Regular Class Chat

Here's the entire Katame no Kata

Tonight we did the pin portion which is approximately the first 30 mins of details. Please use this for review and feel free to look ahead at the shimewaza, kensetsuwaza or into the formalities if you wish.

Schedule breakdown:

Night 1) osaekomi Waza

Night 2) shimewaza

Thank you Jae and Rudy. Good randori yesterday. I'm feeling it today. 😅

Ok. Who's is this?

the last giveaway for a blue Mizuno Judogi was very successful.

our goal with that giveaway was to get people to sign up before registration closed and it worked.

it's no suprise that we're always looking to increase membership and as such our next giveaway will be focused not just on early registration but also on brining new Judoka into class.

Over the Xmas break we tried multiple marketing stratagies, Instagram adds, reddit, nextdoor, email marketing lists from data analytics companies, Google ads, pretty much anything we could think of since we'd seen so much success in 2024 and wanted to ride that into a new record year for 2025.

the results: none of it did anything. we actually went down by 4 students registered between fall and winter. what did work was giving away stuff to our members and our members sharing their experiences online in reviews. so rathe…