JUDO
GI JUDO
Gi Judo at MODO is a modern judo program that teaches you how to throw, control, and pin with precision, using a structured curriculum that connects stand-up directly to your ground game and the broader hybrid grappling system. It is classic judo at its foundation, organized around traditional principles and a clear progression toward your judo black belt, while reflecting how high-level athletes train and apply the art today.
NO GI JUDO
MODO is the first grappling academy with a dedicated No Gi Judo curriculum. Our No Gi Judo program adapts traditional judo principles to the modern No Gi game, teaching you to off-balance, enter, and finish using wrestling ties instead of Gi grips. At MODO you will learn to integrate jiu jitsu groundwork with wrestling and judo concepts for a wholistic approach to takedowns, transitions, and submissions.
About the Judo Curriculum Creator
MODO’s gi and no gi judo curriculum is created by Max Schneider (onejudoka), who has over 28 years of judo experience, with wins on six continents, a Division I wrestling background, IHSA state wrestling titles, and a Jiu Jitsu Black Belt. He spent four years studying no gi judo under innovator Justin Flores (J.Flo), becoming Flores’s first black belt, and now distills that experience into a structured system that blends judo, jiu jitsu groundwork, and wrestling principles into one unified style of grappling.