What is Judo?

Question

I'm joininh Judo. I am at age 11 and I know Judo is a form of Martial Arts mixed with Wrestling and Ju Jitsu. What should I expect when I join? At the beginning do you learn Submission, Strikes or Grapples?

Answer 1

this will help you to know about judo

Answer 2

In beginner Judo, you will learn how to fall, how to throw others and matwork (wrestling). Let's take those one at a time.

In learning to fall, you learn how to get thrown and not get hurt. Basically you slap your free arm just as you hit the mat. Everyone gets thrown. Do it right and you're completely unhurt. Do it wrong and you can get hurt. (I've seen that.)

Next you'll learn how to throw others. Almost all throws mean removing your opponent's leg from under him/her or getting under your opponent, lifting him/her up, bending over or twisting, and sending him/her past you. All throws are designed to allow for safe falls.

Finally, there's matwork. It's like wrestling in that you want to get your opponent on his/her back. It's unlike wrestling in that you don't have to pin your opponent's shoulders to the mat, but you may have to keep them down for up to 60 seconds.

When you turn around 13 or 14, they'll teach you submission techniques, like armbars and chokes.

All the people I worked with were great. I never saw anyone take cheap shots, even in the really heated matches. When I was a kid and took on the black belts, they made themselves just a little bit better than me and dared me to go after them. Everyone was very supportive and I gained a lot of self-confidence.

Along they way, you'll gain better strength and balance. With practice you'll figure out how to improve both your weaknesses and strengths. Most important, you'll learn how to struggle and fight when you're dead tired, something I still benefit from 30-some years later.

Hope that helps!

Answer 3

Judo (柔道, jūdō), meaning "gentle way", is a modern Japanese martial art (gendai budō) and combat sport, that originated in Japan in the late nineteenth century. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the object is to either throw one's opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue one's opponent with a grappling maneuver, or force an opponent to submit by joint locking the elbow or by applying a choke. Strikes and thrusts (by hands and feet) - as well as weapons defenses - are a part of judo, but only in pre-arranged forms (kata) and are not allowed in judo competition or free practice (randori).

Practitioners of judo are called jūdōka.

While judo includes a variety of rolls, falls, throws, hold downs, chokes, joint-locks, and strikes, the primary focus is on throwing (nage-waza), and groundwork (ne-waza). Throws are divided in two groups of techniques, standing techniques (tachi-waza), and sacrifice techniques (sutemi-waza Standing techniques are further divided into hand techniques (te-waza), hip techniques (koshi-waza), and foot and leg techniques (ashi-waza). Sacrifice techniques are divided into those in which the thrower falls directly backwards (ma-sutemi-waza), and those in which he falls onto his side (yoko-sutemi-waza).

The ground fighting techniques are divided into attacks against the joints or joint locks (kansetsu-waza), strangleholds or chokeholds (shime-waza), and holding or pinning techniques (osaekomi-waza).