I came up with the idea for this mod a while ago, and now here it is. It plays by the same rules as normal Judo, but at the start of the match each player's elbows are bent forward at a 90 degree angle so that their forearms and hands face their opponent, and the engage distance has been changed so that there is no space between the opponents' hands. In this way, if you grab on the first turn you are guaranteed to grab onto you opponent's hand. This is meant to emphasize the grappling and throwing aspects of Judo, while de-emphasizing the striking aspect. You can still dismember your opponent like in normal Judo, but it's probably a lot harder to do on the first turn.

Lol, you took this from my headless wrestling mod, didn't you?

Not necessarily. There are lots of mods with elbows like that ;)

Actually, I got the idea for how to make it work from the Matrix Training mod.

This is seriously what my friend and I were trying to simulate in "Small Ring Fight" (srf.tbm) but we ran into a glitch down the road with grabs and how only 1 grab will register.. If I could make a suggestion to anyone playing this mod it would be to buy a grip colour.