The Shintaro Higashi Show - Safe Randori

Episode Date: November 12, 2024

In this episode, Shintaro and Peter discuss how to keep randori safe. They explore key principles of self-preservation, fostering a safe training environment, and the role of instructors in maintainin...g controlled practice intensity. Shintaro shares insights on how to tailor training based on skill level, weight differences, and individual goals, emphasizing why a balanced approach is essential to skill development and injury prevention. (00:00:00) Introduction (00:02:24) Self-Preservation in Training (00:05:26) Risks of High-Impact Techniques (00:09:18) Adapting to Your Training Partner (00:12:03) Letting Lower Belts Work Independently (00:14:02) What Should Senseis Do? (00:17:46) Managing Intensity Levels (00:22:45) Creating a 30% Effort Randori (00:25:44) Encouraging Controlled Training

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Starting point is 00:00:00 you're giving them problem solving things. Here's two plus three, here's three times nine, here's another problem, hands a little bit high, let me attack from losing position. And you're just kind of like trading problems. That's what it should be. Kid, like kids are sometimes like, I threw an adult, like, no, you did it, but good for you for believing that.
Starting point is 00:00:20 Don't do that. Don't fall for a guy five times. Don't coach a mid round. Just let the kid work out. Let the guy work out. Take one or two falls and shut up. Don't give him unsolicited advice. Don't do the thing where.
Starting point is 00:00:33 Hey, your taiyatoshi doesn't feel. Shut up. Just let the guy work. Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the Shintaro Higashi show with Peter Yoo. Today, we're going to talk about doing randori safely or safe randori. Yeah, it's like one of the things you always emphasize, you know. And you've posted some randori videos lately for the gym. So what kind of things, like what do you think about the highlights?
Starting point is 00:01:04 Like were they, like anything, what do you think about the highlights? Like, were they like anything? The safety aspect was it reflected? Like, what would you think about the highlight reels? I mean, of course, right? So like I there was a highlight reel and then there's a video of me just ranting to the guys. Yeah, pre-run Dory. It's a five-minute thing of me saying, all right, guys, don't do this. Don't do that.
Starting point is 00:01:22 Yeah, you guys have to do this. Take it. Keep attention to that. And I'm going to go do this. Take it, keep attention to that. And I'm going to go over those rules in a little bit, but that did really well. That gave me the idea for this kind of Rondori thing. And then you can sort of see it in the highlights, you know, it shouldn't be the case that you see two green belts and below same belts going. You don't really see two intermediate guys doing drop attacks.
Starting point is 00:01:41 You don't see anyone really going for Tanya Toshi, you know, yeah, all these different things that are reflected yes but doing mandori save is a number one thing I don't even recommend it for any beginners for at least six months majority of the time unless it's sort of semi-coordinated so there are multiple aspects of this like it's not just about the people who need to pay attention. It's about the you need the teacher, the sensei has to foster this environment where these things are just automatically encouraged. Right? So, well, let's start with the athletes. So what do they have to what are their responsibilities?
Starting point is 00:02:22 Keeping each other safe. Yeah, but not before keeping each other safe, you have to keep are their responsibilities? Keeping each other safe. Before we get to the sensei. But not before keeping each other safe, you have to keep yourself safe. So it's self preservation first and foremost. That's the number one thing that I preach. And before every mandori, I give them some sort of like a pre-mandori, whether it's one minute or 20 seconds, right?
Starting point is 00:02:41 Just kind of a reminder. So they're constantly hearing, hey, these are the things, you know, I don't go through the whole list every single time. Right. And then I'll single out certain people. Right. I'll do that. You know, I used to get singled out all the time. Hey, you remember no drops on green belts and below. Yeah, you hear me. And then I'll do that. And it that and it's like oh you're calling him out but he should be called out because he did drop say Nagi on a yellow belt last time twice and I warned him yeah right so he gets a public sort of a thing and that's also a reminder to
Starting point is 00:03:18 everyone else oh yeah right right and absolutely no tiny Toshi if you're not a black belt dog Yeah, I thought did you relax several a little bit cuz he used to be like complete man No, but it was like, you know, like for instance all the day Anthony was going with this other kid Patrick. Yes young and tough from Brooklyn 20 or 18 or whatever it is Yeah, really really aggressive and then Anthony was already behind him he postured up and then it was like you know what there was no room forever right yeah yeah he was just like so clean i was like all right fine you know it's okay it was like one of those times you know what i mean and then you watch and you see the intent of the athlete and it's not him just getting out of a bad position or diving for something. He was absolutely certain that there was no way that the knee
Starting point is 00:04:08 was gonna get saddled up or like yeah or anything underneath you know and he slid through pulled him and then at the very end lifted him and then it was just like so well done and you know I think you could teach that but you need ten years of experience to be able to execute that. And then for him, it's okay. For majority of you listening, I don't think you should do it. I just don't, you know, and not because I don't trust you because, but I don't know you, you know, I don't know how good you are. And I don't know what environment it is. And in most cases, I think 95% of cases It is and in most cases I think 95% of cases
Starting point is 00:04:48 Shouldn't go for tiny atoshi in the gym. Yeah, because 95% of you aren't black belts with 10 years of experience Yep, I I agree that yeah, it's the guys who are complaining about online Oh, how these guys gonna learn how to defend a tiny atoshi? No blah blah. You're Probably a black belt and you've been doing it for 20 years. I'm not talking to you Mm-hmm. I'm talking about the guys who's been doing judo under three years Intermediates why are you doing tiny atoshi to those guys? They can pull their knee out You really want these guys diving at your legs that 230 pound guy who doesn't want to fall He's gonna grab you and pull you backwards and then sit his hips down into the side of your knee. You want that?
Starting point is 00:05:26 It's like a risk benefit analysis, right? If you're, yeah, sure. They may not really, they may not be the best Tanyotoshi defender, but you are risking them not being a judoka at all. Yeah. You know, you know what, there's ways to defend Tanya Toshi even before getting the Tanya Toshi by position, by gripping, by posting on that neck with your collar hand so he can't close the distance. Yeah. You know? Anyway, Vandori rules. Yeah, so okay. I'll do it. So you, I, uh, I mean, it's a self preservation first. And then you move on to, okay, you have to know the other, your partner, like,
Starting point is 00:06:11 what level they are, what kind of injuries they may, they may have. Let's go back to self preservation though. Cause I think people forget this, right? For me, it's like, all right, when a new guy comes to the dojo, never seen him before, he wants to work out with me specifically. If he's drilling a watch, oh, he's righty. OK, oh, he's lefty. All right, he's heavier. Mm hmm. You know, all these little things.
Starting point is 00:06:36 And then, all right, Rondori, I didn't get to watch him do Rondori. He's coming at me because sometimes people like I saw you on YouTube. I had to work out with you. You know, and thankfully, most of those guys are not very good So like thank you thankfully, you know, you don't get a all-japan champion coming in challenging me. You just don't get that, you know So anyway first minute just gripping seeing what he's gonna do Right not going for big entangled big which amount of says he might try to count to me in a dangerous way Yeah, right. Yeah not going chest to chest hip to hip because he might try to counter me in a dangerous way. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:07:05 Not going chest to chest, hip to hip, because he might have a dangerous Urenage or something that he's gonna rip. Yeah. So keeping him away, doing some like outside stuff, gripping by the sleeve, controlling them first for the first minute, right? Tiring them out for 30 seconds,
Starting point is 00:07:18 just putting a lot of pressure from the gripping, you know? Yeah. Attacking the feet, low risk stuff, faking and stuff, see what he bites, and then taking them down down once and then riding the rest of the round out Super safe zero chance of me getting in. I don't say zero knock on wood Very very low risk of me getting hurt. Yeah in control the whole time Yeah, not slamming the guy with it on his head doing low risk stuff Right just out gripping him, tiring on
Starting point is 00:07:45 him, done. Now I know where he is completely. And throughout the process of that, I see him spamming certain techniques, going for certain attacks. Now I'm aware. Yeah. You know, if I think the... Yes. And if I faint the Uchi Mata or something and he just dives my legs I could still post and keep him away this guy has a dangerous Tanya Toshi and Now you have to yeah do all this thing like that posting against the chin and everything Yes, that's self-preservation Yeah, I'm tired. I'm not gonna go with this guy. I don't know who he is. Yeah. Yeah, that's a One in the room, I know
Starting point is 00:08:24 So it's like two guys who know each other. I you know, I know Johnny. He gets pretty tough with the hip to hip and right versus left. I'll enter there and like mess around with him for a little bit. Yeah, it's fine if he gets in and takes me down, you know. Not really. It depends on which matters. Right. But then it's safe because I know he's not going to try to throw me, you know, and then disregard my health. He's not like I'm going's not gonna try to throw me,
Starting point is 00:08:45 and then disregard my health. He's not like, I'm gonna take him down at all costs. He's not gonna be like that with me. So he's a black belt that I could train with safely. Trust him, self preservation obviously. Like these kinds of things, self preservation. Yeah, I see. No, don't go for Taiyotoshi on bigger, heavier guys,
Starting point is 00:09:02 because they could land on your knee. Yeah, yeah. So this is this kind of ties into like the grip fighting too like this always staying in control and then yeah, like it don't don't overextend yourself. And so after self-preservation what comes next actually try to I could think of like, oh, maybe you just try to accommodate the partner. preservation what comes next actually They're not gonna learn, they're gonna get frustrated, they're gonna quit. So it's like, what are the things that they're working on? You know, it really comes down to like having a conversation with them beforehand.
Starting point is 00:09:50 What are you working on, what are you trying? And then me as a sensei says to the room, hey, if you're a beginner, white or yellow, about going to black belt, you're not gonna beat them. There's no way. If they wanna beat you, they'll throw you on your head. Okay, you have the ability to slam you at will. Okay. So don't even play that game. You're not competing with that black belt. They're your guide. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:11 They're going to let you throw them. Yeah. Once or twice. That's the, that's the key thing. Once or twice. That's it. Yeah. If you take five falls, it's patronizing. Oh, yeah. Oh, you got me. Oh, yeah. Oh, nice. That was a good throw. Shut up. You know, no one wants to hear that shit. Yeah. You're not a kid. Like kids are sometimes like, I threw an adult like, no, you did it.
Starting point is 00:10:37 But good for you for believing that. Yeah. Don't do that. Don't fall for a guy. You should feel like, yeah, don't coach mid-round. Just let the kid work out. Let the guy work out, take one or two falls, and shut up. Don't give him unsolicited advice. No, you don't grab the key right. Hey, your taiyatoshi doesn't feel. Shut up. Just let the guy work.
Starting point is 00:10:59 How about this? When the person, the white belt or the lower belt locks in the also to Gary and then the push push push push push push push shut up seriously they go for the sailor nagas like oh push push like pull pull pull pull pull pull you know no need no need no need it's disgusting i hate it yeah i see it i'm like stop No need, no need, no need. It's disgusting. I hate it. Yeah, I see it.
Starting point is 00:11:24 I'm like, stop. Just stop. Yeah. So those are like, yeah. Yeah, so they are like the individual, at the individual level, what you should do, self-preservation and then thinking of others, like not being patronizing.
Starting point is 00:11:40 Because then, you know, you're making them better and then they wanna keep working out with you. They're gonna keep back, coming back. And then in return, they're gonna make you better too, because you know, you keep making them better and then they want to keep working out with you they're gonna keep back coming back and then in return they're gonna make you better too because you know you keep a kid around for six months doing that and he loves judo and he's coming every day that kid is not a yellow belt that kids like an equivalent of like a green belt or even a blue belt at some gym that guys go once or twice a week yeah yeah all right so thinking about the other person,
Starting point is 00:12:06 letting the guy work, and then letting the guy work means you're not out gripping him 100% of the time. Of course you're gonna be able to out grip him and control him the whole time. Yeah. Sometimes you give him a good position, sometimes you give him, you out grip him and control him,
Starting point is 00:12:21 sometimes you just foot sweep him, take him down gently, and then you let them take you down once or twice. And then if I preemptively say this to everybody, don't compete with the guy, there you go. They're gonna take one or two falls for you if it's good. Sometimes you're in good position, sometimes you're in bad position. You as the white or yellow belt,
Starting point is 00:12:39 it's very important for you to recognize when you're in throwing position. That's the number one thing. This is a learning drill. This is not a competition. If it's a competition, they'll throw you on your head in 10 seconds. I guarantee it. Okay? And even though it's not always true. And it's a good opportunity for Ohio belt to put yourself into a bad position and try to like work out of it. Or like you know try practice like neutrals under control.
Starting point is 00:13:05 You know, you can't you can't try like kind of kind of a Sami all the time or something like that. But yeah, yeah. Even like letting the person in with an OCHI and then dropping around and let them try to figure out how to finish it. You know, that's that's a good drill. You know, no need to go you go here, go here. No, stop it. Let him figure it out. You know what I mean? No one wants to be on the bottom end of that hierarchy of like, Oh, this coach is like, you know, you're being like daddy to a little bit. Who's your dad? Yeah. Who's your daddy? I got you. Yeah. Who's your uncle? It's like,
Starting point is 00:13:34 yeah. Oh, man. You know, I hate that stuff. So now these are, you can't just rely on the individuals to be like, Oh, in their best behavior all the time. So you kind of have to kind of foster this environment and then it's especially important for you as a sensei, right like yeah kind of instilling this culture of Self preservation and you know care for others So what are some of the concrete steps you take at your dojo and then you recommend to for other senseis to do so just very subtly I'll slip those in there hmm right guys we're gonna do run Dory remember less talking more judo yeah I love that I love you're talking you're
Starting point is 00:14:20 not doing judo stop talking the time for talking is not now we're doing run Dory this is like drilling time skill acquisition time a lot of the times when You're not doing judo. Stop talking. Time for talking is not now. We're doing it on Dory. This is like drilling time, skill acquisition time. A lot of the times when you're thinking things through, you don't want someone bombarding you with nonsense. You know what I mean? I'm thinking, oh, what is the entry? Was my fate pretty good?
Starting point is 00:14:37 I'm trying to work Uchiman on the guys. Like, your pinky's not in the right place. It's like, it's distracting. It takes away from their learning experience. You don't know how they learn. What makes you an expert just because you're a black belt most black belt sock, you know, we're talking about stop You know like not interrupting them don't think you're being helpful because you don't know how they want to be helped. Yeah Yeah, right. So like throwing that it that's talking more judo. Yeah, I'll say that in the middle of a class
Starting point is 00:15:02 I'll see guys coaching guys while they're yeah, that's talking more judo. Yeah, I'll say that in the middle of a class. I'll see guys coaching guys while they're Yeah, let's talking more judo. That's a very short and to the point like, you know, yeah, and instead of embarrassing someone, let's just say there's a black belt with a green belt, and they're kind of doing like, Oh, yeah, the title. She there title. She there. I'll walk by and be like, Hey, less talking more judo. I'll make eye contact with the guy guy, and then he'll know, like, oh, he's talking to me. All right, maybe I'll, you know, things like this. You know what I mean? Hey, you can talk after class. Right, this is the time to do Andori,
Starting point is 00:15:34 not learning a new technique. Hey, we're not trying new YouTube things and asking questions. This is not a time for questions. This is not Q&A. You should have done that during Uchikomi. Or after practice, you can stay and do some, but this is not the time for that. You know, things like this, you know. Do you say something specific about safety in this subtle way too? Yeah, like don't
Starting point is 00:15:57 rip it. Yeah. For instance, like Osorogari's. Get in a subtle position, don't rip it. Sometimes you just got to know when you're sunk and just take a break fall so you could get back up and do it again If you're resisting it when you're stuck and the guy rips it your knee is gone Mm-hmm, if you're no soda Gary and you don't go to your back and try to twist out of it and land on your shoulder Your shoulders destroyed. Yeah. Yeah, so self preservation guys Just take the break fall get back up and do it again If you're locked into a soda you both know if you're sunk or not get back up and do it again. If you're locked into a Soto,
Starting point is 00:16:22 you both know if you're sunk or not. Don't try these last ditch efforts to spin out of stuff because it just increases the risk for both players. If you're falling and you cling onto me, I have to make the decision, whether to land on you or dive over you, which risks us both. You could risk getting your ribs broken.
Starting point is 00:16:44 I could risk trying to dive over and landing on my shoulder. So just take a fall. You know these things I will say explicitly and I have like nine to ten go-to's that I'll say depending on what the room is doing. So Sensei you can't just treat the randori session as your own practice round. Like you have so many other things to worry about, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:14 So. And then I'll do like, all right, first five rounds, let's increase the intensity little by little. Intensity is a little bit too high. People are scrapping like crazy. I'm like, all right, guys, let's bring down the intensity just a little bit. I'll say things like that to keep it. You know, and I learned this from Joe San Pieri, who runs a Muay Thai gym. And I visited them on a sparring class. And he said 10% to the head, 40% to the body.
Starting point is 00:17:38 Hey, that's way more than 10%. Hey, that's like a 40% shot to the head. If you do it again, you're done. Right. And then I was about to ask that like the emotions could run high in randoy situations and some people will forget all these rules and kind of just like rip it you know even though you know there's a mistakes right like even though they don't usually do it mistakes could happen so how do you deal with that well you know sometimes the intensity starts ramping up and I'll just stop the round Yeah, I'll Reduce the intensity a little bit and I'll remind him. Hey, remember there's a weight difference
Starting point is 00:18:15 You outweigh the guy by 40 pounds. Remember that yeah, you know, cuz yeah it happens, right? Cuz the we had like a green belt versus orange and the orange belt outweighed the guy by like 30, 40 pounds. And then the orange belt is not his experience, but you know, he's coming after the green belt and it just seemed unsafe. Yeah. Hey, remember you outweigh the guy by 40 pounds. I don't care what belt you're wearing. You're outweigh the guy by 40 pounds. You have to take that into account. And it's like, okay. And then if that kept going at that pace, I'd be like, all right, guys, you giving me an ulcer, done, over.
Starting point is 00:18:49 Yeah. Pick someone else, please. I see, so you just stop up. Yeah. I'll stop, I do it all the time. Yeah. I'll probably do it like two or three times a class. Oh, wow, okay.
Starting point is 00:19:00 You just seen me do it. Yeah, I mean, it's, I mean, this kind of goes to show how much attention you have to pay as a teacher. And also, it's a good time for us to thank our sponsors. Yes. Thank you very much, Drew, Jason and LaVon for sponsoring us. Judo TV, discount coach Jintaro. Tokyo Grand Slam is coming up, so definitely watch that. Higashi brand. You guys could sponsor us too.
Starting point is 00:19:28 And you guys can have me at your gym for a seminar. Easy peasy. Yeah, it's a boutique seminar tailored to your needs. It's not going to be like a package deal that you get from Walmart. So also, greens and below, no drops. Oh, oh you actually okay. It's kind of new. I don't think you explicitly like said that when I was there. Yeah no drops green and below. No Tanya Toshi unless you're two black belts. All these yeah rules. Yeah I see. If you go out of bounds
Starting point is 00:20:02 and touch the wall, mate. Yeah. You don't fight off the wall for safety purposes. That was my favorite move. That's my favorite thing. And then when you lift someone up, mate, put him down and you break away. Yeah. Throw off the put down, right? Don't finish the suplex. Yeah, you already know that's like, the hard part is done. That's not risk. Your brother got suplexed once. Oh man, really?
Starting point is 00:20:29 Yeah. I didn't see it. I wasn't there, right? No, no. But he was like, they went out of bounds, they hit the wall. He was walking back to the middle of the mat. The guy ran up and grabbed him around the waist and suplexed him. And that guy outweighed him by like 50 pounds.
Starting point is 00:20:50 But you know, that's the thing. It's self-preservation, right? Because David was under the assumption that the other guy was playing by those rules and that guy was new. He came from a Sambo gym, and then he's new in the room. And David has a brown belt on. So he thought, you know, I see. Right, so this is one of those things, I probably said something like, all right, make sure weight discrepancies, all these different things matter. And then maybe I said, out of bounds,
Starting point is 00:21:16 maté, lifting, you don't finish suplex, I probably said those things. Yeah. But maybe he wasn't listening to this guy. Yeah, I mean,'s a for if yeah if the person is near like it, you know, it might be a lot Yeah, and you know, maybe he was in the bathroom there and you know, but it's also I don't say David's responsibility But to preserve himself and then always be attentive not assuming Yeah, the guys gonna do something like that right out
Starting point is 00:21:45 of bounds touch the wall you know you're still kind of defensive okay okay okay my thing my thing walk back to the mat maybe yeah like one thing you could do to prevent such situations to be explicit like yeah instead of just kind of like walking back you just make it clear to everyone that that exchange is done. And then I'm like, let's reset or something. I mean, it just, Yeah. And the other person was probably like frustrated
Starting point is 00:22:15 with David too. Probably, yeah. Yeah. David's not easy to throw, so. Yeah. I mean, that's the thing. It's a, you got it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:22 Emotions could run high. And then as a sense say you have to pay attention to these things and you can't it can't be perfect you'll miss you know yeah so you have to the idea is to keep all this like filters like no preservation you know mutual benefit all that and some of these rules and you just minimize you can't be perfect you can't prevent everything but you just want to minimize yeah and then doing semi run Dory 30% run Dory where you're giving and taking and people are very very bad at this yeah very bad
Starting point is 00:22:53 because I did it the other day who was I going with I was like oh yeah we're doing they was and I was like you know I just like I want to break a sweat and ease into it and do a lot I Oh, I said that and I you know Flow means flow. I mean, yeah guy immediately tried to pass my guard like full throttle. I'm like, oh my god, you know Like I'm retaining he's slipping the other way And I was like, oh relax You said that yeah, well, yeah trying to like relax. Yeah, I'm trying to go light. It's like, oh, I'm going light I'm like, okay, he just doesn light. I'm like this guy can kick. He needs a private lesson.
Starting point is 00:23:26 I mean, be like, listen, we're trying to exchange positions. If you pass my guard, you're gonna let me regard. And then if I go for a sweep, you're gonna let me sweep. And then it's gonna be this back and forth thing where it's like, it's very, very difficult for people to do, especially with tachywasa. It's like, hey, let's grip. When you have an advantage, you'll enter some stuff,
Starting point is 00:23:46 not finish anything, right? And then maybe I'll try to count on one or two things. You're giving them problem solving things. Here's two plus three, here's three times nine, here's another problem. Hands a little bit high, you know? Let me attack from losing position. And you're just kind of like trading problems.
Starting point is 00:24:02 That's what it should be. It's problem solving while you're moving, attacking the feet. Think about this, attacking this side, trying this, putting there. You're trying to put these moves together. I'm allowing you, because I know you're trying this new thing, which you suck at,
Starting point is 00:24:18 because you've never done it before. You're trying, that's why we're there. Try to learn this new skill. If I shut everything down and pull your head down and throw you, we're not gonna develop these skills. So having this like 30% back and forth problem solving round where we're trying to figure things out, that should be the bulk of your training for most people.
Starting point is 00:24:39 But most people are terrible at it. Do you teach your students explicitly like how to do this? Yeah I try to at least. Yeah. But it's not easy you know. Yeah. Not easy. Yeah. Sometimes I'll do that in the class and then that lesson sort of sticks and carries over to the next one and then there's guys who will pick each other and then hey this is our thing, me and you. Yeah. You know. it's like, maybe I don't like how much heavier you are than me. Maybe you have a thing about losing to a guy that's smaller than you.
Starting point is 00:25:11 Maybe like we're gonna develop this friendship where we're gonna do this kind of training when we see each other. And I have guys like that too, in jujitsu. You know, not that I'm scared of anybody, but it's like, you know, this guy is the guy that I go with fourth or fifth a Little bit tired. Yeah good cardio
Starting point is 00:25:31 Push the pace a little bit give and take we're both making each other better. It's a technical thing Yeah, these guys were like no way these guys ever get an inch on maybe they got to beat his ass You got to kind of cater your own training. Yeah, yeah. And then so it's like hard rounds, soft rounds, technical rounds, this guy's much more smaller and lighter. So this is I'm working on these things. Everybody and then you know, it's like you got to cater like, all right, I didn't go
Starting point is 00:25:59 anywhere with any lefties today. I got to go with some lefties. You know what I'm lacking on the lefties. Today's gonna be a lefty themed day. I'm gonna try to get as many lefties in training today as much as possible. So now little by little, you're filling that information gap in your game. You're always looking at it from an introspective way and say, I need to fill it with these things. I gotta work on that thing. Ochi finishing. Sometimes it's lacking. It's a little bit rusty. finishing. Sometimes it's lacking. It's a little bit rusty. Let me enter Ochi. I'll say this. Let me enter. And then start from there kind of and then start from there. But they're not trying to counter me or just resist the full call calls.
Starting point is 00:26:35 Yeah, they're letting me enter and then giving me different maneuvers so I can learn to finish. Yeah, good training. That's good training. And it's a, people should be in, should do this. And the environment, the sensei have to foster this environment where people feel comfortable doing this type of 30% Randoori too. I think it's a, everything has to come together yeah they think Vandori is Vandori yeah that's it it's not Vandori is a spectrum yeah like your sexuality yeah yeah yeah yeah no but it's a spectrum yeah it's you can't yeah you can't go like for competition prep you You can go very hard But even then like yet you need some taper rounds, right? taper rounds Technical rounds. Yeah rounds against lefties
Starting point is 00:27:34 Rondori rounds where you just working on bailout stuff. Yeah, letting the guy out grip you go on Tomonage Yeah, letting the guy out grip you go and drop Senagi. Letting the guy out grip you, shooting it on the leg. Very technical. One goal. Yeah, that's how you think. Yeah. If you think about this, you can kind of create safer indoor environments.
Starting point is 00:27:55 And it's not a competition. It's the everyone, you're not trying to win the Olympic medal, so yeah. I mean, some of us are, but still, even then. Even more important that you pick and choose your rounds and develop your own yeah training well I mean I mean in the sense that at the randori time during the randori time you're not gonna win the medals exactly because no one's watching and it's not a sanctioned event
Starting point is 00:28:18 yeah and no one cares no one cares whether you win or lose in that practice, except you. Yeah. And if you care, you're not really developing new stuff. Yeah. Cause your new stuff is always gonna suck worse than your old stuff. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:38 On the basis that it's new and you haven't really done it. Yeah. That's what it means, new. You haven't done it, it's new. Right. So yeah. So all in all, yeah, I think it's all, it's your individually, they have to self-preservation,
Starting point is 00:28:56 protect each other, and the senseis have to, everyone actually really is in the gym has to And then you know you want to do it as much as you want and then you then if if you want to do that You have to be safe. Yeah, and send this video to your coach Yeah, send it to your coach Send it and then that way this should be the standard and then Sell your coach For seminar is three thousand dollars of the session
Starting point is 00:29:44 Yeah, man, I'm going to go for these days out there for a seminar is $3,000 a session. Yeah. Man, I'm going corporate these days. But I'm doing a service to the judo community because people listen to this and it affects the room. Yeah, and more people could do it, enjoy judo. More people could do it, safe, I'm friendly, have me in your gym. It's $3,000.
Starting point is 00:30:03 Yeah, very boutique, very boutique. Yeah. Thank you, Peter. All right. All right. Thanks for watching!

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