Judo question?

Question

How long doee it take a committed person (about) to go from his first day to a black belt in the art of judo? Is 20 to late to start or is it late at all?

Answer 1

It's never to late to start, heck I've seen guys in their 70's rolling around, I know Combat SAMBO students in their 70's,  rolling, locking joints, throwing people around...

You're only as old as you think you are.

Answer 2

Any age is a good age to learn something new in life.  As far as belt ranking goes committed or not all schools and arts differ in their "time between" belts.  "Time between belts" means that there is usually a waiting period between testing dates for ranks.  You may only have to wait for one month between white belt and yellow, for example, in say a particual judo class and then have to wait for two or three months between yellow and the next belt up depending on the council that runs your school as well as your teachers own analysis of your skills.  There will be more than just one aspect looked at by a testing board as well testing for when testing for the next rank up and they may even choose to make you wait even longer.  This greatly differs between, not only arts, but schools teaching the exact same art as well.  Some schools will not even recognize belt rankings from other schools even if it's the same art form.  It's all about patients no matter how well you think you're doing.  You may think that you deserve up in rank every single month, but a council, school or teacher might see it totally different.  Any one could say that in 2 years you could reach 1st degree black belt, but in saying that they may be speaking from their own experiences and may not know that it could take way longer at some other school teaching the same art they take.

Answer 3

Generally 6 - 10. You get belts faster the more you compete and harder you train with the competitive elite classes.

In Japan, you can get it in 1 - 2. But the BB means something different in Japan.

Answer 4

i have a man in my judo class who started at 50. my sensei says bb are easy to obtain in japan: you just basically buy one.  george harris (kudan) says that the belt is just there to keep the fat in. forget about belts if you care about judo. find a good teacher and attack him, so he throws you over and over again. a few thousand falls, and you'll start to get it. judo is in the heart, not in the belt.

Answer 5

It is never too late to start.

Eventhough I started at the age of 5,

but a girl from my dojo,

who only started 10 years ago,

kicked my *** last month.

(We're both 24 this year).

She trains 4 days a week and I only train 1 day a week.

There is a 50 something year old guy who just started last year or so...I've only seen him a couple of times, but according to my sensei, he has a lot of potential.

You have to find a good sensei (instructor), a dojo environment that you like.

How good you will be is totally up to you and your commitment.