Melissa Lynch gives fellow classmate Sean Callaghan a glimpse of her shoulder throw during junior-level judo class at the Tulsa Judo Club.

SAMURAI star Kate Walker pushed Great Britain squad rival Sarah Clarke all the way at the senior trials.

November 18, 2008 08:15 PM - With 575 athletes attending the Hatashita International Judo Tournament at the Hershey SportZone over the weekend, medals were hard to come by.

Yosh Uchida was happy to be home from World War II after serving for four years as an Army medic.

Steven Hopwood has traded the cut and thrust of financial markets for the jabs and kicks of cage fighting -- a fast growing mix of martial arts and an old-fashioned pub brawl.

John Amtmann teaches a submission during a workout at the HPER Complex with MMA students last Tuesday.

Has the Japaneseness inherent in judo been stripped away to accommodate forms of judo that do not adhere as closely to its traditions? Revisions in the current system suggest that may be the case.

WOMEN golfers got the ball rolling by raising money for the annual Children in Need event by dressing up as pirates.

Ashley McBride, right, practises her throws with Charmaine Keenatch on Wednesday at the Prince Albert Judo Cluba s Kenshukan Dojo in preparation for this weekenda s Hatashita Open in Toronto.

DAVE MATHIESON The Amherst Daily News AMHERST Many good competitors have come out of the Amherst Judo Club and one of the latest athletes to compete for the club won silver medals at the last two competitions ...

She's 95 years old and less than five feet tall. Yet Keiko Fukuda--the highest-ranking female judo practitioner in the world--has no intention of retiring from teaching judo in her Noe Valley studio.

Michelle Farrow stands in one corner of an octagonal fighting cage, glaring at her opponent in the opposite corner.

India Gazette Saturday 8th November, 2008 Uttar Pradesh Judo Association secretary Munawar Anzar has been given the world referee licence by the International Judo Federation, the first South Asian to get the ...

Japanese Aikido professionals Takumi Muroki and Sadako Muroki during Aikido demonstration at Al Sadd Sports Club.

Was there ever a choice? Not when one's father is the head instructor. Not when judo is part of one's DNA.

FIGHTING CHANCE: Satoshi Ishii has given his Olympic gold to a gym and will change sporting direction after graduating from university in March AFP, TOKYO Wednesday, Nov 05, 2008, Page 19 Japanese judo star ...

A LITTLEBOROUGH pensioner has received an extra-special 75th birthday present a ' a black belt in judo.

Pinewood Judo Club continued a fantastic weekend when both junior and senior fighters of high and low grades took part in the Hampshire Junior & Senior Split Grade Open Competition in Portsmouth.

Ryudokan Judo Club, a member of Judo Ontario has moved to Keswick after spending over 10 years in Mount Albert.

Since taking up judo nearly two years ago, Bellingham's Gary Gokee even thrives on a special feeling when he finds himself thrown by an opponent.