Bowling Green Kentucky Judo Club
Address
225 E 3rd Ave, Bowling Green, KY 42101, United States
Phone +12707818896
About Us
Judo or the “Gentle Way” is derived from Japanese Jujitsu. It was created by Jigoro Kano who was born in Japan in 1860. Mastering several styles of jujitsu including Kito-Ryu and Tenjin-Shinyo Ryu in his youth he began to develop his own system based on modern sports and proper educational principles. In 1882 he founded the Kodokan Judo Institute in Tokyo where he began teaching and which still is the international authority for Judo.
The name Judo was chosen because it means the “Gentle Way”. Kano emphasized the larger educational value of training in attack and defense so that it could be a path or way of life that all people could participate in and benefit from. He eliminated some of the traditional, more violent Jujitsu techniques (eye gouging, small joint manipulation and fish hooking) and changed training methods so that most of the moves could be done with full force to create a decisive victory without injury. The popularity of Judo increased dramatically after a famous contest hosted by the Tokyo police in 1886 where the Judo team defeated the most well-known Jujitsu school of the time. It then became a part of the Japanese physical education system and began its spread around the world. Dr. Kano, President of the University of Education, Tokyo, dedicated his life, studied these ancient martial arts of Jujitsu and integrated what he considered to be the best of their techniques into what is now the modern sport of Judo.
