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Jane Bridge
Jane Bridge (born 4 February 1960) is a former British international judoka. and judo coach. Judo career Bridge came to prominence winning the gold medal at the 1976 European Judo Championships in Vienna. The following year in 1977, she became champion of Great Britain for the second time, winning the bantamweight division at the British Judo Championships. She had first won the title in 1975. In 1978, she won her second European Judo Championships gold medal, after winning the -48kg category at the women's 1978 European Championships in Cologne. In 1980, she won her third Eureopean Championship gold but the highlight of the year was winning a gold medal at the inaugural woemn's 1980 World Judo Championships in New York. She defeated Anna de Novellis in the final of the -48kg category. In 1982, she won a third British Championship at bantamweight. Coaching From 1993 to 1997 she coached the British women's judo team and currently teaches in Performance Judo at the Universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan (rank)
The ranking system is used by many Japanese, Okinawan, Korean, and other martial art organizations to indicate the level of a person's ability within a given system. Used as a ranking system to quantify skill level in a specific domain, it was originally used at a Go school during the Edo period. It is now also used in most modern Japanese fine and martial arts. Martial arts writer Takao Nakaya claims that this dan system was first applied to martial arts in Japan by Kanō Jigorō (1860–1938), the founder of judo, in 1883, and later introduced to other East Asian countries. In the modern Japanese martial arts, holders of dan ranks often wear a black belt; those of higher rank may also wear either red-and-white or red belts depending on the style. Dan ranks are also given for strategic board games such as Go, Japanese chess ('' shōgi''), and renju, as well as for other arts such as the tea ceremony (''sadō'' or ''chadō''), flower arrangement (''ikebana''), Japanese call ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
