Should Kodokan Judo be removed from the Olympics?

Judo is being treated as a sport and that is the ruination of any martial art. Should Judo be removed from the Olympics to save Judo?|||Good question! Personally I think Judo should STAY in the Olympics!





The problem is people think they know everything about fighting because they saw a Chuck Norris film! And since Chuck Norris doesn%26#039;t fight in the Olympics then somehow Judo is useless and just a sport! So there attitude is that Judo somehow can%26#039;t be used in a REAL fight! This ATTITUDE is hurting Judo!





The reality is that Judo is a awesome fighting martial art. Ask Royce Gracie after he was choked out by Yoshida( judo fighter) if Judo is ONLY a sport!|||Royce Gracie%26#039;s match with Yoshida was controversial, since Gracie jumped up immediately after the fight was stopped to complain that he wasn%26#039;t choked out. Report Abuse
|||As a Kosen Judoka my feeling on this question is such. I think Judo should STAY in the Olympics however The rules need to be modified and be closer to Internationl Judo or Kosen Judo Competitions.





1)Leg Locks should be reinstated into Olympic Judo Competitions.





2)Ippon Throws should be Much harder to get. You shouldn%26#039;t see alot of Matches at that level of Competition being decided on a Single Throw.





3)Increase the time of Control needed to cause a Pin.





If thoses three things were changed Judo would be alot better thought of.








BTW Judo has been in the Olympics since the 60%26#039;s and thats after the two big changes to judo were done(one in the early 1910%26#039;s which caused the Founding of Kosen Judo which in essance is what judo was in the begainning aswell as the forcement of top judoka%26#039;s to leave which interned allowed the arts of BJJ and Sambo to be created)and the major changes after WW2|||I don%26#039;t agree that Judo is being ruined. Judo has been in the olympics for a long time. If you don%26#039;t want it to have any sport application then you better go back and tell Kano to stop using a Gi.|||I think all martial sports should be removed, as a matter of fact I think the olympics is an abonmination-





I%26#039;ve heard they are removing greco-roman wrestling, without that- there is no olympics.





the only way to redeem themselves is to have all the contestants of every sport fight it out to the death, the fans may throw in non-firearm weapons from the stands for the competitors to pick up.