Tag: Judo

• My Training Regime for an Upcoming BJJ Competition in October 2024

  Competing as a hobbyist is exhilarating. Doing your regular life routine but also preparing for a fight can be challenging but it’s worth it.

  Here’s my training regime for my upcoming comp in October (month and a half away)…

  Fitness Gym:

  All upper body lifting. Chest press, bicep curls, back rows, and shoulder presses. I must look the part and when I walk onto the mat I will strike fear into hearts of my opponents. 2 days a week should be good. My cardio is not the greatest so I’m not really looking to improve that much in that area. Too much work.

  

  BJJ Gym Frequency:

  Open mat every Saturday. Roll all ten rounds. Pick white belts as my partners so I can build confidence from smashing them. No gi once or twice a week. Also go to fundamentals class once or twice a week with my wife because we always have a fun time goofing around.

  BJJ Skills to Work On:

  Gripping in gi and no gi. I get the grip fight in gi but my No gi gripping is shite. If my grip game is solid I can get to a good position and work to submit from there. Pretty confident with that part. Also a heavy focus on underhooks and open guard for No gi.

  Nutrition:

  I eat pretty well. Cook almost every night. Steak, pork, or ground beef with veggies and rice. But when I’m at work, that’s when I eat like crap. Gotta stay away from the fries and Tim Bits. Need to lose 2-3 pounds, is definitely doable.

  

  

  Mindset:

  I felt way more confident and comfortable at my last competition in January, when I didn’t care about the outcome of the match. It took pressure off me and my expectations were realistic and I had more fun. Also, a trick I do is not looking at the brackets and my opponents before hand, so I don’t look at their profiles on SmoothComp and then psych myself out. I have my wife tell me when my match is coming up. And only try to see my opponent right before I get on the mat.

  What are some ways that YOU like to prepare for a BJJ competition?

  2024.08.17

• Judo Without the Gi

  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?

  

  

  

  

  2024.02.04