There and Back

Been watching a bunch of Judo highlight clips, amazing martial art. It got me thinking, could there be No Gi Judo?

Turns out there is. I did a but of digging (google search) and found these:
– “Why isn’t there any no-gi Judo?” from Reddit
– Freestyle Judo “Freestyle Judo uses a numerical point scoring system for both throwing and ground fighting.”

And of course, people chimed in on Twitter/X:

“yes but its pretty comparable to greco roman & freestyle wrestling”

“there are a couple gyms like that in SoCal and a couple in austin texas. John Danaher does this with New Wave Jujitsu and the B-Team copied this and opened their own gym. Justin Flores does this at Keenan Cornelius’ gym in San Diego.”

“Karo Parisyan had some beautiful MMA judo.”

“Greco-Roman with submissions would be pretty cool“

“Yes. It’s called wrestling”

“I was thinking this the other day but the more I was going over rules it turned into BJJ with no pulling guard and less submissions lol”

“They need mixed grappling arts, man.”

I would say, Greco Roman Wrestling is quite similar, due to the no leg attacks rule. But it would be cool to see a Judo rules No Gi (meaning rash guards) match with Ippons. I’d watch that.

Would you watch a No Gi Judo rules match?