Blog 2: Summer Mentorship Component

Literal

1. Log of my specific hours and description of my duties

2. What is the contact name and number of where you volunteered?

Gary Goltz (909)-702-3250
Goltz Judo Club

3. (Need to know) What questions were raised because of the 10 hours of experience? List them.

What are the average injuries a judoka endures?

How many throws are there in Judo?

What type of muscles grow in comparison to other muscles needed to fight?

Is there a specific age where you are unable to start/do judo?

What are all the different ranks?

How are people categorized in a tournament?


Interpretive

4. What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?

       The most important thing that I have gained from my mentorship is the two basic principles of judo, (jita kyoei) mutual welfare and benefit, and (seiryoku zenyo) maximum efficiency with minimum effort. These two principles are what makes up a judoka's character, throughout the life of a judoka following these principles they should go through self-perfection, or jiko no kansei. I beleive these are extremely important because this is where Judo becomes more than a sport, it becomes a way of life, a way to grow ones self.

5. What is your senior topic going to be? How did what you did help you choose a topic? Please explain.

      Judo will be my senior project topic. I already spend all my time in a dojo and at tournaments volunteering and just spending time there I found why not just make my favorite hobby my topic. There are so many aspects of Judo I was hoping to explore and learn more throughout my topic. Prior to the summer I had just started learning to referee, using the learning experiences as part of my mentor ship. I was forced to explore even more aspects of Judo as I had a test for promotion. I also got really involved in Judo during the beginning of summer because I was determined to drop weight to get in a lower division. I also was determined to place, because I was sponsored $1,000 dollars to go to nationals, by the same man who sponsored Ronda Rousey.