The Shintaro Higashi Show - Doing Judo While Busy

Episode Date: December 26, 2022

Let's face it, the vast majority of us cannot even practice Judo a few hours a week, let alone full-time. You may have a busy day job; you may have family obligations. Whatever the reason, we try to find a way to do Judo while busy. In this episode, Shintaro and Peter talk about ways you can stay engaged with Judo without going to the dojo all the time. Please support us on Patreon if you can: https://www.patreon.com/shintaro_higashi_show. Any amount helps!

Hello everyone. Welcome back to the Shinto Higashi Show with Peter Yu. Today we're going to do an episode dedicated to our dear friend, Drew. Drew. You know Drew. Drew. Of course. Yeah.

He's been around the dojo 15 years, 20 years, maybe even. He's just a great addition to the room always. You know, he's always a net positive. Yeah. And, uh, you know, you hear me talk about this all the time. If you have 50 people in the room, they're all not one. Not plus one. Some people are like 1.3, some people are like 0.8. Uh, you know, they're all not one. Not plus one. Some people are like 1.3.

Some people are like 0.8. People who hurt other people, they're a net negative in the room. What's Drew? Drew's like eight. Oh, wow. He comes in. He has a great attitude. He works out with everyone. He's safe. Right? Yeah. He's a great guy. And these little factors kind of

contribute to being a huge net positive. Right. I mean, there's guys who are black belts. When a white belt asks them to work out, they're like, eh, they make a face or whatever it is. They don't feel like warm and welcoming to some of the beginners. Drew's not like that. You know, he's a great dude. He comes in. What was my score?

You were definitely a negative for a very long time because you would hurt everyone. That's the thing. The guy's in the room and he's hurting people, right? He's definitely a negative. But then you got better. Yeah, that's right. You're huge, too. You're like a net plus nine, dude.

Maybe eight, seven. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kind of half joking about this stuff. So what was Drew's concern? So he asked us to talk about some of his concerns, right? Yes. So he moved a little bit further away, right?

Probably like an hour away from the dojo. He got married. He has two kids. So he has a hard time getting to the gym the way he used to. He used to live right down the block. He used to come all the time religiously. He never missed a class. Yeah.

Right? So he was concerned about keeping his judo training up with the limitations of life. Everyone has this. You get older. Your life the limitations of life. You know, everyone has this. You know, you get older, your life changes a little bit, you get relocated. Right. So, you know, I kind of wanted to give him some tips and advice to kind of, you know. And it's quite relevant to me, too. You know, it's.

Relevant to you, relevant to everybody, you know. Yeah. Yeah. So those, you know, the days of, you know, training every day are kind of behind me. Yeah. But I still like to, you know. Yeah. Keep it up, you know the the days of you know training every day are kind of behind me but i still like to you know yeah pick it up you know so yeah let's go right into it so what do you suggest like so we're talking about the fact that you just can't make it to the dojo yes yes right so a lot of the times you know you go to the dojo for different things some people go to make friends some people go to train and get better in terms of health, right? So in order to maximize your time at the dojo,

like your reason for being there has to be different. You know what I mean? So like you have to maximize the time that you're there. Let's just say if you're there once every two weeks, right? You have to kind of focus on doing technique and things like this, right? Working out, doing mandori, things you can't do at home. Yeah. Yeah. This can no longer be about you working out. Right. Which means you have to do your working out at home.

So you have to stay in relatively good shape to do more rounds at the gym. Okay. So lifting and running has to be an integral part of your training outside the gym. So that you, when you go to the dojo, you can do multiple rounds of Randori. Yes. Yes. Yes. And usually I'll suggest things like, you know, people disagree with me when I say like, oh, like doing a compound lift heavy, like bodybuilding, like heavy training regimen for the outside of judo. Right.

How can that ever be good for you? Yeah. You know, you gain mass and then you have muscle tissue and then you can coordinate and teach those muscles to make specific movements so there is carryover from like doing heavy squats

heavy deadlifts heavy benches stuff like this right right you know although there's not exactly a connection you know people talk about

oh it's better to do sports specific movements yeah like functional training whatever right yes like for instance like gi pull-ups

people talk about this all the time oh you should definitely do gi pull-ups you can do about this all the time. Oh, you should definitely do gi pull-ups to do this much more. But if you're doing judo six days a week, do you really want to tax your hands more?

Right, right. You know what I mean? It's kind of an unnecessary stressor on your joints if you're already doing those stimulus. Yeah. You know what I mean?

Wouldn't you want to load your back maximally? That's my opinion. Right. To balance it out a little yes so if you're doing tons of judo i say do the best working out system that's going to supplement your judo right like if you're not getting certain types of stimulus right right and then if you have certain deficits like oh my god like i get so tired so soon you know where my hands get really tired so you were focused on your hands you know what i mean but in drew's case yeah it should be about keeping endurance high right

sports specific training high intensity training that way right and you want to kind of have that balance when you're i see programming your training it can't be as simple as like, oh, push-pull legs or upper-lower, upper-lower split or judo-specific training every single day. It can't be like this, right? So you have to really look at your own deficits and advantages, like things that you're very good at, things you're not very good at, and you got to fill in the gap to maximize your training.

Everything has to be done in a way where it maximizes your training every two weeks. Can you give us some specific examples? Like, say, well, you can take me as an example, I guess. Yeah, my endurance is not as good and then I can only make it to the gym maybe once or twice

a week now. Let's just say, for instance, if you do an upper-lower split. Upper body, lower body, upper body, lower body. And let's say you're in the gym three or four times a week now okay so let's just say for instance like if you do an upper lower split okay upper body lower body upper body lower body and let's say you're in the gym three or four times a week yeah let's just even say twice a week okay yeah yeah you go to judo once a week yeah so you want to probably schedule your lower body workout early in the week right and when you do these lower body things you want to do sort of higher repetition things. And you also want to do heavy sprints at the end of your training. And the heavy sprints can tax your system and all this stuff.

And then it becomes like sort of this like high intensity interval training, which kind of mimics the judo side. Right? Doing box jumps, things like this, plyometric workouts to keep that explosive ability up. You know what I mean? So that's a nice thing that you can do. And you can progressively overload yourself like this way right well this is the thing that's specific to you because most of the time i wouldn't give that same advice to myself because like hey man you're so heavy if you're doing hard sprints

all the time you're gonna be taxing your knees your knees suck right oh well in this case for me i'll be like all right you want to get your weight down so i would do a little bit more lighter cardio lower intensity interval things like this yeah so it's very sport specific and you know you could probably use a couple sets of heavy deadlifts actually too deadlifts okay heavy deadlifts heavy squats or something that would vary it you know what i mean it doesn't have to be like the perfect uh progressive overload training program for you know bodybuilders or powerlifters or anything like this. It can be designed specifically to you.

But I would definitely have a sprinting day. Not a day, but like a sprinting portion. A heavy lifting portion where you're really taxing the legs. And then if you have any deficits, like hamstrings or something, then it's like Nordic curls or hamstring curls or whatever it is, doing

negatives, things like that. You know what I mean? I see. Upper body, like what does curls or hamstring curls or whatever it is, doing negatives, things like that. You know what I mean? I see. Upper body, like what does your shoulder mobility look like? You know? Yeah, that's okay.

It's okay. So when you're doing upper body training, right? It's like, do you want to gain muscle? Do you want to not gain muscle? Do you want to stay at the same weight class?

Those things kind of matter also. Right. To design your program. But you can do, you know, stay at the same weight class. Those things kind of matter also to design your program. But you can do, you know, gi pull-ups or whatnot. Because I don't do as much of the gi training, right? Yes, yes, yes. And then if you want to keep the hand strength up, you need that

stimulus, right? Right. But this is the thing. Who's compliant and who's going to bring a gi to the gym? Yeah. Most people won't, right? So it's like, yeah, in theory, it's great. You know, oh, you do judo two times it's like yeah in theory it's great you know oh you do judo two times a week and then on the third time you know you're gonna do gi exercises and gi pulleys and all this stuff yeah but if you're not gonna bring a gi to the gym it's not gonna matter right so it's like most people won't consistently bring that you know just just do the right to the

regular pull-ups i guess yeah yeah so that's my sort of what I would do in terms of like, you know, Drew, if you need help programming something, I could definitely help. You know, sometimes it's kind of just good to do a lifting power building, lifting program because you could just get into that world, gain muscle. But the issue is when you're getting 20 pounds of muscle for this program, some people will gain 20 pounds, even Natty, if you're not used to doing these kinds of programs. When you get to the judo, you're going to be gassed. Because you have so much more muscle. Yes, exactly. So I would definitely go the route of like,

hard cardio, explosive workout, plyometric, those kinds of trainings. If you're going to... If you really want to maximize your judo time every two weeks that you come in, that's what I would focus on. I see. Yeah. You know, I never thought of it that way because, yeah, I should really try to get my fitness up so that I can go every round, I guess.

Yeah, if you're doing like, how many days a week do you go to the gym? Can you go to the gym? Well, nowadays I just do push-ups and pull-ups at home i try i started back up i try to do it every day although okay so that should like actually like that's fine for like in terms of like strength upper body strength you know like that's you titrate it in all throughout the week that way every time in the gym you focus on like sprints and plyometric workouts and like things like this right and then like the curls and the tricep extension that's for your mind yeah it's from my mind like i love bicep curls like i know it's

very functionally useless from a standpoint but it's just good for the mind you know it'll get me in the gym because i look forward to it oh you like it you like the pump i love it i love it yeah so that's what i would suggest. I see. Yeah. All right. So, you know, maximize, try to, the goal is to maximize your time when you're at the dojo. So get your fitness up. Yep. Get your fitness up.

Yeah. Yeah. All right. What else? What else can we do? Well, so outside of that, right, the most important part is like visual training, technique study, and then keeping your motivation up. And so it's sort of a two-part thing that I have.

Like when you're outside the gym, you watch high leg reels for the motivation, right? It juices you up. And then you stay in contact with your rivals at the gym. So you're kind of informed, right? And, you know, he does this. He texts he in. He texts these guys hey man i'm coming wednesday you know hey clapper i'm coming in right uh uh so he does this he stays in

contact with the people he stays in contact with the community right and then he watches i don't know he's not an instagram guy right right right you can watch reels you can watch like highlight videos this and that and that'll keep you. You also do have to watch some technique videos. I suggest mine. Ha, ha. You just dropped a good one? I'm not saying I didn't get one. Yeah, you don't have to buy anything.

There's a million free ones on YouTube, right? So having a little bit of a technique study. And once you have sort of like that motivation of what it's supposed to look like and you have an idea of the concepts behind it okay then you want to sort of do visual training yeah and you know if you're not a high level competitor like a lot of these guys who train in the gym 90 of people don't compete right even 95 of the people who all have grappled don't compete yeah yeah right so like visualizing yourself like you know on the podium whatever that's kind of nice too but then you, you want to visualize yourself competing against some of these guys in the gym.

Right. And you want to build their profile and have that in your mind. You want to visualize training against them. Also, you can also like pick champions now currently and visualize yourself and strategize. How would I fight these guys? Right. Champions as in like, like. Oh, no.

Oh, shit. Yeah. So like when you outgrip him right versus right he's going to let you get it and then he's going to punch that armpit in

and he does three things from there. He does three things from there. Osoto Uchimata Backstep Uchimata or Tomonage. He does those three things.

Yeah. So as soon as you get it okay, here we go he's going to go for one of those things. Should I try to counter it or try to preemptively go for something?

Sure. The level difference is so great though. Can I realistically block his three strategies? I don't know. I mean, in real life, maybe not,

but you're strategizing. Oh, okay. All this in your head. Yeah, this is the attack system that he does, right? What if there's a guy, half his body weight, half his size, half his abilities, you'd probably be able to beat him. Okay, I see what you mean, yeah. Yeah.

So, like, you de-indominy, punches that arm bit, he fakes 219 and does a huge spinning backstab, and you fucking stuff it. That's it. And then now, visualizing what it looks like when he goes down on his knees, right, from that Febuchi Mata, and then forcing Niwaza from there. Yeah. What would be the best

thing? He's going to release this lapel hand and then try to go belly down, but you're already threatening your right hand through, right, for that Jujirou. Yeah. And what is the reaction, common reaction for the Jujirou? Like, what are the main lines of down, but you're already threatening your right hand through, right? For that juji roll. Yeah. All right. And what is the reaction, common reaction for the juji roll? Like what are the main lines of defense from there?

You know what I mean? I see. Where do I miss, right? Most people kind of lose shin pressure on the back of the head. Therefore, they can't create, right? The pivot point. Yeah. Yeah.

To rotate them. Right? So you can visualize this. And it's like, am i physically capable of doing this cleanly without any forced mistakes right so now oh i cannot do it i have to train this a little bit right i have to drill this a little bit right now you know some people kind of do it naturally already because they're just athletic they see it they could think it they could do it most people are a lot of people aren't like this, right? Therefore, I need to be able to drill this.

Maybe that's something I'll drill at the dojo when I get there on Wednesday. I think that's the biggest part. Like, you think about these things, maybe you saw, you noticed that you weren't really, certain things were working for you during Randori, and then you think about it, watch some highlights for inspiration, watch some technique videos for inspiration. You have a fix, you come up with a fix and then you're like okay i can't wait to try this next week yep yeah and you know a lot of this type of visual training right people in like bodybuilding talk about mind muscle connection all the time yeah what's that if you're like doing bicep curls

you're like thinking about your bicep and you're thinking about creating this bicep curl and contracting at the top. We pull your pinkies in and all this stuff. And then when you're visualizing like benching at home, it's like, oh, I have to squeeze my lap, pull my shoulder blades back. And it's almost as just thinking and visualizing about it makes my muscles kind of work and contract and then send electrical pulses there. So you kind of almost feel it as you're visualizing it. Oh. Yeah. And that's a portion of visual training and grappling that people often don't talk much about.

Maybe that's why I don't really find weight training that fun. Maybe I should start doing that more like... Weight training? Yeah. Wired in like that. Yeah, my muscle connection. I'm always like, oh, I just got to get through these reps. Yeah, no, I mean, you can, but a lot of it is like,

do I feel my chest maximally contracting? And you have to kind of give yourself different cues and different ways to attack it. As opposed to just pressing the belt up. Not that, but if you're talking about dumbbells, you're thinking about bringing your elbows in towards the middle because that's what the pec does, right? Bringing your arm across the body. Yeah. Not that, but like, if you're talking about dumbbells, you're thinking about, you know, bringing your elbows in towards the middle because that's what the pec does, right? Bringing your arm across the body. Yeah.

So like through resistance, you're feeling the pec contract, right? And you're like squeezing at the very top. And then it's like, do I have sufficient tension all throughout the range of the motion at all times? That's going to massively help me gain muscle, the hypertrophy. Yeah. But the same kind of thing with visual training, right? It's like, all right, I'm going to do judo with Ono, same example.

I get my first hand out, put my second hand out. He's trying to, right, block his hand. I'm going to tuck it. I'm going to move it, right? I'm moving my feet. So it's like I'm thinking about my hands moving, my feet moving, right? My lead leg is straight. I'm posturing it upright, right?

I twist Koji, right, and pull his head his head down right and he's significantly weaker in my example that's so he just drops to his knees right immediately go for a front headlock choke and then he taps out and you go I go like this is a good idea gold laptop yeah that's a good visual training thing right because your body's kind of moving to it, and then you're feeling that connection. So now all of a sudden, when you get to the dojo, when you see that exact example, maybe there's someone who fights exactly like him, you're a little bit more familiarized. It's not too foreign.

Right, right. I did judo on Wednesday. I did a bodybuilding workout at home for the last two weeks. I'm a little bit bigger and stiffer. And now all of a sudden, I'm doing another independent workout where I'm like coming in the gym just freaking going for random shit. There's no connection between the training sessions. That's the issue. I think it's good to have this one goal where I want to maximize my time at the dojo.

So throughout the week, you're working out your body, get your fitness up, and then you're mentally kind of thinking about what you're going to do at the dojo. Yes, exactly. Sounds good. What else? Are there some other things that we could do to help with that for sure

so you go into the gym right and you do your workout but primary difference between I talk about this

all the time like workout and training right yeah independent workout you go for a workout the goal is

to get a workout in right sweat burn calories that's it. That's independent. It's like watching an episode of Friends.

It's just one freaking independent thing. You don't have to watch the episode before, watch the episode after. It doesn't matter. It's self-contained. Yeah.

But these episodes all sort of have a connected thing. Like, is Ross going to end up with Rachel? Yeah. It's the whole storyline, right? Right, right.

And that's the training portion that connects all this stuff to keep you in the game. Because if It's the whole storyline, right? Right, right. And that's the training portion that connects all this stuff to keep you in the game. Because if you're just working out, it's one independent thing, right? Yeah. If you're training, it's over a long period of time.

Right, right. What makes people watch these stupid shows? Oh, you just get a lot of haters for that comment. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, it's because, yeah, it's fun,

you know, as a one contained, you know, episode. But then it also has this long story. Yeah, just like, is Ross going to end up with Rachel? Are they going to have a baby? You know, that keeps you going. It does keep you going.

How do you build your training around this concept, right? You got to keep a journal. You does keep you going. But how do you build your training around this concept? You got to keep a journal. You don't have to. Some people are journalers. Some people are not. You keep a journal? No.

But I have. I have. That's the thing. And I'm going spurts. You know what I mean? I have the Notes app on my phone, and that's my primary source of journaling. And then if I get inspired to do journaling for a little period of time i'll do it for one or two months i see and whenever i look back on that those notes

right it's like wow you know oh yeah these are the ideas what do you what do you write why things are like how how it went during training what you want to do next time sometimes it's like a bunch of sequences it's almost like a mind dump for me, you know? I see. And this is the thing. I think everyone has sort of a different method, right, when it comes to, like, putting down their thoughts on words, in words. And some people are good at it.

Some people are literally illiterate, you know? But there's ways to kind of, like, design this thing for you, you know? The key thing, takeaway from here when you're like thinking about journaling is that you're doing it in a way where there's continuity in your training always. What did I do last week? Okay. What am I going to do today? What was I working on last week? What did I want to work on this week?

And it's just like a constant reminder. That's a constant flow towards something. Right. It's so easy when you're in the dojo i'm gonna work out with you i'm gonna work out with you i'm gonna work out with you i'm gonna work out with you i'm gonna do uchikami do some push-ups call it call it a day and then just mail it in during the wasa right right are you really getting better oh you're working out yeah right we're not really getting better you're having the same exact rounds week after week

same exact position right first right with this person. Clapper's right, but he switches left. And it's like right versus left. He goes under. I go over. I try not to let him get too close. He tries to step through. Koichi, sumi.

Koichi, sumi. Deashi, deashi. I'm pulling his head down. It's the same exact Rondoi every week. Where's the progress? How do I break those patterns, right? Right, right, right. So when you're journaling you can journal

a lot of things you could journal and say hey this is how judo is done by this person you create profiles with certain people peter does this in these situations peter that in certain situations and you could write all that you peter does okay and then you can sort of rank which parts are good about him which parts are bad about him what which parts are bad about him. What weaknesses can you try to exploit? Right? And you can keep this mentally too. But a lot of people don't focus on these other people. They focus on themselves.

Oh, what do I have to do? What is this combination? I have to memorize this thing. Right? But it's important to have that portion of it too. So every time I'll work out, like this is an example for Drew. I worked out with Hyun today. He did these things.

Usually he doesn't do these things, but he keeps doing this. This is my opportunity. This is what worked. This is what didn't. I need to work on this. Right? Oh, shoot. He's been working on Karaguma.

Getting very. Oh, shoot. He's doing a lot of Uchimata now. Doesn't really go for it in practice yet. But something to think about. Right? Yeah, he's working on it, like, Uchikomi-wise and stuff. Yeah.

Maybe he's trying to go for it doing Randori. Yeah. Yeah. So things like that, right? And then things to drill, right? Ideas, concepts, gripping. You could, like, segment all these different things and put it into, like, a little chart, you know?

Some people can just do this mentally. You don't even need to write this stuff down. But I think in the beginning, it helps. The structure to get you going. I think one thing is, so I kind of do that with when I read

papers, I take notes. So I had to work on this process but then the biggest uh biggest uh thing to uh avoid is that when you start out you sometimes you get overly enthusiastic and you try to yeah do all the fancy things that other people do but i don't think that's usually the way to go you should should just start simple and like as sustainable as possible, whatever that may be. And then you can start with the notes app.

And then you start adding things onto it. Yeah. Like, you know, the grip fighting sequence, you can start doing that once you get like a rhythm going. Yeah. Look, I'm just going to type in my notes app now. It says'm just gonna type in my in my notes app now it says i just typed in bjj my notes app and then it's like oh bernardo faria system right pull guard deep half underhook sweep side control right yeah pass from deep half right pass from the half

control for arm i think that's that's a good example like they're not even like they don't have to be of complete sentences not like a literally a journal oh dear diary today

he didn't beat the shit out of me yeah not like that yeah here's one Paul Shriner sweep with knee

lever sweep preventing over under pass with arm block and head spot, right? You know, it's good stuff, man. I'm looking at this already. I'm like, wow, this is very good. I worked out with this guy, Rohan.

He had an amazing spider guard, right? I know how to pass it, but I had a hard time. He's very tall. You know, I need to pummel hands off better. You know, and I'm, like, looking at this, and I remember this now. It's like, you know, a chess master that played chess, you know, eight years ago in a game.

Like, I remember these exact rounds. You know what I mean? And actually, like, it was good. It was fun. You know, it was great. But it was, like, a kind of a learning thing because this guy was a spider guard specialist, right? He was very good at that.

That's all he did. And then I remember, like, I don't want to say letting't think letting them get it i don't say anything like that it sounds like douchey yeah uh but like you know like i was kind of like all right let's see what he does spider guard let me kind of give him the grips right yeah and see how he attacked you know what i mean right right obviously like i don't want to get triangle anything like that but like if i just completely avoid it and and not let him get spider guard and just dive through and just go over underpass, like, I could go over underpass. I'm very heavy. You know, I'm good at it. But I'm like,

that won't make me good at defending spider guard against somebody good if I'm in that position. Right, right. Right? So I'm like, alright, let me see how this feels going into this. You know what I mean? And I remember that. And now that's bringing back all the lessons that i've learned that day this is 2017 dang i know i know yeah i hope he's doing good rohan

you should uh i couldn't pass i feel like at the time because you know you can't publish a book with this yeah it's pretty cool let's see you know it's amazing stuff so you know this kind of stuff is great because now I can actually right I've grown from this moment in 2017 but I could kind of revisit these things and see

if they actually stuck right but this is the thing right no one really does spider guard like this guy at my gym yeah i mean so do i really know this like did it really like all the lessons that i learned here did it stick who knows okay maybe right if i'm thinking my training lens i could go brian glick who's my jiu-jitsu teacher be like hey man can you go spider guard and then yeah let me just play in that situation right and then see how like smooth i am at clipping this and taking that and using my legs and keeping my body and then you know stepping back and pinning the legs and then leg drop like and we'll

see if it's good yeah it most likely is good you know because you're a natural athlete. Yeah. Natural athlete. Right. I wonder, I bet Glick keeps a meticulous journal. I think I can just see him doing that. Could. Yeah. But you don't have to do it all the time. Right. You know, even if it's every now and then, right?

Yeah. You could do this. I remember, if I type in, oh, I'll give you one. I remember in my journal, 10 years ago. Yeah. I wrote, Maury, 10 years ago, I wrote Marty Molloy teaches me Sode. Marty Molloy's Sode system. Oh.

Yeah, she does it very uniquely. I will never forget this. I wrote this down. I remember writing this down. I worked out with Marty. She's unbelievably good and strong. Marty Molloy, she's an Olympian. She's a friend of mine. And she took my hand off and I'm like, oh shit, my hand came off. Right.

And then she had the lapel hand. Right. And then she's going Sode. And I'm like, oh, I'm going to catch me with this. Yeah. Right. Because she doesn't have my forearm. As she's going for Sode with the hand she just took, she's catching the sleeve.

Like she lets go of the lapel and catches the sleeve as she's going in. And I was like, what? Oh. Yeah, because there was a false sense of security there. Yeah. Because she doesn't control this arm. But then she's catching that arm as she's going. Right? Interesting. So I'm much more aware of this now.

And then I'm like, oh, shit. I don't want to get bombed by Marty in front of everybody. I weigh a hundred pounds, but I don't want to like you know i'm like kind of playing yeah i'm like legitimately working out with her and then she goes for it again i'm like you know what i'm just gonna like block with my hip and step across and then the bag she hit me with a foot sweep i'm like whoa you know i think marty gonna show me this and she's like oh yeah this is what i do i go like this and i go like that and sometimes I go coachy from here with the lapel on the sleeve. Right.

And it's very nice because you have the lapel and you have the option to let go and catch the sleeve if you decide to go Sode. But if you don't, you keep it and then bomb the person coachy, which I think she did in the Olympics, actually. And I remember like writing that down in my journals, like pen and paper somewhere in my house. And then I went to train and i did it i was like but my story was so bad that i couldn't make any of this work i couldn't even enter because i didn't understand the concept of like you know getting this hand up and crossing over like because when i'm working on the sode it's very clear that the other person's like hey you're about to go for sode right right right and it was like to telegraph it's not clear that the other person is like, hey, you're about to go for Sode. Right, right, right. And it was like to telegraph.

It's not working with other things like, you know, moving here, going there, cut the head, they're returning, and then I'm patting it over my shoulder and then I turn Sode. It wasn't like that at the time because I'm new at trying to learn Sode to the left. I didn't have Sode to the left. So now after I learned Sode, like after I'm like able to hit Sode consistently, that lesson that Marty gave me, like that portion has already been created for me. So just learning that beginning part, it integrated.

And now I have this entire system, you know, because it's something that Marty taught me that I've journaled back in the day. Thank you, Marty. If you're listening. So journaling can be a powerful tool. It can be. Especially if you can make it to the dojo as often as you like. Yeah.

Yeah. So there you go. You know, those things all work together. Yeah. Right? And now all of a sudden, every two weeks you you're going in and you're preserving your body. Right? Right.

Because you're not doing hard run dori all the time. So in this way, you could actually get, you know, leaps and bounds better. And then if you have someone like me to talk to or someone in the gym that you could talk to about this stuff, it'll help you a lot. Right. Because they could identify certain things too. Majority of it is people don't have the lens, the judo lens. Yeah.

To see like what they need to work on, whatever it is. And that takes a little bit of time to create. Yeah. But if you're listening to this podcast and if you're kind of in the game, you know, with intellectual grapplers, you're going to develop the ideas.

You're going to develop the jargon and you're going to develop the mind mapping tools're going to develop the jargon. And you're going to develop the mind mapping tools to be able to see all these different things. Man, I got to start doing some of this. Yeah. You know, maybe next time I go back to KBI, yeah, I'll give you a better round than last time. All right. Well, I think there was a lot of good stuff in it um anything else shintaro nope guys check out my morote sanagi video on my

website shintaro higashi.com yeah lots of cool stuff there patreon all of it cool yeah and as always thanks for listening guys and uh we'll see you guys in the next episode