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Raziq had trained with us some time back for a short while when he was on university holiday from Australia. Now, he's back again to further his training with us. He is one of several Malaysian students studying overseas who have trained with us to improve their judo.

We also got an inquiry from a beginner and her friend (who is also a beginner) who have had some basic judo experience and would like to do competition training, with a view of competing in the future. I explained to her a bit about our training programs. She said they would drop by next week for a trial.

In the UK, in the 70s and 80s, the Budokwai was seen as a "judo graduate school"where judo players with some experience would go to, to take their judo to higher level. Although not by design, KL Judo is increasingly taking on that role.

Over the years, we've had guests as well as new members join us because they wanted to learn modern, effective, practical judo. And they felt (probably from watching our videos) that our club is the place for them to do that. We are delighted of course and we are happy to continue to play that role.

Many of our members started with us from scratch but increasingly, we are having experienced players come to us as well. Either way, we will teach them the kind of modern judo they are looking for.

I'm a big advocate of posting social media videos precisely because it gives people a good sense of what they can expect if they come to your dojo for training. Instead of guessing and wondering what a club is like or what type of training to expect, with videos, everyone see exactly what it's like. We are very proud of our program, which we have painstakingly developed over the years, so we want to show it off.

In fact, we have had a few people who came to us and said they chose us because of the videos. We were the only club that published training videos consistently, they said. And that's what convinced them we were the right club for them to try out.