Judo High School in South Korea

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Find a Teaching Job: http://www.reddragondiaries.com/find-job Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SeoulTee Twitter: https://twitter.com/SeoulTee South Korea has always been, and will continue to be one of the dominant forces in the sport of judo. Whenever a Korean team is present at an international-level competition, you can be certain that their players will be in contention for a spot on the podium. The reason is simple; they have a tried-and-true, well-oiled training machine that churns out World and Olympic champions continuously. They own a blueprint, and the blueprint goes something like this: Take a geographically small country that produces world-class talent each generation and employ those players back into a complete end-to-end program that begins in a fully integrated school training system. Here in Busan, Korea’s second largest city, there are a number of school judo teams. They begin in elementary school and continue up through university. There’s even an all-girl’s middle school judo team here. At high school age, natural strength and dexterity are really setting in; and that’s what we have here. This is the Haedong High School judo team. My famous instructor trained here long ago. In school programs like this, players train 5 days a week – once each day on the mats, and each day in the gym. At Busan Sports High School, another high school program for example, there are full-time living quarters for athletes to wholly commit themselves to training and studies. On this very mat is likely a future world contender. Great talent is typically drafted by the system in Seoul which will put players in their gold medal producing programs, but it begins in halls like this. Each of the big cities in Korea has programs much the same. If you want to be a champion today, you need to eat, sleep, and breathe judo. If you’re a Korean and you want that gold medal, just show up for practice. The rest usually takes care of itself. Music by: Teknoaxe Song Title: Cutting Through the Madness Download Link: http://teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=517 Video shot with: Canon 650D/Rebel T4i Davis & Sanford Provista 7518 Airlift Tripod FM18 Fluid Head RODE Videomic Pro
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