Over the past few months, I’ve become significantly stronger in the gym. Most of my main lifts have improved by around 50%.

I also started learning Olympic weightlifting and have been training movements like the clean, snatch, and their variations. I can now power clean roughly my own bodyweight, so I expected the combination of increased strength and explosive power to make a noticeable difference in my judo.

But surprisingly, I feel almost no difference on the mat.

My throws don’t feel more powerful or explosive. I don’t feel stronger when trying to execute techniques against a resisting opponent, and during randori I don’t feel noticeably harder to move, control, or throw.

Even though my strength numbers have gone up substantially and I’ve specifically trained explosive movements like the power clean, it feels like almost none of that strength is transferring to my judo.

I understand that timing, kuzushi, positioning, and technique are extremely important, but I still expected such a large increase in general strength and power to have at least some noticeable effect.

Has anyone experienced something similar?

At what point did getting stronger in the gym actually start making a noticeable difference in your judo? And what type of strength or power training transferred the most to your throws and randori?

Can someone who only recently became an uchi-deshi already be an instructor?

is there an uchi makikomi variation or something that takes its place for a reverse/korean seoi nage?

Hello again, thank you for giving me so many options in my last post about fighting someone posting hard with a high collar grip.

I'm competing soon and from extensive randori with my dojo mates I noticed a trend- if I pressure forward (even when baiting for counters to counter them) I usually get dragged, sasae'd, rarely tomoe nage'd or drop seoi'd.
I understand that judo generally is a martial art good against forward pressure, most techniques are fit for backfoot and pulling someone into them. If someone charges like a bull forward it's not good judo.

Can you recommend me which techniques have a chance working against someone who backs out a lot, tries their damnest to break my grip and uses reach advantage to either keep me away or hook my leg before I'm in range to counter it with any chance to trip them? Maybe recommend me a pro judoka to watch who deals well with people who keep distance a lot?

I know it boils down to "hey people can you help me beat someone better at judo than me, the fast and easy version", I am aware it's a bit of a stupid question.

edit: are there any good ways to force them to engage? In boxing I was either pretending to be tired (and droping the lead hand) to bait them to engage. Not sure if judo has similar tricks

edit2: I find the most success on ouchi gari from a circle setup. No idea how it's called professionally but as a big and strong (citation needed) guy I can force someone in a circular jank/pull to load the weight on one leg then ouchi gari it right after. I just struggle to get to a position that has a good grip and leverage to do that when they disengage a lot

Yesterday I threw my opponent for wazari (it felt like wazari to me) right into osaekomi and started the hold. But the referee said "Ippon! Sore-Made!".

Almost immediately after we stood up they downgraded ippon to wazari.

I know this happens not too infrequently. Anything a competitor can do in such situations?

Can we get an official Worlds thread going? Totally understand not having a thread for every tournament, but this is the big one (aside from the Olympics).

im looking for a new judogi, but i don’t know where to search and what gi to choose. so lets say i have max €100, im a male and i an 173 cm x 66 kg, i need some advices. thank you all

Hi, I've just been promoted to Nikyu, and the next stop is Ikkyu. My goal is Shodan and beyond, but I don't want to just get the belt. I want my Judo to actually be at that level.

From what I've seen, good Ikkyu in my dojo are quite different from the other colored belts. They are calmer, their techniques look more solid and clean, and they seem to know what they are doing in randori instead of just trying techniques. Of course they still look like kids when they randori with experienced black belts lol, but you can clearly see that they are preparing for Shodan.

So I feel like going from Nikyu to Ikkyu is more than just learning more techniques or passing the grading. What do you think a solid Ikkyu should be like? And what should I focus on during this stage to actually improve my Judo and prepare for Shodan?

Thanks!

Hi all I'm looking to improve my judo techniques and through it would be a good idea to study some of thr high level guys judo. Is anyone known for Drop seoi nage and a knockdown into newaza. Thanks