Jigoro Kano Judo - Ep 299 - whistlekick Martial Arts Radio Podcast #140:
Channel: whistlekick
Date: 2018-06-07

On today’s episode, Jeremy talks about one of the most important names in martial arts, founder of Judo, Jigoro Kano.

Jigoro Kano’s life’s work and contribution to the martial arts is next to legendary. Kano Jigoro, in traditional Japanese, founded judo and made it the first martial art sport in the Olympics. Jigoro Kano is a loyal student that made him a successor to his master, therefore, cementing his name as one of the martial arts most important individuals. He was a member of the International Olympic Committee and other important organizations in the martial arts. Jigoro Kano was a multi-disciplined martial artist and jiujitsu was on his belt. Listen to this episode and find out more about the life and works of Jigoro Kano.

Jeremy Lesniak:

Hey everyone thanks for coming by this is whistlekickMartialArtsRadio episode 299 and today were going into our biggest ever profile episode, today were going to talk about the man that started rank and the man who started the very first modern martial art to go into the Olympics, talking about judo, and of course I’m talking about the legendary Jigoro Kano. If you’re new to the show or my voice, you may not know who I am, I’m Jeremy Lesniak I’m the founder here whistlekick, I’m the host of martial arts radio and I get to research and talk about martial arts as part of my job. I have the best job in the world and I want to thank you for allowing me to have this job. If you want to check out the stuff that we make and the reason that we can spend the time on things like this show, you can head on over to whistlekick.com or Amazon, you can find our sparring gear our ever-growing line of apparel, training accessories, we make an offer you the traditional martial artist. I want to thank anyone out there who has supported us recently, whether through purchase or sharing an episode or leaving us review or any of the other many, many things that you can do that so many of you do do to help us out here at whistlekick. You can find the show notes for this episode including a full transcript at whistlekickmartialartsradio.com. This is a good one you can check out especially if you’re interested in names, I’m gonna to do my best with all the Japanese pronunciation, but my Japanese is not great, I’m trying alright. Give me a little bit of leeway on this okay?