs etc.
The reaction to bjj training is SO predictable that I don’t even mention it when visiting other judo schools at this point.