r/judo • u/pianoplayrr • 29d ago

Other Why the animosity towards BJJ?

I'm just wondering why I often see Judo people ragging on BJJ people. I see this a lot when a BJJ guy posts a video demonstrating a Judo throw. In the comments there will usually be a bunch of angry Judo people saying things like "BJJ = basically just Judo", and things like that.

I have been noticing this for years, but why?

I think both arts are awesome, and it would be great if we could just combine them into one big, beautiful art!

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u/Right_Situation1588 shodan 28d ago

In internet, just an ego fight, I see these comments but in judo videos when there's newaza being well done there's also always bjj people saying "oh, this dude certainly does bjj" (and then it's like, a super traditional judo technique or transition).
Outside internet, the early bjj history is not very nice, many men who would practice went to the streets to get in fights and abused what they learned, they were even called "pitboys" in the 90s/00s, very aggressive, there's also some not nice stories involving bjj history.
They came a long way and I think this bully culture is not encouraged anymore, it's now much more universal sport.

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u/Otautahi 28d ago

Judo history also pretty bad. Got pretty nasty around the 30s and 40s.

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u/Right_Situation1588 shodan 28d ago

Where can I read about it? The bjj ones are easy to know cause its much more recent (and in my country)

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u/Which_Cat_4752 ikkyu 28d ago

I’ve came across old newspapers from Japan reporting a 1900s high school match and it’s full of hard cranking joints, punching on the face, refusing tap with broken leg etc.