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

Other What’s your unpopular opinion on judo

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u/Azylim Jul 06 '25

nornalize less uchikomis and conditioningmore randori please.

in fact, if we can do open mats like bjj does I think it would be incredible for technique development and creating good fighters

I trained bjj for a year, and improved fast when all I did was go and grind open mats. theres no reason why this cant work in judo as well as long as people are careful.

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u/criticalsomago Jul 06 '25

Kodokan has 4 hours of open mat randori 6 days a week, it works in Judo too.

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u/Azylim Jul 06 '25

i dont know if its a country culture or what, but in my admittedly small sample size (ontario), judo clubs here dont do alot of randori, much less dedicated open mats.

in my current university club its 30 min randori out of the full 2 hour class

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u/criticalsomago Jul 06 '25

Talk to your coach about it, if you get a small group together you can get it going.