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I've been coaching grappling sports for a long time and when Title Nine showed up it was looking like wrestling could be in some real trouble, growing up internationally I was heavily exposed to Judo and remembered how popular it was with female athletes.
Over the decades we did everything we could to get females involved in wrestling but it seemed like an uphill battle... I always wondered how things would have gone if we would have offered Brazilian jiu-jitsu and Judo in the American public school system
Clearly Judo and Brazilian jiu-jitsu are much more popular with female athletes than the sport of wrestling.
Many people suggest that wrestling is more of a "Power Sport" but thats certainly not case, any idea why Judo especially has been so much more popular with female athletes as compaired to wrestling
Over the decades we did everything we could to get females involved in wrestling but it seemed like an uphill battle... I always wondered how things would have gone if we would have offered Brazilian jiu-jitsu and Judo in the American public school system
Clearly Judo and Brazilian jiu-jitsu are much more popular with female athletes than the sport of wrestling.
Many people suggest that wrestling is more of a "Power Sport" but thats certainly not case, any idea why Judo especially has been so much more popular with female athletes as compaired to wrestling