judo

[judoboxer]

What do you guys think is better in Judo for compettition leg sweeps, sacrifices, counters, a bit of all or something different. If something different please state what and why.

[Captain_Coward]

i think it really depends on your opponent and on what you feel your strengths are, it is a good idea to watch any potential opponents and try to note what his/her favourite tecniques are and then work from this.

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[judojedi]

you need to assess you own body type aswell. someone with short stumpy legs wouldn't get very far with leg sweeps, for example.

in my experience, tall people are more successful when utilising leg sweeps and moves like hiza garuma, while short people are more successful with big throws like seonage.

however you need to know the lot inorder to counter what ever your opponent is doing

[Furikuchan]

I'll have to agree with judojedi here. Looking around in my class, I can see a guy who is good with counters, one who is good with pick-ups, two that have tremendous snap-seoi nages, one that can counter every move you make. Personally, I try to play everything. I end up going for the big throws, especially hip throws, when I don't know what else to do, but I have the counters and foot sweeps in reserve, just in case.
Still, no one strategy is the best. I've seen just as many matches won with a de ashi barai as I have with o goshi.

[Jason Simpson]

I have to agree with Furikuchan and his own philosophy, having a bit of everything helps the most. You can plan to be able to do seionage perfectly, train like mad at it, and then come up against someone who is amazing at countering hip throws, or has a really low centre of gravity. if you only have hip throws to attack with, you will lose. The reason Yamashita (personal favourite player of all time) Adams etc only seemed to use a few throws is because they trained so hard at those few. I very much doubt thats all they had, just that they worked so well for them.
Having a comprehensive range of throws makes you a 3 dimensional player, and makes you more unpredictable, and better able to fight any style of player.

[Ikken Hisatsu]

find a couple of throws sweeps you like and feel natural doing, and make them your own. this has been the secret to pretty much every successful judoka- specialisation. kimura pretty much stuck with 2-3 throws his whole life. same with groundfighting, work a few chokes and holds- armbar, kimura, RNC and triangle are the most common- until you can do them in your sleep.