History Lesson

Ok. Here’s the answer to the question “What’s the difference between Judo and BJJ”. Honestly…… the competition rules. In essence the are the same. If you took a Judo Player and gave them the BJJ rules and said “go for it” in 30 years it would look identical to BJJ. If you gave BJJ Players the Judo rules, the same thing would happen. The sport versions of both are equally perverted (and of course equally cool/useful). Historically, they are developments of the same thing. It goes like this: