Those of us who train in martial arts and have kata as part of our style know that a fight is never going to look exactly like the set of...

Last December, I got a bit of a health scare. Well, maybe more like a final health warning. My body yelled, “Yudit! If you do not start...

I bet you are wondering why I brought my oldest and my youngest children to a Judo tournament. Well, that is because we were going to be...

There are different ways of running a tournament based on the number of competitors. When there are a lot of competitors, it is some sort...

In June of 1994, about two years after beginning to train in Judo, my Sensei decided that it was time for me to go to a tournament. To...

Years ago, I was in a blackbelt seminar. The senior instructor came to the mat and said good morning. We bowed. And then he said,...

For over a week now, I’ve been talking about how as an Empowerment Self Defense instructor, my job isn’t to tell you what to do. My job...

When I first started teaching Judo, I had just earned my blue belt. I was clearly a novice, but I was in love and crazy passionate about...

If I remember correctly, during the spring of 1992, just a few weeks after recovering from an ectopic pregnancy, I was invited to join a...