Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Judo is one of the most popular sports played in Japan. Judo literally means "gentle way". Judo takes from ju-jitsu ("gentle art") the principle of using one's opponent's strength against him. Kano saw ju-jitsu as a disconnected bag of tricks, and sought to unify it according to some principle: he found it in the notion "maximum efficiency". With that, he renamed his art "judo", to indicate his view of it as a means of physical and spiritual development,as well as self-defense. Judo has become Olympic sport and is now internationally very popular. The belt color represent the level of the player. White is the beginner and the black is skilled. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.