The Shintaro Higashi Show - Goals for 2022

Episode Date: January 18, 2022

After a year filled with surprises, we've finally welcomed another new year 2022! In this episode, Shintaro and Peter talk about their goals for 2022. Do you have any goals for 2022? Please support us on Patreon if you can: https://www.patreon.com/shintaro_higashi_show. Any amount helps!

Hello guys, welcome back to the Shintaro Higashi Show with Peter Yu. Today we're going to talk a little bit about 2022 goals. I know it's already like January 11th, but as all things, New Year's resolutions and such, we're a little bit behind, but it's okay, right? We're going to do it. Right, that's right. So yeah, we're just going to talk about the goals for the new year. Before we start, I just wanted to mention that we've hit the 50,000 downloads on our podcast which is a huge milestone

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Patreon you get to join our discord server and then you get to talk to us about everything judo and life alright that's about it 22 goals I want to do it a little bit I want to keep the judo theme right and then I want to

show everyone the relevancy of like what I'm thinking about when I'm entering the dojo every day. Right. So yours has not too much to do with judo, so we'll just kind of go back and forth. My first goal is going to be dojo related as an admin, as a sensei, as a teacher. I have two goals. And this is not really like a measurable goal.

I know everyone's like, you have to have measurable goals. Right. I mean, I'm not really a believer of that so much uh but the two goals that i do have is keeping everyone interested and then keeping everyone safe right those are the two goals that's a that's a good goal yeah what are you goes for the for the dojo so how are you gonna do that well you know i'm just gonna be me you know show up and charisma everybody. Yeah, that's – as long as people are coming in for the class, I know I can sort of gauge interest. And when I teach, I'm looking across the board and really reaching out one-to-one and it's community building and things like that.

I used to do this whole like, oh, I need this many students in the room or like quantitative metrics and I used to go deep down the rabbit hole with that right but that's always a moving target and if you don't meet your goals what you failed you know right so i don't really like that kind of mentality anymore when it pertains to judo or the dojo when i'm trying not to run it as so much like a regimented like rigid business i'm not trying to do that right right the goal is to like teach and have a community of learners you know what i mean so like that's sort of my newer goal new ideas so 2022 i wanted to dig a little deeper why did you set those two goals why did you notice that the interest has gone down or something or not really you know interest is everything right as long as you're interested in something you will learn it right right it's like me with school when i was a young kid and i was terrible at school i was terrible at social studies like i had zero interest in social studies

right to begin with and the teacher wasn't very interesting therefore i was a lost cause in that class right i wasn't going to learn this stuff until the external motivators of my mother beating me down was strong enough to overcome the lack of interest. I wasn't learning it. But if I was interested in something, I could learn it. I think that's the same goes

across for everybody. Whatever your intelligent levels are, and intelligence is a funny thing, right? Because you could argue like tactile kinesthetic or intrapersonal all these different types of intelligence yes but if you're interested in something you'll learn it without a doubt and the goal of the dojo is to keep people learning so it's more of a you're setting it as a like a reminder to yourself that this is yeah the Yeah, the dojo is pretty good.

I could kind of go deeper down with like, okay, I want to go to the kids program and these are the numbers that I want to get. How am I going to get to those numbers? This many leads needs to come in and I need to follow up this many times. The conversion rate is that. I could do that forever. Truthfully, the kids program has been decimated by you know the c word yeah yeah you know they're a little bit more uh cautious to parents especially in the neighborhood right the adult programs have come back you know and a lot of our higher level guys has not come

back we don't have enough a lot of people coming in as guests but you know i don't want to go down too far down that right i want to think overall holistically like what can i do to make this you know place better and interest is the first player in that right keeping everyone's interest and how about the safety side of things did did uh yeah you blow out your knee you can't come to judo, right? Right. And it's my duty to keep everyone safe. If you don't feel safe from a harms perspective, like, oh, I don't feel safe working out with that person, or I feel like someone's going to blow out my knee, it's not a good environment to learn. How are you going to learn if you're worried about your knees?

How are you going to learn about anything when you're like, oh, man, that person can hurt me. I don't want to work out with that person. That person's overly aggressive, even not in the context of jud man, that person can hurt me. I don't want to work out with that person. You know, that person's overly aggressive. Even not in the context of judo, but like a creepy person making you uncomfortable in the room. Should be a safe space. It has to be a safe space to learn. Yeah. Could you imagine, like, all right, so think about like when you're a kid or something, or maybe not you, but anybody.

You know, you're afraid to raise your hand and say something in class because there's a kid that would make fun of you if you did now all of a sudden it's not a safe place to learn yeah that's right so that this is another like a reminder it's not like your dojo has gone less safe or something like that no no it's just a reminder right and i used to keep these measurable goals. And that has always been sort of a thing. And I do have measurable goals too. Such as? Such as like I want to weigh 200 pounds.

That's a measurable goal. Right now I'm puffy. I'm heavy. I'm 220 right now, which is a little bit too heavy for me. You want to shave off some pounds? Yeah. So there are measurable goals that are very specific to that. If I'm at a 500-calorie deficit every single day and I'm eating 2,000 calories a day, let's just say theoretically, right?

Right. At the end of the week, I'll be in this many-caloric deficit. Therefore, I will lose this much weight per month. And eventually, I will get to this thing. And, you know, it's all measurable. You can measure everything. Right, right. I do have a little bit of that. I see.

I see. Yeah. So we're kind of going into the personal goals. Anything else? Oh, yeah. I mean, I want to stick to a workout plan for at least 10 weeks. 10 weeks. Yeah. Yeah. And I was talking about it yesterday at the dojo like oh you know i gained 20 pounds and everyone was like wait a minute i thought you've been on omad i just listened to your podcast and i was like yeah that was recorded three months ago and i'm not on it anymore you

know like so i am pretty fickle with this stuff what's home at the one meal a day oh yes one meal a day what the heck that's they call it oh man i didn't know that yeah even last week i was eating cookies at like you know 4 p.m or something and they were like i thought you don't eat anything until you i was like yeah that's i do go through spurts and i did stay true to that for a while you're gonna go back to it i'm gonna go back to i go on and off of stuff right right right so i hope you guys don't listen to this and say oh shintaro does omad 24 7 you know for the last whatever years i'm not as disciplined as george guys oh george he's a monster he's we should have we should have had him on this episode he

his goals will be followed to the dot i'm sure no he doesn't even have goals because he's meeting his goals every new year's resolution he's like i've been doing this since june every day is uh you know resolution day for him yeah so that's like sort of my semi goals kind of mapped out and i do have a little bit more that i want to share that's on the judo side but let's move the ideas to you because you have some specific goals yeah well i could start with my judo goals i guess um so i want to be more consistent with it so the situation in michigan is that there are that many judo people yeah i kind of have to mix it up with brazilian jiu-jitsu and all and then now it seems like i didn't know this but the trend is that people like nogi stuff and in michigan in michigan well i think in bjj in general i think dogi grappling is getting more popular

yeah and i think people think it's more dynamic and people like it yeah so since i'm in michigan which is a big wrestling state and i've also wrestled in high school here so maybe i think i'm just gonna try to see if i can do more nogi wrestling and nogi grappling So what is the goal? You just want to get better? So I need to I want to develop develop a system again because my wrestling When I wrestled in high school, you know, they you wrestle for three months and a year So what you do what they do is they just teach you how to do double single and so

They're not much of a system. So interestingly enough, I've been going to nogi classes, but too sporadic to develop a system. But then I went to my old high school's wrestling practice a couple of months ago yeah uh and i wrestled with a bunch of high school kids and then i realized you know but i'm i'm more comfortable with like upper body throws now because of judo of course yeah so now i need to change my system i didn't want to develop my system so what i i was trying different things with them and then i realized that russian thai you know the two-on-one day if i get that i

can do a lot of my you know upper body throws so i was like okay maybe i'll this it became more fun now i'm like okay i can build a system around it maybe i'll work on how to get there and I watched your video on how to get the Russian tie and yeah so I can do like how do I go see which you matter yeah that's good one also to Gary yeah I read you thing right if you learn wrestling for no gi yeah they teach you a double a high C a single leg a lot of these things you have to also learn how to defend the guillotine go to right shots right so and you know everyone knows how to shoot a basic double and a single and how to see if you wrestle. But if you want to think more like systematically and, you know, for your no-gi grappling aspirations, something like an ankle pick is very low risk. You go for an ankle pick, you miss, you can pull guard.

Right, right, right. Right? So it's like, you know, fake pulling guard, ankle pick, no risk. You don't have to learn how to defend the guillotine or anything. Right, right. You just have to defend that how to defend the guillotine or anything. Right, right. You just have to defend that seated one person up, one person down situation. And, you know, at the very best, like you could take the person down and now you're in just regular top game. Right.

So like that's sort of the best bang for your buck. But how do you even get there to think that way? Right, right. In the beginning, I think if you are listening and you're in a similar position to peter something like consistency goals is the best thing to do because that's kind of measurable i know i was like i'm not doing measurable goals but i'm contradicting myself yeah but like measurable goals like you know wednesday i will never miss practice or like thursday's my day for wrestling like if you have those two goals that's huge yeah and you try never to make an exception because if you miss once it's easy to exception because if you miss once it's easy

to miss twice if you miss twice it's easy to miss three times and if you miss three times you're you're not coming back for at least a couple weeks right unless your sensei reaches out to you specifically right and if the sensei doesn't reach out to you it's very very very difficult to go back at all yeah because of the shame the shame the shame yeah yeah so that yeah that's a good point so yeah for me more consistent and maybe consist goal consistently enough that i could build a nogi game i think yeah i don't know about i don't know if i want to like focus on like the uh the submission side of things. Yeah.

Well, you eventually have to if you're doing no-heat grappling. You can't just take him down and then just stand right back. I mean, I'm sure they'll appreciate you because that way they learn stand-up wrestling from you. This is so bad, but when I go, because my submission game is not as intricate, so I will do the takedown and then kind of just hold onto the side control and then north side, north south, and then kind of circle around. You're that person. I know, because I'm trying to submit you, but it's kind of hard.

Peter's the guy that takes you down once and then holds you there for the whole round, You're that person. I know, because I'm trying to submit you, but it's kind of hard. Peter's the guy that takes you down once and then holds you there for the whole round, five minutes. And there's actually zero movement. The guy's neck is being pinned and cranked. He's not going for anything. He's just fully defensive. Guys, I am trying to go for things, but BJJ guys are quite good at defending. So that's all it is. That's what they do, man.

The whole thing is not to get submitted. Yeah. And to submit the other person, right? They got to quite good at defending. So that's all it is. That's what they do, man. The whole thing is not to get submitted. Yeah, so I mean... And to submit the other person, right? They gotta be good at that. So I'm not trying to just hold you down. I'm trying for things, but... Yeah. But anyway, that's my judo goal.

Yeah. I have, like, technical goals, too, like that. Yeah? Like what? Yeah. Well, this is a little bit like going down the rabbit hole, but I turn so much to one side I shoot off one leg so much

I'm not trying to develop a completely left game but like I definitely do want to like work on some techniques that specifically helps my body not gain stress injuries so it's not like oh I want to learn a taiyo or a specific technique or a specific system not really like that

I want to develop a system not for its effectiveness but for my body preservation methodologies so you want to do more like oh so you want to turn both sides both ways no no no turn not even that definitely turn judo turn turn judo okay definitely some turn judo uh Not even that. Definitely turn judo. Turn judo, okay. Definitely some turn judo. But the idea of like, anytime I do Osoro, Ouchi, Uchimata, I'm balancing on one leg, the left leg. I'm very good at balancing myself in a certain way, turning my knee outward. And then attacking with my right leg in the air. I'm very good at this, right?

I mean, not very, very good at this. And, you know, I probably sound like an arrogant bastard but that's what i do but it's gaining a lot like every time i elevate with like a uchimata or something with my right leg i have limited mobility to begin with it's developing like these like repetitive stress patterns where like certain glute meat is getting tight tfl is getting tight right because I'm repetitively going in that direction. So now if I want to break that pattern and do different movements like just, you know, just not even like for a specific purpose in the gym, but if I stood straight and then wanted to bring my leg back without bringing my knees outward, I can't do it.

Right? Because I'm so tight in these areas. Right, right, right. You know what I mean? My right lat is much tighter than my left lat. Because I'm so tight in these areas. You know what I mean? My right lat is much tighter than my left lat.

Reason being, I have my right controlling the other person's collar and do a lot more downward pulling motion with my right arm. I don't do any of that with my left arm. So it's like when I go to do a pull-up or a chin-up, there's a definite imbalance which sort of shifts my shoulder blades out of alignment. I see. And it's super specific. It's super dumb shoulder blades out of alignment. I see. And it's super specific, right? It's super dumb to a lot of people. But for me, that kind of stuff matters for quality of life things.

Because I want to bench heavy. Right. I still want to bench heavy. I still want to do all these lifting things. Right? So, like, if I could grapple around that. I'm pretty good technically, right? And I can sort of do like a japanese judo

drop senagi kochi sode system i could go over the back and pull them down and go for stuff i could go only upper body and do greco and i'm not saying i'm winning like championships with each of these systems right but i have a diverse enough game to where it's like i could fight like this i could fight like that i could even fight lefty a lot of the times without doing turn throws but i want to develop sort of an idea where i'm doing it with body preservation more in mind i see i feel like that's another thing it's a goal you know it's not even like and the goal is the way to get there is just even think about it think about it and being mindful of it as long as i'm on the mat and training and if i think about it beforehand i can little by little manipulate myself into this thing i see yeah so that's like

another technical sort of judo goal ish thing that's a little bit unique to my my situation i don't know maybe that's interesting people maybe i think i i should do that too i think you know for longevity reasons i want to show up to practice, man. You just got to go to practice, man. For me, I guess that's more important. But I also want to. The drop Sanagis, they have a point of diminishing returns after you do it for the hundredth, thousandth time. It's like now all of a sudden your kneecaps hurt and your kneecaps start shifting off to the side.

I have patella tracking now. Right. That's the thing. Oh, yeah, yeah yeah i showed you my x-ray yeah yeah yeah it's crazy my kneecaps are like on the side well different opinions about that among doctors so we'll see hopefully it's not something serious yeah and i get a straight shot from a doctor yeah when i had my shoulder injury i got five different opinions and five different ideas. Yeah. Yeah, so same thing with my knee. Yeah.

I got like four different ideas. Right. Like one guy was like, oh, your knee's fine. Yeah. The other guy was like, you shouldn't be standing right now. Another guy's like, we've got to do surgery. Oh, man. Yeah, no, it just doesn't, you know, they all fall into their own patterns.

I get it. Right. Yeah. oh man yeah just doesn't you know they all fall into their own patterns i get it right you know just like the same as if like if you're entering the dojo and the guy's like this is i'm gonna show you tayo why tayo because tayo is the best move on this planet right why do you think that because i'm very good at it right yeah so it's like same thing with the doctors like hey man i do arthroscopies you need an arthroscopy Because that's what a or she is good at. Yeah. I saw an orthopedic physician who doesn't do surgeries. And he's like, you don't need surgery.

Of course, you're going to say you don't need surgeries. You don't do surgeries. But if your compensation is based on that, he's going to want to put you under the knife. They should all get together and then discuss your case together. Yeah, I'm not important enough for people to do that. Sad. Yeah. So what not important enough for people to do that. Sad, yeah. So what about some of your personal goals? So personal goals, career-wise,

so I'm at the point where I need to become a PhD candidate. So for those of you who don't know, when you enter a PhD program, you're what they call a pre-candidate. You're just a student. Usually, they give you two years to do some research and take classes, basic classes and all. Then, you take what they call a qualifying exam, quals or prelim exam. It depends on the department for me i need to do some research and present it yeah um i mean gearing towards that so if you can't you you if

you can't pass that you gotta go out you get a they call it mastering out you get a master's degree and then you are kicked off the program i'm trying not to do that so yeah i'm not it's gonna i have to take it this year this semester um hopefully i'll take it this this month yeah and then be done with it so that's a big career goal and with that, like personally, I mean, it's a lot of stress. So I realized that it's a lot of pressure on me. So I realized that I need to learn how to manage my stress better for my mental health. Yeah. Very important stuff.

Yeah. So I want to work on that more. Yeah. Just like I'm like've become very irritable and stuff. What better way to release that than going to judo? You know what they say? Judo is therapeutic or any hobby, but it's not therapy. That's very true. Yeah, that's a good one.

Who told you that one? I read it on Reddit somewhere. The source of my all knowledge. So that's what I realized. Like I will feel great going to judo. I'll feel great doing the practice. But then as soon as I come out and when the when and then when the high comes down I come home and I'm still I'm still stressed because the underlying reason is that yeah

Yeah, all this stuff is there and then I need to learn how to manage it. I try to think in a different way Yeah, you know, there's so much demand on our time in this era exactly So so many ideas pulling you in many different directions Exactly. So many ideas pulling you in many different directions. There's too many projects to do, too many tasks. The tasks are the worst.

Emails take up the bulk of my time. I'm pretty good at not responding to certain emails, but still, it kind of takes up your time. You still have to make a decision if you're going to respond or not. Yeah, and the decision fatigue. Sometimes I'll like, you know what, I'm going to answer this later because it's a long email i'll read it and then you like half read it and then you skip it you half read another email you skip it and then you go through it and you've only you know gotten through like 20 to your emails but you've actually read all of them just table them and then when you return to it you repeat read those things again it's like the most inefficient method oh i see what you mean

yeah right yeah you ever do that yeah yeah because i'll skim it and i'll like oh i'll do that later but then i have to you know re-skim it re-skim it or read it more carefully so i'm like oh i should have read it more i got lucky today i don't know what came over me but i was like you know what i'm just gonna get through all my email and i blasted through all my email i'm inbox zero oh that's a good feeling i'm inbox zero that's a good feeling. I'm inbox zero. That's a good feeling. And then when I do that too often and I have inbox like 12, 15 little markers, it really starts stressing me out. Like I started getting aggravated. Right. You gotta, you gotta learn to, you know, let go, I guess. Yeah, man, if I'm irritable and

if you've ever met me, I probably have emails that I have unresponded to. It's probably a good indicator. That and I haven't lifted that day or something. Oh, okay. Yeah, everything else, all my like mental, emotional issues, I just shove it all the way down and just not think about it. And then channel that into judo and emails. And then you see the smile let's go yeah i know i gotta be like that that's how you deal with it you white knuckle and throw you know what i mean

that's right yeah the way my papi taught me that's it keep your head down and do your work son yeah that's right right but yeah so that's my that's a big goal of mine and i guess podcast goals too oh yeah podcast goals um do you have podcast goals like when you think about the podcast i know you're so busy so i never tried to you know a little behind the scenes stuff it's like we work pretty well together yeah yeah i i mean maybe i think that i don't know i think so too we you know i think personally my podcast goal is i wanna i wanna get my i need to get like get my technical system down morgan i don't you you we haven't told you guys but i've been having a lot of technical issues on my side, especially with videos.

I won't go into detail, but I want to iron that out so that I can. On the audio side, I have a smooth system going right now. We record, edit, boom, boom, boom. But then videos, I've been falling behind because... But we're paying for a video recording system too i know yeah so well i'm trying to i don't know why it's not working i mean maybe it's my computer program or something but i'm trying different things at the same time i need to keep up with the schedule too you know but i want to iron that out yeah why why are you laughing no because you're a computer programmer

who's getting a phd in that that's that's why no here's the thing about this everyone there's a difference between knowing how to use all these technologies and knowing how to program a lot of a lot of people come to ask me about technical issues, thinking because I'm a programmer, I would know this. But that's not what I do. If you join a software company, there are software engineers and there are technical experts that support the software engineers. Because we don't know either. What I will end up doing is I'll just Google it. And then if I read things, technical things,

I can kind of understand it better because I have more background knowledge, I guess. Yeah. But I'm going to Google it anyway. Yeah, yeah. So this is a new thing. You know, I'm learning a lot about these systems. So yeah, that's my goal.

What's your podcast goal? No, just really keep it going. That's the goal. You know, 100,000 downloads would be nice. 200,000 downloads would be nice. But like, I don't really, I don't even have access to numbers. I just ask you every now and then, right? Hey, what are you doing?

And Peter texted me yesterday. Oh, we got 50,000. I was like, yeah, you know, like explosion emoji. You do have access. I sent you all those. It's talked to. I've never logged into it. The goal is to keep it going, I think.

And for me, it's fun. Yeah. Love chatting with you. And the alternative to not doing this is, you know, calling you on my drive. Because at home, it's like, you know, I have a three-year-old. So it's hard to get on the phone. She hates it when I'm on the phone. So I try not to have my phone with me.

The alternative is, like, you know, call you while i'm driving on my commute or something like that you know so you know it's this is a little bit better right i think i think so too build something together too and yeah it's nice so just keeping it going really is my goal with this this guy and yeah i think as long as we have fun with it and you you know, it's not stressing us out too much. Yeah. We can keep it going. And keeping it going is the first track to getting better, right? Yeah. Keep on keeping on, you know.

Yeah. But 100,000 would be nice. Yeah, that's right. 50,000 sounds a lot. Yeah. It's been a little over a year that we've been doing this. And I think the consistency, I think, as a key goes, a lot of times podcasts just drop up. I know a lot of podcasts popped up during the pandemic and got nowhere.

I know like six guys who started it. I think also this is fun because it's just me and you also. Right. Once you start, like, if we had an entire podcast based on having guests yeah guests and you have to manage the schedules and sending out a link and yeah it becomes like you need another whole team behind it but this is like me and you and yeah that's why yeah i think that's just we're trying to be sustainable you know because we have our yeah this is not our not our main thing yeah i I do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I definitely do want to get some guests on too eventually.

Yeah, yeah. I want to get George on. We should get George on. He's so hyper-disciplined. I've never met anyone that's been on keto for more than X amount of time. He's been on keto for like six years. He's been on OMAD for like six years. He's OMAD keto for like six years.

I mean, look at his body it's a great guy he's a great guy so he only eats once a day he stays keto sometimes I'll go on these like crazy 72-hour fasts to get the toxins out of some no like it's like a mind discipline Oh like you know like people like jaco and all these guys goggins they're like yeah i do this i do that and they're like pushing it also because they're content promoters right but like they're living it and then they're pushing it george does all this stuff with zero recognition no one knows yeah he just love of course hopefully he changes that because he's an actor he wants to be yeah he has to promote

himself yeah yeah he needs to promote himself he doesn't have social which is like nuts to me because he's trying to be an actor he's an actor you kind of need a online presence but yeah he's hyper disciplined in every way it's like well we'll have him on a lot of people know about him now because yeah they see him on Yeah, he's a regular on YouTube. We'll do that. Lots of interesting goals. 2022, 2021. Jimmy Pejo is listening.

I have Fuji goals too, and I will meet those and exceed those with flying colors because I do sell geese sort of on the side. I'm in charge of the international strategy. So if you work in the international distributor world and you want to buy a lot of geese you hit me up Chitao's the guy

yeah I'm the guy did you hear that Jimmy? my boss he'll be proud yeah so yeah these are

you know we kind of shared a little bit on the like about our personal lives I guess hopefully you guys have your own 2022

goals um hope you guys have a wonderful year and join us on patreon join us on discord we have a very exciting conversation on there yeah i'm not on it too often i should be on it a little bit more yeah we will i you know we have interesting conversation not just about judo, but other things. Yeah. All right. Thanks for listening, and I'll see you guys in the next episode. Yep. Thank you very much, guys.