What’s the point of Judo? “The main object of Judo lies in this point. It seeks to augment human strength, morality, and intellect by human means and efforts. It tends to train young people in the habits and conditions conducive to the accomplishment of great undertakings. T. Shidachi There are many life lessons that can be learned through the practice …
JUDO OUCHI OSOTO GARI Techniques with Darcel Yandzi Darcel Yandzi coaching Daikii Bouba and Romaric Bouda. Filmed with the French national team in Paris. Thanks for watching, we hope you enjoyed it, please LIKE, SHARE and don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE to WORLD OF MARTIAL ARTS TELEVISION for more great videos each week!! You can also FIND, FOLLOW and SUBSCRIBE to …
By Nicholas Messner An article on judo was published in the Olympic Review in January 1912. Even if the article was not signed, the text was attributed to Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the father of the modern Olympic Games. “The judo vogue was enormous and soon the Kodokan extended its influence outside the limits of the Mikado’s Empire. Here we …
By Nicholas Messner British judo holds a special place in the history of world judo and can be related to the expansion of the sport outside Japan. One can say that the specificity of the history of early British judo is due to the country itself as well as to the context and to the pioneering vision, the unflagging energy …
By Nicholas Messner For many centuries, almost unknown, the world discovered the Land of the Rising sun in the second half of the 19th century. It must be said that the West was immediately fascinated by its artistic and historic dimension. The first explorers who came back from Japan described a country full of specific local characteristics and the difference …
By Nicholas Messner JUDO AS AN EDUCATIONAL METHOD “What Western brain could have elaborated this strange teaching – never to oppose force by force, but only to direct and utilize the power of attack; to overthrow the enemy solely by his own strength – to vanquish him solely by his own effort? Surely none!“ said Lafcadio Hearn* in 1895, talking …
By Nicholas Messner On the road to Tokyo 2020, we will follow a series of articles about the history of judo. We will explain how a martial art became an olympic sport and an amazing educational tool. Judo practiced at the Fujimi-cho Kodokan dojo by Hishida Shunso – © Kodokan Institute Judo is today a well established Olympic sport practiced …