How Note Taking Can Help You Become an Expert

@connor MGinAction looks really cool! The equivalent in Judo is probably https://www.superstarjudo.com/ — which is really high quality and really comprehensive.

That said, what I tend to do is to look at snippets of competition video, instead of instructionals. I talk about this in my old post on learning tacit knowledge from Youtube, and I’ve found that watching a competitor execute a throw in a variety of fight scenarios usually yields a lot more information than watching instructionals. I’m particularly interested in what some coaches call ‘precursors’ — which is the sequence of feints, grips, and setups before doing a particular throw. And that tends to be very context dependent, since the precursor for one player is dependent on the opponent they’re fighting (Russian vs Japanese?), the handedness (lefty vs righty?), and is usually very integrated into their fighting style (what other throws are available to them during the grip sequence?).