Traveling back to over 100 years before the first IBJJF World Championship or UFC, back to Kano Jigoro and his first Kodokan Academy. Kano had studied the many different styles of the Samurai art of ...

In Louisville, Kentucky and the surrounding communities (from Bowling Green to Owen County to Lexington and Frankfort and the surrounding states) there is a tight-knit community of Judo and other ...

July 8, 1853 is a watershed moment in Japanese history, when Commodore Perry of the U.S. Navy took a small group of steam-powered warships into Edo (Tokyo) Bay. These iron sided war machines belched ...

Judo (‘the gentle way’) originated as an offshoot of jujitsu and was developed by Professor Jigoro Kano (1860–1938) in Japan. It was originally called Kodokan Judo by Kano and the martial art was ...

Part II of this guest interview by Dan Pedersen, aka BE reader judonerd. Tomorrow Jimmy and Dan will return and add their analysis to a Judo Chop featuring Yoshihiro Akiyama. Kid Nate. Part 1 is here.