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...Napier Judo wishes to welcome aboard new volunteers! A huge welcome to Jade and Carolina Davis, who have agreed to be our president and secretary respectively, and Keremia Tairua who has agreed to do our accounts! Thank you guys for joining our team, we look forward to an awesome future together!

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... NZL Referees Selected For Asia Oceania Championships

Referees Diane Limbrey (WEL WN) and Craig Bartlett (HOW AK) have been selcted to officiate at the 2020 Asia Oceania Senior Championships scheduled to be held in Mongolia in April.

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... AUTOMATIC PAYMENT SYSTEM COMING TO NAPIER JUDO CLUB BY TERM 2!

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Judo (柔道, jūdō, Japanese pronunciation: [dʑɯꜜːdoː], lit. "gentle way") is generally categorized as a modern martial art, which has since evolved into a combat and Olympic sport. The sport was created in 1882 by Jigoro Kano (嘉納治五郎) as a physical, mental, and moral pedagogy in Japan. Judo's most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the objective is to either throw or take down an opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue an opponent with a pin, or force an opponent to submit with a joint lock or a choke. Strikes and thrusts by hands and feet as well as weapons defences are a part of judo, but only in pre-arranged forms (kata, 形) and are not allowed in judo competition or free practice (randori, 乱取り). A judo practitioner is called a judoka.

The philosophy and subsequent pedagogy developed for judo became the model for other modern Japanese martial arts that developed from koryū (古流, traditional schools). Judo also spawned a number of derivative martial arts across the world, such as Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Krav Maga and Sambo.