Oh yes, let me just go and do full standing ippon seio nage on my opponents in my heavweight bracket, im sure that will work out swimmingly! Irony aside, volume cubes as size increases, so 60kg judo is not just 100kg judo with 40% less mass. This is the same reason that dropping a rat down a mine shaft will likely result in the rat just running away, dropping a human will result in death, and dropping an elephant will result in an explosion.

@@jamiewalking The point is almost all techniques work better with relatively more mass.

@@edwhlam relatively yes what im saying is that it is much easier for a 50kg athlete to throw a 50kg athlete with ippon seio than it is for a 100kg athlete... on another 100kg athlete. So it absolutely makes sense for a heavyweight to pick and choose their techniques.

Some techniques are little awkward for big guys to do on smaller people. A judoka in a tournament tried to hit a drop seoi on me and couldn't quite get me over because I was able to get my COG low and fast. Against the tallest guy in our tournament he just flipped him like a pancake. That being said I have been caught by random tall man drop seois before, so nothing is absolute.

(No disrespect, of course. I know Judo is closer to Greco-Roman in intention)

Well the title says "Judo for big guys", it was never coming in a first place.

@@doublejacketjimmy391 Yes, you've arrived at the same self-deprecating point I was making in the first place.

im not kidding, judo is the only physics based martial art, not even jiu jitsu is. its anatomica and applies physics, but judo is about physics.

also much love and respect, great work to both of you guys

@@ZeusEBoy So you realize it's exactly because of physics that weight matters, right? There is only a finite amount of leverage anyone can apply on someone else's body. That's the limit of human anatomy. You could Ippon seoi nage with almost no energy if your opponent's arm was infinitely long...but obviously it's not (you'd also probably break their arm instead of throw them if you had that much leverage). That's why weight classes exist in every combat sport. More mass requires more force to move it. You're wrong that only judo is "physics based" - all grappling martial arts look to capitalize on human anatomy to apply leverage - use less force to still move the same amount of mass. But because of what I said above, there's a limit to how much leverage can be generated because the human body is a finite size and we can only output a finite amount of energy. It would violate Newton's Laws if weight didn't matter at all.

I have to tell myself to go 10% physical and 100% mental.

I want to imagine a 5'4 210lb guy hitting the world's easiest Seio Nage on Victor Wembanyama. I think height difference is the more interesting thing, especially since when Kano developed Judo what was considered "big" was like, 5'11 215. Now you have monsters like Teddy.

If you are stronger and thus have to use less strength to accomplish the same task as a weaker athlete, wouldn't that make you more efficient?

@@milanojudo Sure. You can be strong and efficient. That's why a good judoka can play several matches in a row without getting exhausted. Of course, if the opponents' strength and skill is greater, the advantage is less.

@@handeggchan1057 I used to train with a 5'11, 350 pound man. I'm 5'7" and was 150 at the time. He would throw with a drop seoi!

@@chrisdonovan8795 5'11 350 is insane lmao

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