It can sometimes be a challenge when am experienced player from another club joins us. That's because players tend to prefer what they are used to and are wary of things they are not.
I should say that we do have quite a few players who came to us from other clubs who have integrated well and have become part of our judo family.
Usually these are players who had proactively sought out our club because they were looking for something better. They saw our videos and felt that's the kind of training they wanted to have.
But we've also had a few cases (fortunately not many) where an experienced player came into our club expecting it to be like their old club. These are usually players who weren't inclined to join us in the first place but just didn't have much of a choice due to circumstances.
There was one who was kicked out of his old club (which he actually liked) due to some dispute with the head coach, and was forced to find a new place to train. Another one joined us after moving from another state to further his studies in KL. From the get go, it was obvious in both these case, they very much preferred their old club but were not able to train there anymore.
Both those players did not last long, just a few weeks. Even so, it's a painful experience for us having to deal with them. But we have learned from those experiences and these days, if we have a situation where a player from another club wants to join us because of circumstances (not because they had seen our videos and wanted to join us), we recommend they come for an extended trial -- maybe for a week.
This will allow them to gauge our club better and find out:
i) Is the training system suitable for them?
ii) Is my coaching style suitable for them?
iii) Can they get along with the other players?
If after a week, they don't quite like it, they can save themselves, and us, a lot of grief by looking for another place to train. If, however, they like it, we welcome them to join the club.
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