Olympics!

**jkcobra** · Posted On: 7/29/2012 8:31pm

Originally Posted by The Question

****, then why the **** are you not still hittin that, son?

She must be training for the BJ events in 2016, they're being added with BJJ, BBJ, and Rugby.

**hpr** · Posted On: 7/30/2012 2:53am

Originally Posted by Ming Loyalist

hpr, what would you have had the ref do? it's up to her if she wants to keep fighting with an injured arm, and it was injured by legit techniques, so there was no reason to penalize her opponent.

I never thought about penalizing the opponent, as you said the techniques that caused the injuries were completely valid.

IIRC in IBJJF rulesets the referee can stop the fight when injuries happen, enforcing contestant safety even when they are willing to risk serious injury. I was kinda surprised that there's no such thing in Olympic Judo.

However I completely understand why the Romanian wanted to continue, it was the goddamn Olympics final after all.

**Craigypooh** · Posted On: 7/31/2012 4:04am

Just watched Gemma Howell get DQ'd. So why are leg grabs banned now?

**PointyShinyBurn** · Posted On: 7/31/2012 4:24am

Originally Posted by Craigypooh

Just watched Gemma Howell get DQ'd. So why are leg grabs banned now?

Hilariously, because the IJF imagines it makes Judo better to watch.

More seriously, to differentiate Judo from wrestling and because shooting bad leg attacks was functional as a stalling tactic or to get out of unfavourable gripping situations given the lack of penalty for being on your belly. Doing bad forward throw attempts is still fine.

Does any other Olympic sport feel the need to DQ so many of its competitors?

**judoka_uk** · Posted On: 7/31/2012 6:23am

Originally Posted by Craigypooh

Just watched Gemma Howell get DQ'd. So why are leg grabs banned now?

Her own fault. She knows the rules and the Frog clearly did not have a Russian over the back grip.

No sympathy for professional athletes competing at the highest level to not know the rules, especially as they've had over 2 years to get used to them.