I do a lot of Greco Roman (i didn’t in high school or college, I found the one adult wrestling gym in the US and wrestle near every day) wrestling and only recently started doing judo and no gi judo is cool in concept but you’d need some rule changes to make it make sense as a sport
The reason Greco Roman works as a sport is because you are forced to pressure into someone, I cannot possibly lat drop someone unless they’re trying to push me off the mat (which they get a point for doing) . I can’t belly to belly suplex someone unless their momentum carries them forward and up in the air once I get double under hooks
Judo replicates that pressure using the gi, instead of us both agreeing to a restricted ruleset where we have to be pushing forward and active judo people can grab gi the scream “get over here!” And use that as the forward pressure that the Greco rules create
Greco Roman does not even work half the time, its painful to watch because nothing happens.
And Judoka can create that forward pressure quite fine actually. Leg trips and sweeps are things you guys don't even think about but something we deal with. The way to defend them is to literally lean into it... and potentially into a forward throw.
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u/MysticalMarsupial Jun 07 '25
There should be no-gi judo. Would save so much laundry...