Skills learned in Judo enhance academic and career pursuits. Professor Kano, the founder of Judo, developed Judo for mutual welfare and benefit. This offers personal and physical development, competition, camraderie and enjoyment.
Skills learned in Judo enhance academic and career pursuits. Professor Kano, the founder of Judo, developed Judo for mutual welfare and benefit. This offers personal and physical development, competition, camraderie and enjoyment.
Since 1882, Judo has been a sport that enhances...
 BalanceSpeedFlexibilityBody awarenessStaminaStrength
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Judo is life skills training...
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learning to respect yourself and otherscommitmentconcentrationstrategic thinkinganalysis
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Judo translates as "the gentle way". The term actually comes from two Japanese characters — ju, meaning gentleness, softness, yielding or flexibility, and do, meaning way, road, path or teaching. Judo's gentle side is apparent in its philosophy and technique. While other martial arts teach fast and skillful punching and kicking, judo teaches that yielding is strength, that fighters should bend like a bamboo, then strike back. It's all about using opponents' aggression and strength against them.The "gentleness is strong" martial art was the creation of a Japanese physical-education teacher, Dr. Jigoro Kano. Kano was an expert in jujitsu, an ancient Japanese art of attack and defence. There was a decline in martial arts in the country in the 1870s, and it was in that atmosphere that Kano established a new school of martial arts he called Kodokan Judo.
His new technique revolved around using an opponent's weight and momentum against him. The basic theory was to break an opponent's posture, throw him and hold him. It quickly gained followers, and, in 1886, a big victory against a leading jujitsu school in a heralded tournament gave the art a critical boost. It became part of the Japanese physical-education curriculum and, from there, spread around the world.
This sport is practiced around the world and is part of the Summer Olympics. Next to Track and Field, Judo has the most participants. It is the second largest participating sport for all ages.