Product Description

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1468462 in Books
• Published on: 2002-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

From the Back Cover
The martial arts, among today's most exciting exercise regimes, have become some of the most popular ways to keep fit and stay in shape. Judo, which involves both groundwork and grappling methods, is both a fun sport and a formidable fighting art, and has been an Olympic discipline since the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
Judo is a full-color guide that explains vital basic techniques as well as more advanced skills. Its modern design, accessible layout, and information-packed pages make maximum use of instructional, clear text and superb photography to offer exhaustive coverage of the most important elementary principles of the martial art, such as falling, throwing, and groundwork. Also, specially commissioned high-quality photographs laced throughout the book depict easy-to-follow step-by-step sequences, while close-up details focus on key elements of technique. A separate section is devoted to effective self-defense through the use of tried and tested judo techniques.

Customer Reviews

Excellent basic book
This book, unlike most judo books available today, contains full color photos in an attractive format. The book contents are as modern and accurate as the design. Although geared primarily for beginners it covers a lot of material that anyone doing judo needs to know.

Watch for the next book by this publisher which will be a more comprehensive text with the same excellent format.

A great book but too short
Excellent on the core 30 throws and basics on ground fighting.
Get this book with Renzos BJJ book and do Judo and BJJ each 2x per week to become an excellent martial artist.

Pretty good judo book
First off, let me start off by saying that I like this book. The photo quality is first rate and the instructional text is also very good. The trouble as I see it, is that this is one of those books that assumes you know nothing about Judo and are an absolute beginner. There is nothing wrong with this per se (so we have ANOTHER book with a section on Judo history, how to wear your gi and break-falls) but it is just that this has been done to death already. In essence, I'd like to see a book (by this author) on solely advanced techniques (they do have a short section of these in the book) - show me the little details and variations of techniques that I'm not going to see in every dojo in the world. Bottom line: a quality Judo book for beginners. More advanced Judoka won't get too much out of it.