The Australian Kodokan Judo Association Summer School begins next week, from January 3rd to January 7th 2011 at the Shudokan Budo Academy in Brunswick East. The Summer School is an intensive week of Judo training, featuring morning and afternoon sessions. The morning seeions are fom 10am to 12.30pm, with the afternoon sessionfrom 2.30pm to 5.30pm, inclusive.
The morning session is …

A Mirror to the Soul
“The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being. (ho de anexetastos bios ou biôtos anthrôpôi — ὁ δὲ ἀνεξέταστος βίος οὐ βιωτὸς ἀνθρώπῳ)”Socrates

When the Kodokan made the decision to use the Yata no Kagami as the symbol to denote the Kodokan Spirit, they did so with the full realisation that Kodokan Judo was …