jūdōka

A form of judoka — A practitioner of the Japanese martial art of judo.

Meanings

nounjūdōka (plural jūdōka or jūdōkas)

plural jūdōkas

  1. alternativeAlternative form of judoka.

    The jūdōka evaluated the push-ups and brought them in congruence with his personal values and needs.

    2011, Menno Deen, Ben A. M. Shouten, “Games that Motivate to Learn: Design Serious Games by Identified Regulations”, in Patrick Felicia, editor, Handbook of Research on Improving Learning and Motivation through Educational Games: Multidisciplinary Approaches (Advances in Game-Based Learning), volume I, Hershey, Pa.: Informational Science Reference, →ISBN, section 3 […], page 332, column 1
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    Such words as “konjō (guts)” and “hard training” became popular since 1964, and popular songs hailed the jūdōkas and the Japanese chess players who became champions after a hard-working and self-abnegating life in songs such as “Yawara (Jūdō)” (1965) or “Ōhshō (the King)” (1963).

    1970, Kinhide Mushakōji, “The Changing Japanese Foreign Policy Attitudes in the 1960’s”, in Annual Review, volume 5, Tokyo: Japan Institute of International Affairs, →OCLC, page 8

    Kaori says it would be impossible to give up jūdō now because it had become a part of her life. The thought that she has foreign jūdōkas to compete against makes her work out harder, she says.

    1981, Chūjō Kazuo, “People in the Spotlight: Seko Toshihiko and Yamaguchi Kaori”, in Miyoshi Shūichi, editor, Japan Quarterly, volume XXVIII, Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 556, column 2

    The state of mindful emptiness can be shared intersubjectively, as when teammates operate in harmonious synchrony or opponents become one action, as Fukasawa illustrates with the jūdōkas in the previous essay.

    2016, Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza, “Everything Mysterious Under the Moon—Social Practices and Situated Holism”, in Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza, editor, Holism and the Cultivation of Excellence in Sports and Performance: Skillful Striving (Ethics and Sport), Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, section IV […]

    Japanese jūdō opened itself up to greater gender equality in the late 1960s and 1970s, due in great part to the pressure exerted by Western female jūdōka from the late 1960s but also due to a more pragmatic approach to international competitions by the Japanese after the shameful defeat against Anton Geesink in the Tokyo Olympics of 1964 (Saeki 1994).

    2019, Raúl Sánchez García, “Reformulation, expansion, and hybridisation of Japanese martial arts”, in The Historical Sociology of Japanese Martial Arts (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society), Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part III (Martial artists)
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