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2010 FLORIDA STATE JUDO CHAMPIONSHIP

SATURDAY NOV 13TH, 2010

MIAMI CHRISTIAN SCHOOL

200 NW 109 AVE

MIAMI FLORIDA 33172

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Kano Jigoro

嘉納治五郎

1860–1938

He was a perfectionist, a disciplinarian and a traditionalist but,

at the same time, an innovator, an internationalist and a man

of great generosity. More important, he was a famous

educator and the father of modern sports in Japan. But above

all, Jigoro Kano was the founder of Judo!

Kano Shihan (1860 – 1938) had his origins in Martial Arts as a

student of the great master Fukuda Hachinosuke of the Tenjin Shin'

Yō-Ryū school of jujutsu. Being a man of great intellect and acute

sight, by age 22 he began the transformation of the old techniques

and began to develop a new more efficient, effective and refined

form of martial discipline, Judo (the gentle way).

The first dojo (training place) was the Eisho-Ji; a Buddhist temple in Kamakura, the year was 1882. Two years later, in 1884, the name was change to Kodokan (place for teaching the way). "Seiryoku Zenyo – Jita Kyoei" (Maximum Efficiency, Minimum Effort and Mutual Prosperity and Benefit). Are the core and foundation of Jigoro Kano vision even beyond the boundaries of Judo and into the realm of humankind as a properly balance and functioning society?

Forced by his 5' 2" diminutive stature and determined to prove the supremacy of his methods, Kano Shihan developed new techniques such as Kata Guruma, Uki Goshi and Tsuri Komi Goshi among others. Furthermore he incorporated techniques from other disciplines such as Katame Waza (Mat Techniques) and Atemi Waza (Striking Techniques) from the Kito Kyu School.

The recently developed method of martial discipline began to recruit and attract an ever increasing number of enthusiasts. The older school of Jujutsu by no means welcomes the presence and intromission of Kano’s Kodokan. One who most openly challenged the new method was Hikosuke Totsuka of the renowned Totsuka Jujutsu School. What had to happen did happen. The Police Bujitsu Tournament was held in 1886 to determent which school will prevail as the dominant factor in superiority of skills, effectiveness, training and proficiency. Each school selected fifteen of their best competitors to meet in the field of competition. At the end of the day Kano’s Kodokan had thirteen victories and two draws. Judo’s future was guaranteed and its growth assured. Japan had been won . . . now Dr. Jigoro Kano began to look beyond the confinement of the Japanese Archipelago.

Some of his first and most prominent students were send abroad to expand the frontiers of Judo. Yoshiaki Yamashita introduced Judo in the United States and personally instructed the then President Theodore Roosevelt. Yukio Tani and G. Koizumi went to England. Mikonosuke Kawaishi spread the seeds of Judo in France. By 1915’s Dojos had already been opened in The United States, Britain, France, Canada, India, Russia, China and Korea.

Kano was the first Japanese national to become a permanent member of the International Olympic Committee in 1909 until his demise in 1938.

In 1912 Japan participated for the first time in the Olympic Games celebrated in Stockholm. Judo became an Olympic event exactly 82 years after its beginning and in the same land of its origin. It was the XVIII Olympiads held in Japan in 1964.

Today, Judo is practiced in every nation, land and continent on Earth.