This discussion was posted on another forum, which got out of hand due to abusive attempts to hijack the thread, we have a vast amount of knowlegde using this forum, so Id like to ask it here, without the trolls,

Because I was having a discussion with a guy last night about the fact that Judo is not a sport,

it took a lot of persuading and several shimewaza to get him to come round to my way of thinking,

one of the examples I used was the fact that he was wearing a Blue Gi, and I tried to explain why it wasnt what Judo is about, and that there is a reason the Gi is white, and that the IJF brought in the blue Gi for tournaments for the spectator and referee, and that the spectator was/is nothing to do with judo either, and it went on, and finally he started to understand where I was coming from,

That whilst you train to win, you learn to understand that winning in life is important, but the fact that you have mutual respect and welfare to consider, the win is important but not neccesarily at all costs,

To win with an Ippon is the idea and to win effectively,

How koka and Yoko are another abomination of the rules.

We then carried on to to talk about how sport is affecting Judo in a negative way, for example, when a footballer gets knocked over in the box and flails his arms around expecting a penalty, its no different to when a Judoka is purposely pushing Uke out of bounds or stalling with a Koka, You have to go for the Ippon,

Kano Shihan was once asked "How do you become great at Judo?", his reply was...

Never Miss a Lesson.