American Travis Stevens wins Silver Medal at Judo World Cup
by Zak Woods on Jun 16, 2010 12:44 PM EDT
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Olympian Travis Stevens (Wakefield, Mass.) won a silver medal in the 81kg division at the Lisbon Judo World Cup in Portugal. Stevens won each of his first four matches by ippon (instant win) to qualify for the finals. In the semifinals, Stevens earned a waza-ari off his first standing seoi nage and ippon off the next against Switzerland's Micha Egger. In the finals Stevens lost to Brazil's Flavio Canto who threw him for a waza-ari and pinned him to end the match.
The video is slightly, just slightly, more exciting:
After watching the video we're slightly more interested in Flavio Canto. Also, why in the hell wasn't anyone in MMA sphere talking about this?
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Good for you for getting the conversation started – I find it very interesting.
I don’t know the rules…that match seemed more like jiu jitsu than Judo I know there is some overlap. (?).
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Judo is a lot of fun to practice.
I am a current Judo student and former BJJ student but by no means an expert in either. I’m more familiar with the rules of competitive Judo than BJJ, but from what I understand they are pretty different. I don’t think that I lot of people realize that Judo does include basically the same ground positions and submissions as BJJ. Judo doesn’t allow leg locks, spinal locks or neck cranks for safety reasons.
The man that taught the Gracies was actually a Judo practictioner, so what they learned originally was Judo, they just modified it to focus more on the ground fighting aspect than the standing phase. I don’t believe that throws count for points in BJJ matches, but in Judo you can win by throw, pin, or submission. One big difference is that when on the ground in a Judo match, the judges won’t let you stay down grappling for long if you’re not able to pass guard or get a submission relatively quickly, as you can see in the video. They will stand you up and make you try to throw each other again.
thanks – that explains it a bit – I couldn’t figure out why the judge stood them up when it didn’t seem like they had scored any points or achieved anything on the ground.
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My pleasure. I don’t get to talk Judo much outside of my classes, so this is pretty cool. To help you understand the match in this video a bit better, the scoring in Judo goes ippon (one point), waza ari (half point), then yuko, then koka is the lowest. If you score a perfect throw, you get an Ippon and the match is over, no grappling needed. In this fight, at the end, I think Canto scored a waza ari with his throw, but then got a pin. His opponent realized he couldn’t escape the pin, so in sportsmanlike fashion went ahead and tapped out.
I’d like to see more MMA fighters that like to grapple use Judo takedowns. I think they are not utilized enough. Although many throws wouldn’t work because of there being no gi in MMA, a lot of them would work and I see fighters using them occasionally. I think Judo techniques could be really relevant in MMA if more fighters knew about them.
very nice fight and great combination used at the end…
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