Mongolian Wrestling & Judo

Niall Keane

I'm always a great believer in how unorthodox technique can overcome excellence and power! As they say the expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less.

Over the years, from my background in CMA, I have watched in Sanda and Shuai Jiao and Tuishou bread and butter techniques cycle in a way. By that I mean someone brings in a technique others aren't prepared for and easily beats established champions, and so everyone starts learning that method, until IT becomes the orthodox method and the original method is practiced less and less - as it is seen as easily counterable - until of course it is forgotten in a way, until someone starts using it again, and I've noticed there seems to be a cycle in this. Here's the advancing Mongolian Judo team and their base in Mongolian wrestling is examined and how this unorthodox method (in Judo) is presenting a problem for the current Japanese teams etc..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIjMuUNyXUw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z6rGHAGYhk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQdSRQ-9IP4

SDTimeout

Really enjoyed those videos. Especially the theory that the Japan players do not want it as much as the mongolians as they are mentally weak. I suppose because they are brought up in the culture of Judo through schools it can often seem like a chore?

It translates well to MMA as well because I think someone like Khabib Nurmagomedov will be a UFC champ and it's because he grew up in Dagaestan.