Judo School

May 16, 2009 by Admin  
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Judo School

To understand the art of Judo, let us figure out what the word “judo” means.  Judo is made up of two words, “ju” which means gentle, and “do” which means way.  Therefore, judo can be translated as the “gentle way”.  What makes it intriguing is the fact that since this is a form of martial arts, it’s hard to understand how one can be gentle in hand to hand combat when your life is at risk.  The nature of martial arts is to defend, to fight, to disable and opponent who may want to do you harm, and yet, here is a discipline here that says follow the gentle way.

Judo is both gentle and dynamic in activity.  Application of the philosophy means not to Read more

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