Safety Policy

Respect for People   |   Passion for the Sport    |    Continual Improvement 

• Pay your dues in sweat and on time 
• Helping others is helping yourself
• Clean: Body, Mind, Dojo
• Respect + Effort = Success: work hard, smart and listen to your coach

 Policy on Hygiene:

Grappling is a contact sport, and there are very real dangers to all of us if even just one of us  does not practice impeccable personal hygiene. Please  review and follow these best practices: because this is so serious, violations of this policy will result and removal from our program:

 

1. Always bathe after class

2. If you are ill DO NOT come to class

3. Always keep your finger and toenails short; but DO NOT cut nails just prior to class unless you can also file them. Nails are sharpest just after trimming.

4. Always wear clean gym clothes

5. If you have any sign of any skin infection DO NOT come to class- go see a doctor! Staph and ringworm are very contagious and can be extremely serious. 

6. NEVER step on the mats with anything but clean feet- if you must leave the mats, use your flip flops (these should be sanitized after use). No street shoes allowed on the mats for any reason. 

7. If you get cut while training, stop immediately clean and cover your wound

8. If you have any injury or other health concern always tell your coach and training partners before training

9. Help keep our space sanitary 

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Policy on Injuries

ANY Student who carelessly injures another teammate, or demonstrates recklessness will be removed from our program

• Be a good training partner. That means you help your partner to learn: class is not a competition but cooperative. Mutual Benefit is one of the main tenets of Judo and this is how it is practiced at its most basic level. 
• Tap early, tap often: learn from your mistake and make adjustments; this is how you have a long career; there is no benefit getting hurt by trying to tough it out.  Conversely; always ease into submissions: If  you are dominating your partner you aren't being a good training partner, there is no trophy at the end of rolling each day! 
• Training should be give and take. If you or your training partners get hurt... you can not train...so train smart, be aware and always put safety before ego! 
• If you are going off of the mats or too close to a wall, stop and readjust. When throwing: always help your partner land in a controlled manner and always throw towards the center of the mat space. 

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