>>242786
>That guy wasn't old
He was older than his wrestling years and out of shape relative to the physicality required for the suplex.
>Judo throws require you to do some crazy shit on par with suplexes
No, they don't. Normal judo techniques require less athleticism than wrestling techniques by design. Once you get into niche high level competition stuff there are throws that require high athleticism but those are far outside of the basic curriculum, whereas a "crazy suplex" is a normal technique that you train every single day of freestyle/Greco wrestling practice.
>The easiest techniques are body lock dumps or knee picks, which obviously judo forbids
Why do you think judo bans body lock dumps? I disagree that these are the easiest techniques. Taking koshi-guruma to the ground (headlock takedown in wrestling) is probably the easiest one to sloppily muscle into. The US Marine Corps Martial Arts Program (MCMAP) which uses judo, jujitsu, and wrestling teaches osoto-gari (they call it a "leg sweep") as the very first takedown in their 27.5 hour crash course on combatives.
>wrestling = easy
Nobody who has actually wrestled thinks this. In high school most of the new kids who would join our team would drop out after the first two weeks because wrestling is hard in ways that most people struggle with. In contrast, my university judo classes and club barely had any dropouts. You're completely talking out of your ass parroting your interpretation of Reddit comments.
>Judo = complicated and difficult, less effective in fighting
Judo has been part of every published US military combatives system (outside of early specialized bayonet and cavalry fencing manuals) which are crash courses in being effective in hand-to-hand combat. If your instructor isn't terrible and you're at least as smart and able-bodied as an ASVAB-waivered recruit judo really shouldn't be that difficult to learn.
>I would like to learn judo
You should, it's good fun and a solid way to cross train.