Judo Is for Me (Sports for Me Books)

By John Ralph Holm

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• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822511495
• ISBN13: 9780822511496
• Release Date: June 1986
• Publisher: Lerner Pub Group
• Length: 46 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Age Range: 7 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 5

Customer Reviews

Breakout of the judo mental box

This was the start of NEW THINKING about how AMERICANS should be learning judo.We don`t have adopt SHINTO rituals to learn a simple wrestling sport.When AMERICAN judo athletes come to understand this maybe than the USA judo will go from LAST PLACE to FIRST PLACE in WORLD ratings.

A lifetime of experience put into a practical book.

My three boys were in judo for three years, learning unsafe and impractical skills under three different instructors. One of my boys lost every match he was in and both my parents and my in-laws were telling me to get him out of judo to save his self-esteem.Then, about three years ago, I met Coach John Holm, the author of this book. My boys started training with him at the U.S. Judo Training Center in Renton, Washington, and now they are all current Washington State champions. I encourage any parent of a student of judo to check out this simple book. Note not only the skills that are taught, but what is omitted: Shinto rituals of bowing to mats, altars, and pictures of the dead founder of judo, and unsafe or impractical skills common to almost all judo instruction across the country. Coach Holm has put years of practical instruction into this book, suitable for American students who want to learn judo, but not the Shinto religion.