Kosen Competition Clips - Moved from MABS

**rsobrien** · Posted On: 9/12/2006 11:18am

Has anyone actually seen a Kosen judo competition or pictures of one? I understand Kosen is a rule set adopted by certain Highschools or Universities in Japan. So do they still compete this way?

I was curious to see what it would actually look like. Also, does anyone know the exact rule set (time limits, limits on lower body submissions, etc.)?

I have already seen th demonsration videos but I wanted to just see what an actual match looks like.

**ojgsxr6** · Posted On: 9/12/2006 11:26am

Check out the Wiki Article on Kosen Judo, it has links to the colleges that still comepete using Kosen rules.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosen_judo

**ojgsxr6** · Posted On: 9/12/2006 12:38pm

These links seem to be pretty informative also:

Ne Waza Judo
http://www.gws.ne.jp/home/demo2/indexe.html

Judoinfo.com Thread about Kosen Judo
http://judoinfo.com/discuss/lofivers...php/t3318.html

**ojgsxr6** · Posted On: 9/13/2006 9:52am

Did you find anything? I couldn't devle too deeply into those links because I was at work.

**GoldenJonas** · Posted On: 9/13/2006 10:09am

There is also some usefull info on this thread.

http://www.bullshido.net/forums/showthread.php?t=36519

**Odacon** · Posted On: 9/13/2006 1:36pm

Are there actually Kose Judo competions with different rules? Or do Kosen guys just compete at ippon and try to bring it to the ground?

**rsobrien** · Posted On: 9/13/2006 5:53pm

There were alot of newaza techniues i saw which were cool. The links to the Universities were all in japanese. Me no rikey, me no reedy japanesy. Perhaps someone could translate them.

The forum link talked mosty about the newaza page. It was still interesting but they were vague about the rules. There was no time limits, the match only ended when "you or opponent gave up by submission or choke sleepering,or holding for 30 seconds."

I still am curious as to what these matches looked or still look like. Does it look like a BJJ tourney or was it somehow different (can't imagine how though)? I am really curious to know if those universities still practice under this rule set and if so, do they acknowledge developments within the submission grappling community with BJJ (aparrently they din;t acknowledge developments with the Kodokan).

**ChanceDuBois** · Posted On: 8/31/2007 6:33pm

The difference is the ippon throw. That is all.

**WorldWarCheese** · Posted On: 8/31/2007 8:21pm

Wait, if the difference is just in the Ippon Throw then they still have the 8-15 second standup rule? I have a hard time picturing that unless it's one of those rules that the ref's sort of disregard for consistant action.