Happy Boy
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Happy Boy, do you speak Japanese? How good do you have to be to train at some of the top places? What are japanese sessions like as well, is it mostly Randori or do you do alot of technique?
Im not fluent at all but have a decent enough level, enough to get most thing across.
For the top places, to train with the top guys, you'd wanna be pretty good to even get on the mat. If you get on and you arent good enough to give anyone a decent fight in randori, they'll just ignore you. For a local place where I train, once you can take a beating without getting hurt every time they'll let you on and take great pride in helping develop your game and try and teach you the Japanese way of judo.
Sessions, very rigid, 1 hour of uchi-komi in a circuit system, then about 45 mins of 4 and a half minute randoris with 30 seconds rest to find a new partner. Once every two weeks they do a skill session where they try and show newbies technique and maybe do some ne-waza/