Grippin’ Ain’t Easy Obtaining Optimal grips in ANY grappling sport is one of the KEY factors in success at all levels. If you dominate the grips you dominate the game. That said, it can be pretty difficult to get a good grip...

  Everyone knows that Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is the best of the martial arts.  But that doesn’t mean you couldn’t or shouldn’t sample another martial art, as well. And no martial art pairs as well with Jiu Jitsu as Judo.  While Jiu Jitsu...

  If you’re a parent or coach of an upcoming Judo athlete, who better to look to for advice than the one, the only, Travis Stevens. If you’re not familiar with Stevens, know that he was only the third American Judoka to win...

At Judo Fanatics we’re excited to soon be bringing to you an instructional by multiple Pan Am medalist and 2016 Olympic Judoka Colton Brown! In the video below we look at Sasae tsurikomi ashi with Colton alongside Silver medal Oympian and John Dahaner...

We’re really excited at Judo Fanatics to soon be bringing to you a tutorial with the excellent Judoka 6th Dan Shintaro Higashi.  Shintaro has a really rich background and is incredibly well placed to teach us, having a degree in Psychology and an...

As the saying goes, Life Happens.The universe is larger than we can possibly imagine, and some physicists are now even saying there may be multiple universes. Life is a mystery, full of challenges and opportunities for growth. Fortunately for us Judo offers, whether...

When we think of Jigoro Kano establishing Kodokan Judo in the 1880’s it would be very tempting to use the phrase “old school”.  Surely we can’t get much more old school than a country that had only just opened its borders to foreign...