alot of judo clubs sucks at teaching, even if the teachers are good at judo and randori. Teaching is alot harder than doing and people default to what theyre taught, which is conditioning and uchikomis.
Ironically however, all the skills they learnt comes from little habits and principles that they learn in randori that they dont really consciously know but remember to do when they spar.
to find good techniques you often have to study the pros and what they do in competition.
Judo needs to funnily enough embrace the aspect of bjj which is a more variational and study based approach to teaching. Instead of showing traditional uchimata, show specific high percentage variations of uchimata and drill that
I agree with the “good at judo but suck at teaching” idea, but idk if the BJJ method would work. I’d be interested to hear from people who came out of good programs/schools as far as what worked well.
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u/Azylim Jun 07 '25
alot of judo clubs sucks at teaching, even if the teachers are good at judo and randori. Teaching is alot harder than doing and people default to what theyre taught, which is conditioning and uchikomis.
Ironically however, all the skills they learnt comes from little habits and principles that they learn in randori that they dont really consciously know but remember to do when they spar.
to find good techniques you often have to study the pros and what they do in competition.
Judo needs to funnily enough embrace the aspect of bjj which is a more variational and study based approach to teaching. Instead of showing traditional uchimata, show specific high percentage variations of uchimata and drill that