https://ejudo.info/articles/17303

The All Japan Judo Federation (AJF) announced on April 10 that the so-called “Ashitori” (foot grabbing) from a kumiai position will be allowed in the All Japan Judo Championships, a tournament to determine the best judoka in Japan in all weight categories. The decision was made by the tournament executive committee, which also includes Kodokan.

In addition to the flag judging adopted at the 2024 championships, the tournament's refereeing rules stipulate that “grabbing (touching) the opponent from the belt down for the purpose of attack or defense while in the standing posture and in a team with the opponent is not considered a foul (shido). However, attacking directly under the opponent's belt when not gripping with the opponent shall be considered a foul (instruction).” The committee added the following clause.

The Executive Committee of the tournament has been searching for a rule suitable for unrestricted weight divisions, and in recent years has been discussing the revival of the “Ashidori” rule. This was finally approved. The same rule will be introduced for the Women's Championship

EDIT: First of all sorry for bad translation of news. I tried to correct some unclear parts. There were many questions about when and how can you grab. You will all very soon have detailed international posts abou this. Basically, you can grab only one leg with one hand while your other hand needs to control upper body.

https://www.ijf.org/news/show/judo-presents-the-new-rules

No leg grabs. but lest no leg grabs again limitted to legs not lower back.

I was born and raised in France and always liked judo but didn't watch much of it except for the Olympics, in France I was told from a young age at school or in family discussion that Riner is a legend from judo all around the world and a real sport idol. BUT I ain't gonna lie, it was a real surprise seeing tweets or post in this sub talking about Riner as a disgrace for judo and all these things. What is the real opinion about Riner internationaly ? Is he disliked for the way he fights ? I know his skin color and size can be a problem for some japanese like I saw but that's irrelevant.

what do you think about?

There was an interesting thread the other day about the difficulty of making Judo exciting in comic-book form (https://www.reddit.com/r/judo/s/pZhw98Av2r). I thought as a follow-up I’d give some details of Judo manga thatI’ve collected.

Judo is quite a popular subject for manga as there are exciting fight scenes, plenty of scope for drama and even love can bloom on the tatami.

Most judo manga that I’ve been able to find are in a school setting - I guess because that’s where most readers would encounter the real thing.

Another good feature is that even if, like myself you aren’t much good at Japanese, these manga tend to be easier to understand as everyone mostly talks about Judo and uses the terminology we all know.

In mostly alphabetical order (if I’ve uploaded properly, the pics should be in the same order):

• Hikaru chachacha!!
• Minomo Kenji
• 1990

• A basic young readers title, an undersized schoolboy triumphs through gumption and the power of friendship.

• Igaguri-kun

• Fukui Eiichi

• 1952

• Very influential action manga from the fifties. Only available in reprints (which are hard to get). There was an (expensive) English volume released a year or so ago.

• Ippon!

• Sato Takahiro

• 2005

• Pretty straight sports story for teens/highschoolers

• Mou Ippon! (Ippon again!)

• Moraoka Yuu

• 2019

• Sort of follow up to Ippon! High school girls this time. Rather dull for me, but it does have an anime and I think an English translation.

• Judobu monogatari

• Kobayashi Makoto

• 1987

• Another straight up sports story, but Kobayashi’s art really lifts it above average (if you can get past the hero’s wacky eyebrows). Includes truly horrifying 70’s/80’s training concepts.

• Joshi Judobu Monogatari

• Kobayashi Makoto & Emoto Yuko

• 2016

• As above but with a female lead. The script is co written by olympic medalist Emoto. My favourite judo manga and possibly my favourite manga ever.

• Followed by a sequel - Joshi Judobu Monogatari Shakaijinhen

• Judo no rekishi

• 1988

• A history of Kano-sensei and the development of Judo for school-kids

• Nanatei Judo-ki

• Masuda Toshinari

• Story of a University team

• Sobakkasu!

• Kikuchi Shouta

• 2006

• Another of my favourites. Another high-schooler learns judo story, but with a comedic angle.

• Yawara!

• Urasawa Naoki

• 1987

• The most famous Judo manga of them all. The real-life RyokoTani was nicknames “Yawara-chan” after the heroine. My complaint is that unlike all the other protagonists here, Yawara doesn’t want to do Judo. Having the other characters manipulate and trick her is funny but gets old fast.

If you can find a decent re-seller it’s not so hard to get titles like these from Japan. The biggest problem is the shipping costs - it can cost many times more than the books themselves.

I think I’ve got about all the school-oriented titles I need.I’m going to focus on historical and action comics, but it’s often much harder to work out how much Judo they have.

Hope people enjoyed this - happy to answer any questions.

I know she is a bronze medalist at the 2012 Olympics but still, I thought this was exceptionally young for a Coral belt!

Well done to her 👏

You can find the details, the reasoning for the verdict and defense from the Georgian judoka in the official document as well: https://78884ca60822a34fb0e6-082b8fd5551e97bc65e327988b444396.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com/up/2024/08/IJF_DC_2024-06_G_Tushishvili_G-1724943770.pdf

A six months sanction seems mild, no?

Looks like purple can potentially convert to a Judo Blue. As the first conversation grade.

Seems interesting and quite sensible. I know for some time if you had a Judo black you were not allowed to complete in a BJJ white belt contest.

Personally I think this is a good move and encouraging cross training benefits all.

I wonder if other Judo associations like the BJA will follow in time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceekngzIOUk

After contemplating the state of the sport during Paris 2024, IJF is now officially oriented towards the reformation of the Judo international regulation, Head Refereeing Director of IJF says.

Here are the major takes of the video

1- IJF acknowledges that the actual set of rules does not reflect the spirit of Judo, it should "serve ippon" rather that anything else [absurd shidos, excessively restrictive ruleset, what else?]

"We look forward that in every action, we are searching for the ippon."

2- Debates including every national federations are being held, and each federation get to submit their suggestion to the table.
-> AJJF might be providing feedback from the free weight Japanese tournament restoring leg grabs. (https://www.judo.or.jp/news/15811/)

3- (THE MOST IMPORTANT PART LOL) The question of leg grabs is, in my opinion, implicitly tackled by these ambiguous sentences:

1- "We have to present an attractive sport"
2- "Judo is an Olympic Sport, safety is the priority."
3- "We have to have a simple interpretation of Judo"
4- "In the World Judo Tour, we have different styles of Judo around the world. Nevertheless, we have to take in consideration the Kodokan classification of judo techniques, and make sure that the application of the rules cover all those actions."

My interpretation is that even though leg grabs have, arguably, progressively turned the sport away from the beautiful and traditional throws, they are still part of the Kodokan list of judo technique, and should therefore be reimplemented into the ruleset (3,4). This is a request that a lot of judokas carry, and IJF is conscious of that.
However, the restoration of leg grabs should not be contradicting the initial purposes of the 2010 ban, which were mostly safety reasons (2), but it was also a matter of protecting traditional aesthetic of Judo (upper body throws, standing position, ....) (1). In fact, a lot of people argue that leg grabs were banned to nerf the Eastern European style of judo (involving a lot of leg grabs) which at some point dominated the international scene...
In any case, this ambiguity results from the fact that leg grabs as a traditional judo throw and leg grabs as a threat to tradition are two sides of the same coin.

What do you guys think? Am I missing something?

Onore italiano.

Tushishvilli just looked up at the sky and didn't shake Riner's hand.

Kind of a bitch move, he's such a sore loser.

Looks like the tension between these two giants is still palpable and electric.

Teddy awards the gold and offers a handshake while Guram accepts but ignores the handshake aswell as the eye contact.

As a relative newcomer to the sport, I was disappointed when they didn't bring back leg grabs. To cope, I watched a lot of fights from the early 2000's. Even when it was allowed, it didn't seem to be something that high level players based their Judo around. In the fight Inoue vs. Muneta for example, there were no leg grabs, just a lot of grip fighting, Uchi Mata attempts, Kosoto and Ouchi. And those two are, in my opinion, the absolute peak of Judo.

I've seen a lot of people saying January is going to be the launch of the new rules but I believe that this is going to be released after this weekend's rules seminar in Istanbul. (https://www.britishjudo.org.uk/neil-adams-mbe-and-lisa-rivers-to-host-ijf-rules-seminar/).

As fun as speculating has been I'm looking forwards to finding out the new rules and stopping lots of unfounded rumours (I recently heard Shido for turtling and 2 Ippons to win which both seem to be impossibly big changes)