Pazzia, or utopia? Certainly against a new offer appears on the counter of combat disciplines, alias martial arts. The proposal for a new education made in recent years dell'800 by Jigoro Kano, becomes topical today.

What is currently known as "traditional judo", or: "judo education" is the idea of-Kodokan judo, formulated at the end of the last century by Professor Jigoro Kano. The word "judo", currently used to describe the sport that was born from this educational proposal requires a clarification who refers to the history of the idea and also to the history of the modern world.
Understanding a proposal that seeks to change the way of living and see life, implies a certain level of education. In other words, be prepared to acknowledge that he does not know already, that there are other experiences and points of view. I think this attitude is rare, as evidenced by the fact that the judo (who refers to the concept of Western sports) is accepted, and the Kodokan judo-(I mean the idea of universal education, not the exploitation of the same implemented in a famous Japanese institute) much less.


Racism West
In the discussion that followed on my conference, magnificava someone of the spirit which seeks to get to know people (in that context there was talk of the East). I believe that by 2000 years enterprising white race, has appreciated the knowledge of other peoples to find the weaknesses and exploit them.
Thus was born the Roman empire, the genocide in the New World, opium cultivation in India for the drogare China, the attempt to convert Japan, colonialism, economic imperialism, racism.
I contrapponevo this vision a historic proposal to study other people to learn about what we are ourselves. In fact I realized that education had received racist when I discovered that the history of the world has not been made by Greeks and the King of Rome, and the literature did not only Dante and Manzoni. But that there was a Mahabharata, enlightened patrons Indians, brilliant pharaohs, a Chinese empire that for two thousand years had no need to plunder the neighbours to give birth to works of art in front of the Colosseum mine Dogon people. All this in high school I was silent!
And I found that petty Milan has 600 routes entitled to white musicians, ignoring Gautama Buddha, Confucius and Lao Tse!
I asked myself why this education racist implemented with such refinement and I thought to find the answer in peace missions in which soldiers are paid six million per month, while in Yugoslavia to be so-called buffer between Christians and by the Muslim rape, bersaglieri it took two. Power banana!
Not stò magnificando and bringing eg civltà Eastern Europe. Wherein I found that racism exhibited by me smile (I, coming from an ignorant racism, which is politically correct racist behaviour by claiming not to be).
Japan to scold the behavior of its soldiers during the last war; to China to be the only country in the world where more males are born that females (Confucian heritage that gives the head of the family the power to drown the newborn because makes the work less ); Islam to tolerate the evirazione women.
But I propose to grant East and West to move forward together. We, therefore, that we know and recognize.


At this point it appears Jigoro Kano

From a privileged vantage point, from that in Japan 30 years would industrialisation path that the West had claimed two centuries of victims workers, Kano saw a civilization break overwhelmingly powerful new and corruttrice.
Noted: "We get everything from l'Occidente - and alluded to technology, the economy, medicine, literature (cinema), sport - and that one day could be rinfacciato, making us lose face. What we can give in return? The idea of education. "
One idea that education is properly matured in Japan, not one of those expressions that Japan draws, turning them from Chinese culture. To paraphrase the founder of judo, I understand his thought by saying: "If we all children of three years, Arabs and Jews, whites and blacks, children of communists and fascists, head to a quarter of an hour play together. But back, 20 years later, are likely to ammazzarsi, with over 40 conflicts in the world act. What happened in the meantime? We have given them an education. "
A partisan group, anachronistic in light of the ideals, communication, the technology that we have reached avventurosamente.
Impartiamo our kids what could define the logic of football. Sports where a team exists to the extent that there are other teams to beat.
If there were no teams to beat, not football. Let our children a vision of athletic life, religious-based teams ( "Religions should stop dividing and begin to unite" Hans Kung), ethnic, political. Indottrinarli to begin soon with the Youth Games. Then continue with grades at school and the brainwashing: "Pierino studies, otherwise you from the great tramp." That work will come in the competition for the post of capufficio, companies will aim to destroy the competition and will remain available for all companies ranging from just demands social, peace missions in foreign land, creating mass exploitable for the welfare of the few.
Perhaps the development was necessary to pass through this stage. But there seems that today we are mature enough to be able to promote a better use of energy? And this ideal has its strength in "all together for crescre and progress? If you answer yes, then we are on the proposal of Kano.
But I heard a lot of (our) say no. Why preach "the universe is love" and then build a commercial empire; others who celebrate a professional killer to 28 years had already killed 59 people in sportivissimi duels, and the agonists justifying a girl after a broken knee all'avversaria , raising fists at the sky rather than bow to soccorrerla; picchiatori who admire such that killed a bull fists; aspiring actors who believe that the real man faces another with the prize money ... I continue? I justified - well, let idiot or poor idealist - if I distinction between art and martial-kodokan judo?


Birth of Judo
So, Kano has felt the need to get closer to jiu jutsu because he felt physically under companions in a school attended by children of gentlemen of campaign handlers feudal custom of beating to force compliance.
Under the leadership of noble masters jiu jutsu discovers that the experience of Japan feudal education more complete data from budo. Why do intellectuals and religious studies based on the philosophy and literature, which does not make them ready to give (even their lives, if applicable) for others. The proletarian classes are educated from an apprenticeship that will lead them to produce obbedientemente for life.
But Kano has a vision wide enough to realize that the path of budo sets, and that we must adapt to human behaviour new times. If in the past the man suffered war and had to be ready to fight, now there is a time when the human being (man and woman) can control this ancient feast cruel and reduce events (in fact not Kano think that new ideas, new philosophies of life and forms of education, come to totally eliminate war, but that could only reduce the number of conflicts motivated dall'ego).
Kano proposes that education of the human being introduced is a universal moral principle. Effective and acceptable by any human being living on this planet, dall'aborigeno all'esquimese, vatusso the technology. What could be that principle?
What a superior race that makes its comforts? In a religion that saves his faithful? Of a policy that accontenti all? Kano studied religion and philosophy humanities; especially he belongs to the century utopias (Olympic Games, Bahaismo, Esperan-to, Scouting, the League of Nations). He says that the best use of that could unite us and start practicing in this moral principle it is to discover that his corollary is all set to grow and progress.
Invite therefore entering this principle in all youth activities and the study also continue into adulthood (Kano in the concept Street goes to the Baden-Powell: Education never ends).
Young people well educated come to argue, as right for the affirmation of ideas, but do not kill more.
To give the empirical evidence of what is proposing, he takes an obsolete, as it appeared the jiu-jutsu Tokyo at that time, including the moral principle, transforms the art in educational discipline.
Consequently change its name from jutsu to do. The ju jutsu inculcava the idea of knowing defend from aggression at a time when firearms became customary among citizens. The judo Kano (kodokan judo-) aims to develop the ambition to become human beings who participate responsibly in the development of society in which they live.
All to make judo, to change the world, then? No, judo is just one example of how to apply this new vision of education. Just to convince the leaders of Olympic disciplines to incorporate moral principle in the sport, Kano accepted the post of the first President of the Japanese Olympic Committee, perhaps the illusion that the movement launched by De Coubertin founded on the basic un'onestà.
This same proposal to place a moral principle: all together to move forward with better use of energy (that is, all together but intelligently, boys) not only in sports but in all youth activities, the school, the boy-scouts, the speakers , campsites ecological ... The intent is carried out by the movement that is taking shape today under the name-kodokan judo, or traditional judo, or judo-education.
Why starting with the young people? Because it is easier and more natural. Making an educational couples on people is difficult.


How welcomed the proposal on Japan?
The Japanese system was not up to include a proposal for universal education, but was taken aback.
The restoration of the imperial power, known as the Meiji era, took place in an atmosphere of collective enthusiasm. The political power had more to think that dell'indottrinamento care of the young, while he did experience the western model, in sguazzando fanatics residues of feudal clans (means that chronicles risuovano continuously political assassinations). Kano is accollò and largely solved the problem of creating from scratch a national educational system (dealing, after the war with China, also the school of this country). In the model proposed education did accept the practice of judo and kendo as physical education.


The reasons for revocation
It was the golden age of judo and kendo, proposing in terms of mass experiences with bare hands, ju jutsu, yawara, taijutsu and those of gekken sword. But meanwhile the Japan went back on its feet which had confined Western colonialism. How come it? Menando as desperate.
Skipping minor conflicts to list that in 1895 had beaten the China;'905 in the Russian empire in'18 was one of the five major powers of Austria-Hungary winning (at school is not to minimize stressed that not a nation - white part in the sharing of power in the world).
In'19, the Conference of Versailles, where France, England, Italy, USA and Japan are spartivano the vestiges of the most powerful of the nineteenth century, the first motion was tabled by a request that Asian nations that won World War abolissero in the relevant racial laws (which only delayed were adopted by Italy and Germany; first belonged to all nations colonising, called civilised nations). For the opposition in Australia, now supported from England, the motion was rejected as irrelevant.
The Japan occasions, exasperated, the race to be able to deal on an equal footing with Western nations not the first white to tap the outcome, and still the only one. The military took power autoritariamente, around the'30s (when the Butokukai, namely governmental structure for young people, organized the first national championships, regarded with reservations by Jigoro Kano). The patriotic movement that led the military to power had moved ten years earlier.
In'24 Morihei Ueshiba had lived adventure Mongolian proposal of the Society of Black Dragon (Amur River Society), who wanted to move the frontiers of the banks of the Amur River. In a tragic crescendo prepared the scenario of 2 nd World War.
By managing the military athletic event, now in government, did a mouthful of judo (4,500,000 students), reducing the structure created a pure Kano academy. And he exploited to enhance the chauvinism of young people who would have gone to die against the barbarians whites. The Navy had introduced karate from Okinawa because they lent to mass demonstrations in a short space and equipment, the students recited at every workout-the dojo kun, a formula indoctrination with promise loyalty to the emperor and heroism against enemies of the Empire.
The Kano was pacifist and internationalist, had friends in a high public figure of success. Perhaps this was not deleted, even if the teacher Cunningham (USA) who was allegedly killed (1938) by the secret services, accused of being pacifist. Other men were eliminated for not meet obstacles to the war, including the master Shigeyoshi Matsumae (past-president of the International Federation).
During the conflict seems that one of the most famous and beloved judoisti has tried to kill General Tojo to stop the war.
But they are not authorized to speak. In this context stalled the momentum of educational Kodokan judo-of Jigoro Kano. General Mac Arthur, commander of Allied occupation forces, ordered the dissolution of Butokukai with a specific clause in the peace treaty and forbade the activity of fighting disciplines (ordering the destruction of propaganda films produced by the military, including Judo Saga , the work of Akira Kurosawa first).
Although the Kano had recommended to appoint his successor to the Kodokan (Who will be the next Kodokan-shihan?
Judo-kyohon, 1935) through elections among the leaders of the movement judoistico, after the war the family rivendicò the institute as private property and impose the chairmanship of a relative who sold the government as a national sport judo to present to the world the image of a new Japan.

The rebirth of Utopia
Thus the educational proposal of Jigoro Kano was buried. At the end of the war with the United States and throughout Asia aware of the atrocities committed by Japanese, a proposal which has moral education made by Japan could not be taken into account by the new world order. The books of the founder disappeared in Japan in judo, was spread mainly by the military formations sports throughout the world. Today, the world has rediscovered the proposed Kano. Let's say some merit if it gained Italy, traducendone first writings and launching an interdisciplinary dialogue, but especially teaching, in order to define an education that is not at the service of partial ideologies. - The Kodokan judo, as understood idea of judo-education (to which the institute Kodokan in Tokyo is certainly alien) has structured organizations in 8 European countries, which today give life to national championships and, early next year in a European Championship-kodokan judo. We believe that soon follow Japan's initiative. This event is due, because the competitive industry targeted for educational purposes it is useful to young people. But the purpose of judo-education seek to involve other disciplines, to shift the balance of the world towards all together intelligently. Why would someone said that the future is a dramatic confrontation between education and chaos.
Cesare Barioli
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