If you or your kid were to choose, which one would you take, assuming price was the same?
- Sambo
- BJJ
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Sambo is baslcaly Judo with leglocks no?
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I had my son train bjj under Pedigo
However, Vince Fields taught him some really good sambo leglocks.
I’d train both.
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Sport Sambo doesn’t have chokes or any twisting leglocks.
whatever those Dagi’s are training seem to be the newest “best” base
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BJJ
All day
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What makes Sambo difficult? Moreso than BJJ?
I’ve heard this joke in Jiu-Jitsu gyms, but making fun of Karate.
You actually have to be able to wrestle.
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in theory…
YWMV: Your Wrestling May Vary
Considering my location, BJJ is a given.
My kid is a striker, though.
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The landing
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For street fighting, I’d pick Sambo. Especially Combat Sambo.
For grappling matches, I would pick BJJ.
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Submission wrestling
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Do most bjj schools not integrate wrestling or at least some judo into there curriculum more days? Or does that start to creep away from BJJ? At my school we don’t necessarily call ourselves BJJ, even though my coach is a Marcelo Garcia black belt, but it’s our main discipline with wrestling and judo sprinkled in.
It krept away when it wasn’t part of the base curriculum. It’s cross training. It’s like training Muay Thai from a TKD school where the instructor trained Muay Thai.
More bjj “specialization” means less wrestling.
You learn wrestling and judo in spite of the bjj curriculum, not because of it.
Sambo originated from Judo and changed its rules to differentiate it from judo to make it more russian. You still start standing up and the rules and scoring are still simular. No ippons in BJJ.
i always gravitated toward “submission wrestling” gyms as long as they had good reputations and their students competed often and fairly successfully
those spots are always full of ex-wrestlers and usually some pretty decent ones
i was a shitty ex-wrestler bringing down the curve, but i always liked the mix of styles rather than more strictly bjj schools, despite the instruction likely being more “pure” at those schools
BJJ as long a it’s not a self defense oriented school and also trains wrestling.