In Japan, the top judo centres are mostly in universities. These universities usually have feeder schools that have strong judo programs. Talented judokas from those schools then go on to study at the affiliated university.
Judo clubs here have nothing like that. There's no feeder school system. That's why judo clubs have such difficulty recruiting competitive players. If a club wants to have strong competitors, it needs to have some kind of feeder school that grooms judo athletes.
A judo eco-system should be established whereby:
a) There's a primary school that offers judo classes
b) There's also a secondary school with a judo program. That way students from the primary school who want to continue with their judo training are able to do so.
c) Lastly, there needs to be a judo club that caters to grown up judokas, to take in these judokas from high school or university or the work force, who still want to train competitively.
There's nothing even remotely close to such an eco-system right now but unless something like this is built up, Malaysian judo will never go anywhere.
Judo clubs here have nothing like that. There's no feeder school system. That's why judo clubs have such difficulty recruiting competitive players. If a club wants to have strong competitors, it needs to have some kind of feeder school that grooms judo athletes.
A judo eco-system should be established whereby:
a) There's a primary school that offers judo classes
b) There's also a secondary school with a judo program. That way students from the primary school who want to continue with their judo training are able to do so.
c) Lastly, there needs to be a judo club that caters to grown up judokas, to take in these judokas from high school or university or the work force, who still want to train competitively.
There's nothing even remotely close to such an eco-system right now but unless something like this is built up, Malaysian judo will never go anywhere.
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