askchapo

Thanks. I know a little bit of the background for why Judo split from Jujitsu, but I'll try to learn more. I greatly admire Judo and would have loved to have done it when I was much younger (Muay Thai too), but there are a few issues that have prevented me from trying it: I'm old (and already started BJJ when I was older), very tall, and I stopped BJJ because my fingers/knuckles were suffering with the constant stress on them from gi sparring. I felt that Judo would be the same or worse. I would dearly love to learn all those foot sweep techniques from Judo.

For now, Ive settled on the next best thing for me personally, which is a Japanese Jujitsu style that has many same or similar techniques to Judo and BJJ but no live sparring that I'm aware of. I also just started last night a style of Karate at the same school that also doesn't appear to have live sparring. Yes, I know that not having live sparring limits their utility, but I decided that it was a good balance for me of teaching me some useful techniques while having less risk of getting injured. I've thought about this quite a bit and decided that at some point the self-preservation intent of martial arts could be applied to select martial arts that wouldn't be so punishing on my body. The other nice thing about this school is that it's a community-based non-profit school, so I pay significantly less to learn both JJJ and Karate than I used to pay for just BJJ.