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IJF moves to prohibit combat sports crossover

Mellor · 2014-11-17 22:58:44

IJF making moves to ban IJF ranked athletes from competing in other sports without permission. Feels a bit like a protection move, but I can see it doing more harm than good and alienating rather than protecting. But I'm not overly familiar with the state of international judo, and why they might feel this is necessary.…

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#32 04-01-2015 8:08pm
Mellor

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paulol wrote: »

This sounds like what happened in many of the other martial arts. The changes they make and rules they create are made to show the general public a distinction between them and the next guy. If judo did not do this then they would not be able to get included as an olympic sport that was different to wrestling.

In the same vein South Korean World Taekwondo Federation made it's sport TKD more kicking oriented so as to show it was different to boxing and had another dynamics involved that helped it get ahead of Kickboxing and Shotokan Karate who were also biting at their heels.

So this rule by the IJF is a way to protect their patch. What will change big group thinking is when a large group of people on the ground (pun) walk away and make a point (pun) of the reasons they had to make that stand (another pun).

I don't think anyone has ever mistaken judo for wrestling tbh. Regardless, the recent changes have no impact on how judo looks, or to any aspect of the game.

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