Seminar Economics

[@michaelujkim]

This is amazing information for gym owners

[@ataaltun4432]

We miss peter but great podcast shintaro

[@valeyard00]

Megumi Ishikawa sounds like a good seminar

[@t.weber64kg]

I just did my first seminar and this really helps me figure out marketing for future seminars because it’s something I really enjoyed doing. Mine was no gi Judo/Sambo for wrestlers and I did a whole Uchi-Mata series. I was wondering what is the best way to reach out to dojos near me to get them to respond and agree to letting me do seminars? It does really help with funding tournaments.

[@EvosBasics]

Would be great if you made an Economics series! Dojo economics next episode

[@Yupppi]

Sorry to spend your time with a lengthy comment again, time's money but these are thought inspiring. I think I'm leaving them almost like a personal note. These economics lessons have to be valuable for people doing judo as business. I think you're the only person who has come out saying "I had no idea what I was doing and I hired someone who knew, so I got all these lessons about thinking economics and applying it to the whole ecosystem of judo and I'm willing to share them to make us grow together so everyone can benefit a little bit more and push judo forwards". It's such an interesting thing because as I've probably mentioned multiple times, last year the beginner course of judo in my university club got like majority female participants. In the end I think one male and two women stuck to it for the next year after the summer vacation was over, returned to the tatami. And we even had two advanced women return to the tatami last year, which was more than there was advanced males returning. Or I think that 1+2 is the number for beginners returning, the year is still starting so I wouldn't know if some are gonna return a bit later. That being said it seems like men are sticking to it more often especially if they have a previous belt rank. But what I think I observed that worked well for women was not having randori and in general keeping the training partners focused on technique. And a lot of personal attention in terms of helping their individual struggles and everyone just being generally helpful even though demanding. Seems to make those people experience themself welcome and taken care of, and there was no push to learn x thing by y time, we'd train things based on where the individual's progress was after the beginner course. Which is pretty important in a sport that is by no means male dominant, but can seem very male dominant. A returning advanced young male is not a fun practice partner because they are thinking it has to be max power. We had one guy like that, tall guy, straight from the military service, +90 kg. Hasn't learned fine tuned technique yet, but has good technique and probably thinks about competition or what he has seen great judo look like, and slams people (unintentionally though, doesn't mean to manhandle people) and has quite a few gears in even in warmups that are meant to just raise heart rate, not win or use force, just to move and have it semi judo related. Had to tell him to relax a bit and hopefully he takes it slower because he still has plenty of stuff to learn, and every guidance by the instructor starts with "slow down". But that's a good picture of what a typical person on the dojo can be like, and why someone of "delicate stature" - who hasn't been doing contact sports before even if they have done sports - might not enjoy the atmosphere. When you're already aching from getting used to the contact and falling on physical level, you don't need someone to actually try to put you through the mat. Like it wasn't fun even as a +80 kg gym trained male, had to be really careful with the ukemis. The attention really has to be on technique and "mutual benefit" of training and not adrenaline or testosterone driven ramping up. Back when I started in that club we had both a male and female instructor, and the person graduating our club and the highest rank was a female, and I think it did great things to how people viewed the club. And on average I believe female instructors to be more attentive to tiny things, sensing better when someone needs a little help, a push, support or whatever emotional directing. Which can also be valuable in being sustainable in training, besides just technique advice. One thing you could also consider as a customer group (in definition, not as people who to sell services to) is the people who are in university clubs or similar where the training fee is reasonably low when they don't have economy. Or cheap commercial gyms. They're not gonna pay to get to see a top athlete teach, like it's cool but it's partially out of their goals as recreational players/trainers for exercise and they just don't have economy to pay anyway. So that kind of gym is basically straight out of the question unless someone wants to just do charity education (because those people can still be very attentive learners due to trying to squeeze out everything from a unique opportunity). And it's actually surprising how little a recreational trainer recognizes big names. Before watching a lot of judo content and getting educated by "historians" and content creators, I would've never known how big of a thing it was when Jimmy Pedro had a coaches' seminar in Finland, or Darcel Yandzi and so on. I think that connects with the idea of the dojo owner having someone come for mainly them instead of their students. I believe it's a much better transfer of skill and knowledge in general, how here the federation brings seminars to coaches (or instructors I guess) who get to teach their subordinates and students what they learned from the advanced seminar. The students might learn less in that time and maintain less, the advanced people can absorb much more from that and then it's exponential knowledge spread instead of sending it directly to the lowest levels. Obviously the system works quite differently here out of necessity or opportunities. I also like the teachers who are not known to wide audience, but let's say a 70-80 years old fellow who has such finesse to his/her judo without that power and aggression but accuracy and effectiveness anyway, and is great at teaching very simply, over a young athlete who hasn't quite figured out what exactly they are doing so well and how to teach stuff. Something I've been thinking about lately that might have demand, since it seems like "everyone" online outside athletes or athlete origins think so, is the old martial art judo side of techniques and teaching of situations. A bit like kata I guess. Because it seems like a lot of people are really interested in that self-defense/martial art romantic judo, even jujutsu, type of stuff and don't like the sport judo. In fact I'm somewhat confused that there is basically no Japanese jujutsu available anywhere here, despite there being many martial arts available around. It might even be a huge selling point to populations that aren't big young dudes. Because it seems to me like that style of judo is very soft to practice and speaks to more "normal" situations (as if self-defense combat was very normal situation). Just like the leg locks mentioned, that used to be part of judo curriculum. Like Shintaro said "refreshing" is the word. To get a break from drilling normal routines and expand your thinking. The MMA thing made me recall how some gym I saw Sensei Seth visit had judo and boxing, and judokas seem to be really open to learn basics of striking. And it can just be a heck of a fun way of doing cardio and improve power production for core (don't know how much it would translate to anything else, but there's a chance). And even more of ideas pouring in. Every judo dojo should have a class about strength training. People might have no idea what to do at the gym and they might pick judo as their physical fitness/health exercise type. But eventually many figure out "it would be fun to improve my physicality to help my judo" or just in general, for example when they're injured and can't attend judo properly, or if they have a trip or time when they can't do judo but they would have a gym around and could benefit and enjoy keeping their physical fitness ready. For example: if I had realised how fun and beneficial lifting was when I was ~20 and first tried judo, if I learned olympic weightlifting back then I would've been so well off, for life basically. Now that I returned to school and judo, we have a strength and sort of general lifting club that arranges a weightlifting basic course but it's always at exactly the same time with judo so it's a month off of judo or no weightlifting basics. I've tried to learn by myself and it's not bad, but having someone teach you that is infintely better. Now if I hadn't spent so much time trying to learn lifting fundamentals and programming and now trying to figure out the weightlifting side of it, I would've been totally lost at the gym and most don't have that time to spend hoarding information until you finally can put the pieces together. So if your actual sport source could teach you that basic stuff it would be priceless in my view. A lot of people might just think it's really fun or at least at some point hit the gym because now they know what to do there. And it can be yet another refresher to training types. For people like Shintaro and many ex-athletes it wouldn't be a big stretch to teach some basic gym lifting and training protocol and give people even more valuable tools.

[@justarandomguyoninternet4415]

dang.. what bro yapping about

[@CeylonMotorEmpire]

Amazing insights sensei USS

[@firstname4337]

10:42 also everyone in your gym has access to open mats at 50 different BJJ gyms and 10 different judo clubs in NYC -- any given Saturday they could drop in at Renzo's or Marcelo's or Glick's or Garry St Leger's or Oishi's or any of many other places -- NYC has so many gyms : BJJ, Judo, Combat Sambo, Muay Thai, Boxing -- it would be really difficult to charge your members $50 to attend a seminar when they have so many options

[@valmendez84]

I'm gonna send this to my friend who started teaching no gi and mma so he becomes rich and successful & doesn't spend his evenings/weekends teaching empty rooms for a ridiculously low fee to ungrateful training structures

[@HahnJames]

You're coming to Michigan near the end of this month. Do I have to do jujitsu to attend your seminar?

[@MalikButler]

Audio duplicates about 17 mins in.

[@christophervelez1561]

I came by because I thought I was going crazy

[@theonereborn9299]

Bro lmao. I zoned out a bit at the end and then that happened. Completely caught me off guard

[@adrianarroyo937]

I've read this comment before reaching that part, and still it actually surprised me when it happened 😅

[@WayneManifesto]

Judo in my local community is very grassroots, i don't think seminars will ever become popular from both ends

[@stephensloan4933]

First

[@wildys6]

The subscribe soundeffect is a little too loud and obnoxious. Might be a better idea to tone it done a tad as it makes you hard to understand. Better intro than last solo podcast, was too much ado, you went straight into ut this time, much better. Last time too much perosnal information that, without wanting to offend, doesn't interest your viewers. Just saying it's solo today is enough. Top content as always tho

[@88Musk]

I have been going to martial arts seminars since the 80s. Most of them are fuckin worthless. Ego comes out. People majority of the time don't teach useful techniques. Some are good but most leave you with nothing because of what is taught. Guys teach too many techniques you won't remember. Some can be good but most aren't after being 46 years in the martial arts for me.

[@anjoLas]

Same here. Practice martial arts since i was 3, i'm currently 44. Been to MANY seminasr of most martial arts there is since the 80's also. I teach for a very long time now but i'm still a student.