Category: Judo

Judo combines many different fighting techniques (rolls, chokes, etc.), but it focuses mainly on throws: throwing (nage-waza) and groundwork (ne-waza). Judo students will spend many hours training...

Mastering judo requires a significant amount of preparation and intensive, physical and emotional instruction. Although it has certain characteristics of other combat forms, there are important...

The clothing Judokas wear while competing and training in the sport of Judo is referred to as a Judogi - where gi essentially means ‘uniform.’ A Judo Gi is an extremely durable and heavy-duty...

Judo is a highly technical sport that requires perfect positioning, execution, timing, and leverages to perform dazzling throws and trips against an unwilling opponent. Because of the need to...

Judo is a highly competitive grappling-based form of martial arts that emphasizes trips and throws by scientific means, i.e., optimizing leverages and balance. Because of its ever-growing popularity,...

Even if you haven’t tried it yourself, you are probably familiar with the famous martial art called Judo. If you are new to the sport, chances are you are trying to familiarize yourself with the...