r/judo • u/Serious-Stay-1307 • 5d ago

Beginner Why isn’t judo considered a form of wrestling?

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u/Newbe2019a 5d ago

It is. You mean bureaucratically by sports governing bodies?

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u/dazzleox 5d ago

It is. Sometimes you may hear it under the umbrella of jacket wrestling (along with sambo, shuai jiao, cornish wrestling and so on.)

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u/Go0o0n ikkyu 5d ago

Judo is essentially a Unified Jacket Wrestling style at this point as many different cultures have put their own spin certain techniques found in the Kodokan. Only Judo purists seek to differentiate.

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u/TCamilo19 5d ago

I prefer Grappling, as a catch-all term. No pun intended.

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u/Uchimatty 5d ago

Judging by federation revenues, judo is 4 times bigger than wrestling (Greco and freestyle combined). It’s probably bigger than all wrestling styles put together, including jacket wrestling. So while judo is objectively a style of wrestling, it won’t ever fall under the same governing body.

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u/He_NeverSleeps 5d ago

It's considered jacket wrestling which is separate.

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u/Worldly-While5241 5d ago

It is, it's also grappling

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u/Possible_Golf3180 gokyu 5d ago

It is, it just doesn’t call itself nihongo wresringu

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u/GuyFromtheNorthFin 5d ago

It’s not? Who says?

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u/Equivalent-Soup-1061 4d ago

It is a jacket wrestling.