Question

Ok this is probably a really stupid question but what does Judo consist of? There are a few schools around me and I was just wondering

 

Tachi-waza and ne-waza

Standing: A large variety of powerful throws, an assortment of less powerful takedowns, and a few armlocks and chokes.

Ground: Assortment of pins (osaekomi), many armlocks (mostly elbow, some shoulder), and a huge amount of chokes and strangles.

In general Judo focuses a majority of time on standing throws and a minority of time on ground fighting. The ratios vary from nearly 1:1 to 4:1 or more.

Judo is a competitive sport as well as an effective martial art and a premium is placed on developing skills that you can use against someone who is actively fighting you. To advance in rank it is generally necessary to demonstrate that you have these skills by doing well in competitions.

In judo shiai and randori (competition or in-house sparring) a win is gained by cleanly throwing someone upon his back, pinning for 25 seconds, or by submission via strangle or armlock.

Also, see www.judoinfo.com

 

so most of it is throwing?

 

Armbars and setups for armbars.

 

Awesomeness mainly.

 

LOL!

 

how about street wise would any of it help in a street fight?

 

Some of the throws you learned in Hwarangdo are the same in Judo, at least they were in Hapkido. But the volume of throws in much more. As for self defense, a throw on the concrete can be pretty devastating.

 

It's just a video game!

 

not street fighter a real life fight

 

Yes, you learn some simple takedowns, i.e placing your leg behind another person and pushing them back, they fall on their butt. If you learned some throws, i.e where you dig yer hip into theirs and throw em over your shoulder.

Well, have you ever fallen 5-6feet onto the ground on yer back?

 

Yeah, a lot. It beats falling the same height onto my head, which I've also tried.

 

There was this girl (2nd kyu I think now?) at Judo who would always spike me on my head when doing morote seio-nage. After a while I'd let her throw me with something else just to avoid that!

 

I used to train with this girl who was too short to put her foot on your chest when doing Tomoe-Nage, so instead would kick you in the balls. Oh how we laughed.

 

I don't recall ever seeing someone put the foot on the chest. What kind of tomoe-nage are you doing?

 

I know a fair few people who put their foot quite high on the torso, maybe the chest was the wrong word. Maybe not that high, around the stomach/diaphram area. Where do you put your foot when doing it, on the hip?

 

I don't use tomoe-nage. I just drop, pass guard, and armbar people that do.

But yeah, hip or stomach area. Or the kick the the groin thing...