I covered how important it is/was to know how to grapple and how to control someone if you’re taken to the ground.
Here’s an article about five great reasons why Judo is for kids. For those of you who’ve read my stuff in the excellent (now defunct) European martial arts magazine “Fighting Arts International,” you might remember my advocating Judo before anyone in Europe or the States had heard of the Gracies and/or Brazilian Ju-Jutsu. I covered how important it is/was to know how to grapple and how to control someone if you’re taken to the ground.