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Interesting pedagogical problem: when your sensei thinks that you've suddenly improved after a long time away from Judo, but actually what's going on is that you're removing all pedagogical limitations on yourself and are using your full array of techniques.
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To be clear: this is mostly because my stamina sucks after 3 months away from Judo, and so I don't have the capability to work on the techniques I was learning before I left. I was using a number of pedagogical constraints (e.g. don't use X throw, fight one-handed) to improve.
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I thought the main pedagogical challenge was to make myself feel good — because training like this naturally means that I have my ass handed to me nearly every session. But now it turns out my sensei mostly thinks I suck? Interesting problem to solve.
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Full list of pedagogical tricks: - Use only X, Y, Z throw for entire session - Fight one handed, or use unorthodox gripping approaches - Fight with full array of throws, but work on out-gripping opponent > 50% of exchanges - Practice counters - Practice nullifying certain throws
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