My essential question: What is the best way a Judoka can use Judo on and off of the mat?
Answers: 1. Principles, focusing on the basics
2. Networking, helping Judokas just as they would help you
3. Practice, heard of the term "Practice makes perfect" in Judo and outside
These answers are all based on a way of thinking. Each of my answers go deaper then what is said which allows me to elaborate why Judo is so essential to each of them, and makes them so different than learning these skills from anywhere else. My second answer would have to be my best answer. Not for the reason, "well I feel its the best" or even "I think its the best", I believe my second answer is my best answer because this is what I have experienced in my mentorship. Over the course of a year I was determined to explore each of these answers and focus on each one of them for a certain time. Networking had to be the most helpful and the most useful in the long run!
To arrive at each one of my answers I had to work on exploring new aspects of Judo, I didn't know any of my answers when I first came up with my question, nor did I know any of my answers much after I came up with my question. To acheive each of my answers I had to work on having some what of an idea as to what I wanted my answer to be, then explore the feild. Networking, my best answer, I came about by reading an article that my Sensei recomended to me, writen by his son. I also read a presentation writen by him, binging me to the decision "is networking in Judo really that different" and it is.
Just like any experiment I did come on some problems, for one; during my mentorship at Judo I broke two little bones on the bottom of my food. Definitely not the most painful thing, but it made doing the most simple tasks difficult; walking, running, doing Judo. The way I worked though this problem was to just tape up my foot and ignore the pain. I couldn't let something so simple do something so drastic to me like a dislocated shoulder or sprained tendons in my hand, did last year. To this day the pain is still there, dull, but its still there. I believe I did the best for my project, because even though I had broken bones in my foot I was still able to practice and network, which lead me to be so involved with my mentor Arvin Limen.
Just like any experiment I did come on some problems, for one; during my mentorship at Judo I broke two little bones on the bottom of my food. Definitely not the most painful thing, but it made doing the most simple tasks difficult; walking, running, doing Judo. The way I worked though this problem was to just tape up my foot and ignore the pain. I couldn't let something so simple do something so drastic to me like a dislocated shoulder or sprained tendons in my hand, did last year. To this day the pain is still there, dull, but its still there. I believe I did the best for my project, because even though I had broken bones in my foot I was still able to practice and network, which lead me to be so involved with my mentor Arvin Limen.
The two most significant sources I used to answer my essential question, I did not find on my own. The first is the presentation I had read though that my Sensei Gary wrote, this is what ignited the spark to want to explore this answer. My next source would have to be my coach Arvin Limen, with out him I wouldn't have been able to experience the answer as I did. There obviously is other people, and other Judokas in other dojos, but none of them were there at the perfect time that I was trying to achieve my second answer to my essential question. If my mentorship with Arvin Limen does not justify a source (of experience), I would have to say the article that my mentor recommended to me, mentor Gary Goltz, Judo, business, and life written by Nathan Goltz.
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