As you know we cover a lot of the Judo NEWAZA that is introduced on the Kodokan syllabus at Orange and Green Belt, some on Blue Belt, that is not covered on the Gracie Combatives
These include ground techniques such as a full set of pins that are not just Mount and Side Mount, the Side Mount submissions, and the Juji Gatame armbar done "one legged", as well as the Gi chokes, and of course the Atemi strikes which "grapplers" hate to be hit with
These are techniques that a Judo Blue Belt will know that a BJJ Blue Belt might not
(they are on the Gracie Master Cycle, as all of Judo is, and a Gracie Purple Belt will know these - whether a BJJ Purple Belt does is another matter)
And, as we often refer to, both Helio and Royce were beaten by a Japanese Judo master, Kumura and Yoshida respectively
Keep in mind, when it comes to combat sport fights such as UFC, who trained with who is not always the bottom line, and "lineage" is not as important as many people, especially the Wing Chun community, tend to believe
When Royce was winning all those UFCs in the 90s there was a spate of magazine articles and other publications about "how to beat" him, and "what they would do" - this was before the Internet so no keyboard warriors on the You Tube clips, however it did get fairly ridiculous - same as all the idiots who were on about Tyson, "what I would do" and "how to beat him"
I inevitably got asked this sort of question - my response would be that if I am in Royce's Guard, which is where he won most of his fights from, I would not be in the cage at the UFC, I would be at the Academy taking a lesson, preferably private or semi private
Similar to the first march Ruas seminars, just after he won UFC 7, and many of us were there with the JKD community - a lot of us, myself included, got to experience his techniques in demo - the consensus at the evening discussion was that nobody would want to ever get in the cage and fight him for real
Ultimately, at STMA where this was all developed, we are not concerned with cage matches that none of us are ever going to have, or boxing matches we are never going to have, we are concerned about what to do in a fight on the dance floor, at the bar, or outside the kebab shop, as that was our main concern while developing this system as Nightclub Doormen, where we would be every Friday and Saturday night - that is what our Boxing Punching and Ground Grappling and functionalised for
Judo pins - post started in 2009, updated in 2020
shirotoratiger.proboards.com/thread/139/judo-newaza-pins
Judo chokes - started in 2009, updated in 2018, then again December 2022
shirotoratiger.proboards.com/thread/184/judo-newaza-shime-chokes
Judo locks - not published until December 2022, then updated in Jan 2023, for the reasons given at the time
shirotoratiger.proboards.com/thread/1863/judo-kansetsu-locks
This will be covered and referred to on the Mat for all of this Season, possibly the whole year, as we develop our Game further
