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

Other What’s your unpopular opinion on judo

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u/ChurchofMarx Jul 06 '25

Judo does a really trash job in conditioning compared to wrestling. Technique is one thing, but having an integrated conditioning routine like wrestling is really important and a lot of places don’t have that.

Another thing is sports aspect of Judo has led to the martial arts being diluted significantly. Same is the issue with TKD and Karate.

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u/Uchimatty Jul 06 '25

When you’re new you can get all your conditioning from randori - just do more randori. When you’re high level randori stops improving your judo much and all your gains are from S&C. But that S&C routine has to be specific to you. The workouts of an uchimata player and a seoi player will be totally different. Basically one size fits all conditioning is useful for exactly no one in judo. It works better in American wrestling because 90+% of people have the same shot spamming style.

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u/Yamatsuki_Fusion sankyu Jul 06 '25

Hold on, what are the differences between Uchi-Mata workouts and Seoi Nage workouts? This makes sense but I never thought of it this way.

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u/Uchimatty Jul 06 '25

Uchimata workouts are focused on flexibility while seoi workouts are focused on shoulder and elbow support, and turning power.