Dear everyone, How are you doing? Hope all is ok with you. I'm completely my researches about Bill Paul a late martial artist in San Francisco and creator of non violent self defense system. He was from San Francisco and he died in 1989. Probably he was a pioneer of martial arts in San Francisco in a period when martial arts science was dominated from few martial arts and Chinatown had few schools. Hope you can help me. Take care. Tony ..read more

does anyone remember this man? i met him in 1978 at lackland air force base when i was training for security specialist. i used to go with him to judo tournaments. i just wondered if he was still around ..read more

I’m about to turn 37 at the end of January. I decided to start Judo next week for the first time in my life. I’m pretty excited about it because this art has fascinated me for a real long time. I found a dojo about 6 miles from my house, it’s ran by a 5th dan who built a beautiful Japanese style dojo in his backyard. The club has about 8 members all adults. They train Tuesday and Thursday from 6:30-8pm. It’s pretty cheap at $120 every 3 months. They want me to come observe class on Tuesday... Read more ..read more

By this I mean i say. How do you take care of back, knee, etc injuries ..read more

Hi there, As a judoka, I like to watch videos of other practitioners. I follow Jukido Jujutsu on social media. Sensei Rego seems to have a lot of knowledge. Looks like they go hard on randori and self defense. Anyone has any experience training there? Near Daytona Beach I believe ..read more

I ran into the term in a book description as follows: ""KDR Combat Judo is a syllabus sub-set of Kenshindoryu Traditional Judo....."" The term Kenshindoryu is new to me. Can anyone here enlighten me? Thank you ..read more

Good morning. I had a kimono supplier from Pakistan who had very good quality and price, but he simply disappeared. I would like to know if anyone makes custom Kimonos with someone from Pakistan (Fuji is not an option). Thanks ..read more

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I should start another thread, but even though this is old here it will be for my discussion of the so-called “deadly choke hold” by Daniel Penny. After watching the entire unedited ~5 minute video I can see that Penny did not apply Hadaka jime in the traditional sense by either the airway/trachea or vascular arteries/carotid method. The technique he applied was an old and tried method of restraint without attempting to strangle or cause blackout, but a police method to just restrain... Read more ..read more