Meaning of judoka | Babel Free

Definitions

A practitioner of the Japanese martial art of judo.

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“Such words as “konjō (guts)” and “hard training” became popular since 1964, and popular songs hailed the jūdōkas and the Japanese chess players who became champions after a hard-working and self-abnegating life in songs such as “Yawara (Jūdō)” (1965) or “Ōhshō (the King)” (1963).”

“Kaori says it would be impossible to give up jūdō now because it had become a part of her life. The thought that she has foreign jūdōkas to compete against makes her work out harder, she says.”

“The jūdōka evaluated the push-ups and brought them in congruence with his personal values and needs.”

“The state of mindful emptiness can be shared intersubjectively, as when teammates operate in harmonious synchrony or opponents become one action, as Fukasawa illustrates with the jūdōkas in the previous essay.”

“Japanese jūdō opened itself up to greater gender equality in the late 1960s and 1970s, due in great part to the pressure exerted by Western female jūdōka from the late 1960s but also due to a more pragmatic approach to international competitions by the Japanese after the shameful defeat against Anton Geesink in the Tokyo Olympics of 1964 (Saeki 1994).”

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