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Originally Posted by bodhisattva
I think it really sucks that so many Judo schools have an attitude if you want to learn to throw No-Gi as well.
We have a couple of local Judo schools, at least one of them is awesome.. But they get very defensive and very..irritated if you want to learn no-gi.
I think that is a shame. Judo rocks. I typically recommend Judo to people who don't have the time to study MMA. I think Judo is the next best thing (and not by a long shot, either.)
But I don't want to learn Judo because of the dependence on the Gi at my local schools.
I think more Judo schools should be more flexible and start teaching more no-gi and working more without the gi.
I think it would make the throws even cleaner when they brought the gi back into play.
-Personally, I think everyone should learn no-gi first, and then learn with the gi.
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a lot of judo schools are focused primarily on competing, and adhere to competition rules. when i trained in judo i used to get pissed cause every time we would start grappling some mthrfcker would come over and say " get up guys, you already got an ippon, why are you still on the ground??? start over" things like that. i didnt like that at all. training in bjj is better, as there are way less restrictions.