I am a big fan of Judo when it comes to MMA. The trips and throws are great to get the opponent to the ground if they are a dominate striker. The problem is I don’t know much Judo because there isn’t any Judo classes at my MMA school. However, there is black belt judo instructor who I will work with once in a while that teaches BJJ.
I found this video by Karo Parisyan who has wonderful Judo technique. Now the video below doesn’t cover any throws, it just teaches you a practical way to get out of a clinch. A wrestler or dominate ground guy will try to get you in a typical MMA type clinch to try to throw or trip you, so if you want to escape you can actually use this move to escape, create distance, or set a throw for yourself. What I noticed after being able to escape your opponents dominate clinch, you can get a collar tie and start working from there. I’ll try to post a video on Randy Couture’s clinch fighting techniques in the future.
September 1st, 2009 at 10:00 pm
I roll with some beastly big dudes and the “elbow” tip at the end will hopefully come in handy.
September 6th, 2009 at 5:10 am
Karo is a great Judo player, he has such good balance and that arm escape technique works really well. Thanks for this video.
September 11th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Glad to see you enjoyed the video and that the technique actually works well.
March 8th, 2010 at 8:15 am
Karo Parisyan is a great fighter with excellent judo – i hope we will see his next fights in Strikeforce / Dream – the UFC ban is still on