Guests From Japan - The Shintaro Higashi Show

I dunno what's going on, still it feels good to be the first one to put a comment down here on a YT video for the first time.🎉🎉🎉 Thank you, you made my day😅🎉🎉😂 pin?

I coach a university judo club in Michigan and love it when visitors drop in. The problem is that the little town where the university is located is out in the middle of nowhere. Nobody comes here except by accident.

The art of concealment is not talked enough about in martial arts, a really underrated topic in my opinion.

Interesting that strategy makes a lot of sense in BJJ as well, when they feel you have an overwhelming advantage they'll pull guard, giving them a ray of hope will keep them engaged, thats crafty advice.

Shintaro Sensei, you need a "meet and greet" package and a "let's go for drinks" package and "hey, you've never met me, but I watch all of your YouTube videos and listen to your podcast, and you've taught me so much, can I have a hug" package. 😅😅😅 Keep posting videos. Keep doing the podcast. Keep teaching. Next time I'm in NYC, I'm definitely stopping by to take a class. I might even make it a traincation.

bromance is back!!!!!! strong as ever, Shintaro you should come to Azerbaijan and do a seminar in Azerbaijan Judo Federation)

Very interesting to hear this philosophical talk about Gunji's system, I live for these ideas on how to play. Like how to get past technique into psychology. It's also a real skill to get someone extremely proficient to get to explain what they're doing, because to them pretty much everything is obvious. They don't understand how most people don't know most of those obvious details and they might feel like little magic tricks or full mystery. To fish the information out and being detailed enough for them to know what to say. Good job at digging these ones out. Maybe this visitor experience could also spark a new Shintaro explains what's special in someone's style series... With video review or showing at the dojo. I bet the algorithm and people love a high status name in the title or something. You already mentioned coaches being too intense on the mat side in an earlier episode (although talking about kids competing), but I still see a lot of coaches get thrown out in the Olympics. Is there some benefit you could get from screaming on the mat side so much that you get removed? There's also been a couple of hansoku makes for head touch in a throw and a lot of varying shido practices on different days and matches, is there something there you could talk about as an experienced ex-competitor that wouldn't be a problem for your future as potential caster? How about the style of current cycle judo where everyone jumps flat on their stomach no matter if in offense or defense? Just trying to look active and fishing for inactivity shidos to the opponent, and at the same time being too scared to go for a serious throw in case of counterthrow. Most of the throws being drop seoi nage or drop tai otoshi (is it seoi otoshi?) and kata guruma. You could even see people in extremely low defensive positions where the head is at bent knee level so the opponent can't get under. There were even some finals where all the players did was dive on the mat without trying to score. In fact this slightly ties into the Gunji's talk, the commentators mentioned how some players' styles fit together so it was quite open judo, both comfortable letting it happen, while in some of the pairings they cancel each other out and refuse to play if the other gets anything. But what seems to be very common to see in the Olympics is how uncomfortable people are letting their opponent grip them in any proper fashion. I'd be interested in hearing some thoughts on how different it is to do competitive judo internationally and what leads to strategies like this becoming popular and is it the Olympic medal weighing so much that it impacts everyone's judo so much compared to smaller competitions? Is it partially because it's one and done in the elimination phase, you have all your matches on the same day and a millisecond of carelessness means it's over for 4 years? Is there anything that could change this? Is it just unfitting pairs matched together?

Peter, Shintaro – with the greatest of love, you gotta give each other space (and stop talking over each other). There were times where I was at the edge of my seat, waiting for the next part of the exciting story, but then struggle to hear when there was cross talking and the pacing being interrupted 11:24

The shows great with Peter

Peter please slow down and one at a time. Higashi means East. Kita is North which sounds like kite so i can imagine a kite goes up. Minami is south so that'd be similar to minimizing a web browser and it goes down, and some like NiShi are just memorization.

Shintaro did you watch any of the judo at the olympics?