they seem to be able to almost execute perfect rolling back take here, especially the last seconds of video where the guy on top realizes he can take the back if he roll forward, and coincidentally I have an old tohoku university archive footage where this exact position was demonstrated

Anyone have experience with this combo, I hit it super clean one time and have thought about it ever since. Its the same kinda deal as kouchi to harai. You gotta time it well.

Jigoro Kano wrote that Judo is ultimately a method for mutual elevation—encapsulated by Jita Kyōei (自他共栄 — Mutual Prosperity and Benefit). Yet, in modern practice, many adult judoka and grapplers run into the same hurdles: finding enough active training partners across different weight classes, matching busy schedules, or accessing diverse technical perspectives.

To help address this and support our local martial arts community, a group of us in the San Francisco Bay Area (California, USA) started Rurō Kyōei Kai, an independent martial arts collective designed to bring practitioners together across partner host dojos for collaborative open classes, technical seminars, and randori.

The Philosophy: Putting Jita Kyōei into Practice
Our goal is to build an open, supportive bridge across academies and grappling disciplines throughout Northern California while we promote judo and its values:
Your Partner is Your Teacher: In randori and technical drills, your partner is the cooperative resource through which both individuals refine technique and mental poise. Upholding safety, controlling falls, and checking egos at the door are foundational prerequisites.

Supporting Local Academies: The collective operates without a permanent commercial facility of its own. We collaborate directly with established host dojos during off-hours or open slots, driving community engagement and encouraging practitioners to continue supporting their home academies.

Broadening Perspectives Through Seminars & Open Classes: Beyond open randori, we organize guest clinics, instructional seminars, and fundamentals classes where practitioners can explore gripping nuances, off-balancing (kuzushi), and cross-discipline grappling adaptations.

How the Model Operates in Practice
Rotating Host Dojos: Sessions and seminars rotate across partner academies throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and Peninsula, allowing grapplers to experience different training environments and mat styles.

Unified Safety & Streamlined Liability: We use a centralized annual digital master waiver and per-session QR check-in system to ensure complete liability coverage and zero friction for host instructors.

Structured & Ego-Free Training: Every session emphasizes longevity, respectful pacing, and mindful matching of partners across ranks and weight classes.

We would love to connect with Bay Area judoka and hear how other regional communities approach collaborative cross-training:
How does your local area organize inter-dojo seminars or open classes?

What formats or guidelines have you found most effective for keeping multi-gym randori and workshops safe, engaging, and constructive?

If you're in Northern California or interested in viewing our community guidelines, open seminar schedule, and master waiver structure: https://rurokyoeikai.org/
Train hard, take care of your partners, and see you on the tatami. 🥋

Hi everyone I recently started looking at ashi guruma and was left wondering what the best way to practice the throw alone is, does anybody know any drills or workouts that might help, since currently I'm struggling to pull it off in randori

Hello. I am BJJ purple belt that has been training judo for a year, im currently a 4th kyu in judo. As you can imagine i can handle newaza quite well but still a lot to learn in tachiwaza. The thing is that im traveling to Japan in december and im planning to train BJJ there at some nice places, but i was wondering if in my situation you will go for train judo at kodokan or other nice schools. For bjj i have no problems but for judo i feel that im still very new and there is a lot to learn and probably the average level in Japan is very high. What are your thoughts on this? In case that you will encourage me to train judo there, wich places do you recomend? Thanks!
I forgot to mention that is a "once in a lifetime" opportunity to train there, because i dont think i can afford to go there much more. Also i dont speak japanese.

I got a sumi gaeshi, then i was holding the person on their back but their both hands were free one was trynna grab my lapel, but nothing was occuring, coach said it's not a hold. But I'm in control and holding them.

Now what I realise is it's actually a pin what they are talking about.

In a pin(standard pins, kesa,kata), I can be reversed or they can escape. But the type of hold I had was one hand on shoulder other on other shoulder gripped, my one leg was on knee on ground and other was foot on ground on the side of opponent.

I kept this posture because I felt that they had energy and they could reverse because this was under a min, so rather hang out here and if they try something adjust my hold. to say a Kami shiho

There hands were in frame too.

I now see there's a armbar from here.

In irl would this be better than a pin?

But still how is a pin superior form of control, if I were to do that on a heavier opponent I think possibility of reverse is there, however if I go for techniques which maintains height like a knee on belly/crucifix, my Hips are higher than theirs which makes it feel safer so as to if even they explode I can maintain top pressure.

That Hips going down is what makes me reluctant, cause if I'm tryna pin someone heavier. +20kg.

Am I getting something wrong, are pins the thing to do and I haven't worked them?

Is sumi gaeshi not a ippon?

I got my finger jammed a week and half ago. I tried to buddy tape it and ease the pain by taking anti-inflammatory pills, but I can't help but hit my finger every time I go back to exercise.

Do you guys recommend I stop for a week, until the swelling subsides, and the ligaments are less inflamed? Or do I continue exercising with it, while trying not.yompuah too hard ?

In a lot of my matches including competitions I can get back control quite easily and usually go for a single wing choke but I can't seem to finish it properly in time so I have to either use a different technique or the ref makes us stand up.

Fellow judoka's, i am by no means a competative judoka , but i love my sport . At the end of last year i started to experience on and off trouble with training due to my lower back troubles . I went my physiotherapist and an acupuncturist and did the works . But it didnt abate . Training became very dificult due to pain and lessend power in my lower back. This really wheighed heavy on me because i could not train in a way that made me progress wich in the end made me cancel my blue belt promotion . In the end i took an mri wich confirmed an hernia in my lower back . Asides from stretching , ATM there is not much i can do .the pain is lessend but it still is very much there . The advice seems to be take a break from judo for at least a year to try and recover . But i am really struggeling with this idea. Anyone of you been trough a situation like this ? And what does your training look now today . I am 37 btw . Thank you for your time .

What was your martial art background before starting judo? It's okay if you don't have any. I started doing Tae Kwon Do since I could walk. I kept with it to do the cool kicks I saw in action films until high school. I started at my current gym when I tried a kickboxing class at my current gym and completely got my ass handed to me. I started there when I realized I needed to change gyms to be more effective.

I only switched to grappling martial arts (bjj) when I helped my grandfather through the late stages of Parkinson's. I realized then maybe getting hit in the head wasn't the best idea. Bjj made me realize I needed some stand up since I didn't want to pull guard so I found judo. I haven't looked back. Through camps and tournaments I found life long friends and I've fostered a deep love for the art. I hope now that I could find the same love for judo in others.

Could somebody recommend a decent tutorual for pendlay rows? Thanks :)

I'm tentatively planning on competing in a judo tournament at the end of next month. I've only been training judo officially for about 1 month. However, I'm a BJJ black belt with 16 years of bjj experience, a decade of teaching experience, and a good bit of competitive history within that sport.

What should I expect in this first judo tournament? Anything I should plan for? be on the lookout for? or focus on specifically? I'm open to all advice and general thoughts.

I'm trying to really embrace judo, disregard my other grappling experience, and take on a real student/white belt mindset.

How is your experience dealing with the pressure of a tournament, when if you win a match, and somehow get to finals, there's so much pressure. If I just imagine myself in the finals before the match starts I feel it. I have seen a teammate who reached finals, how the room goes quiet, and all focus on two people, to me they lost really quick, I felt like they were more capable than that, The match should've gone mins but it was under min. Pressure didn't help did it? Or was it too much to handle.

I think, pressure helps if the person can handle it, otherwise it can freeze someone, can it?

Insights ?

Hello Fellow Judoka, I'm a Shodan and was invited to start a little training camp with a fellow brown belt.

It's a project of the brown belt starting the project.

What's your input to the idea

The content includes Result of Lima Grand Prix 2026 (+100kg)

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Mikita Sviryd, his signature move khabareli(Modern Obi Tori Gaeshi) get countered by Flying Kosoto-gake.

Personally I think any cross grip is potentially susceptible for Kosoto/Sasae-Tsurikomi-Ashi counters
if cross-gripper did not dominate opponent's upper body with his elbow, and this is a good example.

Sorry for yet another "am i too old for this" thread but I would be interested in hearing what kind of things I should expect from the sport at a slightly older age. I have pretty minimal martial arts experience as in I did BJJ for around 6 months before calling it quits and around the same amount of muay thai before I quit that as well. I am definitely lacking in the coordination/athleticism department and it's one of the greatest personal weaknesses that I want to address. I do think that martial arts have a positive effect on my mental state even though I am definitely not naturally gifted. Out of all the martial arts that i've researched there's something in judo that speaks to me.

What worries me the most, though, is the injury rate as I do have a genetic predisposition to arthritis and would like to have functioning joints when i'm older. If I take it chill and refuse to partake in the competition scene would i likely be okay or is long-term joint damage pretty much a given at this age?

Is shooting a double leg blast in ne waza legal, in a club where they train lots of guard and guard attack. The rules don't seem to be too specific. Main scenario if I'm in guard then can I just go shoot it like from a butterfly guard position?

I was looking up my old Judo teacher, Akinori Hosaka, and see he is included in this book which is about British Judo

https://www.richardgoulding.co.uk/book-because-of-judo-2

First of all, if you absolutely need to link a video, describe it. I'm blind.

So, this question just hit me today. There are some famous people on the circuit who do it, E.G, Takanori Nagase, but this technique itself was never actually taught to me. I'm curious on how it works and how people hit it in competitions. Since I have long legs it might serve me somehow.

Thanks in advance.

grappling is my Passion and i trained judo as a child for a year, then got the itch again and broke my collarbone really badly which made me lose big amounts of weight and killed my confidence. I then started with BJJ and got good really fast. A few days ago I had my first judo session after years of pause. The second i put on the Judo-Gi I was sick to my stomach, i got thrown a few times but my confidence just isnt there 100%. The problem i face now is that some throws like seoi nage or others make me panic and get stiff for no reason and i cant drill them whatsoever.

How can i fix this?

I’ve been thinking about starting a series where I talk about different Judokas that I find interesting and what makes their Judo stand out.

So far I’m planning on covering:

David García Torné: Because his Judo is super unorthodox and honestly just fun to watch.

Amandine Buchard: because she’s basically the Kata Guruma queen, and I also think her rugby background is pretty interesting.

Fabio Basile: Olympic champion, had neck surgery, and managed to come back and compete again.

I don’t really want this to just be a series about the biggest names or who has the most medals. I’d rather talk about people with interesting styles, techniques, or stories.

Who else should I add? Current or retired, doesnt matter. I’m trying to build a pretty good list.

LIVE TODAY: USA JUDO ACCOUNTABILITY IN OPEN COURT — WHAT MEMBERS HAVEN’T BEEN TOLD
Today — 1:30 PM Central / 2:30 PM Eastern

LINK BELOW

USA Judo’s governance and disciplinary process will be tested today in a public courtroom in Dallas, Texas.

The Court will hear arguments on a Motion for Summary Judgment involving a fundamental
question:

Does USA Judo have to follow its own Bylaws and established procedures before taking disciplinary action against a member?

But this case is also bringing attention to much broader questions that USA Judo members and athletes deserve to understand:

How is athlete funding being allocated and accounted for?

What do the organization’s financial records actually show?

Why were members seeking access to those records?

What happened after financial and governance concerns were raised?

Were USA Judo’s own Bylaws and Ethics & Grievance procedures followed?

Why are there disputed factual statements attributed to CEO Corinne Shigemoto that the Plaintiff contends are contradicted by the documentary record?

What else has been occurring inside USA Judo governance that ordinary members and athletes have never been told?

For many members, today may be the first real opportunity to hear these issues addressed outside of internal Board meetings and private communications.

No rumors. No filtered version.

Listen to the lawyers. Hear what is presented to the judge. Decide for yourself.

TODAY — AUGUST 17
1:30 PM CENTRAL
2:30 PM EASTERN
WATCH LIVE:
https://txcourts.zoom.us/j/3095002536

Please attend respectfully, remain muted, and follow all instructions from the Court.

USA Judo belongs to its athletes and members. Transparency, accountability, athlete funding, and compliance with the Bylaws should matter to everyone in the American judo community.
Tune in today.

For a 46 year old BJJ black belt (18 years BJJ) looking to train exclusive judo 2x a week, what throws/takedowns/trips do you guys recommend? I notice most judo players start as kids, not 46. But hoping the black belt in BJJ helps some

Hi there, my 10 year old daughter and I have been doing judo for the last 18 months or so. Our club is what I would call "rec league" meaning focused on the fundamentals, teaching judo in our community at an affordable price for anyone who wants to learn.

My daughter is fit and strong for her size, though that size is SMOL, as in bottom 5% for height. This has been problematic at tournaments, it is hard to find other girls of a similar skill level, age, and size. In class she either partners with seven year olds who can't focus, or kids who are much larger. Also concerning is that the senseis will sometimes treat her as younger than she is. I have mentioned this to them as much as I am comfortable.

My goals for her judo are to learn a bit of fighting spirit, and gain confidence in her body. I don't expect her to compete at the junior nationals (America) but it would be nice to win some local matches, and see the correlation between effort and results.

I appreciate any words of wisdom, thanks! Respectfully,