Open AccessCompetición Versus Tradición en el Judo Kodokan
Author(s) -
S. Biron Ebell
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
revista de artes marciales asiáticas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2174-0747
pISSN - 1885-8643
DOI - 10.18002/rama.v3i2.359
Subject(s) - style (visual arts) , psychology , recreation , span (engineering) , association (psychology) , humanities , political science , art , literature , law , engineering , civil engineering , psychotherapist
Judo’s association with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and their corporate sponsors is eroding the practice, larger principles, and aims envisioned for Kodokan Judo by its founder, Jigoro Kano. In order to be accessible to a neophyte television audience, judo has had to become a more marketable commodity. These changes, among others, have devalued recreational judo in the minds of some. This paper presents a brief developmental history of judo as it evolved to meet the needs of the IOC.