Warm up vs practice time

[NightOwl]

i think this really depends on the length of time you have. hour long classes have always made me uneasy, since it's difficult to get decent time stretching/warming up and spend any time on new material. when i was teaching classes, it was expected that students show up early, and more experienced students would lead stretches/warm ups in the back. anybody who couldn't make it early generally took time out of the beginning of class. it's probably unfair, but no one ever complained to me, and people were open to staying after to cover whatever they might have missed. i can see this as being a problem for anyone who doesn't have lots of space, though.

Aye, which is what bothers me. Half hour plus warm ups are fine if you have an hour of practice though. You can't really do anything about it other than start your own class I guess.

As a side note- a Judo class that I saw in The States had a ridiculously long warm up with long sessions of low impact stretching as well. Is this common to the style?

[marie curie]

In my judo class there were about 20 -30 mins of warm-up and stretching for a 2.5 hr class- is that really long to you? I'm not sure. In my first school, when I was a kid, there was a 30 min warmup-stretch for a 3 hour class... so it's looking like about 10 min warm up for each hour.

In my current classes we don't exactly have warm-up time, but the first part of one class is as I described before, and the other spends the first like 10 min catching up with one another while we stretch.

[NightOwl]

Not in relation to total training time, which in that case warming up doesn't take away from a lot of mat work and learning time.

[lupus yonderboy]

due to my limited memory and attention span, I often forget if a topic has been addressed before. Therefore, I proudly present the SPECIAL EDITION of the topic (just you know, in case) : How much time should be devoted in class to warming up/exercise? How much is too much? Should it be part of class at all? Your thoughts, please

Straight Blast Gym in Portland has a great system Before their fighting classes begin, they have a combat conditioning class warm up.. People who want to warm up can attend the half hour conditioning class.

They also tend to warm up with the same motions they will be doing in class that night.