A couple more things. Freestyle Judo has had no gi divsions, so it can been done. If there was a good social media push to go with it I think people might be suprised by the potential participation (especially during summer months) and viewership. Second, unrelated to the previous point, I briefly mentioned in my other comment the social media connection. People posting stuff on instagram and youtube, Justin Flores, Craig Jones, etc. highlighting people is inspiring people to want to learn. Jiujitsu is very tactile people don't want to just sick back and appreciate stuff they see working they want to learn it and add it to their game. If you think this no gi Judo trend is a good thing keep in mind that it's "rise" is happening because of the social media stuff and BJJ people getting fixated on it all. I think teaching and focusing on good ukemi along with the no gi Judo would start to counter balance the danger. And starting discourse about which moves are too dangerous to do live. A lot of Jiujitsu people are open to banning exceptionally dangerous moves.
definitely agree about proper ukemi instruction. More judo instructors need to learn how to market and use social media properly. there's still a huge stigma against recording or standing out for "clout".
It feels like John Danaher and his students (current and former) teaching Judo techniques and using Judo terminology were a big apart of this dam breaking. John explicitly mentions it in interviews and instructionals and students go out and do it in matches and rolls that made it to youtube. Social media and instructionals inform a lot of what's going on in jiujitsu broadly. Also maybe Khabib openly talking about Judo led to people looking at his standup and his team mates' stand up through a lens of Judo instead of just wrestling. All that kind of primed people for Justin Flores, Shintaro Higashi, Satoshi Ishii and others showing stuff online and selling instructionals. I think Shintaro has talked about being suprised that he started getting more and more people asking for no gi stuff. Also at least some wrestling comps/orgs have banned Kani basami. There are some bad injuries you can find in videos of people doing it in wreslting matches same as other styles.
that's an interesting point I think I agree its an accumulation of many different things happening at the same time that is having a snowball effect in addition to BJJ's marketing machine. Glad to hear Kani basami is not allowed in wrestling.
A couple more things.
Freestyle Judo has had no gi divsions, so it can been done. If there was a good social media push to go with it I think people might be suprised by the potential participation (especially during summer months) and viewership.
Second, unrelated to the previous point, I briefly mentioned in my other comment the social media connection. People posting stuff on instagram and youtube, Justin Flores, Craig Jones, etc. highlighting people is inspiring people to want to learn. Jiujitsu is very tactile people don't want to just sick back and appreciate stuff they see working they want to learn it and add it to their game. If you think this no gi Judo trend is a good thing keep in mind that it's "rise" is happening because of the social media stuff and BJJ people getting fixated on it all. I think teaching and focusing on good ukemi along with the no gi Judo would start to counter balance the danger. And starting discourse about which moves are too dangerous to do live. A lot of Jiujitsu people are open to banning exceptionally dangerous moves.
definitely agree about proper ukemi instruction. More judo instructors need to learn how to market and use social media properly. there's still a huge stigma against recording or standing out for "clout".
It feels like John Danaher and his students (current and former) teaching Judo techniques and using Judo terminology were a big apart of this dam breaking. John explicitly mentions it in interviews and instructionals and students go out and do it in matches and rolls that made it to youtube. Social media and instructionals inform a lot of what's going on in jiujitsu broadly.
Also maybe Khabib openly talking about Judo led to people looking at his standup and his team mates' stand up through a lens of Judo instead of just wrestling.
All that kind of primed people for Justin Flores, Shintaro Higashi, Satoshi Ishii and others showing stuff online and selling instructionals. I think Shintaro has talked about being suprised that he started getting more and more people asking for no gi stuff.
Also at least some wrestling comps/orgs have banned Kani basami. There are some bad injuries you can find in videos of people doing it in wreslting matches same as other styles.
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that's an interesting point I think I agree its an accumulation of many different things happening at the same time that is having a snowball effect in addition to BJJ's marketing machine. Glad to hear Kani basami is not allowed in wrestling.