As part of the JORRESCAM (Journées de Réflexion et de Recherches sur les Sports de Combat et les Arts Martiaux) 2025 conference, our academic friend Michel Calmet has re-edited a survey – carried out for his thesis some twenty years ago – on choices and preferences in judo. Seven items – learning to respect others,[…]
KOKOROE by Yves Cadot
Apprehending the world. Without a doubt we can affirm that our action is largely conditioned by our posture, that is to say, etymologically, by our disposition, the position we take to look at things, our vision of the world, in short, our look at it. This posture is transversal in that it is immutable, whatever[…]
JUDO CULTURE : EXEMPLARY
Those who have the privilege, and the age of having taken part in them, still tell that, during the national cadet training camps they followed under the lead of the very respected Jacques Leberre, arriving at the dojo in the morning, they would find him sweeping the mat. It is always the good stories that[…]
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF YAMASHITA
Read our Japanese columnist Gotaro Ogawa. Brillant 6th dan, former Ambassdor, special adviser of the Japanese Judo Federation. More read in our last issue
Technique : Christa Deguchi
THE QUEEN OF THE LIGHTNING MOWING TECHNIQUE : Technical analysis of Christa Deguchi’s style.Read more in the last Spirit of Judo issue, click here ⤵️ ⤵️ ⤵️ ⤵️ ⤵️ ⤵️
Meditating at the dojo
From the tradition of Mokuso to the recommendations of neuroscience, how can meditation improve our practice?Improve you judo practice with Arthur Clerget, judo teacher, former french champion and 5th ar the junior world champs 2011 & states degree in psycho-motor consulting, founder of www.experiencedojo.fr Facebook & Instagram @arthurclerget Read this column in our last issue…
World Dojo, Qatar: a ufo in the desert
Host to the 2023 world championships a few months after attracting the attention of the entire planet by hosting the Football World Cup, Qatar, and its 90% foreign residents, has struggled to exist on the sporting field since its independence in 1971. Not a problem for the Blue Tigers Judo Club of Doha, which has[…]
PHYSICAL PREPARATION :
READY FOR THE VBT REVOLUTION ? We have long focused our reading of muscle preparation on the discs loaded on the bar. What if the missing link was speed? In these pages, we convert kilos to centimetres per second. Ready to change you mindset ? Our top Physical coach and sport’s teacher Aurelien Broussal-Derval gives[…]