Judo is about self-control and maintaining a sense of calm in all situations. You can’t go into a match with your adrenaline pumping, hoping to see some blood – that will be your own downfall.

AG: You started judo as a young girl at the urging of your mother. KH: She thought it would be good for me. By the age of 8, judo was the only thing I wanted to do. It became my whole life.

“Judo is a calling, a vocation for me,” he enthuses. “Sometimes we finish a training session and I’m tired, but a few hours later I already feel like playing again.

A 20-year-old Los Angeles man was arrested Sunday on suspicion of carjacking and kidnapping after a series of alleged crimes that ended when he tried to take the minivan of a university judo club ...

A Coleraine judo club is one of the first in Northern Ireland to offer training for visually impaired participants. Stephanie Stewart was born blind because of an undeveloped optic nerve. She ...

Gold medallist Chris Sherrington says judo helped him conquer stress and alcohol problems after spending £8,500 on drink in just three months. The Royal Marine from Ormskirk told BBC Scotland he ...

JANE FRYER: Jack - or to give him his fighting name, Hoko Jun - is Britain's oldest judo sensei, and has been tipped as a contender for the status of 'tenth dan black belt fighter'.

“Judo is a calling, a vocation for me,” he enthuses. “Sometimes we finish a training session and I’m tired, but a few hours later I already feel like playing again.

Gold medallist Chris Sherrington says judo helped him conquer stress and alcohol problems after spending £8,500 on drink in just three months. The Royal Marine from Ormskirk told BBC Scotland he ...

“Judo is a calling, a vocation for me,” he enthuses. “Sometimes we finish a training session and I’m tired, but a few hours later I already feel like playing again.