Here are 10 lessons that judo will teach you, at Hayabusakan Judo:
1. If you think that you know everything, you will not learn anything except how to learn absolutely nothing.
2. Getting back up is the hardest thing to do in Judo, and in life.
3. Losing is a part of learning how to win.
4. Losing is only truly losing if you make the same mistake twice.
5. It is possible to control physical and psychological pain.
6. Perfect technique learned through hours of training is more efficient than natural talent.
7. Train one thing to be so good that it scores every time that it is used.
8. If you fear defeat, then you have already been defeated.
9. Training and working hard is only part of the road to success; application and execution make up the rest.
10. Accept that there will be many times in life where you will lose when you should clearly win.
These are the values and attributes that Hayabusakan Judo strives to instill in all of its students. They promote humility balanced with dignity and resilience, focusing on hard honest work that is constantly tested by the realities of life.
The lessons are ordered in ascending difficulty, with respect to the ability to understand and accept; however, all of them still rank equally in importance. The beauty of this order is that the tenth lesson always leads back to the first thus creating a never-ending cycle of self-betterment/learning, and each of these lessons can be applied in life whether it be in business transactions, social settings or just personal decisions. Judo is a life-long journey and is an extremely rewarding one.
