Its impossible to teach judo online. Or BJJ. Doing a move right or wrong often can’t be seen even if the student appears to execute the technique. I’ve had all sorts of situations where the guy is doing a move to me that looks like any other move, but the weight is weird. So it’ll precounter anything. Whereas without feeling it. I’d miss that nuance. And Judo is FILLED with moves like that.
I didn’t say I was teaching Judo online, I’m a Personal Trainer for a job. Sorry for the confusion
Oh… totally different. My bad.
No worries, I should have specified more.
But yeah I’d like to one day own my own gym that’s set up to have a class area for martial arts. It’ll take some time and I dont want it to just be a club but a place of community with enough gym equipment to be useable for strength athletes to compete and just general use for those who want that. I’d probably want another discipline besides Judo under my belt though
I bet 10k can buy you a BJJ franchise.
Not associated but there is a well liked BJJ guy near me called Gary Savage. I have considered learning there.
Im weighing up really my striking options now. Muay Thai, Koryu Uchinadi if I want something a little closer to the karate flavourings (I’ve heard good things about this club particularly) or the possibility of 1-to-1 with Adam Little in Boxing.
After years of Kata I’m kinda done with that side of martial arts, but I dont want to just be a hands and that’s it person, I like kicks. Muay Thai would be the furthest afield but comparatively cheaper per class. Im looking at the old club I was at for knockdown stuff and the prices for gradings and uniforms is frankly way out of my budget now. The Koryu Uchinadi group covers a lot of what I liked in karate plus ground fighting and bo staff, but I do hear a lot of KU likes its long resistence-free drills and Im not sure how i feel about that unless the sparring is good enough to justify it to my learning time.
I got a new stripe for my belt.
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A mate of mine just runs seminars. So the dude is a blue belt. But pays for top guys to go to go to exotic locations.
I believe he does quite well out of it. And gets free seminars.
As a way to dip the toe in to you own club. That might be a good start
I interestingly had a seminar where the coach was like. Get on line find the good guys and learn from their videos.
Which is the first time i have seen people go the other way.
His argument was almost the same. You train with one coach and the same guys. And you might be missing details because you just get away with it.
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You can just go compete and learn like that.
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If that’s at me, I have issues in general with fairness given my 4th year on HRT, or as I call it, my tranniversary is coming up
Mens division and then just use your martial arts. I’m not a cutter for instance, so most of the guys I rolled with were bigger and stronger. Never mattered. Ultimately structure was the wave anyways.
There’s a bit more than that to consider, usually politics within sporting bodies. I’ve already enquired about this.
I’m also aware my body dentist, lung capacity, VO2 max, recovery rate etc have and already been impacted by HRT and will continue to be so. While I know I’m going to be able to outpower most natal women but not neccessarily outstamina them, there’s an arguement to be made that I would be at technical disadvantage fighting someone of the same weight among natal men. Personally I’d argue I should be ok with the same weight category despite my now increased risk of certain types of injury, but I can accept that and just have to modify my fitness to cater more towards curbing the disadvantages best I can. However, I’ve had my enquiries met with ‘we don’t actually know who you should fight either way, we need to think about this.’ That’s where things will probably sit for a while, but hey, while they decide I can get my surgeries done. My personal philosophy as a martial artist is that ultimately if I were to get into an altercation, the other person isn’t going to give a shit and I should just be the best fighter I can be, even if I train more for enjoyment these days than I do anything else.
First things first though: actually having a teacher in the style you propose i compete in.
You’ll be at a disadvantage, but no lesser disadvantage than a small dude. Structure, structure, structure, means that they have to literally snap your FEMUR in half to get to you. Unless you’re fighting gorillas, you’ll be fine.
Yeah, I want to ease back in before I do that now though. I think I’ll take muay thai for striking, time of the classes work best for me with clients. So it would be Muay Thai, Judo, HEMA
That’s all you need. Id take that.
Got to agree.
Bucks, buddy, bucks. You’re trans and it ain’t gonna be safe to be location specific at all if literally anything flares up.
300 euroes for a grading isnt bad.
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pounds not euros. It’s more i’m on minimal budget because my meds and surgeries are not cheap here. Muay thai is a £5 a session, Judo is comparative for training as well and HEMA I find out today. For reference most gradings I’ve attended were 1/10th of that
A significant amount of my income is on my meds due to the shared care agreements I’m under, at least for the next few years.
https://fb.watch/oPxN1T_ehg/?mibextid=2JQ9oc
It is kind of interesting to see people I know pop up on random training videos.
That is ben kelleher getting his RBSD on.
Which he would be a really good fit for.