Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Has been wishes to say something
I no longer do much Coaching if any I leave that up to
others I have taught, I am basically an administrator. It is very rarely I
comment on Judo/Sambo/Jiu Jitsu clips but I have a little experience in
competing and training
So here are a couple of my thoughts
1)
Teaching children I have always thought that
they should be loyal to one club, mainly for their benefit as belonging to
several clubs and having several coaches is confusing and in the long run
detrimental to their improving. Yet I believe they should enter as many
competitions as possible and belong to many organisations. This will help them
and also keep their coaches up to date. In the past when I taught 1 tried my
best to be at all competitions my students attended. Yet in the 1970’s, 1980’s,
1990’s things were a lot different if you wanted to you could attend a minimum
of 2 competitions a month throughout the Country, which was not unusual. In
those days in grappling sports there was just Judo, Free Style Wrestling and
Sambo now we have multitude of Grappling Sports, which obviously spreads the
participants. When youngsters are about 14 years then I used to encourage them
to visit other clubs.
2)
With Adult Novices I would still use the premise
of the first 6 months to Year stick to the same club and Coaches after that you
should spread your wings if you want to. In my area there would be many clubs
who offered a good competition night but those were the days when Judoka would
train 4 times week sadly that is not the case today
3)
The amount of times I have heard a parent saying
my youngster will make the Olympics without any idea what that entails and of
course when the Youngsters has had enough who do they blame yes the Coach. It
is strange that Parents still live their dreams through their children instead
of realizing the achievement is that offspring enjoyed their time in Judo and
met many people from different walks of life
4)
Training to be an Olympian or World Class player
is not easy and requires lots of dedication, sacrificing your social life and
costing a lot of money. Plus you may not even make it even if you make it that
doesn’t mean you will become rich in fact most probably you are years behind
your friends who concentrated on their work, just ask yourself how many
Olympians have become household names? If you are a family man your family has
to put up with the hardships I know mine did. Yet after all this there is
something inside you that drives you on to become Olympian/Champion even if you
did not make it you still have the pride I TRIED
# posted by IBFBCSA @ 10:53 AM 
