The Shintaro Higashi Show - How to Learn Judo Online

Episode Date: March 15, 2021

Utilizing online content to learn Judo is becoming increasingly popular. As with anything online, it's important to filter out "noise" and consume only the good content. Shintaro and Peter talk about some of the strategies you can use to pick out good online Judo content and integrate it effectively into your daily training. Please support us on Patreon if you can: https://www.patreon.com/shintaro_higashi_show. Any amount helps!

hello everyone welcome back to the shintaro higashi show with peter yu today we're going to talk about how to learn judo online that's like the new landscape of things right right what we got to do learn stuff online yeah and with the you know with the whole situation with the pandemic right now the online judo content is becoming more and more important for us and and as with anything online we need to consume them in a very healthy way, I guess. That's absolutely right. There's so much stuff out there, just so much noise. Yeah.

We have to sift through all the debris and then really maximize our time online because you can spend all day. Right. And I've done this before. Go down the YouTube rabbit hole. Right. Yeah. And as you guys know you know you shintaro has been doing youtube himself like creating content on there so he knows all the

has a good idea of what what's out there so yeah let's uh let why don't we start with the highlights but the most i i feel like that's the most approachable and most popular uh type of content that people consume yep i think you start off with judo highlights on youtube right and then you watch some spectacular throws or whether it's bjj highlights and then you're like oh man this is amazing i just recently started watching like greco-roman wrestling highlights just launched yeah yeah i love it so it's like yeah you know i think you have to take it with a grain of salt. You know, you can't let it affect your expectations of actually doing the sport, right? Because you don't want to be like, oh, this is what it's supposed to look like all the time, right?

It's highlights for a reason. It's only a very, very small section, right? And a lot of the times you get two very very close skilled athletes and then it's never going to look like that right right right so you have to be right you have to manage your expectations when you're watching highlights but you have to use it as inspiration first and foremost right right that's what i get out of highlights i'm like man this is amazing and i get pumped when i watch it and one thing to remember is that you it's not a lot of those techniques don't they're not like high percentage techniques yeah sometimes yeah yeah yeah I mean the high percentage stuff

the classic Uchimata Dosoros or something like this right there you know they're great yeah but there's a slew of ranges right like it's like for instance like it's the classic oh I threw someone with a Sanagi in a tournament and then it's like was it standing San, it's like, for instance, like, it's the classic, oh, I threw someone with a Sanagi in a tournament. And then it's like, was it standing Sanagi? It's like, no, I dropped to my knees. It was a dropped Sanagi. And then people are like, oh. Yeah, yeah.

You know, like, Soto put that. I'm like, oh, you dropped to your knees and took, great. You know, it's like, no, no, I slammed him. It's like, was it a standing Sanagi? Yeah. No, it wasn't. It's kind of like that, you know. But, like, like yeah you're absolutely

right man you get some spectacular new technique that no one's ever seen before and the likelihood of people getting it consistently is very low but it makes the reels right right and also it's kind of you i think the highlights uh kind of uh you, they don't show the whole context around it, like how the person even set up the throw. That's a great point. Yeah. And, you know, and also it doesn't show the countless hours the athlete has put into, you know, whatever technique they're using for the highlight reel. For sure. It's misleading.

Yeah. First, I'll give you an example. Uchimata, Uchimata uchimata guy just a guy or girl escapes the technique by sidestepping it to shift their center of gravity away from the lift right so the person does it once early on in the match person does uchimata again second time you know middle of the match and then the very third time or the fourth time they're in that same position where the person's dominant position and they're looking like they're going to go blast an Uchimata they go for Harai instead right right right and that only that Harai Goshi is going to be on the highlight reel so if you slow that highlight part down and be like oh how did this guy hit it so well right you completely miss the context of

like oh this has been being set up for the last you know three minutes things of that nature yeah i think and yeah i think it goes with any technique really like i when i watch bjj highlights i think because i don't know the techniques as well as uh some of the bjj protectioners i yeah i do miss a lot of that like sometimes i'm so amazed how they even set those like intricate you know strangles and but you miss all it's not even just the setup right before you're saying the whole match like oh the person was probably setting up like showing maybe like you know guard armbar and then later go for the triangle choke the same way like you are setting

it up with uchimaras and then surprising with the haragoshi at the end yeah something like that you know it's hard to see and uh distinguish and understand when you're kind of just watching highlight reels you know and that's what the highlight reels are for it's not really for yes it's for learning but most of the things i i get out of it is just inspiration like wow man i can't wait to go to the dojo and hit it on somebody i know that highlight reel of my own you know yeah and i'm sure a lot of students approach you and saying hey uh sensei like i've watched this crazy throw have you seen it like can you teach me yada yada what do you how do you approach like what do

you tell them usually i mean a lot of the times my students tag me and stuff or show me some stuff and then i'll just give my honest opinion you know this is a high right there's a lot going on here like i talked about context i always talk about contacts right the context is this context is that maybe we'll watch the full match sometimes if i have the time and if i have the patience for that yeah sometimes it'll just be something like this is only work right because x y and z right right and a lot of the times it comes down to the individual athlete too you see some crazy athletic like flying whatever it is and it's like this guy is a phenom athlete right and then you know you see students that are like i want to do this i want to do this and you

start drilling it and drilling it's like yes but this is one thing that they do they have an entire system outside of this thing that they do right so they have a system here they have the fundamentals here and they have a couple of different surprise attacks this is the stuff this is like accessory stuff this is like supplemental stuff to their main core attack system right right so you can't go the opposite way and be like all right i'm just gonna learn this thing and i'm just gonna learn that thing and i'm gonna learn that thing because it's gotta tie all together or you wouldn't have an effective fighting system right right right yeah so i'll try to be you know concise about it and try to explain that as best i can that's an interesting point you brought up about like the actual body like

the whole system including your how athletes bodies you know works and then yeah the how these professional athletes build their own systems around that like you know i think iliatis is a good example that he's such a freak of nature a lot of the throws he does with like he can force through a lot of these throws with his shoulders all the way in the back yeah you have to have the shoulder mobility to be able to do it i don't have the shoulder mobility right i can't bring my arm back that far and then be still strong to like pull through yeah so yeah blow my shoulder out yeah so there's a lot of context around like that's missing from highlights but it's good they're a good inspiration source of inspiration

yeah it's a source of inspiration and it's great when you know somebody that's in it and then you you know send it to each other and i've been on threads where right people are getting bombed and i've made highlight reels myself where i'm the one receiving it you know and uh people sending me videos of that from back in the day and you know oh my God you know but it's good you know the highlight reel is it's a type of a uh content that you can consume to learn Judo I don't think it should be your primary thing maybe it's like I don't know 20 of it right depending on whether or not this stuff really motivates you and inspires you right so now so you you watch all these highlight reels and then you're probably pumped up to take judo or

bjj or whatever grappling all you want to do and then you're drilling and now you probably would move on to tutorials how to tutorials yeah yeah how to do these moves tutorials boring oh man tutorials there's like you have a lot to say about that i do have a lot to say about that so what uh so let's just start with like how to approach these tutorials uh because there's some of the moves you know they're the basic tutorials and they're the advanced tutorial there's a whole range yeah yeah i think uh there's something to be said about these linear progression sort of uh learning systems that are available online right you learn this

this is the basics and then it goes into these like mind mapping situations right but you have to take all this stuff with a grain of salt and this is coming from a person that creates a lot of this stuff myself right i have a judo fanatic series i have like six dvds out i have youtube videos out i have lots of different stuff out there for purchase and mostly free for me and i like just putting stuff out there anyway but a lot of the stuff i see out there it's tough because a lot of it is noise too right like i said like you missing the context i showed a reverse kata gruma the other day right it's like how are you going to put that into your system is the biggest piece of it right right you know it's like sleeve cross collar you have right tile you have soda when the hand goes up the hand goes underneath you could do a reverse katagruma right maybe do a collar drag whatever that's a good system

okay so now you learn this reverse katagruma that works, that fits in the whole thing. And then you have to drill not just reverse kataguruma, but all the pieces surrounding it. Maybe fake taiyo and then go the right side. Or fake sode and then snap down, go cross collar or soto. And then if that doesn't work, now you go reverse kataguruma. You have to drill that whole thing. So you only get a piece of it and you don't understand the surrounding thing of it and you can't really explain everything in one video right right right right because for every video that i make about reverse kataguruma there's 20 other ones out there saying something

completely different right so they would you recommend like just trying to watch as many different variations of tutorials of the same technique as possible or how do you what do you think like i i guess my question is more about how do you kind of filter out the noise in a way you know there's a saying in in the watch buying world i know you're into watches i'm into watching right right? Yeah. You buy the seller. Right, right. You buy the seller. Yeah. And it's kind of something similar. If you trust an instructor and you follow them

and they have a lot of stuff and they have a very positive consensus, then that's the person that you really want to go through. Right? Right. Because there's so many people, thousands of people just putting stuff out there. You know?

And the intention might be different, right? Intention sometimes is just to sell video, put stuff behind a paywall, get them to sign up, and now, you know, you're might be different right intention sometimes is just to sell video put stuff behind a paywall get them to sign up and now you know you're on a subscription situation right right right so you have to know who your instructor is and you have to know what their style is like right and i think that's first and foremost and then i would start by consuming someone right like from you know maybe it's me and then you watch all my videos and then you know you catch me on a good day I will if you ask questions through Instagram like I will respond right gosh I'm on a good day right and that's a

nice little thing because then you could ask you know and then I'll ask hey like who's your teacher and then you can write dialogue going and then the conversations really where it's at you know we talked a little bit about learning styles right now that interpersonal learning right because you can't just learn when i'm just talking at the camera and doing something that i do might not be a fit for you right but you watch it you watch all my stuff you kind of understand where i'm coming from my whole situation my philosophies because i repeat myself all the time right system this context that right right side versus left side you have to understand hand

position blah blah blah right so now if they have specific questions after they watched all my stuff now they could ask good questions if you watch one video and you ask me a question like hey i noticed you did this with your left hand what should i like i'm not answering that question yeah because you're not asking the right question you don't even know that you're asking the right questions right right so you buy the seller right which. You don't even know that you're asking the right questions. Right, right. So you buy the seller, right? Which is like you find the teacher that you like, watch all their stuff. And then you can reach out to them and then ask them smart questions. Right, right.

Right? And then you have a dialogue with your teacher and say, hey, I've been following this guy. And he said this. Like, what do you think about that? And then being as respectful as possible. Right? Because you can always find someone that does something better than you you know your teacher right just nature of online oh right happens to me too it's like i'm teaching an armbar something's like

hey you know i saw uh so-and-so jujitsu whatever doing this armbar i'm like oh yeah great you know i don't know right sometimes i just don't know oh that's that's um yeah you need to be very tactful i guess because you know it's you don't want to be disrespectful to your teacher and then just kind of say hey i don't you know point them out because it's not about it's not that your teacher might be like wrong it's that it just there's a lot of variations and then you know your teacher might do it differently lots of variations, and then your teacher might do it differently. Lots of variations. And then now with the internet, I wish I had YouTube watching growing up doing judo.

I was forced to buy the World Championship DVDs and then try to decipher and figure it out. And then the instructional DVDs that they had back in the day were very low quality. They even had VHS tapes. And very difficult because you can't slow anything down. of DVDs that they had back in the day were very low quality. They even had VHS tapes, right? And very difficult because you can't slow anything down. It's like forward and backwards and rewinding. And it was just horrible, horrible experience. So now you have a slew of information, right?

And you have to learn how to kind of decipher it and sift through the noise. And that really does come with having sort of that teacher right can you theoretically learn everything you can uh on paper about judo techniques online yeah you could watch all the videos ever created from judo you could do that right will you be able to do any of it no we'd be able to make sense of all that information probably not right that's why you still need a dojo that's why you still need sort of a guide a teacher right so you can utilize your teacher consult like it's kind of like yeah this is like a supplemental material and then your teacher can kind of help you suss through all the noise yeah in the beginning so i think uh so as the you know if you are advanced enough then you can kind of watch the video yourself and kind of tell,

oh, this tutorial is not good for me. It doesn't fit my system and whatnot. So you don't have to like pay too much attention to it. But then when you're a beginner, you have like everything is new and everything may fit your system. You't uh you just don't know so you don't know yeah other than consulting your teacher like is there something they can do by themselves as the beginners to like because you suggest that you should probably watch a lot of pick a pick a content creator like a tutorial maker and then watch a lot of the videos and then try to ask formulate smart questions from them but that's a there's a lot of content yeah yeah even on your channel so any concrete steps you suggest to beginners to like what what what kind of videos should they

watch first all right yeah any sort of basics you know Shintaro Higashi, basic judo. Yeah, yeah. It's an obvious plug here. Right. But it doesn't have to be that. It could be anything really. You know, everyone has a different learning style. We talked about this last time.

Right, right. And one of the biggest things I think is important when you're watching videos and stuff like this is being able to speak the language. And we spoke about program language when we spoke about right HD. Yeah, that's that's huge, right? You're hearing all the terminology all the time right first, right? I'm sort of Gary lapel hand sleeve and you know all this stuff advantages and transitions to new waza and right Once you have that sort of language and you could hear it, right, then you could think it, right? And now when you're thinking about it,

it makes sense because you could verbalize it. Right, right. Right? So those things are very important. And then so starting off with the basics to be able to build that fundamental knowledge of the language is huge. So I recommend that any sort of basics program, right? And if you're talking specifically judo,

there's a couple of people who already create that kind of, they already have that product. Right. Me being one of them. You could also reach out to me on Instagram. Right. Judo Shintaro NYC. And then I might send you a couple of links or something like that.

You got to catch me on a good day though, because sometimes I'm busy. Yeah. Right. And he's pretty, he's popular online a lot really popular yeah these days it's kind of growing and you know right thanks to you and all that yeah cool so yeah so what you want to do is you build up the vocabulary and then think about them and then practice them so that you can formulate good questions and then yeah you can be i guess more pointed more uh direct in your to search for tutorials you know yeah if you have specific questions now because you've tried it you can actually you know google

that ex uh specific point yeah yeah so i'll tell you something that I'm doing right now. It's like I've been watching like, man, I always watch highlights and stuff. Right. And YouTube knows this about me. So they're constantly pushing this sort of stuff. And then I've been really getting into like watching like Mongolian Naidam wrestling highlights and stuff.

And then, you know, I was watching that and then I went down the rabbit hole and, you know, watching chimpanzees fighting other chimpanzees even like snapping turtles feeding and stuff and then i circled back around to like greco-roman wrestling highlights and there was this like uh lift off the ground you know it's like a gut wrench lift yeah you do this spiral throw that's pretty cool right so i was like oh man i gotta learn that and i was like i went on youtube and i was like all right tutorials for gut wrench spiral and throw and not too many good ones oh not many good ones at all right so now that's kind of like tempted to like figure it out you know which i've wrestled

right so i can probably figure it out figure it out and then make it you know uh that's kind of exciting and that sort of highlight reel because i watched the highlights right highlight reel i like that let me watch the tutorial for it what is that thing and the beauty of it is in the comment section people like what is the name of this technique you know right and they'll always tell you the whole discussion it's a de la riva it's like what and then you like type that and then people like okay this is my de la riva and i'm like oh that's how it's pronounced right right now you're speaking the language now you're watching the tutorial you know uh you can watch it in slow motion that's the thing about jujitsu you can watch everything really slow right you know it's instantaneous

right right the thing you don't see about these throws is that a lot of it is balance based you don't see the balance part right right right the person doing the throw is on balance the whole time so when you watch it trying to learn it go trying it at the dojo it's like why can't i do this thing a lot of it has to just do with your balance if you're losing balance you can't really do the throw because you can't apply force throughout the movement right if you're trying to catch your balance right it's it's going back to the whole idea of the context like taking into everything yeah so yeah you can so get inspired by the highlight reels and then you know then you can go into the tutorials on those techniques and then you have to try them like like you mentioned has to be interactive you

have to try them yeah you have to try it slowly slowly i can't stress this enough right nothing drives me crazy and then like dude i saw this crazy like no-handed kata gruma backflip like can i try this on you the guy goes in and starts ripped like you know the molalay which one is that you know he's the former iranian oh okay yeah yeah he does like a double sleeve like both arms strapped oh yeah yeah it's crazy dangerous if you right that's crazy dangerous right you have to take it slow yeah you have to take it slow guys gonna see that online come into the dojo and try it full force put their own neck at risk put their opponent's neck at risk right right super dangerous so it's like something like that you got to really take it slow you know what i mean don't don't try them

right or right right in your randori or you know rolling session joint locks are different because you could apply them really slowly right right especially if they're cooperative you could slowly be like does this hurt does this feel you know whatever it is but like a throw it happens fast yeah you're up in the air you have both opponents their arms binded they could land on their head really easily right so all these different things you have to understand the mechanics of the throw and you could understand it visually but as you're doing it right as you're feeling the mechanics of the technique, some techniques you can't really go slow. Like the urunage, the back arch. Right, right.

It's like you lock the belly, going back and arch and taking the person over. Like there comes a tipping point where gravity just takes over. So, yeah, you have to take the momentum and push through. Yeah. Yeah. And then the person's elevated in the wrong way going down in the wrong projection projector like they're gonna land on their head right right right right it's like how do you account for that how do you teach it safely you know and that's it's a tough one

that's why i don't teach it to the general population of my class right right i'll teach you to the the you know not the better ones but the people who can do it yeah the more advanced students yeah i'll teach it you know you've been in the room when I taught it. Yeah, yeah. Right? Yeah. So, yeah, you got to, the general approach should be more, just take the safe approach about tutorials, you know.

Yeah. Right. So now you've watched highlights, you're pumped, you watched some tutorials, you know the basics now, and now you're like really into the whole grappling art and you're watching the matches the whole thing and you try to see the context yeah the some of the matches because you have to understand these athletes are so evenly matched sometimes it's just everything going on you know it's it's hard to see from uh dude it's it's ridiculous how uh

you know you're watching a judo match and most people have no clue and you're right i was like that too you know i was usually seeking out uh the big apples yeah big throws like when is it gonna throw when is it gonna throw something fast forward fast forward fast forward like oh there it is and then i'll like watch that part over and and try to figure out how he did it. Right. You know, something like I was watching Judo the other day too, right? And you have to have this kind of analytical mind a little bit when you're watching matches. Right. So something as simple as right side versus right side, right?

This hand protecting this hand sleeve. The guy's going sleeve, sleeve, sleeve, lapel, right? Sleeve, sleeve, sleeve, lapel. And then it just looks like this thing. They're just, like, kind of slap fighting. He's defending over here. Right. And then sleeve, sleeve, lapel right sleeve sleeve lapel and then it just looks like this thing they're just like kind of slap fighting slap because he's defending over here right and then sleeve sleeve lapel and then the person coming to the lapel side and he cuts across and blocks and then goes over the back over here something like that it's like if you know you're like oh wow right right and then it's like playing the drums because the person's going sleeve sleeve and then every time he goes for the sleeve and pulls back he's missed the rectum the lapel but he's fully aware that this right side is being attacked as

well so he's defended right so it's like attack defend attack defend and then he defends on the opposite side with the hand that he was attacking it was like an instantaneous quick switch you know like that's not fun for 99 of the people right it's not fun for me you know and you just have it's hard to see those because they happen so quickly and then you wouldn't know unless like you do that kind of grip fighting in real life too yeah and the problem with watching something like that is attention span a lot of times i have zero attention span you know yeah very very limited and something like that is very very very important when you're looking at throwing someone because now all of a sudden the person has a deep over the back grip right and they have a huge you know turn throw right but they can only really throw from back here and that

one shot that they got it like you maybe they throw a huge kosher groom or something. And it's like, oh, right? It's that precursor thing, the checkboxes that are necessary in order to make that throw work. Right, right. Right? So, you know, a lot of this like focus and where to watch, what to watch. What is actually going on behind the scenes? You're trying to read in between the lines. Right.

And it's super boring. Like I can't do it for more than. between the lines right and it's super boring like i can't do it for more than and it took me a very long time to develop this sort of skill of watching the match and right understanding what is actually going on so what are the some of the specific things you do when you watch now that you're you like the analytical thinking like because so before you thought you found them boring but you developed a way it's still boring to me. Oh, it's still boring. Yeah, super boring.

So, you know. Yeah. What do you usually do, though? Like, do you have to. You do watch them. I do watch it. Yeah. I do watch it.

And, you know, it took me a very long time to sort of naturally develop this lens now. So when I do watch a judo match, it's like I understand. And then I can watch it and it's automatic for me almost right right and my natural inclination is like oh just watch the throw but then it's really no different than me watching the highlights i usually do that right yeah yeah so i force myself if i really want to figure something out it's like why did this move work i have to go back to the whole match and watch the whole match i see i see yeah so then like if i'm really trying to figure something out then i'll do it i guess that's more like the guided approach we've been talking about where you try these things yourself try to integrate this particular throw in your system

and then like you say a throw can only happen when you take into account the whole context so now you go to the matches where this throw was used yeah and then you look for the cues up there leading up to the throw that you're working on so that will make things more less boring more fun even yeah and then you have to build it from the beginning up right because now all of a sudden you're watching it and then it's let's just say for instance you're watching it and then it's i figured it out i tried it at the dojo i'm working out with peter and then i'm watching this thing and he's doing it this way and i'm trying to do it but i can't really do it and then it's like i just don't know why and it's something as simple as me doing it to you peter

right side versus right side on the video it's a right side going against the lefty player so maybe they're not giving the same sort of cues that are available to actually hit the technique right right right so starting with watching the entire match okay who's right side who's left side right and sometimes it's not clear-cut because they switch right and some of the best athletes in the world do maybe 60 right righty, 40% lefty, and they have preferences. So understanding that sort of a situation. Right. Understanding the gripping schemes, the opening gamut to like where they put their hands on first.

Is it an off-the-grip attack, right? What is the timing of this move? Is it when the person disengages with one hand and then it's a one-handed attack or is it a two-handed attack? Right. And what are the assumptions that the opponent is making for the technique to work right although the fake the the fake yeah maybe there's things right what are the yeah so the person gets bombed in one direction it's like why did he get bombed it can't be as simple as the person just grabbing him pulling him in that direction and taking him right right maybe the person's like

oh i know this guy does a tomonage he's unbelievable at the tomonage so watch out watch out like for instance takato he does that kochi that's spectacular right right right he does kochi spectacular right side versus left side he blocks that shoulder he moves sumi move sumi right and he moves in the same spot for the sumi and as soon as you're resisting back onto your heels and pull your shoulders back to resist that sumi, he switches to the koji. Right, right, right. It's not even like he switches koji. He just goes for it.

So, like, to the person who's just watching that koji, it's like, that's an amazing koji. Let me try it at the dojo. And it doesn't work. Yeah. If the person's not reacting to that sumi. Right. Right. It's not going to work.

Which means you need to develop a sumi right and if your opponent's never seen a sumi before they're not gonna know how to defend it right so it's which means yeah so there's a lot going on there so now is it really worth trying to learn that one kochi it's not because you have to be in a right side versus left side setting you have to have a sumi gaeshi? That's a threat enough to instill a reaction. Your opponent has to know how to defend that sumi properly and intelligently. And now you're exploiting that person's reaction. So is it worth really learning that?

No. Not at all. Like it's too specific. Maybe your dojo has no lefties. Right. Oh, man. That's who you're going to do it to, you know? So you're going gonna spend all your time

and effort drilling something right and that was a great example of takato kochi yeah yeah that's proud of myself for that one yeah i mean that's he's amazing and but yeah like like you said you have to remember uh the whole context why he does that and the things get very specific and also you shouldn't get discouraged by the like when you try to integrate the coach into your system and it doesn't work in randori at your dojo you shouldn't get discouraged because you might be missing some of the key uh you know the key points and precursors. Yeah. That's the hardest thing about judo. Cause you're trying to do this coach.

You're trying to make the shape of it. Right. You need the actual reaction for it to be proper. Right. It's gotta be time perfect. He's a timing oriented technique. A lot of the times coachee. Right. Right.

Meanwhile, this guy's trying to throw you. Right. Yeah. And you need your balance to be able to throw anybody. And then the entire game is the other person trying to need your balance to be able to throw anybody and then the entire game is the other person trying to take your balance right so think like you're trying to throw a baseball really hard right right you're standing on a surfboard and you know the thing is going

right it's like you're kind of trying to throw the ball but like the surfboard's going like you're surfing right right you're like constantly thinking about your balance like how are you going to apply a lot of force right where you're sort of on this like unstable place and that's what it's like you know right right that's what makes it so tricky uh i think it that made me just think uh you know i don't know if you've gone uh rock climbing i know you know eugene your cousin eugene does it a lot and in rock climbing they call these uh uh the the configuration of the wall like a problem yeah you know there's like different colors that you have to follow right they call it a problem and they say they they're working on a problem instead of like i'm climbing so i guess in a way you should approach all these

videos and whatnot in that way like you're trying to when you're doing judo you're trying to solve this problem how do i throw the other person with this technique and you have to kind of you can yeah you can right and you're right but some people that's not their style some people are just big strong athletic and they just want to muscle through that's okay some people are just intuitive athletes right and that's sometimes better you know for me i was uh sort of intuitive style i couldn't explain any of the stuff that i did for a very very long time it wasn't until after i started teaching and people started asking me questions that i realized i didn't know how to answer them and that's what led me to like figuring a lot of this stuff out to be able to teach and i think that was uh interesting yeah yeah yeah so similarly

to like some people are just great athletes right some people just want to go in and stand and bang that's great you know and if that's what works for you, that works for you, right? You don't need to have this sort of analytical mind and learn this and that. And some people just don't need that. Right, right, right. Right. So that's, it just comes down to your learning style, right? And then it comes down to your teacher too, right? Does the teacher know your learning style? Like if you're very analytical, you know, I got students that are just, I don't want to say dense, but they're dense. You know, they don't want to understand and learn the fundamentals and this and the systems,

and they just want to, they just want to go work out. And I'll gladly teach those guys in a way that's suitable for them. Right? A lot of times those guys are like, hey, sensei, let's work out. Okay, let's do routes. And they're just scrapping and scrapping and scrapping. That's how they learn. They got to feel it out with their bodies. And when they say, how did you do that thing that you did? If I get into the right first right, the sleeve, this, and I set it up that, I'm going to lose them. Right, right, right.

Right? So it's like, this is how I did it. Here, and then I went for it. And then something i'm as simple as that so i really do cater i tried to at least yeah you know nice so yeah the match analysis stuff if you could sit down with a very very knowledgeable person and then watch it together that's a huge it's really huge right right because you see a lot of i see that's what those are one of my some of my favorite videos on your channel

like the randori commentaries not just because i'm in it but you know even it's just you see a lot of things that even i miss you know and yeah it's the the things you see like the train eyes see are it's pretty crazy pretty crazy problem with that type of video yeah first of all it takes a very long time to make right uh maybe not you know for me because i have no editing skills but the problem with those kind of videos doesn't fare well from uh like popularity popularity standpoint yeah people people are always asking for it but whenever i post it it's like not that. People don't want to watch that. People want a quick, like, hey, guys, what's going on?

This is how I do my Tomonage. Boom. This is the other way. These are the reactions you might see. Here it is. This is me throwing George twice. Boom, boom. All right, guys.

See you. Well, for those of you who want more of those videos, watch all those videos so that it shows on the data, I guess. So it's worth for Shintaro to spend more time on them. That's right. you know watch all those videos so that you know it shows on the data i guess so yeah yeah shintaro it's worth for shintaro to spend more time on him that's right no but seriously i mean like i i might get something out of something like that but not everyone gets yeah you know and uh it takes time and mind mind energy to like sit down and watch that and listen to it and digest it like it takes effort right you and listen to it and digest it like

it takes effort right you probably have to watch the same thing same match under around like over and over again try to yeah yeah and i have to be like uh in the mood for it too right highlight reels are easy that's like uh it's like judo porn almost yeah you just watch it you veg out like oh look at this guy throwing tile that's amazing I'm gonna do this to somebody you know you visualize you being in it Instagram is so bad for me like that because it'll just show you

everything like the judo throws and wrestling throws and BJJ submissions and I could just slide through like forever swipe over forever follow Justin Flores

J Flo no I try not to follow these big accounts because I feel like my whole I wouldn't be able to get out of like stop watching these but you follow them I mean I'm sure you follow all the big ones

not all of them but I have a couple of favorites I have a couple of favorites that they have to win me over for me to follow them? I mean, I'm sure you follow all the big ones. Not all of them, but I have a couple of favorites. Yeah. I have a couple of favorites that, you know, they have to win me over for me to follow them. Yeah. So let's kind of go into that now. Now that we talked about how to digest

these different types of content online. So what are some of the things, like specific accounts that you might recommend or some of the ways you might want to you can people can use to find these types of content like for highlights? What do you recommend? I like the IJF stuff, right? Because, you know, I'm just I have my biases towards it. Like the international judo competition scene, like it's this unified thing globally, right?

And then it's just an incredible thing, you know? So anything IJF produces, and people take videos from that. I can't remember off the top of my head, but yeah, they have that. They've upped their game. You can find it, you know? Big time with their content and online presence and stuff like that now they're flagging people on youtube for uh copyright stuff too because i think they want to control a little bit more of what's out there right you just want don't want people coming in clipping it just making whatever right right you know and they want to

have a little bit of i guess quality control or make sense yeah yeah yeah yeah so i see so all the ijf produce highlights and then i think the stuff on instagram there they're like the snippets of the you know matches and they're pretty good like yeah so to get to get inspired one of my favorites is like the road to the finals or something like that oh yeah yeah those are fun that way i could see you know who they beat you know and it's like i don't have to go back check the brackets or something like that and see you know uh oh this guy beat this in the quarters oh that's a tough match for a final match you know like oh he got beat in the semi sorry that's cool you know what did he beat him with and oh it's taiyo whatever you know and like

i kind of like that you know it's an easy way for me to like stay kind of involved and understanding the current right currentness i guess judo because i don't really follow it that closely i should yeah i mean i don't i don't know if i should i'm just not a sports watching person i'm a sports doer but you know like i watch the super bowl but that's it yeah i don't really follow football i don't oh you know the yankees this and that i'm like uh you know i'll go to a game sometimes and yeah you know yeah i see i see what you mean and yeah yeah same with judo yeah judo junkie but i don't watch it i don't watch it what about you mentioned justin flores i i what what we're gonna say about him justin flores is spectacular. He's a Division I wrestler. A top judoka.

Some people say he's the best judo guy that didn't make it to the Olympic team. Because he should have, in my opinion. He was one of the best. Very, very best. He was a leading judoka for a very, very long time. And as I was sort of coming into

the circuit, he was already established right so he's keenan cornelius's judo coach oh keenan cornelius is like a jujitsu guy right right yeah he's pretty famous yeah i've heard of him yeah yeah keenan cornelius is the warm guard guy yeah yeah he's the guy that says not brazilian jiu-jitsu american jiu-jitsu right and he has his dojo out oh jiu-jitsu or whatever it is and uh no he's just a famous guy famous jiu-jitsu guy and he has a partnership i guess with justin floris justin teaches judo out of there and justin creates cool cool cool content he has a whole website and this and that but the thing he does really well is he'll show like a 20 second clip of him doing like a really cool thing like oh you know sweep single

come up to the body under hook ochi and tatayo boom boom fast and it's almost like it's not a tutorial right what he does on instagram but it's like a showcase of like a quick combination and it's beautiful and i love it and he does the slow motion stuff sometimes and he's got crazy amount of followers for judoka right not for like an instagram model those girls that's another planet right but for a judo grappler right he has a lot he has a huge following i see so and then you get inspired by those quick clips the highlight reel type of deal yeah i think a lot of it is like him putting that stuff out there and people tagging each other and a lot of eyeballs are on it and then he sells the system like hey if you guys want to learn the j flow sis justin flores he people call him j flow oh okay justin fl for Justin Flores. It sounds pretty cool.

He's got the name for it. Yeah, he has a very flowy style. He has unbelievable tomonage, great wrestling, all that stuff. So, yeah, he's using Instagram to push his system. I see. Yeah, that's definitely something that I suggest watching. Nice. American Judo System is another one that Jimmy Pejo and Travis Stevens are doing now.

Right? It's like a subscription-based judo thing. And they do coaching, online coaching. They do this and that. Right. And then a lot of their Instagram and the YouTube stuff that they do is built and geared towards pushing that. I see. So that they will put out.

Yeah, I follow Travis. and geared towards pushing that i see so that they will put out uh yeah i followed travis and yeah he puts out like this quick uh tutorials and highlights and whatnot yeah so let's kind of move on to the tutorial side obviously you will put out great content great tutorials on youtube maybe plug yours a little yeah yeah i have a youtube channel guys if you're listening to this you probably already know this right right so so that your channel and then it's any other good tutorial uh content creators you've seen judo wise or yeah yeah judo wise well i think we can also talk about like bjj or wrestling in general yeah truthfully man i've been really pushing this guy brian glick um he's right right he teaches me bjj and i teach him i've been teaching judo for a long time uh and we kind of have this thing we just literally it's like we get two hours

together and then i teach him i work out with him for judo for an hour and he does jujitsu with me for an hour yeah i love his teaching style i've seen some of you know some of the videos you put out on your channel like he teaches the jiu-jitsu he's great man he is spectacular he's concise he's clear right he's eloquent everything about him i like his youtube channel went from literally probably like 80 subscribers to like 5 000 in the span of like the last like five months or so oh he just started i just started okay i see and a lot of it was like me too like we're working out on a weekly basis right and then i'm like talking to him about my youtube stuff and i'm like dude you got to do it you got to do it you know like trying to talk him into it and he's like yeah yeah and i was like i'll do my best to help

you you know so and i like his teaching style i really really do. It's like mine, you know, it's concise. It's clear. If I say so myself. So check out Brian Glick's YouTube channel. Like if you're watching this. Yeah. He's great. Nice. Great, great instructor. Right.

Nice. Yeah. It's a beautiful thing, man. The YouTube. It's like, honestly, man, because there wasn't such a YouTube thing. Like I would just be confined by the walls of the dojo. Right. Yeah. The only way to learn from me is within the dojo and you know with the pandemic it's like even that's very

restricting you know people just don't understand right right right now people watch my youtube videos like i like his teaching style right i like the way he you know talks about the stuff like he's legit i'm willing to come in and pay for a private now we're only doing privates something like this right right you know and it really expands my horizon and it really gives me validation when people watch and they're like oh this guy's pretty good yeah and it makes me feel good you know i don't like the comments when they're like oh hey gosh you got fat or all this stuff why people say that yeah you know if i gain weight people will mention oh my okay interesting why wouldn't they you know it's a youtube right oh yeah i guess you're like you know i mean it's it's a scary it could be a scary world

you know the youtube youtube channel i guess um well yeah i mean not only the like people in america i've i see the comments i always check your the comment section of your videos is that and then some people from like uh i think like argentina or chile like they're really global yeah and they they like asking you to translate and then like put the subtitles on whatever and it's amazing how now you're like it's pretty cool yeah yeah i really like it cool so yeah you uh you know take advantage of all this uh content on youtube guys brian glick and of course shintaro um how about in terms of matches and analyses i i know you mentioned the igf content they put out they have a whole huge channel where they actually live stream a lot of the tournaments yeah all those tournaments are live stream you can do like match mat one mat two and sometimes like i'll catch like

you know the grand slam happens four times a year and it's happening and they're live streaming it and it's like oh man like the time zones fit perfectly and i have a little bit of downtime and i happen to be in front of my computer and i see that it's going then i'll watch it right i'll check the brackets and i'll be like, match one or match two or whatever it is. And that's great. And I think that's something. And if it's a world championships, I'll try to make time for a couple of the days,

usually weight classes that are near my weight class just because a lot of the competitors that I competed against are still there. So it's like, I like seeing that. It's like, oh, what would have know it's like oh what would happen if i would have stuck it you know right or whatever it is yeah so you know it's pretty cool uh that's something that i i do recommend but some people aren't visual right spectators like this it's sport yeah you know you can't force yourself to do it you know like i tried to get into watching

football yeah so many times just because all my buddies were doing it. My buddies were watching football and talking about it and this and the draft and what is the thing, the fantasy football. I tried it. I did it for like three or four years. It was like pulling teeth. Couldn't get into it.

Getting on there like, all right, this quarterback, I got that guy, swap him out. I'm like out and like oh boy this is stupid i i've got one league i don't even watch football but i just play play fantasy football with my friends just because yeah it's a social thing to do yeah i don't know i usually just follow what whatever recommendation that system makes for me i don't even put up that charade anymore do you do you when you watch matches so what i do is i just i have like some of my favorite judokas like i will always watch ono shohei uh of course

you know a lot of the korean judokas i follow so i try to watch their matches do you have like favorite uh judokas besides the ones that you actually compete against like do you have someone that like you're a fan of this jiroka so to speak or do you do you like that approach you don't yeah i do like that approach i like ono i think he's just in the right weight class and he's amazing you know so i like watching him i really do i like his style right but i won't seek him out just to watch his stuff you know uh yeah man a lot of it for me is convenience you know time is of the essence now with kids this and that can i spend every you know watching judo all day and every day like i probably actually i don't know if i can but like i i could do that right right right and it'll be endless you know will i get a lot out of it?

Probably not. There's so many ways that I'm getting my value out of judo already. I don't need all this other stuff, and it's really not going to help my overall judo at this point, I think. I see. Just watching up in the watch time. But yeah, to answer your question, yeah, I like Ono. I love seeing some of the unknown guys coming through the ranks.

Oh, nice, nice. Yeah. Love that. Love that. It's like, hey, this guy's, you know, and they don't really have, like, announcers like this, you know what I mean? Like, if you're watching international tennis, the announcer is different. Yeah. And, you know, their story, you know, their family.

There's this girlfriend in the crowd you know like right right oh this guy just had a kid two months ago you know he's recovering from an mcl sprain and like you get the whole thing right but judo is not really like that right but it's like when i do see a young kid from a country he's like the fourth in their country or something and he limped into an international tournament no one knows him right right and then and then he gets through the first round the second round the third round he beats an olympian the fourth round whatever right and i'm like whoa who is this guy let's keep an eye on this guy in the future uh-huh yeah that's like

that's a cool that's a cool yeah yeah i saw a drop of uchi the other day like i have never seen it's like i understood it in theory you mean like type of a on your knees and you push through i think i've seen that one just now this guy took a back step drop to his knees not like into the person like a drop but he like pulled him took a drop to his knee like backwards step onto his knees as if he was doing like uh i don't even know, right? Yeah. And then he just, like, clipped it. The leg was coming.

I was like, oh, my God, I've never seen that before. This guy created creativity, some of these. Yeah, yeah. And I was like, wow, that's great. And I was thinking to myself, like, oh, Luke is going to be like, hey, sensei, can you show me that? Oh, God.

Luke has all the more physical learner, he isn't he yeah he's super physical yeah and he watches a ton of stuff online i see i see he keeps up with everything yeah yeah he's uh he's probably listening right now he's gonna be he's gonna be good i'm gonna take him to the youth nationals oh yeah i i man yeah i know i just i remember going against him, man. He always gave me a run for the money. Now he's different now. Oh, yeah? He's gotten a lot better?

Oh, my. I probably can't keep up with him now. Yeah, you haven't been training. I know. I'm curious. Yeah, I like seeing all the teenagers we had at the dojo you know it's good to

kind of like what you said about these new athletes coming up you know yeah you know Tara

hungry yeah and it's good man because the older I get the better I get at teaching I think I hope so

and I'm always trying to adjust my teaching methods so right right and they get a sort of a better version of me you know until I stop caring when I'm always trying to adjust my teaching methods. Right. Right? And they get sort of a better version of me, you know,

until I stop caring when I'm like 55 years old. I'm sure that'll eventually happen, right? Yeah. Well, then by the time you get there, you probably have like a pupil that could, you know, take over. Yeah, that'd be nice. Yeah. Maybe the crop of guys

now that are going to succeed, maybe those guys are like, Sensei, I got you. Yeah. I'll teach your 7 o'clock or whatever it is. The Shintaro. Someone's like, Sensei, can you show me an Osoro? I'm like, oh, Jesus, Osoro again. Right? And then maybe some

of these guys could take in and like, yeah, I got it. I got it. I'm like oh that's good you know the Shintaro he got his system I'll carry the flag yeah or maybe my daughter

would be teaching yeah that would be so cool I would love that she wants yeah yeah that would be cool cool

cool so the alright so how about do you like do people do analysis on these matches I guess sometimes yeah like do you have any recommendations I tried to do like Abe And it's like, do people do an analysis on these matches?

I guess. Sometimes. Yeah. Like, do you have any recommendations? I tried to do like, uh, Abe, what is it?

Abe Maruyama match. Oh, Maruyama match. Oh, that was something. Yeah. But that was throwing off all sorts of flags with the copyright, this and that.

Oh yeah. So, you know, people, I think, uh, I know Travis did it and then it got pulled two seconds. He,

he pulled pulled he was doing on his own match too and then it got flagged i remember yeah yeah yeah so now it's like that whole segment is kind of gone you know i think they should let the people do the analysis matches right but i don't know maybe they can't segment it to enough to uh right who knows i really don't know how i see the thing works a lot that's too bad yeah it is too bad yeah cool well we covered a lot uh you know i guess i think the lesson here is that you know make sure be smart about uh what kind of content you consume and then try to consider the whole context try to look for the things that you could learn to fit like bring into your own system yes and you consult with your

teacher consult with your teacher and then take it slow take it slow i can't stress that enough take it slow really understand the mechanics and uh yeah and watch thank you guys for listening yeah watch my youtube channel yeah anything else you want to add at the uh before we end nope that's it man cool all right well thanks for listening guys stay tuned for the next episode next week and i'll see you guys soon