Learn Kata of Kodokan Judo, as the essence of offense and defense, from those masters.

The Kata of Judo is performed by two rolls as “Tori” who applies the technique and “Uke” who receives the technique. It is a training system to learn the concept and skills by repeating Kata in a predecided way of offence and deffence. According to prof. Jigoro KANO, the founder of Judo, the relationship between Kata and Randori is described as “relationship between grammer and composition”, and lack of any of them is insufficient. The Kata of Judo, which has been attracting the most attention these days, the secret Kata of the early stage of Judo drawn by prof. KANO, and the Kata of Jujutsu, which is the origin of Judo, are deeply explained here. The Shihans appeare in this video: (Dani was at that time.)10th Dan: MIFUNE, SAMURA, FUKUDA, NAGAOKA, 9th Dan: OTAKI, 8th Dan; SONE, KAWAKAMI, TOMIKI, 7th Dan: ASAMI, NORITOMI, 4th Dan: KLEIN and the others

Naration : Mr. Hal SHARP He was born in 1927 and is from Ohaio U.S.A. He visited Japan after W.W.Ⅱas a member of American occupation army’s General Head Quarter and during his stay in Japan he was attracted by Judo and became a member of Kodokan. He finally received 8th Dan. During his stay he also served emperor Hirohito as a guardman. After coming back to U.S.A. he studied at university and after graduation he visited Japan several times. In those period he recorded many Judo activities such as matches, trainings. Later he became famous as a Japanese Budo recorder and often put his works to foreign journals.