The Shintaro Higashi Show - Seminar Debrief

Episode Date: May 23, 2022

Shintaro recently went to Las Vegas, NV and Fargo, ND to host Judo seminars. In this episode, he shares his experience with Peter. 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 do a seminar debrief. Recently, I went to Las Vegas and Fargo. Shoshin Kan Judo and Red River Judo to do a seminar. It's been a while since I've done them. So I want to debrief and talk a little bit about them. Yeah, so you went to Vegas in February, March? I forget now. Yeah, March.

Yeah, March. Yeah. And then you just got back from Fargo. Yeah. It was a tricky two sessions because I went to Las Vegas and then only two weeks after that, I went to Fargo. So it was like... Right, right. It was very close together.

Right. Usually, I like to space these things apart a little bit more. Yeah. Yeah. Usually I like to space these things apart a little bit more. Yeah. So let's start from the beginning, like how they contacted you and how they got scheduled. So what happened with Vegas?

So they reached out to me. I mean, usually a lot of people sort of reach out to me all the time and say, hey, how much do you charge for seminars? And I kind of tell them my price range, you know, two to three grand or 50-50 with the gym or whatever it is because I definitely don't want to fly anywhere and then have – I don't want to lose money. And of course there's opportunity cost because it's time away from the kid and my family. So I don't want to do it for peanuts obviously, right? Right, right. So we try to talk about that and negotiate that. They reached out to me and they were like, hey, do you want to do a seminar out in las vegas somebody that i knew and then we were kind of going back and forth back and forth i was giving sort of my options and then you know we put a date on the schedule and we did it

nice nice and fargo was uh is one of our og patron patrons og patreon yeah so steve who's amazing he runs a dojo out there yeah interestingly enough both the dojos that i went to were non-profits and steve reached out thank you steve for having me he was amazing host jd all the guys who were there you know uh who came out and supported us they support us in many ways too watching the podcast and youtube and all that stuff and they're pretty active on patreon i mean the discord server and they always provide good insight and information. Yeah. So that's how you got set up.

So let's go city by city. So how was Vegas? So you flew out. Was it in Vegas or was it in the suburbs or something? It was a little bit in the outskirts of Vegas. And they kind of gave me the option like, hey, where do you want to stay? Do you want to stay on the Strip or do you want to stay closer to Dojo? or it was in the suburbs or something it was a little bit in the outskirts of vegas and they kind of gave me the option like hey where do you want to stay do you want to stay on the strip or do you want to stay closer to dojo i said let me stay near the dojo because i don't want it to be

a thing you know out there like hang out even though i was like you know looking forward you know it's vegas right yeah you know i'll do villaggio whatever so yeah so we went out there and day one i flew in on friday and then And then a lot of people negotiate this kind of stuff, like, hey, can you come the day before so you could work out with us? Or hey, can you come? And in the case of Las Vegas, they had a Kosen Judo tournament. Oh, shoot. Okay. So they were hosting a Kosen Judo tournament.

For those of you who don't know what Kosen Judo is, it's a Nuwaza Judo, Nuwaza-based Judo system. And it's a whole different rule set. Right. So they were hosting that, I think it was on Saturday. So I flew in, you know, someone picked me up from the airport and then drove me to the tournament venue, which is actually the dojo. They were having an inter-dojo tournament. And then I was able to shake hands, say hi to everybody, you know, watch the tournament. It was like sort of the guest of honor, so to speak. speak oh yeah okay okay yeah did you make a speech or something not really i just

said hi to everybody you know hey can you guys come tomorrow i'm teaching a seminar okay okay yeah nice nice and that was my day and then we i went back to the hotel and you know hung out hung out ate food uh-huh you know what'd you eat i can't even remember it was like probably a cheeseburger or something and then the so how was the day of the seminar so was it early in the morning what time was what time of the day was it yeah so early in the morning we did like a morning session and an afternoon session so it was like oh you ran two sessions okay two sessions and you know a lot of was like oh you ran two sessions two sessions and you know a lot of the times when you have clinicians or people coming in to do seminars

it's something that people negotiate some instructors are like hey i only want to do one session some instructors like hey i want to do a morning session for kids and an afternoon session for adults depending on what the demographic is right gym right so for this they did 10 to 12 and then 1 to 3 or 1 to 4 or something like that uh did you do kids and adults after no it was just mixed oh okay okay there's some kids on the mat but mostly adults all right in this case did you did you so what did you teach in each session did you do some different or yeah so what i did was you know so there's many different approaches a lot of people take some people go in there hey let's play a warm-up or let's play a game first and then they give a

speech and then they show some of their favorite techniques and go try it and then they work out at the end but i like to i mean depending where i go you know really cater to the people's demographic how they already do judo yeah yeah so it's like all right, guys, let's do a quick 10-minute warm-up and then let's go right into uchikomi so I can see what you guys do and I can kind of gauge where everybody is. Ah, I see. Interesting. Okay, okay. So as they're doing uchikomi, some people are going hard, some people are throwing, some people are falling over,

some people are not doing uchikomi properly, right? Of course. And there's guys who are just amazing at judo. They've been doing it because you have all sorts of skill levels. Right, right. But I'm trying to pick the most common denominator. What can everyone benefit immediately? So I let everyone do Uchikomi for five minutes. This is already like 10, 15 minutes into the thing, right? And then I bring him in and say, hey, first of all, don't go crazy doing Uchikomi. It's a technical session. If you want to work out and go hard, there's time for that right that's coming up later if you want to accelerate and apply force

through the movements of the throws that's going to come later right right now it's technical there should be two positions neutral off balance neutral off balance for your uke and then you fitting in taking the most minimal approach which is like the minimum effective dose almost. Right, right, right. So you don't want to take too many steps. You don't want people flopping around. It's like point A to point B. That's all you're drilling.

Fit again. Ippon Seinagi, you're here, there, you're here, there. Uke, neutral, off balance, neutral, off balance. Yeah. So then I start with that and then see how people gauge. And then I walk around and give a little independent sort of feedback. Hey, man, you're going too hard. Or hey, man, do you not see that your partner's flopping all over the place? see how people gaze and then i walk around and give little independent sort of feedback hey man you're going too hard or hey man do you not see that your partner's flopping all over the place

how are you gonna uh right this kind of an approach i see i see it's very catered to the room very catered to the room and then i'll do like uh you know moving uchikomi i'll show them three person uchikomi and then i'll sort of go into okay you know now we're going to do misdirections and combinations okay I see and then I'll ask questions like hey do you guys know the difference and then I kind of go there here's an example of a misdirection but this is sort of the caveat that I like to do you don't have to do this you don't have to do fake Ippon Senagi Kochigari especially if you don't have an Ippon Senagi. Right, right. It's not going to work for you. So, conceptually,

you're going to go, fake front technique, go back. Go back, go front technique. Right? So, people can use their own independent techniques. So, you focus more on, like, high-level concepts, really. You didn't really... Yeah, I do concepts, yeah. Yeah. You didn't go in and

show your famous Uchimaru or anything like that i mean i'll do that too right because i'll carve out sort of a time what i want to do is have people have a framework that they could already use their judo and apply it to right i said that way they immediately sort of start getting the idea yeah and this is what i figured out gripping is such an integral part of the game Yeah, but it's not something that you could teach and people immediately get and you can immediately use Oh Interesting because it requires a lot of coordination. Oh And a lot of it that way Yeah, okay a lot of habit breaking people reach for their right hand on the collar in a right side right side setting

It's that's not correct, right? Yeah, but if you're constantly just throwing your hand out and grabbing the lapel, it's very difficult to break that. Because you have to systematically go left hand on, look for that sleeve, go for the right hand on. Right? All this stuff. So you're not sort of getting the best bang for your buck if you're just starting off with basic one-on-one gripping sequences. Right, right. Right? I see. just starting off with basic one-on-one gripping sequences right right right everybody who do judo already knows how to lock up 50 50 lapel sleeve lapel sleeve so adjusting and recognizing when

you have advantage when you are in disadvantage that's something that you can immediately start doing because it requires no real coordination if you're doing it against somebody cooperating right right yeah push this hand down pull this hand up and now your hand is higher than their hand so you see that you're winning now you're starting drilling from there what technique do you do taiyatoshi okay let's make sure that your hand is higher than his hand but not too high because taiyatoshi you need to stick the elbow in the armpit xyz right so now Z, right? So now all of a sudden, as I'm walking along the room, and, you know, there's like 30, 50, whatever,

however many people in the room, I can sort of see what people are doing, and I can sort of gauge like, oh, a lot of people are going for this. A lot of people are going for that. And then maybe I could choose that. Be like, all right, I saw everyone drilling Ippon Senagi. You guys love Ippon Senagi. Let me show you my way of doing it.

I see. And it too is conceptual. It's not like I put my hand here, I go here and I go there. Because if all the criteria isn't met, they wouldn't be able to hit that. So you kind of go like the reasons for your version. Like why you came up with this version, I guess. Kind of, but it's not so much versions, right? It'll be sort of like fill in your own.

Okay. If I have one hand on and the other hand is not on, I'm looking to game a two-handed position. Right, right. Because I want to put my hand on a dominant position. So I'm looking for it. And as they're aware of it, I'm going to go underneath and go Ippon Senagi.

So once you have that sort of dilemma, then you could fake the Ippon Senagi, go over the back. Go over the back, go Ippon Senagi. Obviously fake Ippon Senagi, right? Yeah. So now they can immediately do that. Now you have one hand on, the other sleeve is controlled, taking that hand off and then going Ippon Senagi. Taking the hand off and going back to that dilemma. Right. Right. So now it's like not

very, very specific, memorized this combination or this series of movements. It's more so like, hey, you know, you get it conceptually. I see. So you kind of did similar things

in both sessions. Similar, yeah. Yeah. But as you're doing this, yeah. Yeah. So as you're doing this, because you as you're doing this because you're kind of teaching to the room yeah it kind of takes you to sort of a different level different area right so

then you're like adjusting and shifting with the room which is kind of nice and you know i really like running my seminars that way because it's like i'm growing with the room the people who are doing the judo you love w winning it. I love winning it. But you know, in these settings, I feel like curriculum and stuff like that, it's not the best way for me to teach. Yeah, that's true. Because they should be doing that during regular practice.

If I go in, I'm going to show Osorogari to Sasai, to Ouchi, to drop Senagi, and then go into the details of that right you know but i have no clue what anybody in the room does right you're not gonna get much out of it yeah what if it's a dojo that doesn't do drop senagi right right they just don't do it it's too dangerous or so whatever whatever reason they don't do it maybe the instructor has knee problems and never showed it uh-huh so there's not one person that does it. And all of a sudden, you know, maybe it's a room full of big, big dudes.

Like in Fargo, most of the guys are heavyweights. Oh, I see. So, you know, me going, you know, down the rabbit hole of like, oh, I'm going to do this like lightweight judo. You know, you're not going to get too much out of that. So it's going to shift to power judo. I see. So I showed him how to do three-person Uchikomi, right? All this stuff.

Went to do power-oriented throws versus timing throws and distinguish them between those two. And that's sort of a concept that I kind of went down for those guys. I see. Because it's very appropriate. Nice. So in Vegas, you did 10 to 12 and two to three said one to three one to three and then we did randori afterwards oh so 10 to 12 and android and one to three and then

no no 10 to 12 then there's lunch oh what'd you have i think it was pizza oh nice nice yeah all right and then two to three and then it's like after that, you had an open mess. One to three, and then an open mess situation. Yeah, and then Runduri. It's like, anybody want to work out with me and do a Runduri? Kind of like that. You know, it's kind of expected when you're doing these seminars. Right.

And when you're young. When you're young. You get a young guy in there that, you know, you work out with the room. Yeah. And, you know, very, very fortunate that I'm a heavier person. Right. yeah and you know very very fortunate that i'm a heavier person right i can't imagine being like a lightweight or even a middleweight having a duvendori with everybody in the room right right because it kind of looks bad right we're like showing all this stuff and they fly you out and

all this stuff and then hey guys hey you know you can you work out with us like no you're too big for me or oh i can't work out with you or i'm not going to well you do when you get bombed right right so you know i guess i've only been to you know a kosei seminar and then he worked out with everyone he's a heavyweight too yeah he got hurt yeah i know he like broke his toe at the seminar but he didn't sit out that's the thing no but he sat out the rest of that round yeah he hurt his toe and he was like you know well okay no more for you i'm gonna sit out this one and then go whoever yeah but like he got hurt on that one i know you're okay you never know who you're gonna get you never know who you're

gonna get you know but you did go with everyone i went with everyone and it's a special skill i think you know not to pat myself on the back but to go in there and do judo with everyone and throw them in a controlled way, not like slamming them. Right, right, right. It is. You got to feel them up a little. You have to pace yourself too.

Yeah, feeling them out, fighting grips, moving around and catching like Ochi and then sitting them down so no one's getting slammed. Right. Because that's a horrible experience for them. Right.

Oh, I get to work out with this sensei who's coming in or this youtube guy as a youtube guy and then he came in and you know he threw me on my head and i'm hurt right right you don't do that no so it's like moving in catching emoji moving moving coachy you know even if i do throw them you know with a turn throw it's nice and soft and clean and it's very difficult to do nice you know and i'm very fortunate that i'm heavy so how did the how'd you do it in uh fargo north dakota same thing same thing but what we did was i flew in friday and i went to their practice they had a regular practice yes they had a special practice and then they said hey can you watch and take part of the practice. They had a regular practice. They had a special practice.

They said, hey, can you watch and take part of the practice and give us some feedback? I thought that was very cool. I thought that was very cool that they did that. You didn't teach or anything like that during the practice? No. You were just observing and giving feedback? Yeah, giving feedback notes

because I'm a dojo owner myself. I gave my two cents. Then I did Vandori with the guys. Nice. I did Vandori with the guys. nice yeah i did with the guys and then saturday same thing it was a double session uh-huh well for all like did you do kids session and all or yeah it was actually a triple session i did a you know 9 to 10 a.m kids and then i did was like a 10 to 12 adults and then they had a two-hour launch and then we had a two to four afternoon session and then we're doing right so we were doing judo that was a long day for you we did judo friday we did judo all day saturday by the time we got out of there it was like six o'clock five five thirty yeah what'd you have for lunch

pizza pizza what's wrong with those pizza i don't know man these guys were like yo pizza's here is great okay nice nice you know it's oddly enough like i was in uh vegas and dakota and they're both like oh you know i think we could compete with new york pizza you know you gotta try a local pizza it's very good and i'm thinking to myself like oh no you can't but you know let's give it a shot you know yeah it's hard to impress a native new yorker like pete shentaro with. Pizza is like, we do pizza better than Italy. So, you know. That's what my wife always fights me on this because we went to Naples and we tried the original pizza.

And I was like, dude, I like. It's probably not as good. Yeah. I like my Dallas slice better than, you know, this junk. Well, I shouldn't say junk. No, New York pizza is good. New York pizza, New York bagel, New York, a lot of things, I think, you know this junk well i shouldn't say junk no i like new york pizza is good new york pizza new york bagel new york a lot of things i think you know yeah so then did you uh did you i mean you kind of touched on this uh there were more heavyweights in north dakota so you catered

towards that so what kind of things did you do did um so i hope you got judo and all the distinction right so it would be a little bit more like this is timing based judo you see a lot of lightweights doing it moving kochi catching kochi moving to monage fake to monage kochi shuffling fighting for sleeve and grips right you could do this stuff a lot of grip and hand movements all the stuff but you guys are big guys right you can sort of if you already do sort of this power judo thing you could kind of adopt this approach that's why we focus a little bit more on the three-person uchikomi right and then timing independent attacks during moving uchikomi and then fighting for position gaining small advantages and leveling

up their throwing power so i taught them that kind of thing. And then I would always make a distinction between timing-based and power-based throwing techniques. Right. Right. So were they already kind of doing power judo, you think? Oh, yeah, definitely. Yeah, okay. Definitely.

In Vegas, it was one big dude, really, really big dude. And there was another two or three guys who were partaking, not from that club. Yeah. But there was like two or three big guys there at the Vegas. Right. In Dakota, there were like 10 of them. Oh, wow. Maybe like 15, maybe even more.

So, you know, you have to sort of cater to that crowd. And if I'm showing, you know, drop Sode, these guys are going to get nothing out of it. Yeah. You know, it's hard to do so day on a heavyweight so the since you did the kid session in north dakota what do you do for the kids yeah i did osoto society combination okay and basic misdirection stuff i see and the stuff that i like usually use like my analogy is like hey you guys ever play basketball and you know what kid hasn't played basketball? Right. It's like you pretend to go one way, but you go the other way.

Right. It's like universal in every sport, right? What about soccer? You're trying to score a goal and the guy's in between. You make it look like you're going for one way, then you go the other way. Right. So same concept applies in judo. You make it look like you're going to serve, but you're going to side. You make it look like you're going Osorio, but you're going Sosai.

You make it look like you're going for a turn throw like Harai. Anybody know Harai Goshi? No. Okay. Do you guys know headlock throw? Koshiguruma? Yes. Okay.

You make it look like you're going for Koshiguruma, but then you guys go for Kochi instead. You guys know Kochi? It's kind of like that. So you kept it more concrete with kids. It's a little bit more yeah simple the message is a little bit different you know a lot of it is like hey guys listen to your coach you know make sure you stay safe have fun you guys are doing a great sport and it's not like i don't want to say indoctrinating but they really are special for doing this sport it's a crazy sport right so it's

like hey just the fact that you're here makes you different. Just the fact that you're doing this sport makes you special. And that's sort of always my message to kids who are doing it because it's tough. Judo is tough. And you're not getting the toughest kids into judo. That's generally not how it is, even though it's a very, very tough sport. You get the kids who aren't as tough who want to be tough coming into this sport which is already difficult to begin with i see so they have huge leaps and bounds to overcome in order for them to be what they want to be i see so to like recognize

that and it's very similar with adults too right and i have uh you know tremendous amount of respect for people who do it uh It's not easy at all. And you're not attracting the best athletes, generally. Best athletes are already playing basketball at a high level. They have D1 scholarships. And if you have a D1 football scholarship, you're certainly not going to the dojo on Tuesday, Thursday, and Thursday to do randoi with people who are not superstar athletes.

You know what I mean? Yeah, even look around the gym you know i go to the equinox and there's people who are benching 315 and sprinting on the treadmill those guys aren't doing judo they should be yeah they should be yeah interesting okay so then you did the same thing two sessions two adult sessions and then run away after like open mat situation yeah yeah how did that go it was great it was great a lot of those guys are tough man yeah a lot of guys are tough uh i think they need you know technical stuff like you know just different opinions okay not just like me or they i'm not saying they're not technical they are

yeah but they need different opinions i don't as did i growing up i needed to go to japan i needed to learn from you know the best in the united states i needed to learn from the best in you know everywhere not just my father right my father's friend matsumura would come over and teach me and you know do go to seminars i went to inoue seminar you just need a tremendous amount of bodies different bodies different styles right pick and choose to suit your style and then all of a sudden you get this picture of what judo should look like and then you try to build on that yeah i guess um yeah that's one thing one like one of the best things about new york judo there's so many different styles and yeah yeah but i'll tell

you man now with youtube it's oh yeah ushering in a whole new era man right because these people who i'm teaching these seminars to uh have watched all this stuff especially when they're like shintaro's coming to teach this thing i wonder who this guy is if they haven't already known they're already watching my videos so they're like ask asking you specific questions about things you've seen asking specific questions that i've done the video you know eight months ago that i've already forgotten right right which is great and it keeps me on my toes too because i can't be redundant right nice because if i just taught the basic judo system that i have on you know judo fanatics they would be like i already

saw this yeah yeah why how is this any different than right me just buying the video so it's got to be catered to them it's a differentiated product uh you know and at the end of the day you know it's me winging it but you know it's me winging it with purpose yeah also out of laziness too this is a little bit of a difference it's educated winging educated winging you know it's a give and take. It's growing together. And I love that. And I'll tell you, man, going to these things, like I did them for a while before the pandemic, on and off. I said no to like 80% of the people asking me because it's hard to coordinate and find the time.

And then since the pandemic ended, inquiries are rolling in a little bit more. And I'm starting to take on one or two here, one or two there. I have a couple in the pipeline that I'm not even working on, but maybe I might do. Yeah, yeah. Nice. And it's nice. And it's great to meet these people. The people out there, like in Vegas, Nico drove me around. it's nice. And, you know, it's great to meet these people. Like, the people out there, like, you know, in Vegas, Nico, you know, drove me around. He's the teacher there.

Oh, okay. He was amazing. He was a great judoka back in the day. You know, in North Dakota, you know, the guys who picked me up from the airport and JD. Steven, yeah. Yeah, it was amazing. You know, Aaron. All these guys who are doing judo and loving it you know it's amazing

to see man i got so much out of it just like fulfillment wise right and i got to see north what north dakota is like yeah yeah you hadn't been there before right yeah never been there yeah you were telling me you know people from out of state were driving in like yeah hours idaho there people who know me who have kids who do judo like competitively dojo owners all those guys reaching out coming out you know i greatly appreciate that right right nice cool so you're you're trying to do more now you have you're having fun i don't know if i'm trying to do more i don't know if i'm well you're more open to doing i guess i'm a little bit more open to doing i guess i'm a little bit more

open to doing yeah yeah but i'm like a little bit a little figuring things out you know yeah like if i have a lot of airline points i could probably pass along those savings without getting out there or whatever it is right right right if i could make it a day trip where i fly in in the morning you know and then fly back out, if it's a one-day trip, one or two sessions in the middle of the day, that's a little bit more feasible in terms of time for me because I don't want a whole weekend with my kid. But that's a lot for one day, no?

I guess it depends on where it is. Potentially. I'm willing to take something much more convenient. It's like, all right, you have to be in a hub city. I fly Delta, so if you're a Delta hub and I could buy it with my points

and I could be in and out in a day on Saturday, right, I'm willing to take a much lower fee. You know, I'm like starting to think this way

in terms of like efficient, efficiency and things like that. Shintao is open to negotiation. You know,aro's open to negotiation. You know what's funny, man? Probably the best thing to do

is just start all local. Right. There's a bunch of dojos. Yeah. Yeah. New York, New Jersey, the Tri-State area has a bunch of them.

But it's like I don't want to. It's hard, man. You don't give up a Saturday. You know, it's like my kid wants to play it's hard man you don't give up a saturday you know it's like my kid wants to play she wants to go to the park it is yeah it is true it is difficult yeah it's a so guys you guys better uh butter him up good because you have to take shintaro away from his child yeah his daughter for a weekend this is a lot yep cool so um anything else do you notice do you want to talk about in this debrief session yeah you know i think uh these people who are running these clubs yeah you know real heroes you know uh they're doing the thing right that

really matters you know because most clubs aren't super high commercial successful a lot of these guys are second careers hey i'm a contractor during the day hey i'm retired i'm trying to build this dojo you know a lot of it is a labor of love you know yeah and they kind of have that mentality i would love to like really sort of teach more people on sort of the business i mean we did a business side of the right right right dojo podcast but i would love to be able to give them my two cents. I would love to see them being compensated for their time too. Doing away with guests coming by.

Hey, I'm here to do some free judo because I'm a black belt. That kind of stuff, I really think. We should fly to wherever vacation destination is, go to the local dojo and give them some money. I've never really... I used to go as a young person to a different dojo i was always pay the math fee no matter what even if they said no thank you you know what i mean nice supporting supporting all the grassroots yeah you gotta support the grassroots and i think that's where you grow man because there's kids who love judo people who love judo at these dojos and they're good people they're nice people they love it you know let's support those people

you know and it's not let's give 300 to this guy for travel credit to go to the nationals i don't think that's how you do it right because you know people are saying uh on the bjj subreddit like they were saying how you know don't shit on hobbyists because like as if you're a serious athlete you can't just shit on the hobbyist for being bad then like no that's the worst thing you could do man hobbyists support you if there's no hobbyist if there's no base there is no money in any of this stuff right like there's no hobbyist and there's no dojo for you to train at you know so the arrogant athletes who are you know uh just me i'm the champion you're nobody because i'm the champ and you're here to train me no motherfucker like no you gotta take care of the

people who are coming up and you know you gotta build those people up because they're not there for that you know right they signed up for a different thing that they really laid down the foundation for all the greatness that could come yeah man and you know it's like uh yeah just like so i'm a strong believer in this you know yeah majority of my dojos enthusiasts and hobbies too yeah right i don't have guys who i don't really like the guys who are and i've been a athlete right you know trying to make the thing and you know it is a selfish endeavor right and right you know me i want to be the champ and you know yeah yeah you're kind of you know paying paying it back now all the support you've gotten over the years, teaching and going to these places to support.

Yeah. Cool. But it was an amazing experience. Just a real thank you to Dave and from Shoshinkan and Red River Judo and everybody who's doing the thing and all the people who are participating and supporting those clubs. Right. Big help.

Keep doing it. Keep training. It's a great sport stay injury free i talked a lot about safety it's preserving your body not getting injured practicing a certain way a certain methodology uh you know it's very important to stay healthy and it's a very very inherently risky sport right yeah yeah and if you have inquiries you know you can message me i may or may not respond give your give your best elevator speech for your dojo yeah if you're in a delta hub and i could do a day trip out there yeah would love to i would love to but i'll definitely do it and i'll love it after the. I always do. Every time I do one of these, I've never left thinking to myself like,

man, that was a waste of time. Never have I ever felt that going into it. I'm like, oh man, you know, I don't get to see, you know,

you know, I want it to take you me to this or she wanted to do that. But afterwards it's always a great experience. And you know, 99% of the time, I think everyone who attends these things have a great time and they leave with a little bit of knowledge. Yeah.

So it really is a win-win. Yeah. And hope I could do a few more of these, not too many more. That's right. The worst sales pitch I've ever heard. Well, maybe you're just playing Koei. Maybe it drives up the value a little. Because it's a limited product.

Yeah. Cool. All right. Well well thanks for listening guys hope you guys enjoyed it you know reach out to shintaro if you guys want to bring him in and stay tuned for the next episode