The Dojo Collective Podcast

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It's both an incredibly exciting time of year with the Olympic selections just out and the Games about to begin, but also a heart wrenching one. The hardest thing now to do is knowing what to do next.

Jim Warren was one of my full time students at the NA Academy in the 90's. He has gone on to coach international athletes but has found his true post-competition passion in directing and acting, where his Judo skills come in mighty handy!

If there are different ways of learning, there are different ways of teaching & coaching. The Dojo Collective: CLICK HERE FOR INFO Freemium: a free community of free premium content Curious Coaches: a membership for up to 3 club coaches in your club with complete access to the Judo Excellence (The Gokyo) and Essential Judo. Early bird access to the podcasts and newsletters before public publication The Coach Collective: everything of the Curious Coaches with up to 6 coaches codes AND the NA Coaching Pathway teaching videos AND The Heart of the Dojo where Neil brings back the latest techniques, tactics, rule interpretations, and news from the IJF World Judo Tour. 

Neil & Niki duke it out over their idea of what a combination is. Who knew a combination could be so.....spicy?!

Neil speaks with his IJF World Judo Tour Commentator, Sheldon Franco-Rooks about how skills can travel laterally across all sports and arts and how we can learn from this cross training

Have you had a look at your class and thought, why is this so difficult for them? What don't they get? You may have inadvertently skipped a step. We nearly did when creating Judo Excellence. Just before we were clicking the button, we asked ourselves 'what is missing?'  We realised that there was a whole step of Concepts and understanding to be done BEFORE the teaching, instruction, or coaching of technique. That's the other thing we discuss... what is the difference between being a Teacher,and Instructor, or Coach - would love to hear your thoughts!

2020 was an incredible year, one for the history books! One that saw an usually unshakeable institution such as the Olympic Games deferred a year. Golden boy, in hair and heart, Chris Skelley brought home the Gold from Tokyo and shares his journey with Neil speaking on how belief and expectations was both a friend and foe in his run up to the day that changed everything.

Looking at Performance Pathways and where it all should begin, Neil and his wife and fellow Olympian for Canada speak about development through skills, rules and competitions.