If you watch judo at highest level (IJF tour), you’ll notice that the refs immediately intervene after a big win to try and prevent the athlete from celebrating. This is beyond cringe and serves no purpose. Let the athletes take in the moment and celebrate a big win. I can’t think of any other sport that actively tries to prevent athletes from celebrating a win. If you disagree with my take, please let me know why.
EDIT* Seems like the majority of disagreements are from people who have never actually competed at a high level and their entire argument boils to the “cultural/traditional”aspects of judo which are different from competitive sport judo.

Last Saturday (yesterday) I had my first judo competition, still as a white belt (aspiring category, 73kg) I started right away in the biggest regional competition in Brazil, which qualified for the national championship.

I did well, I won the first fight in a “sumi gaeshi” from a yellow belt, but in the second fight I got caught by the >finalist< in my category (got 2nd place) a very good orange belt who applied this "Yoko Tomoe" on me.

What could I have done to avoid it? How can I avoid blows like this from now on?

This is a timeline of a Judo injury I am going through now. It was from Tai Otoshi defense. My opponent was strong, and his Tai Otoshi is strong (which I knew), but I have strong defense for Tai Otoshi, so it was a chess match.

The timeline is roughly 4 hours, 12 hours, 24 hours, 48 hours.

I was outweighed by quite a bit. I didn't factor in the added weight in my defense, which led to the audible tearing sounds that happened twice during the match. I fought the last minute one-handed because I knew the tournament was over for me but my opponent deserved to say he won with me giving my all.

I'm back in training already, but obviously avoiding that entire half of my body. It's a great opportunity to work on one handed foot sweeps.

Only won third cause of this

Curious to hear your thoughts — in your opinion, what’s the most overpowered judo throw in a competition setting?

I’m not talking about the fanciest or most technical, but something that checks these boxes:

• Not super hard to pull off
• Relatively low risk of counters
• High reward (clean ippon potential, high scoring, or demoralizing)

Basically, a move that feels like a cheat code when you get it right.

Does it vary by weight class or style? Any “meta” throws you’ve noticed in local or high-level comps?

Looking forward to the debate 👀

EDIT 15-5: Coming sunday (18-5) I'm having my first competetion. After carefully reading all comments I'll be spamming:

-Osoto makikomi

-De ashi barai

EDIT 2 18-5: I'll be posting some clips after the competition in a new post :-)

I have fought 5 rounds in total; 4 wins 1 loss. I have 7 months of wrestling background experience, with just a few sessions of BJJ. I just started doing Judo, and these are the fights I feel i performed not so good in. Any advice or tips from all the respectable judokas would be of great motivation! Thank you very much!

So Garrigos ended up taking the win, but he held the choke after mate was called and choked nagayama unconscious, does that still count as an ippon for garrigos? or is there something i missed?

At a recent local tournament we had this situation, that was a little bit of a controversy. While Tori is not grabbing Ukes leg, in my opinion preventing the possibility of stepping back and thus defending the throw would still fall under blocking the leg. What's your opinion? Would you have given the score or shido?

>! decision was score !<

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