r/judo • u/Eastern-Swordfish776 • Jul 06 '25

Other What’s your unpopular opinion on judo

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u/AntiSebticDan Jul 06 '25

Olympia ruined Judo.

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u/Possible_Golf3180 gokyu Jul 06 '25

Not really unpopular but I agree

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u/Mother-Estimate9507 Jul 06 '25

Banning leg throws and at one point banning the Korean Seoi is criminal towards the art.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '25

Yeah it really isn’t what Kano intended it to be at all while the committee pretends it is and feed us their nonsense

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u/Yamatsuki_Fusion sankyu Jul 06 '25

It’s made it huge though. Like man I wouldn’t have the chance to access it if it hadn’t the funding and everything behind it.

And I’m not even in a big Judo country.

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u/ObjectiveFix1346 gokyu Jul 07 '25

But then BJJ proved that you can get into every major city in the world within 20 years with zero funding. As long as the demand for a sport exists, you can grow it.

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u/Yamatsuki_Fusion sankyu Jul 07 '25

True enough, and Judo is not prominent in the Anglosphere at all.

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u/Ill_Improvement_8276 Jul 06 '25

Jigoro Kano would strongly agree