Judo is a competitive sport and martial art. The verbal meaning of judo is “soft way” which stands for one of the basics of judo, using your opponents aggressiveness rather than using your own force.
Judo was developed in the middle ages in the feudalist Japan where martial arts where part of the life as a way of self protection.
The development of this sport branch has helped a lot in designing the Samurai codes as we know them today.
