This Channel is all about Fitness for Martial Arts for Older Guys, for the Younger Cats, you won't be for long, hehehhe. Watch all my videos to learn the lessons without the scars. Have questions? reach out to me on IG and i'll answer you directly.
I'm 45 years old, Black Belt in Judo, Blue Belt in Bjj, and a Lifelong Martial Artist, At 43 i managed to win Provincial Championships and National Championships in Judo and won my MMA debut. Currently i'm rehabbing my laundry list of injuries so that i can continue training and get back into competition.
I'll share with you my journey and all that i've learnt and what i'm currently looking into. All my content is to support you to becoming the best martial artist you can be, Judo, Fitness, Martial Arts, Longevity, Self-Mastery, that what i'm all about. Osu!
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Love it. I’ve been trying to work grip strength too, because I keep getting hand and finger injuries. Separately, could you do a video sometime on diet/nutrition for older judokas?
What’s harder to learn Muay Thai or boxing
Muay Thai, a lot more things, its the art of 8 limbs, boxing only 2.
@@OGFITNESS I go to a boxing gym and coach there always says boxing more hard to learn then Muay Thai every punch and foot work needs to be perfect with boxing and not so much Muay Thai
Man this video and the comments helped Change my perspective. I start this week at 31
Osu🥋
I’m more versed in striking than grappling, so would Judo be better as a complimentary art to wrestling? Like if I was a Muay Thai master (I’m far from it, still beginner/intermediate) and decided to learn some Tae Kwon Do to deepen my arsenal, would adding Judo to a Wrestling foundation be of the same nature?
What should I do if I'm 23 and already have terrible hips and bad flexibility
Glad you ask, buy and read Becoming a Supple Leopard. Here's the link to my amazon store: amzn.to/3Rydxzy This book will change your life.
The gold medalist!
Hey, just discovered tour KZread channel. Excellent work, very enjoyable and informative content. I'm curious why you went from bjj to judo? I am older than you and wanting to return to martial arts, mostly for fitness, self defence and socia. Not for sport/comp. I like the idea of Judo, but get the impression that its mostly geared towards young fit athletes wanting to compete? Also perhaps not ideal for self defence, as lacks striking? Cheers
Hey brother, thanks for tuning in. Here's the video i made way back when where i explain the switch. kzread.info/dash/bejne/q5WN0bCcdKram5M.html And yes, Judo is mostly geared towards youth, competition, olympics, but a great skill to have if you can find a club that caters to recreational practionners, and they are out there. For self defence you need both grappling and striking imo, if you can only pick one i would go with striking, so boxing, kick boxing. muay thai. With that said, Judo has the throws, the sweeps, the ground techniques with chokes and joint locks, which are all useful for self defence. A solid throw on concrete on a untrained opponent can send a man easily to the hospital. Let me know if you have any other questions, Osu!
Stop calling yourself old. You're not old.
Im 45 dude
@OGFITNESS Yes, but you're still active and not in a rocking chair yet, lol.
@@Babygirlly555 old doesn’t mean handicapped 😂
Do you think the lack of Gi in the street would be a problem for judo? And if so, would you grab the other person's clothing or just do some other things
Wrestling grips.
A good judo coach will instil in his students and assistant instructors a duty-of-care for their older students, especially those who do not or cannot compete anymore. A lot of injuries occur when younger people are hell bent of proving themselves in some way and use new or much older students as rag dolls to show how good they are on the mat. It is normal human behaviour but it should not be allowed in the dojo. We should all park our egos should at the door before entering. If you want to prove how good you are, do it in competition, not against lower belts or older practitioners during training. You will find that older students are generally not there to compete against anyone as they have nothing to prove; they are there for the love of it so please exercise caution when training with them. I don't mean we should wrap them in cotton wool - just be mindful that they are more vulnerable to injury. The thing is, injuries take a lot longer to heal, it at all, when you get older. I am now 60 and after 4 decades of doing martial arts, including both striking and grappling arts, all the injuries I sustained during my martial arts journey limit what I can do now. But as long as remain fit and healthy and don’t push myself too much, I hope I can continue to train. Younger, stronger and more agile students can learn from their older but more experienced students, so treat them with respect and they will enjoy training with you.
No steroids can "Cause" and if you have heart failure it doesn't mean you have to get into surgery lol... Most people don't do cardio, take somthing to relax the heart somthing to Lower pulse and blod pressure and they don't look at there RBC they don't take breaks dro heavy cycles they don't eat clean and good food that's what gets you doing things wrong
Bjj has sweeps too
Floor sweeps dont count, no one starts a fight on their ass.
What about pilates is that good?
From the little i know of pilates, i think so.
Wrestling > Judo
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Learn judo, why bother with bjj, unless your doing ufc. For your self defence then judo. Who rolls on the floor in street fights, one on one.? Bjj only works in ufc, in general
I have practiced judo for over 20 years now. I got my black belt after the 10th year. I had won many competitions but nevertheless it took a lot of time to get my belt. For it i had to learn the kata and compete with 6 other strong black belts and win at least 4 matches. This were the conditions of my 5th dan sensei.
I think making a martial art safer is down right stupid. I 100% get the kid part but the idea of removing something in a literal combat art because of safety is imo disrespectful to idea of judo (or any martial art). Judo i think would have a resurgence in alot of places if the stop focusing on the sport and more of the art. BJJ became an overnight sensation because of the effectiveness it had in ufc 1. People want to do what is effective and removing an aspect that decreases the effectiveness of the martial art is going to decrease people wanting to join. The sportiness of judo is watering down the Art. I think sports are a part of judo but it being the main thing for it is bad.
Kano the founder, remove the dangerous aspect of Jiujitsu and made it into Judo, by doing this it allowed for the art to continue as a sport all while retaining its culture and philosophy. It also allowed for people to practice at a 100% without permanently injuring themselves. This was genius, not stupid. Osu🥋
I think wrestlers close distance better than judo bc you can shoot from further away. It allows you to rush a taller person and take out there legs easier than clinching with them to throw or trip. I love both sports but gonna say wrestling on this one.
Agree
I think judo is better than wrestling, because as a solo grappling art, judo has throws as well as submissions, ... wrestling has better takedowns but once on the ground your arsenal is limited and jiu jitsu has better submissions but what good will that do if you lack any ability to get your opponent on the ground to begin with ... you shouldn't even go willingly to the ground anyway, so all in all I'd say judo and boxing are a better combo than wrestling and boxing
Boxe,clinch, throw, and sub, also with judo you dont have to follow the guy to the ground, you can just stay standing which is what you want in a street altercation.
Where’d you pick ‘em up?
Amazon
Those things look fantastic! And you don't even need much space at home to use them. Thanks for the tip!
My pleasure brother, im all about being as practical and efficient as possible.
Are there no points required for the higher ranks?
You mean to get the Dans? Each Dan requires a certain number of points, after each Dan all the points reset to zero if im not mistaken.
@@OGFITNESS and did you compete a lot? Congrats either way!
@@argoshikan tons, i won provincial and national in the same year and won my first mma match
@@OGFITNESS holy crap! Congrats. I am not a good competitor (orange belt) and was wondering if that success was necessary for black belt. In the states, judo isn’t supported here so tournaments are few and far between and usually have to fight much more experienced folks
@@OGFITNESS i am older with no history of athleticism.
Kouchi-ouchi-seoi for the base Sumi gaeshi-kubi nage/taiotoshi/ sasae in my future dreams.❤
Tokuzo Takahashi is 47 YEARS OLD and just won a silver medal at the U.S. senior nationals for -100 KG....Let that sink in.
What is the $45 machine in your video named???
Its called a Neck Stretcher/Cervical Traction device.
I wish I had started with Judo rather than BJJ six and a half years ago. I have been training Judo during open mats with the Judokas at our place 3x week after my rolling rounds for the last year and it’s been amazing!
Of course Danthewolfman can make Aikido wrist locks ork, just like Chin-Na, Judo, Jiujitsu techniques, all of those techniques Dan trained for, while wrestling and getting pressured and dealing with the aliveness and energy of the opponent lands that lock. Of curse! Because Danthewolfman has some street fight experience, has experiences dealing with resisting attackers, was a bouncer, had wrestled, he can make it work because it's not all about perfect technique which you KZread Martial artists want it to be, nor whatever young white suburban American male fantasizes what the perfect BJJ technique or perfect lock technique or perfect striking technique is. It's simply objective driven and goal driven: I want to knock you out, or catch your leg, or apply some choke on you at ALL COST! Whatever ends justify the means, at any cost, not the ends beholden to a particular means which freezes you up. That's the weakness of a purist and dogmatic person, who only glorifies the MMA and street violence, but has little experience dealing with that energy.
You look young bro. Love your judo videos
appreciate that brother, Judo keeps me young! Not, hahaha, exercise, nutrition, sleep and sunscreen , simple but effective.
So in one of your videos you said wrestling was easier to take down big opponents than judo yet here you are doing wing chun !!!???? Wing chun is a joke in many ways !!😂😂
lol u have to roll hard at some point if you want to compete. I train 5-6 days a week, the last 7 years. im 52 by the way. training 6 days a week rolling every session ur body will not fall apart in a year lol
Man! Bruce has so much powerful punchs and kicks having so little pounds, It's indeed very little pounds, a Normal and Healthy 5,7f man can achieve 180-200 pounds no problem, me and my friend we are very muscular 5,7f boys, my friends is even more muscular and heavy than me so is crazy how he grow to sides haha, So we are the "small" and weaker poor baby males dwarfs so if we can achieve that, Bruce could also, i guess.... Well we come from Hercules family, even the female is fucking strong on my family, my little sister is much strong and taller than a lot of men sooo, even my father sister is a beast! So genetics is kind important to that i guess. But stiil the Bruce pounds have much more strengh than average male pounds, so he could not need much to match the strengh of a big boy if he had the genetics to do so... Of course...
Bro im a month in as a white belt and i already feel i could defend myself in the street with it. Judo is lethal.
You can smash someone bad with judo if you can get into position, most bums who pick fights on the street wont see the throw coming and dont even know how to breakfall. 🤣
@@OGFITNESS yea most people won't see what is about to happen to them. Plus after a month of randori I'm so much stronger. It's quite noticeable.
I’m 41, started at 39 not in bad shape. I really have to watch who I go with, mostly NOT younger lower belts
Hahaha, personally at this point i can toy with most colored belts so i go with them to continue developing my judo.
@@OGFITNESSMe too, I slay a black belt for lunch to get ready for my pancration mutherföööcker
@@olegwiththeknowledge1729 😂
imagine a life where you do nothing because you're constantly in fear of injuring yourself or destroying your body. You have to live without fear of the future because the future is not guaranteed. Do what you enjoy and don't over do it. I suppose BJJ, or any martial art, will cause injury sometimes...but the question is, what would the alternative injury be if we all sat on our asses watching TV 24/7.
Great video. +1 here on the Supple Leopard book recommendation. My wife makes fun of me for reading a book with such a silly title but don't let it fool you. It's a serious book packed with tons of useful concepts that as Hong said, are very rarely taught elsewhere.
One of the best descriptions of the true differences between Judo and BJJ I've heard.
Thank you brother! Osu🙏🥋🙇♂️
I'm yellow belt and my sensai throw me and I missed time my fall. Also, my hand was too close to my hip, which put pressure on my shoulder. I was afraid I did damage to my rotator cuff. I can move my shoulder without pain , not when I touch my shoulder, I have a little pain . Have u experienced this before ?
Yes sir, shoulders take a beating in Judo, thats why you have to do lots of joint prep/ prehab for the shoulders and bulletproof the heck out of them. I posted a short a day or two ago about it
Tap.
The recovery part is hard for me!! I have so much energy even at my age 55.
How to not let BJJ destroy your body: replace BJJ with Judo 😂 Jokes aside. Like OG Fitness recommends, Stretch and joint prep and strength training is a must for all athletes. Even if you lift %60-%70 of your PR. It gets those books and crannies and muscle imbalances from martial arts sparring. Whenever you see professional NBA or NFL players highlight videos, sometimes you see them strength training before practice. Sometimes even after games, because they found that strength training during season into the playoffs helps the players perform Better. Combat athletes should do the same! The trouble with BJJ guys is they depend on the quick stretches before class and that’s it. Then they spar in and out all day for months then Bam! Injury
Love the videos, older Judoka/BJJ player as well
Osu🙏🥋🙇♂️💪
Great video! will you please release a stretching video for judo/bjj?
Yup, itll start working on that one this week, a friend/judoka ask me the same thing last week.
Hey hong, hope you’re doing well.
Doing good brother💪, hope you’re doing good as well. 🙏
Are you rush? If not, it's great and you'll need time to learn.
The older I the more help I need 😅
As we age we need everything to be on point, sleep, nutrition, recovery, etc… have to be more conscious with our approach
Wow, didn’t know you did Judo 2 times a week. I thought to start Judo you need to take it 5 times a week
2 hard session a week is all you need, any other sessions beyond that should be very technical and very light and playful randori or you'll get busted up quick
@@OGFITNESSi have sport sambo classes near me, what do you think of it?
Does that work better than Bayer and Icy hot? lol
1000%!!!
Ko Uchi - O uchi - Drop(sit down) Kata Guruma. I'm shorter than most of my opponents and somehow it just works for me
Wow! Not only were you extremely quick on the return of information for this question but created a video within a day about it. I'm excited to see what other people have to say about this topic.
Im trying , and it was a great question. Osu🙏