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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Nope! I suspect most people don’t do this — they treat sparring as a pseudo competition and try to win.