The whole "hit them with the planet" idea sounds nice, but go watch some street fight videos. Sometimes it works, yeah. But from what I've seen, more often, a big takedown will slam someone HARD and they get straight back up.
I'm not doubting you, but I'd like a link to a few of these videos of someone getting up unscathed after being properly judo thrown. I've seen the compilation of judo throws in street fights that gets circulated around here every so often and none of those people were stirring a muscle let alone getting up.
Sometimes a hard fall on the tatami hurts bad enough that I don't want to get up, and I have good ukemi and my dojo has spring floors and like 2 inch mats. A throw on concrete is, without exaggeration, probably 10 times as damaging.
Videos shared on the judo sub are always going to be biased towards judo ending a fight. Hell, videos shared online in general are biased towards impressive finishes. Most street fights don't include ippons, they're more messy and likely to be waza ari or just people falling/dragging each other to the ground. In randori you don't have the adrenaline to shake off a big hit like that.
I think it's fair to say that when grapplers end street fights, the vast majority do so via pin/sub/groundNpound. To have self defence applicable judo, you should be able to consistently pin from a throw, rather than roll off or end on bottom.
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u/ChainChump Jun 07 '25
The whole "hit them with the planet" idea sounds nice, but go watch some street fight videos. Sometimes it works, yeah. But from what I've seen, more often, a big takedown will slam someone HARD and they get straight back up.