You have been practicing for 2 months and you are fed up with practice. You don't know much at this time. If you can't handle practice afte 2 months maybe you should consider doing something else. When I 1st began if my instructor said you could go to a tournament we didn't go. We respected him and knew that he had his reasons. The reasons were likely because we weren't ready. We had missed too many practices. Sometimes it could have been because we weren't working hard in practice. I witnessed him telling many judoka that they could participate in certain tournaments. I remember as a green belt I wasn't allowed to participate for about a year. he didn't allow me to participate for a different reason. I had broken my ankle and had numerous other injuries. But I love to compete and would not quit. My doctor released me to be active again, but my sensei said even though the doctors said it was okay it may take at least one year for the injury to be completely healed. He began to teach me how to become an instructor. Then one day he was demonstrating some ground techniques to some of our newer students. I don't know what came over me, but I put up some resistance. So I countered everything he did. Then he explained what to do when someone does what I did. Then we spent some fun time countering each other. He eventually had us to stop. He looked at me and said you have really improved. I want you to compete in this next tournament. I was excited. I had been waiting for along time. I said to myself if I knew that if I had resisted him sooner he would have let my compete I would have. As the instructor uke I would always go along with what he was doing because he was demonstrating. But after training with the Olympic team before the injury I had a problem with taking a fall when they taught me that I didn't have to fall. I had to force myself to be a good uke and fall. That was the only time I didn't just go along with my sensei.
And your instructor or coach says no,you can not compete because.............? He may be looking out for your best interests and not wanting to see you waste your entry fee and possibly get hurt at the expense of someone wanting a cheap win. You should sit down and talk with him about this and see if there is some underlying reason like this. Also ask him when the next tournament is and set up a time table for training and competing in that one. Go and watch this one is what I would say and what I encourage students to do as far as competing goes. To go against him and his wishes really puts you at odds with him also if you plan on continuing to take classes with him. Perhaps the camp is just an introductory class and not designed to prepare you for competing either. Talk to him and listen to the voice of experience and remember that there will be other tournaments.
You are fed up of practice after only 2 months? What could you have possibly learned in 2 months that would be enough to represent your school in a tournament? You need to come off your high horse and practice hard and diligently. That's what it is all about. Not just beating up people. If you can not understand this I suggest you find something else to do.
Anybody can go to tournaments. Just sign up but make sure you quit your school first so they won't have to go through the embarassment when you get your butt whooped and/or you make a fool out of yourself. I have a gut feeling your coach has a good reason to not let you go.
Same thing happened with me in a taekwondo tournament. My problem was that the tournament was a belt more advanced and at a senior level. I couldnt fight as I was a belt away from being in this tournament. My sensei (coach) said it is for your own good. After i nagged him to let me fight and said you must be prepared to fight in very rough conditions (there were knock outs). I got a bit of extra training as he believed i could get a result. The day of the tournament i had 3 fights, i lost 1 due to points, got knocked out on the other and JUST won the last one by 1 or 2 points.
1) Have a serious conversation with your coach to let him/her know about your desire and reason to compete in the tournament. You should as well get information from the coach as to why he/she doesn't want you to compete.
2) You can say farewell to the school since you are paying to train in order to compete. There must be other Judo schools you can join or try some other Martial Art.
3) You can secretly join the Tournament without your Master's permission IF it were possible.
Listen to your coach, you seem to lack patience. It is for your safety, just because you are paying to train for competition doesn't mean you should compete in every competion that comes to town.
@Chriss... you mean to say you got knocked out in the first or second fight, AND THEN continued to fight in the third? Unless the third bout was 6 months after the second, you either fought the third from the hospital or you didn't get knocked out.
If you are fed up after two months, it sounds like martial arts is just not your cup of tea.
To solve your dilemma, if you sign up for the tournament totally disassociate yourself from your school/camp. If your gi has your school/camp name on it, get another one without a school name on it.
Martial arts is all about practice, Practice, PRACTICE!
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You have been practicing for 2 months and you are fed up with practice. You don't know much at this time. If you can't handle practice afte 2 months maybe you should consider doing something else. When I 1st began if my instructor said you could go to a tournament we didn't go. We respected him and knew that he had his reasons. The reasons were likely because we weren't ready. We had missed too many practices. Sometimes it could have been because we weren't working hard in practice. I witnessed him telling many judoka that they could participate in certain tournaments. I remember as a green belt I wasn't allowed to participate for about a year. he didn't allow me to participate for a different reason. I had broken my ankle and had numerous other injuries. But I love to compete and would not quit. My doctor released me to be active again, but my sensei said even though the doctors said it was okay it may take at least one year for the injury to be completely healed. He began to teach me how to become an instructor. Then one day he was demonstrating some ground techniques to some of our newer students. I don't know what came over me, but I put up some resistance. So I countered everything he did. Then he explained what to do when someone does what I did. Then we spent some fun time countering each other. He eventually had us to stop. He looked at me and said you have really improved. I want you to compete in this next tournament. I was excited. I had been waiting for along time. I said to myself if I knew that if I had resisted him sooner he would have let my compete I would have. As the instructor uke I would always go along with what he was doing because he was demonstrating. But after training with the Olympic team before the injury I had a problem with taking a fall when they taught me that I didn't have to fall. I had to force myself to be a good uke and fall. That was the only time I didn't just go along with my sensei.
And your instructor or coach says no,you can not compete because.............? He may be looking out for your best interests and not wanting to see you waste your entry fee and possibly get hurt at the expense of someone wanting a cheap win. You should sit down and talk with him about this and see if there is some underlying reason like this. Also ask him when the next tournament is and set up a time table for training and competing in that one. Go and watch this one is what I would say and what I encourage students to do as far as competing goes. To go against him and his wishes really puts you at odds with him also if you plan on continuing to take classes with him. Perhaps the camp is just an introductory class and not designed to prepare you for competing either. Talk to him and listen to the voice of experience and remember that there will be other tournaments.
You are fed up of practice after only 2 months? What could you have possibly learned in 2 months that would be enough to represent your school in a tournament? You need to come off your high horse and practice hard and diligently. That's what it is all about. Not just beating up people. If you can not understand this I suggest you find something else to do.
Anybody can go to tournaments. Just sign up but make sure you quit your school first so they won't have to go through the embarassment when you get your butt whooped and/or you make a fool out of yourself. I have a gut feeling your coach has a good reason to not let you go.
Same thing happened with me in a taekwondo tournament. My problem was that the tournament was a belt more advanced and at a senior level. I couldnt fight as I was a belt away from being in this tournament. My sensei (coach) said it is for your own good. After i nagged him to let me fight and said you must be prepared to fight in very rough conditions (there were knock outs). I got a bit of extra training as he believed i could get a result. The day of the tournament i had 3 fights, i lost 1 due to points, got knocked out on the other and JUST won the last one by 1 or 2 points.
Your options are these:
1) Have a serious conversation with your coach to let him/her know about your desire and reason to compete in the tournament. You should as well get information from the coach as to why he/she doesn't want you to compete.
2) You can say farewell to the school since you are paying to train in order to compete. There must be other Judo schools you can join or try some other Martial Art.
3) You can secretly join the Tournament without your Master's permission IF it were possible.
Listen to your coach, you seem to lack patience. It is for your safety, just because you are paying to train for competition doesn't mean you should compete in every competion that comes to town.
@Chriss... you mean to say you got knocked out in the first or second fight, AND THEN continued to fight in the third? Unless the third bout was 6 months after the second, you either fought the third from the hospital or you didn't get knocked out.
If you are fed up after two months, it sounds like martial arts is just not your cup of tea.
To solve your dilemma, if you sign up for the tournament totally disassociate yourself from your school/camp. If your gi has your school/camp name on it, get another one without a school name on it.
Martial arts is all about practice, Practice, PRACTICE!