Judo and BJJ: Similar Jacket, different rules and mentality.

Judo training will vastly improve your Jiu-Jitsu and vice versa. However, both sports have their own set of rules and have different goals and mindset. For example, in Judo the match is won by ippon when the opponent is thrown flat on their back or when pinned on the ground for 20 seconds. For those reasons, BJJ players need to know how to “modify” and adapt Judo accordingly for BJJ.

Now which is older? Judo or Jiu-Jitsu?

Former ADCC and IBJJF World Champion Robert Drysdale is a History major and he is in the finishing phase of releasing his long-anticipated documentary on the history of Btrzilian Jiu-Jitsu: Closed Guard: The Movie, which will likely premiere in August 2020.
The purpose behind the movie, as said in the movie crew’s own words, is to provide you with a lens into the real, ubiased history of BJJ as accurately as possible. Approaching the task without any bias, the Closed Guard crew has a goal of pointing out the false information that has been circling around in the Jiu Jitsu community about BJJ history for a while – and to tell the true side of it, through the stories of many fascinating characters and events which have shaped Jiu Jitsu into the magnificent sport that it is today.

In short: you will soon have a fantastic opportunity to watch a great documentary! One which will tell you the complete story of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu’s roots, from just about every angle that you can think of. So, don’t miss it and be sure to watch it – and you’ll know more not only about your own, but also about your beloved sport’s first steps.

In this interesting video, Drysdale goes deep into the history of Judo, Ju Jitsu and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and how they are all connected: