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The Greatest @Home Videos [1] (formerly The Greatest #AtHome Videos) is an American video clip television series for CBS. Executive produced and hosted by Cedric the Entertainer , the series was produced to fill in primetime broadcast hours due to production shutdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Keiko Fukuda (Japanese: 福田 敬子, Hepburn: Fukuda Keiko, April 12, 1913 – February 9, 2013) was a Japanese-American martial artist. She was the highest-ranked female judoka in history, holding the rank of 9th dan from the Kodokan (2006), and 10th dan from USA Judo (July 2011) and from the United States Judo Federation (USJF) (September 2011), and was the last surviving student of Kanō ...
Marti Malloy first made a name for herself in the senior rankings as a 16-year-old when she claimed a gold medal in her first senior international competition the 2002 Rendez-Vous Canada where she defeated a tough field, including both a 2000 Olympian and the previous year's U.S. National Champion, as well as top athletes from Canada and Great Britain.
James Steven Bregman (born November 17, 1941, in Arlington, Virginia) was a member of the first American team to compete in judo at the Summer Olympics.A founding member and President of the United States Judo Federation, in his competitive career he was a bronze Olympic medalist (), a World Championships bronze medalist (), a Pan American Championships gold medalist, and a Maccabiah Games ...
The Nepal Judo Association (NJA) is the national sports body for judo in Nepal. Founded in 1983, NJA is affiliated with the International Judo Federation (IJF) and the Judo Union of Asia (JUA). The association is headquartered at Dasharath Stadium in Kathmandu.
[1] [2] Wooley was a student of Karl Geis. [3] He utilized ballet as a method of increasing his flexibility and improving his technique. [4] Wooley was on the 1972 Olympic Team in Judo where he competed in the under 93 kg division. [4] He was also on the 1976 Olympic Team competing in the open division. [4] Wooley went on to become a doctor and ...
The best judo competitors at the time in Japan were coming out of the police academy and universities. These competitors would visit the Kodokan for practice on a weekly basis. Training at the Kodokan, Rogers made an effort to train with the judoka from the police academy and nearby Takushoku University (Takudai). [3]
Itsutsu-no-kata (五の形, "forms of five") is a kata (a set of prearranged techniques) in Judo.It consists in five techniques, known only by their number. Although popular media generally claim that it was developed by Jigoro Kano, [1] [2] recent scientific research has conclusively shown that the kata predates the foundation of Kodokan judo and that Jigoro Kano took it from Tenjin Shinyō ...