I'm not exactly sure what you mean. Was it Judo or Boxing that you think is harder on your body? In my experience, during training, the stand up game, punching and kicking, was the safest. I rarely got hurt doing stand up. But that's only because it's training and you pull your punches and kicks. Grappling/rolling was the second safest because with a submission you can take as little or as much punishment as you want. But Swede is right, at least in my case, that it's during the transitions where you run a greater risk for injury. Things get twisted, tweaked and popped. But for me the most dangerous was the take downs. When you are being thrown. It's hard to throw someone to the ground softly or shoot gently during the dynamics of the session. Judo to me was the worse because a lot of those throws really sends you up in the air. With wrestling you're always staying pretty low and getting toss over your opponent's hip isn't as common as with Judo. Of course, some people fall better than others.
I elaborated a little more in subsequent posts. Learning how to fall is a huge part of Judo. You are right Judo is very explosive, sport judo has that emphasis anyway, Wrestling gets very control orientated and the centre is lower. I don't think any of it is too debilitating on your body in a recreational enviroment in terms of injury, provided everybody knows what they are doing. Although striking does have more potentiality, the ammount of sparring that i have seen get very serious standing is very high compared to grappling. A lot of the old school gyms are renowned for the sparring being more intense than the fights lol.
Any which way if you fight more frequently you train less frequently. Long protracted training camps are a modern phenomenon. Swede saying that the guys should fight about twice a year because of the vigors of training is pretty god damn stupid, but hey it's Swede afterall.
Btw Pellius i was reading your posts in the protein thread i think, you are a really good poster, you have my respect old man.
