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Why it sucks growing old while in Judo

If we’re to be Stoic about it, each day we live we get closer to our eventual demise/death. Our bodies may have adapted over the thousands of years we’ve been in existence as a species but we don’t just “pop off” like that – if we don’t succumb to a severe illness, accident or something […]

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Judo – the minority sport in the UK

Britain is not a Judo Nation by any stretch – there’s 66 million people here with roughly 47,000 registered Judo participants. It’s not a small number but compare that to France, a similar sized population but with over 600,000 participants. You could argue that Judo is not prominent enough within the early schooling system. Perhaps […]

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Improving your Judo without actually doing it

Learn from others… Ideas to improve your Judo from the comfort of your own home. Not even a pandemic can get in the way of this! You won’t even break a sweat!

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Light on your feet

Judo is ridiculously complicated. Once you figure out how to perform a judo throw (and there are over 60 of them without even getting into the bloody variations) you realise that throwing someone who’s resisting you is just not possible. Unless they’re very small or doing you a favour/massaging your ego.  So if you’re like […]