Judo Competition New Two Hand Rule

Traditional Escapes & the Two Hand Rule

Here are some very traditional escapes from the grips in response to the new two-hand rule. 

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All will work if you catch Uke by surprise but you may want to be a little careful with some of them as you could end up with a penalty for a different reason.

For example:
• When using a raised elbow escape be very careful not to hit you, opponent, in the head... instant disqualification.
• When using the rotation arm around the back of you Uke's hand watch that it does not turn into a wrist lock

Since there is a determination of contemporary players to want to break a grip instead of working with whatever they are offered (now that is real judo) I'll keep looking for others.

There are modern rule changes that I think are stupid but strangely this is not one of them. I've never been an elite player and never really aspired to be one so I can't really speak for that level of competitor, but one of the things that attracted me to judo when I first started was the genteel nature of the design. You would walk up to a player and on "Hujima" you would both take a grip and fight.

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None of this Patter Cake nonsense trying to find a grip.

Through injury, I left judo for about 2 years and when I came back everybody wanted to wast most of the fighting time playing hand-zies to get the best grip.

This really bored me, so I would give up a none-combativity penalty in order to let the other player get their grip. Much more fun and much more challenging... true judo to me.

So I for one hope that this new rule stops this time wasting rubbish in its tracks; I can dream, can't I.

Anyway, see what you make of the video. I know it's pretty stock standard stuff but it's a start.

Also, feel free to let me know your opinion about my post (was I controversial enough?)

In the long run, I'd really like to see judoka letting grips happen and learning to adapt to whatever your opponent gets on you. I make for much more interesting Judo.

Enjoy
    Sensai
        Richard