I am going to start Judo soon, is and hour and a quarter a week enough to become efficient at it?

It%26#039;s not a lot, but it%26#039;s better than nothing. You will learn at that rate, but perhaps not very quickly. The problem is one week is enough to often forget what you went through last week.


I would suggest you do some of the exercises outside the dojo to help with your overall technique. One of the keys to acquiring technique is repetition, repetition, and more repetition followed by repetition. There are always some things you can practice outside of the dojo and you can never practice too much.


For example, you will soon be learning how to fall. You can always practice that on your own. There%26#039;s a lot of things that really require a partner to practice, unfortunately, but others you can move forward on your own time.


Also, eventually, you%26#039;ll make friends in the dojo. Sometimes, you can practice with someone from your dojo outside of class hours. There%26#039;s no law against it. Parks and beaches are great places to practice. The only drawback is you don%26#039;t have your sensei present to correct what you%26#039;re doing wrong, but at least you%26#039;re still practicing. And since you do go back to the dojo every week anyway, you don%26#039;t really have time to develop really bad habits.


But just a bit of advice: Don%26#039;t let practice outside of the dojo become your main focus. Just because you can practice outside the dojo, it doesn%26#039;t mean your main focus shouldn%26#039;t be the dojo. When you practice on your own, you%26#039;re just trying to hone in what you learn in the dojo. The dojo is where you really learn this stuff in the first place.|||It%26#039;s true that everyone learns at their own pace, but you must be realistic and assess what you believe to be %26#039;good%26#039; before even reading any of these comments.





By %26#039;efficient,%26#039; are you implying that you wish to know all the techniques they show you in class and be able to execute them, or do you wish to know how to do the techniques extremely well?





An hour and fifteen minutes is a good start, but it would be best for YOU if you attended more classes. It would be fairly difficult to learn AND retain the material if you only attend one class a week. Part of learning Judo, like any Martial Art, is also practicing it on your own. When I was in Tae Kwon Do, and now that I am in Karate, I always go over my patterns and kata%26#039;s in my head while I am walking, and I might try to recall how some of the self-defense techniques went.





If you were only to attend one class a week, you would not learn enough to advance at a pace YOU like, and you would have to obviously set aside more time to practice at home.





I have been attending three classes a week for Karate, and now I will have time to attend five per week. When I was in Tae Kwon Do, I attended five a week as well. This allowed me to learn the material fairly quickly and advance at a steady pace so I was constantly pushing myself to do better. If you don%26#039;t attend enough classes, you won%26#039;t grow enough to call your techniques anything above a beginner level.





I would recommend you aim to attend three classes a week if you can. (And don%26#039;t forget the exercise aspect of this! You will want to attend more than just one class if you want to get in shape, and stay in shape!)|||No, not really. I sometimes get a similar question from parents who want to bring their child once a week to a karate class. Doing something once a week is not near enough for you to see or realize any real benefits in the long run. It leaves to much time between classes so memory as well as repetition tend to suffer. Not only that but if the rest of the class is working out more often you will constantly be behind them and struggling to do what they have been learning and practicing several times each week. While once a week is better than nothing I would suggest you try to squeeze another workout in so that there is only three or four days between them.|||Six hours a day is the competitor%26#039;s way, that%26#039;s what I say.|||Eventually.|||Maybe over a 30 year period! Be serious. You only get out of something what you put into it. Although all of us learn things at different rates, the steady practice of a martial discipline is what will help you to become proficient at it. You also have to have someone to practice with. Although there are DVDs available to study from, they are only supplemental at best.You can%26#039;t ask them questions, and you can%26#039;t get specific feedback for the most part.


If you are studying in a classroom with an instructor once a week, but are also seriously practicing in a conducive environment throughout the week with a friend or classmate (of the same discipline), then I would say that you will progress at a steady rate.|||A week? no. I practice Judo normally 1.5 hours per day two days a week, and I%26#039;m still only halfway decent 2.5 years in. There are dojos that practice 5 days a week 3+ hours per day before major tournaments.





However, obviously you have to make the choice that is the best for you, and if your schedule only allows for you to go to class 1 day per week, then that is better than nothing.|||no buddy I%26#039;m sorry to say its not!!!|||at least 3 days a week an hour and a half at a time at minimum.|||No, from expereince if you want to be real good martial arts like judo. ATLEAST 3+ hours, per week.|||Sometimes that is all you can find the time for. You can improve it will just be at a slow pace.|||nah u need to double that at least