Judo is a striking skill

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Originally Posted by Anders

I suspect we are not dealing with "how does judo work" but "what do the rules say". I don't think this was ever Kromm's intent.

As I recall, way back when the GURPS rules explicitly said that Karate was any kind of martial arts trained striking, and Judo was any kind of martial arts defense.

Part of this is the era. Back in the 1980s the general public in the US might have heard of judo and karate, but any other martial art was something only people very interested in the subject would have even heard of.