Shintaro Higashi - BJJ Fanatics Podcast 632

[@kevinorr6880]

I LOVE my gi shorts. Very hard to find, so I made my own. Good call!

[@BJJ.Fanatics]

They must be comfortable! Did you add pockets?

[@kevinorr6880]

@@BJJ.Fanatics yes!! A pocket called a slash pocket. Smooth in the opening and pocket bag inside to smooth on surface.

[@x-Musashi-x]

Shintaro has lived many lives .

[@BJJ.Fanatics]

Absolutely!

[@Yupppi]

Lol I just checked up and Finland is a 5,5 million people country with 4000-6000 registered members in the judo federation in the last few years. And even I'm not a registered member because I'm a student, there's no way I can afford over 100 euros just to be a member of the federation (the biggest reason I haven't graduated my belts either) so there's probably many passive judokas as well on top of that. And we're not great at judo either. We had the first European champ this year, both Olympic qualified judokas lost their first or second elimination match. People are way more exposed to bjj here as well I think due to MMA and UFC. So USA has 55x population and double the registered members. That really does sound like a big problem for US judo. But aren't they also split over like three organisations? Knowing how extremely poorly such intelligent and emotional animals like elephants are treated, I don't shed a single tear to a person who abuses any animal and pays the cost. I don't feel the idea of everybody being a salesman once for experience. I'm pretty good at making speeches for something, like a sales pitch, but I can only do it if I believe in it. To this date the only thing that I would never want to do is one of those borderline scam sales things like phone sales, or having sales goals. I think I passed my "everybody should have the experience to grow as a person" test with having conscription system so doing the military service. It wasn't comfortable but I choose that any day over salesman in some scummy position. And I'll probably have to do some sales touch as an engineer in the future anyway, but at least I will believe in it and feel like I'm not hurting people. Great interviews. Shintaro is one of those guys in judo world who does a lot for the community in terms of spreading philosophies, making people think how they approach judo or teaching judo. Something that might be completely lacking for a lot of people because they've never had formal education on the subjects. And a lot of students or teachers suffer from that situation where the interactions and realities don't work and match. There's other people who do a lot of work on the ground level like building up people around them etc, but Shintaro reaches across and gives tools to everyone in a more holistic way, in a way they can improve not only their judo but life. He might still have reach to people who really need to hear his messages, but at least he's worked on creating that platform that's open for discussion. Discussions like "old traditions are not always better" which is a take some people firmly believe in.

[@winingtheday]

Great content.💪 When are you having me on?