A little advice, if you please....
Hi guys, I was hoping a few of the more experienced here could help me out with a slight dilemma I'm having. I have trained for 7 years in jujutsu (a modern style based on Tsutsumi Hozan) and for about 3 in judo. My next posting (I'm in the military) is a 9 month course kinda in the middle of nowhere. The last thing I want to do is sit idle there if there are no good schools around. So what to do?
Well, I feel like I have more than enough in my toolkit to practice, but if possible, I'd like to extend myself further than that. Alot of the locks etc that I know I feel were taught in somewhat of a vacuum, so I am at a loss to see application in them at the moment. I feel like this would be a good time to start trying things out. I'd like to come out the other end quite confident in my ability to apply the things that I find useful.
Here is where my problem lies: at this stage I know no one who is into grappling arts. A friend of mine who is a shodan in Kyokushin has started doing judo with me here, but his motivation levels are up and down like a yo yo. Let's assume that I find a couple guys who are interested. Where do I go from there? Do I teach them as I would any new student at my old school and then when they are good enough use them as my uke to test my theories on? That seems to be my only option. Any other ideas or opinions on this would be most welcome.
Cheers
Peter Ross
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