Biography about judo

Personal Account History of Judo Judo was formed on the basis of Ju-jutsu distortion. Ju-jutsu the art of softness originated as a system of struggle without weapons. According to one of the legends, the principles of this martial art were formulated by the doctor Siberia Akiyama. Once, walking early in the morning in the garden, he noticed that the branches of large trees were broken yesterday’s snow, and only a small tree was proudly standing as if nothing had happened: his branches dropped their heaviness, bending to the ground, and straightened again.

Seeing such a miracle, Akiyama exclaimed: “To win, succumbing! During the period of feudal wars of centuries, the art of softness, which was part of the combat training system of samurai, reached its heyday, and the number of schools approached a thousand. However, the beginning of the Meiji restoration era G. summarizing the experience of various schools, systematizing the best techniques and excluding life -threatening, in the year he founded a judo school under the name “Kodokan”.

The name of the new type of struggle - judo - translates as a “soft path”. According to Cano, judo was to become “combat sports for physical training and general education of youth, philosophy, the art of everyday life”, and a storage of invaluable national traditions. Interest in the outlandish struggle was also shown by US President Theodor Roosevelt, regularly engaged in a specially equipped White House premises with a trusted envoy of the Japanese teacher.

The admirer of judo was the great Indian thinker Rabindranate Tagor. The development of the struggle for a while was suspended by the Second World War. Despite the fact that Kano repeatedly gave a voice of protest against the militarization of society and education, judo fell into the list of prohibited martial arts compiled by the American occupation authorities.

The ban was nevertheless lifted, and the movement along the “soft path” took on an irreversible character. The internationalization and development of the Olympic movement leads to the fact that the sports component comes to the forefront in judo. In the year, the first world championship was held in Tokyo, in which 31 representatives of 21 countries took part.

In the year, judo entered the program of the Olympic Games. Female judo owes his birth to the wife of Dzigoro Kano, a furious enthusiast of struggle. The first world championship among women was held in the year, and in the Olympic Games, judokas have participated since the year. To date, members of the International Federation are countries. About 8 million people regularly engage in Japan, in the rest of the world, more than 20 million.

By the number of "devoted" judo is second only to football.