Dispatches from Planet Judo

By Mark Law

Mark Law's award-winning The Pyjama Game had established itself as one of the most popular books about the sport and he thought he had nothing to add. But then the Olympics came to London... Finding himself engrossed by a week of thrilling competition among the world's finest judoka in his home city, he started exploring and questioning his favourite sport all over again. Is classical judo losing out to Brazilian jiu-jitsu? Would judo really be any use in a pub brawl? Why were so many Japanese children actually being killed doing judo? How far can we put Vladimir Putin's rise to tyrannical domination down to his training as a judo competitor? And why do so many want to take part in this particular strange ritual of codified violence at all? The result was this remarkable book - not a mere coda to The Pyjama Game but one of the most wide-ranging, surprising and entertaining sports books of recent years.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0D8THK71T
• ISBN13: 9798329794465
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.8" x 5.0"