If you haven’t yet, DEFINITELY check out Shintaro’s YouTube page, because it is FULL of game changing details across multiple martial arts. Shintaro is a black belt in multiple martial arts, but is mainly known as a Judoka. Across his martial arts...

  Have you ever went to work a technique on someone, but all they did was stall out? It can be infuriating. This can be increasingly frustrating if you are looking to refine specific aspects of your game. Whatever the reason your partner/opponent...

  One of the most iconic techniques in combat sports is the Juji-Gatame. It’s one of those techniques that perfectly exemplifies the concept of using your entire body effectively and efficiently to achieve the submission. The Juji-Gatame can come in multiple varieties as...

  Grippin’ Ain’t Easy Obtaining Optimal grips in ANY grappling sport is one of the KEY factors in success at all levels. If you dominate the grips you dominate the game. That said, it can be pretty difficult to get a good grip...

  Kayla Harrison punched her ticket to the finals of PFL’s big money tournament where she will lock horns with Lariss Pacheco in the finals of their 145 lb tournament. Harrison took on late replacement Bobbi Jo Daziel in the semi-finals over the...

  Everyone knows that Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is the best of the martial arts.  But that doesn’t mean you couldn’t or shouldn’t sample another martial art, as well. And no martial art pairs as well with Jiu Jitsu as Judo.  While Jiu Jitsu...

  If you’re a parent or coach of an upcoming Judo athlete, who better to look to for advice than the one, the only, Travis Stevens. If you’re not familiar with Stevens, know that he was only the third American Judoka to win...

  Coming off of his unprecedented Worlds win, let’s take a moment to look at the life and journey of Sagi Muki. Before we begin, check out some of these stunning throws Muki has executed in competitions. Judo at its finest.   And...

At Judo Fanatics we’re excited to soon be bringing to you an instructional by multiple Pan Am medalist and 2016 Olympic Judoka Colton Brown! In the video below we look at Sasae tsurikomi ashi with Colton alongside Silver medal Oympian and John Dahaner...

Judo is unique from Jiu-Jitsu in two ways, one of which is more important than the other.  Jiu-jitsu, or as it was called in Japan Jujutsu, was a catch-all term in Japanese that meant something like “unarmed technique”. For this reason it was...

We’re really excited at Judo Fanatics to soon be bringing to you a tutorial with the excellent Judoka 6th Dan Shintaro Higashi.  Shintaro has a really rich background and is incredibly well placed to teach us, having a degree in Psychology and an...

We’re really excited at Judo Fanatics to soon be bringing to you a tutorial with the excellent Judoka 6th Dan Shintaro Higashi.  Shintaro has a really rich background and is incredibly well placed to teach us, having a degree in Psychology and an...

We are incredibly fortunate to live in an age where information is so easily, widely, and readily available. We have access not only to many current teachers around the world thanks to platforms like Judo Fanatics and BJJ Fanatics, but also through the...

As the saying goes, Life Happens.The universe is larger than we can possibly imagine, and some physicists are now even saying there may be multiple universes. Life is a mystery, full of challenges and opportunities for growth. Fortunately for us Judo offers, whether...

When we think of Jigoro Kano establishing Kodokan Judo in the 1880’s it would be very tempting to use the phrase “old school”.  Surely we can’t get much more old school than a country that had only just opened its borders to foreign...

It’s worth asking. I mean, with all the martial arts out there, Why practice Judo? In this blog we’ll look at 3 areas of Judo, the history, the character development found within Judo and the pragmatic application of Judo as a martial art....

We would like to start this blog by sending a HUGE congratulations to Sagi Muki on winning the 2019 Judo World Championship!  Sagi displayed great use of strategy and beautiful technique to secure victory with an impressive array of throws.    Sagi Muki...

The martial art of Judo has a rich history, which begins in the late 1800’s during what is known as the Meiji era of Japan. The Meiji era was a time for Japan of a great deal of cultural change, which included a...

As we progress in the grappling arts we must make a mental and practical transition from thinking about the application of single techniques to a strategic chaining together of techniques in order to succeed against increasingly more skillful and tough opponents. This is...

It might sound obvious but it’s easy to overlook the fact that different grips need different breaks applied against them to free us.  Kumi kata, or grip fighting, is a unique phase of combat that has a winner and a loser. We can...