Two trends co-exist today in judo and Japanese martial arts: one, more sport-centred, is represented by practitioners that emphasise results and give greater importance to efficiency during combat; the other one, more spiritually bounded, is represented by those who consider its practice as a way for personal improvement. The sportivization of judo has brought about continuous changes on judo's competition rules, conditioning both its technical development and historical evolution, and promoting the disappearance of the moral and philosophical concepts originally developed by Kano.... [Leer más...]