List of recommended schools?

[J-kid]

Greese feel free to stop in if you are ever in town.

[Greese]

Very political answer.
But, if someone were serious about competeing at an adult level there is a very strong stigma attatched to that school.
Did you ever give those questions/comments/rants to your coach?
BTW- Does he have a problem with the term sensei?

[Wounded Ronin]

http://www.judochampions.com./bowing.htm


This page weirds me out. it's like they want to be able to play judo whilst being paranoid about Japanese culture.


It's also filled with bullshit.

Today, people all over Japan express thanks for the American conquest of Japan, because it broke the "stranglehold of the Shinto faith."

Which is why if you go on a nature trail in Japan you see happy families of tourists clapping their hands in prayer at small shinto shrines that dot the trails and donating their spare change.

They also imply that Shinto is the worship of inanimate objects, which is a hamfisted misinterpretation of shinto.

Jews have faced execution rather than submit to forced bowing to inanimate objects.

Shinto is basically animism. Essentially, you're not bowing to inanimate objects, but rather to nature spirits.

This is actually very different from bowing to a picture of Jigoro Kano, since Kano isn't a nature spirit. That's actually just traditional Japanese ancestor reverence. That's associated more with Buddhism. In most Japanese homes there is a little Buddhist shrine where family members may ring a little bell and give little offerings to their ancestor spirits. Usually there's Buddhist religious items in these shrines.

So, frankly, the people on at judochampions.com don't know what the hell they're talking about. They are completely wrong and have seriously misinterpreted Japanese culture.

I wouldn't go there. It sounds like they're a bunch of religious fundamentalists with weird world views.

[Darting Fingers]

In Sydney-

www.combatcentres.com

www.sinosicperosh.com.au/

Bjj around Australia-

www.bjj.com.au/clubs.html

[J-kid]

Originally posted by greese1
Very political answer.
But, if someone were serious about competeing at an adult level there is a very strong stigma attatched to that school.
Did you ever give those questions/comments/rants to your coach?
BTW- Does he have a problem with the term sensei?

I did show him, and he going to make a account and respound to Questions comments and conserns once he gets his computer fixed up. He told me what he wanted to say over the phone but was really lethay and i didnt get names etc so i would have alot of trouble doing it by word of mouth.

But the training there is awsome, and if you met the coach you would think he is cool down to earth guy.

I compete at a adult lvl and have had very little problems with anyone out side of a few refs.

[J-kid]

Originally posted by Wounded Ronin
http://www.judochampions.com./bowing.htm


This page weirds me out. it's like they want to be able to play judo whilst being paranoid about Japanese culture.


It's also filled with bullshit.



Which is why if you go on a nature trail in Japan you see happy families of tourists clapping their hands in prayer at small shinto shrines that dot the trails and donating their spare change.

They also imply that Shinto is the worship of inanimate objects, which is a hamfisted misinterpretation of shinto.



Shinto is basically animism. Essentially, you're not bowing to inanimate objects, but rather to nature spirits.

This is actually very different from bowing to a picture of Jigoro Kano, since Kano isn't a nature spirit. That's actually just traditional Japanese ancestor reverence. That's associated more with Buddhism. In most Japanese homes there is a little Buddhist shrine where family members may ring a little bell and give little offerings to their ancestor spirits. Usually there's Buddhist religious items in these shrines.

So, frankly, the people on at judochampions.com don't know what the hell they're talking about. They are completely wrong and have seriously misinterpreted Japanese culture.

I wouldn't go there. It sounds like they're a bunch of religious fundamentalists with weird world views.

On the other hand we dont do anything relegous or anything its just like a wrestling practice(*if you have been to one*)

[SifuJason]

There should also be a way for school/club owners (such as myself) to submit our schools to be reviewed.

[Fitz]

New York City Judo Schools worth training with

Kokushi Budo Institute, Manhattan
Instructor: Noboyoshi Higashi 8th Dan
http://www.kokushibudo.com/index.shtml

Oishi Judo Club, Manhattan
Instructor: Shiro Oishi 7th Dan
http://www.oishi-judo.com

Japan Judo & Karate, Brooklyn
Instructor: Kiyoshi Shiina 8th Dan
http://japan-judo-karate.net

Might as well add something of value to needless necromancy

[Bladesinger]

what gives any idiot on here the authority to say such-and-such a style is bullshit, or "won't work" whatever that means.

The fact that we're all better than you, for starters.
Also, the fact that we don't talk with cocks in our mouths helps.
Now put down that cock and try again.

[SpringHeeledJack]

The responses this guy has gotten are much nicer than I'd expected. I expected much more malice.