Is this Judo or should we call it the shido game ?

Well said, Sensei. The current rules are ridiculous. The sport administrators are destroying the art.

I like to practice Judo but have no interest in competing or the current rules. I want to only do randori with old rules like leg grabs etc. I want to also practice doing all the old techniques and have no interest in the current rule set.

I can win a gold by spamming a fall, and never actually throwing anyone.

I'm at a point now in Randori where I say "do whatever you want, as long as you are going for throws and don't do anything dangerous."

I hope this gets more attention. You're only speaking truths, sensei. I commend you for it.

This video needs lots of attention! I was so confused and disappointed trying to watch Judo in the Olympics. A former practitioner myself, I thought I knew the rules, but was flummoxed by the whole thing.

You're correct. The rules in Judo must change. I for one in our Dojo don't follow these ridiculous rules. We train leg grabs, old style Judo because our students need real life self defense. We cross train Traditional Japanese Ju Jitsu with striking also. Thanks

Totally agree - competition judo is becoming impotent - and the refereeing left alot to be desired.

The IJF knee capped and ruined Judo

Everyone, repost and ask your Sensei to repost this, the tournament directors need to here this message

1000% correct. Teams need to start removing themselves from the ijf an form a better organization an bring back real Judo. Period

I agree completely, we need to call it like we see it. Half assed throws and playing the system is more important for winning than using actual judo. I watched your son's match and was cheering for him, he and his opponent were super competitive and battling it out like warriors. But ridiculous leg grab rule that shouldn't be apart of judo and all the other things they do to make it look "clean" neuter it completely and turned that match and many olympic matches into who can get the ref to fight for them. I understand things for safety, like standing armbars and kani basami, but there has to be something systematically wrong when we reward players for gaming the system used to make it "clean". This might be a little extra too, but ippon should have a higher standard as well, getting a good throw with force, but we get throws that would be ruled wazari a decade or two ago winning matches and people just stopping all together as soon as it hits the ground. Maybe instead of shido for stalling or false attacks, we could give the incentive of advantages or yuko to the other player whenever someone does one of these things. Obviously I'm just some random spouting BS but there are so many people mad at the governing body.

The hair folical diving and if you look at someone's leg rule are great examples of when commonsense left IJF town.

I think the easiest way to stop false attacks is to just let the action go - like, if someone wants to drop and flop, they have to get back to their feet on their own power.

I totally agree with you! I hope that IJF understands that this has gone too far and it is not judo anymore

Since the IJF and judo-politicians do not care for the opinions of ordinary people and athletes, it’s an undemocratic, corrupt system, and I no longer care about this “judo” sport. I don’t even care if this Olympic sport lives or dies. I like Jigoro Kano’s judo based on the principles and concepts which have little or nothing to do with the constant pointless sport rules changes nowadays. People have no freedom to do traditional judo under current judo rules, so judo people interested in real martial arts can go elsewhere, like a BJJ club or an independent judo club. You don’t need to follow the IJF or the Olympics to practice Seiryoku-zenyo and Jita-kyoei as taught by Kano, ideas which are timeless and transcend the sport.

Yes! I totally agree. I started Judo in the '70s and Judo felt and looked like a different sport back then. I feel it's become more constrained and less exciting. By limiting leg grabs, we constrain techniques and tactics thus MHO reducing the excitement and beauty of judo. I hope the IJF adjusts the rule set to reflect your feedback. Thanks!

Everytime you change or make rules to fix some problem you are going to get some other problem because of it. More rules, more problems.

It was a 50/50 snoozefest. You are 100% accurate. The older generations didn’t have to fight filled with fear. We also had way more dynamic and versatile judo with leg grabs still being capable. This Olympics was a majority of fearful fighting and not going to bring more fans to the sport.

I'm with you on this. Started Judo almost 50 years ago and it was a better sport. Even today the All Japan rules are better than theIJF. You are absolutely correct about the leg grabbing nonsense. Wrestling is different and in my days you still didn't see many Kibisu Gaeshi or Morote Gari. We did train Te Guruma and Kata Guruma and those are great throws and real Judo. Head Diving would get you disqualified in 1985 too, but that was using your forehead doing Uchi Mata..