If you could do it all over again...

[Bernard]

If you could do it all over again...

More bag work. Less forms.

I agree. Also more strength training.

[sanjuro_ronin]

They all are... mmmmm - Russian girls...


Bathroom Break - be back in 10, I mean 4 minutes!

yep...

[MightyB]

I'd definitely start with judo. In fact, when my nephews asked me about kung fu, I actually took them to judo instead. Not that I didn't learn any tumbling in kung fu, its just that we do too much of it 'cause we didn't have any mats.

I've dabbled in many other systems. In fact, I would've stay with my first teacher and still have taken the other systems as a supplement. Mainly judo or GJJ.

Judo's got another rule change for the worse... 15second ippons on hold downs - 12second wazari - means ground work is going to go to shiite. No grabbing below the belt at all, even jacket, and the grip shidos they're calling now suck a little arse. Basically they're trying to make it so it's standard grip and go Judo, like the pictures in the books. So Judo's on it's way to dead, no more Ronda Rousey's because there's no need to be good at arm bars or shimewaza if all you have to do is hold a person for 15seconds! Yup, do Sambo if you can, it's a good cross between Judo and BJJ.

[MightyB]

Not take a two year break in the early 2000s. It cost me a lot of great training time. Plus I'd invent Kung Fu Magazine before Gene and take all the phat l00ts.

Gene was a bonafide writer way before KFM. He's got crazy street cred.

[Bernard]

Judo's got another rule change for the worse... 15second ippons on hold downs - 12second wazari - means ground work is going to go to shiite. No grabbing below the belt at all, even jacket, and the grip shidos they're calling now suck a little arse. Basically they're trying to make it so it's standard grip and go Judo, like the pictures in the books. So Judo's on it's way to dead, no more Ronda Rousey's because there's no need to be good at arm bars or shimewaza if all you have to do is hold a person for 15seconds! Yup, do Sambo if you can, it's a good cross between Judo and BJJ.

Always been interested in Sambo. I don't think there's too many instructors when I live. Could be wrong. I did run into a couple bogus guys claiming to teach it.

[MightyB]

Always been interested in Sambo. I don't think there's too many instructors when I live. Could be wrong. I did run into a couple bogus guys claiming to teach it.

well, an old angry bastid Judo instructor will still know and teach all the good stuff. So it's good to do now, but as the new rules take hold, competition dictates the training, so the training will be geared to the rules. It should be relatively easy to find a gritty old Judo Sensei.

[sanjuro_ronin]

well, an old angry bastid Judo instructor will still know and teach all the good stuff. So it's good to do now, but as the new rules take hold, competition dictates the training, so the training will be geared to the rules. It should be relatively easy to find a gritty old Judo Sensei.

We had two judo teachers where I trained ( Japanese cultural centre), one did strictly competitive judo and the other guy was more "combat" oriented with some nasty chokes and subs.

[MightyB]

Always been interested in Sambo. I don't think there's too many instructors when I live. Could be wrong. I did run into a couple bogus guys claiming to teach it.

I think you'll start to see ol' school Judo guys becoming "Sambo" instructors. Judo and Sambo are basically the same, especially pre rule change Judo instructors. Allz we have to do is ad a couple of leg locks and the Judo we learned is the same as Sambo.

[sanjuro_ronin]

[MightyB]

We had two judo teachers where I trained ( Japanese cultural centre), one did strictly competitive judo and the other guy was more "combat" oriented with some nasty chokes and subs.

Nothing's more fun than catching a BJJ guy with Ryote Jime. They never see it coming.

[MightyB]

Sweeeeeeeet.

[YouKnowWho]

I think you'll start to see ol' school Judo guys becoming "Sambo" instructors. Judo and Sambo are basically the same, especially pre rule change Judo instructors. Allz we have to do is ad a couple of leg locks and the Judo we learned is the same as Sambo.

I'll have a new student coming this weekend who is a BJJ and MMA guy with 11 years experience in Judo training. Since he is far from a beginner, I have to arrange his 3 hours private lesson a bit differently. Since he is a MMA guy and also a Judo guy, I'm not sure I should skip the gi-environment and go directly into no-gi environment. May be I just separate the

- winter time ski slop combat skill, and
- summer time sand beach combat skill.

I have just taught a pure wrestler with 15 years wrestling experience. Now I'm teaching a MMA guy with 11 years Judo experience. It's an excellent opportunity for me to help people to integrate different grappling skill all together. It's also nice to see the Chinese wrestling will be integrated into wrestling, Judo, and MMA in the future.

[sanjuro_ronin]

Nothing's more fun than catching a BJJ guy with Ryote Jime. They never see it coming.

even monkeys fall off trees

[MightyB]

even monkeys fall off trees

The time to do it is when you have someone in guard and they're going both arms out looking to pass. It's just not a technique that's seen that often, even in Judo. It works, you just have to have the grips to do it.

[GeneChing]

I should have committed more to mantis. I've always dabbled in it but as a peripheral study, mostly because I couldn't really identify with a bug. But it has stayed with me throughout my practice and I still suck at it.

Plus I'd invent Kung Fu Magazine before Gene and take all the phat l00ts.

I wish I could say I did invent KFM. No, wait, I take that back.

Actually, I wish I had stayed in the Yoga world. There's far more money in there. And the models are very bendy.