The Story of Judo
The following is an article from Uncle John’s Endlessly Engrossing Bathroom Reader.
In the late 1870s, a short, skinny kid started taking jujitsu classes in Tokyo. Martial arts would never be the same. (Right down to their fancy, colored belts.)
NINETY-POUND WEAKLING
In 1878 Jigoro Kano, the 17-year-old son of a saki maker, moved from the island of [...]
