{"id":1722,"date":"2011-09-09T22:00:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T21:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nanavati.eu\/weblog\/?p=1722"},"modified":"2011-09-09T22:00:51","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T21:00:51","slug":"judo-for-smart-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/09\/judo-for-smart-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Judo For Smart People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I took judo lessons when I was fourteen partly because it was the 19070s and everyone wanted to learn kung-fu and partly because it was fun bounding on the rubber mat that covered a third of the gym. Having been taught the most important part of all, how to roll after a throw, it seemed to me I was forever trying to learn against seventeen year olds who had been training for at least three years. It&#8217;s quite something to be thrown twenty times in a row and still trying to get the hang of keeping one&#8217;s feet on the ground.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I wouldn&#8217;t have thought about it much except many years later I was in the fields in my wellington boots with a heavy coat running with the dog and I slipped and fell \u00a0and without thinking about it I rolled and found the speed of my running propelled me over and up again. I was so astonished to be standing up I stopped. There are not many things I learned at school that stayed with me in physical education but obviously that did. All those throws were reinforcing a behaviour until it became instinctive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Which is of course, how so much education works. Sadly most of it is also to stop us floundering around in the mud but I guess to find out if it is successful we need a good definition of mud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took judo lessons when I was fourteen partly because it was the 19070s and everyone wanted to learn kung-fu and partly because it was fun bounding on the rubber mat that covered a third of the gym. Having been taught the most important part of all, how to roll after a throw, it seemed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[394],"class_list":["post-1722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","tag-judo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}