Judo
Subtitle: History, Theory, Practice
Contributors: George Russell (Preface); Keiko Fukuda (Preface)
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: June 16, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781556434457
Subjects: Sports; General; Sports & Recreation; Sports & Recreation / Martial Arts & Self-Defense; Martial Arts & Self-Defense; Judo
First sentence: Judo owes its origins to a centuries-old tradition of one-on-one military combat that came into being and developed in various schools of jujitsu in medieval Japan, yet many people still argue about whether jujitsu has purely Japanese roots or if it was brought in from outside.