Olympic Judoka Tries MMA For The First Time

What an awesome video, Ashley was perfect for this. Could get some of the MMA guys trying Judo in the Gi next!

Guys the level of content you guys are producing just keeps getting better and better Always love seeing the GBTT guys on the video

That's the thing though, this high-level competition judoka is JUST put into the MMA format. Give him a few months to get used to the new mindset and rules and he sweeps the room with everyone in there.

Hell yeah, love that judo's getting more credit in the MMA world! <3

His accent and phrasing was the best part of the video ahaha

Very humble.. Olympian judoka, with a few months training he’d be able to use his throws here

Seems like he picked up MMA wrestling super quickly.

Quality banter- well done lads!

Was hoping for him to get a chance to use Judo techniques against a wrestler. Would be interesting to see the challenges in the stances

He did amazing in the grappling for never doing mma wrestling and grappling before ! A true natural athlete

Good on him for being humble and getting out of his comfort zone.

I'm really digging this style of video

What's very interesting is that old school judokas in Japan use to train this kind of full contact fighting. We still have accounts we can find from famous judokas about these ju jutsu competitions apparently there were only a couple rules like you only stop when your opponent gives up, passes out, or referee stops it. Apparently these competitions were so intense people would write letters of goodbye to their family before a fight after some stime they added more rules. Later when the Japanese got to Brazil and brought that culture along with them vale tudo was formed. Also masahiko kimura had a vale tudo match with valdemar santa but I can't rember who won.

Love watching this type of content, reminds me of when some of the team went and trained with Ian Garry! More live training videos would be awesome! Hell, even follow someone training for an amateur fight!

this was awesome. reminded me of what it was like when i first walked into an mma gym.

Cool collision of worlds, love this kind of content

What a humble dude, good shit man

I believe in practicing the more styles you can then mixing it up. Judo is definitely good. It’s my heart. It definitely helps my mma and bjj using what is applicable. One thing I realized practicing Judo although it’s a strictly offensive art but for some reason from continued practice we develop takedown defense. Maybe because we are used to moving are legs a lot deeply focused we can sense or predict a shoot for a single leg depending on skil level wrestler. Although Judo is a wrestling art and in most judo schools will teach traditional judo including banded techniques carefully from time to time. Great video Sensei! I was happy to see a judoka do so well. ✌🏼👍🏼🤟🏼

Love these kind of videos

Bruv this guy is funny af, more of him pls