A discipline that, in addition to being a martial art, seeks to promote different important values in people.
He October 28 marks World Judo Day. This has been happening since 2011 and the date was chosen because it was the day Jigoro Kano, the inventor of the martial art, was born. The main objective of this day is to unite all judokas in the world, making known the values on which it is based.
Judo was created in 1884, and It began to be an Olympic sport in 1964. If translated from Japanese, it means “path of softness”, influencing physical, mental and emotional development through practice. After the creation of Jigoro Kano, it was Kyuzo Mifune who perfected his technique to bring it to what we know today.
Paula “little” Pareto
The values that judo seeks to teach
Martial arts are usually a path of improvement for the student, and among these teachings, judo seeks to establish moral values that must be internalized. Among them:
- Courtesy: respect for others.
- Courage: overcoming fear in search of what is most just.
- Sincerity: saying what you think and feel.
- Honor: being faithful to your word and commitment.
- Modesty: Talking about oneself without pride.
- Self control.
- Friendship.
- Loyalty.
- Gratitude: correctly thank everything you receive.
The Argentine who became Olympic Judo champion
In our country, we have a judoka who was Olympic champion at the 2016 Rio Games. It is about Paula Pareto (La peque), who won the gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics and had won the bronze medal in Beijing 2008. It should be noted that she always remained at the top in her participations, having 8 first places in addition to the one already mentioned.
He also had 5 silver medals and 7 bronze medals. His longest streak of gold medals were in the Pan American Championships from 2017 to 2020 inclusive, after winning gold at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. And in 2015 he had won the world championship in Astana (Kazakhstan).
Source: Ambito
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