Reddit reviews The Way of Judo: A Portrait of Jigoro Kano and His Students
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We found 2 Reddit comments about The Way of Judo: A Portrait of Jigoro Kano and His Students. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
The Way of Judo is
one of my favoritesa smooth read but contains some factual errors that I had forgotten about. See /u/Geschichtenerzaehler's comment below. The books /u/Ryvai mentioned are good too.But since you're here from BJJ for some Judo history, I want to take a minute to correct some straight up historical revisionism that I see a lot in BJJ.
I used to think that BJJ just didn't care about getting the history right, but after two recent articles by Robert Drysdale I'm beginning to think it's an intentional revising of history to make BJJ seem like The One True Art and Judo its trivial footnote of a cousin. Seriously, click on both articles, control-f search for "Judo" and "Kano." Article One. Article Two. They're also good reads if you are interested in the direction of BJJ, but I was alarmed by how wrong he gets some of the historical facts.
EDIT: spelling
Funnily enough, I'm reading this on my phone. It's a good read!
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