He Found Out Who He Was Fighting. He Was Terrified.

Danny Gutman runs the Judo program at ITC New York, the Muay Thai-Judo hybrid gym his father, Greg Gutman, opened in 2006 (brother Mark carries the Muay Thai side). A second-degree Judo black belt, Danny has competed in the Sambo Worlds in Russia, a catch wrestling world championship he'd never actually trained for, and full-contact fighting in Peru.He also works full-time managing cybersecurity for a Fortune 500 company, coaches Judo two to four nights a week, and is raising a 15-month-old son. Danny talks about the punishing physical cost of Judo (fewer than 10 real Judo schools are left across all five boroughs), why ITC trains like every class is a tournament, and rebuilding the program's retention and automation from his kitchen table after his son goes to sleep.