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Judo in school stopped at about 16 as a bit boring for me long term, found it useful when needed, which was very rare.
What does being a brown belt in judo entail?
Is that all classroom based or competition?
I guess it's one thing putting it into practice nice and passively with your training buddies and actually using it in a competitive environment where you need to remember what you've learned and implement it.
All combat codes are based around speed, awareness and surprise. They are also all about defence first, attack second.
If you have some sort of martial art/boxing training, then it will come as second nature to implement it, if you find yourself in a dangerous or threatening situation.
I’m this day and age, i would recommend all youngsters male and female get some form of self defence lessons if they are able.
it was ( not sure about now, but I guess its the same ) at grading sessions, so you have a higher grade sensei ( teacher ) come in ( at the lower end it will be your clubs sensei ) you would go through a session, Drills and training, then get a few fights on with people around the same standard as you, as you progressed, you would be expected to know the Japanese words for everything you did, so it did become more fight based and often at regional type of places when they could gather similar graded students from different clubs, these would often be area based competitions ( which were weight based ) but normally a similar grading
My youngest started it when he was 8, just over 18 months in and he’s going for his blue end belt this weekend. He loves it. Wish I’d done something like it as a kid, might have helped me get out of some right sticky situations….. The thought he might be able to defend himself quite well if he needed too is good also, watching the black belts sparring I get the feeling they could quite easily.