by genetic judoka Thu May 23, 2013 7:46 am
Ben Reinhardt wrote: genetic judoka wrote:some have suggested to me in the past, after seeing the high intensity full body workouts I put people through in the competition class, that I start offering a judo-fit class for non judoka who want to get in shape. it would be a way to make a bit of money doing something I enjoy (and by that I mean yelling at people). to be honest I haven't completely written off the idea yet...
the idea would be that after a few weeks I point out to them that if they're already doing the "hard stuff" with no problems, they might as well do the fun stuff too, and all the sudden our regular judo class will have new members.
Yeah, we were thinking along the same lines, but had our doubts as to whether much real interest would be there to join a "regular" Judo class. I'd say if you have people who want to do it, give it a try, however, with our difficulties in escaping the bedroom I can't see how you will have time. If you do, you should train more rather than teach (IMO).
valid point. and in terms of training rather than teaching, I couldn't agree more. I'm not teaching because I think I'm a qualified instructor. I teach because our head sensei considers himself retired and has no interest in running a competition program, we have students interested in competition, our dojo was sitting empty some nights, and none of the other dan grades have the time or energy to take on something like that. so I teach in order to fill a void. given a choice between doing that, or training under someone more qualified, there would be no hesitation to drop teaching my classes (I'm up to twice a week now) and work on my own advancement.
I'm moving across the state in a month and a half to finish school, I get the feeling that after that I won't be doing any teaching for a while.
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