In chair

Of Giorgio Sozzi

Nagai Takeo, black belt 6° dan, has been invited in Italy from the provincial delegation of the Fijlkam of Cremona for one series of stage on the kata one of judo.
Already athlete of international and allenatrice value of national the feminine Japanese, today is between the other feminine responsible of the course of the Kodokan di Tokio, the heart of the judo world-wide, working elbow to elbow with Daigo Sensei - the historical memory of the judo - expert of is kata in a generalized manner and, in particular, perhaps the greatest "ju-no-kata" studious of, that is the shapes of the flexibility, the cedevolezza.
This last one kata does not derive from the tradition of the ju jitsu Japanese but it has been created personally from the founder of the judo, professor the Jigoro Kano which it recommended it also to the novices for the fact that the times discs of a valve of execution in the attacks and the defense (rising of tai ji Japanese Yang style), the absence of falls and not to demand particular apparels render it practicable to anyone and wherever! And just in order better to deepen the study than this kata, from always followed to the Kodokan Cremona, and to perfect of the practical George Sozzi he has put in motion the complex organizational machine (the iter for having an teacher of the Kodokan di Tokio - public institution - is not what little account!) in order to invite it in Italy and therefore to Cremona.
Accompanied from Pierluigi Comino, friulano of Japanese birth but of adoption, after two days in Veneto and Friuli, between Mestre and Spilimbergo, university professor Nagai Takeo has held two lessons to Cremona for the judoisti of the Lunezia Circuit with happened of numbers and the enthusiasm that is easy to imagine: the dojo of way Short it burst of gets passionate you of every age and degree is in order to learn is for the curiosity to admire from the alive one, for before the time in Padania, one judoka of the Sol Levant! Then a third lesson, this "private" time, for Ilaria Sozzi and Marta Frittoli, from some year the main cremonesi and Lombardic interpreters of "ju-no-kata", in which Japanese teaching it is profuse in thousand fastidiousnesses... that but they are those that make the difference!
And, after Cremona, the conclusive stage in the Marches, near Giuseppe De Berardinis, an other judoista that is of house to the Kodokan di Tokio and then the return in native land. Exquisite personage for availability and gentility, Nagai Takeo, in spite of an annoying allergic indisposition, has worked without stopping leaving, in every center, one more than positive image of the judo traditional, for null in contrast with that sportsman!