How to Tie a Belt in Judo for Children

Series Summary

Way back in Japan of the 1880's, his fellow students picked on poor little Jogoro. He began martial arts training to fend off these bullies, yet found most of the moves he learned just got him beat up even more. His fellow students where much bigger than Jogoro and simply overpowered him. Determined to be able to defend himself, he invented his own type of martial arts, one which uses an opponent's size and stregth against them. Applying his new judo techniques, Jogoro was able to defeat these big bullies with a variety of throws, rolls and holds which turn an attacker's momentum into the defender's advantage. Jogoro Kano's new martial art was so successful that it continues to win converts to this day, from young children to senior citizens. In addition to building a student's physical agility and self confidence, the judo philosophy seeks to improve their mental abilities as well.

In this series of free fitness videos, we focus on judo for kids. Our black belt expert Angel Perez has an impressive record in coaching his teams to championships in Florida. With a group of his young students, he demonstates several basic techniques such as side and back falls, front rolls, shoulder throws, and foot sweeps. By mastering the moves in these videos, your youngster can experience the advanced fitness and healthy state of mind of the judo Jogoro and not the frustration of the poor kid who got pushed around.

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village my name is Angel Perez from the Champion Martial Arts in Miami, Florida and we would be teaching judo for kids. Hi the first thing we are going to be teaching today is how to tie your belts very important. You can not do judo with out a belt obviously you need to know how to tie it. It is a lot easier then it looks we are going to demonstrate that right now. Let's all please remove our belts how we tie our belts is folding it in half, right side first, left side over, start in the front go all the way around to the back, all the way around back to the front, crossover, outside part under, and over. Top part, around the bottom part and tighten it. Correct."