abd is popular for 2 reasons
1) people assume big dojo prevent shoveling
2) very low skill cap
while mods with big dojo such as spiritwrestling are not so popular because spirit wrestling have higher skill cap as it force you to play not for point holding or dms (i personally frown upon this) but instead meta is about to be able to pin down opponnent to the ground and hold him a bit.
so here are mods with big dojos, yet one is popular, another is niche for the skill cap reason.
in general, aikido5 and aikido7 were created as antishovel mods, where you can not grab torso or legs to get an easy win, scrub lifting is also slightly midgating by making shoulders and head ungrabable, so if you can't get locked with plain grab, but only by opponent joints, which is totally fair as it hard to do.
tl;dr
you don't need big dojo to stop shovel/lifts
Last edited by snake; Aug 8, 2014 at 04:22 PM.