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Bernard Pariset (December 21, 1929 – November 26, 2004) was a French judoka and jujitsuka who studied with many Japanese masters including Jigoro Kano's student, Mikonosuke Kawaishi, and his assistant, Shozo Awazu.
The IJF World Tour is a worldwide top-tier judo tour, organized by the International Judo Federation since 2009. [1]The IJF World Tour consists of the annual World Championships and World Masters, a series of Grand Slam and Grand Prix tournaments, the annual continental championships and open meets organized by the respective continental judo unions, as well as the annual World Juniors ...
French Judo Federation (French: Fédération française de judo, jujitsu, kendo et disciplines associées (FFJDA), is the sports association that aims to promote the practice of Judo and related disciplines composed of jujitsu, kendo, iaïdo, sport chanbara, Jōdō, naginata, Kyūdō, sumo and taïso.
The International Judo Federation (IJF) is the international governing body for judo, founded in July 1951. [1] Today the IJF has 200 National Federations on all continents. There are over 20 million people around the globe who practice judo, according to the IJF.
national governing body of judo pursuant to the Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act (36 U.S. Code § 220501 et seq). A member organization of the U.S. Olympic Committee, USAJ is responsible for the development, support and selection of Olympic, Pan American and World Championship Teams, and is affiliated to the Pan American Judo ...
[3] [4] He was enrolled at a local sports club by his parents and played football, tennis, and basketball, but says he preferred judo "because it is an individual sport and it's me, only me." [ 4 ] He is 2.04 metres (6 ft 8 in) tall and weighs 141 kilograms (311 lb).
Judo's international governing body is the International Judo Federation, and competitors compete in the international IJF professional circuit. Judo's philosophy revolves around two primary principles: "Seiryoku-Zenyo" (精力善用, lit. ' good use of energy ') and "Jita-Kyoei" (自他共栄, lit. ' mutual welfare and benefit ').
However, since the highest dan rank reached in judo for a living person or conferred posthumously remains 10th dan, any judo dan rank higher than 10th dan is now considered as a merely historical theoretical option. Some time after the death of Kanō the promotion system essentially became capped at 10th dan. [4]