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World Judo Day 2024: Celebrating the Spirit of Discipline and Respect on the Global Martial Arts Stage!
Each year on October 28, the world celebrates World Judo Day, honoring the legacy and philosophy of Judo. This martial art, founded by...
Black Belt Team
Oct 28, 2024
How a Small-Statured Scholar Saved Japan’s Martial Arts Legacy!
In 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into Edo harbor (now Tokyo) with four steam-powered warships. The United States was on a mission...
Hayward Nishioka
Oct 28, 2024
Rethinking Rank: What Does It Really Mean to Be a Black Belt?
Before Jigoro Kano and the Meiji Restoration, there was jujitsu. Back then, a person practiced in an ordinary kimono, usually a hakama and..
Hayward Nishioka
Oct 22, 2024
Judo's Untold Stories: The Lives of Jigoro Kano’s Students
Like most historical figures, past giants of the budo world tend to stand, in our view, at such a distance as to make them seem almost..
Dave Lowry
Oct 2, 2024
On the Shoulders of Giants: Strategies and Philosophies from 6 Martial Arts Masters
Leo Fong is one of the wisest people I know. Now in his ninth decade in the martial arts, he’s also one of the most experienced,...
Jotaro
Mar 28, 2024
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