Shihan Reynolds teaches Kodokan Judo. Starting with the basics he emphasizes technique, stamina, and good sportsmanship. Judo as a sport is well known and a high degree of respect is expected when playing judo.
He also teaches judo as a part of our self-defense program. It is here that skills learned playing judo can be used in combination with karate skills. This is an aspect of the goju style. Hard and soft techniques working together.
A practitioner of judo is known as a judoka or "judo practitioner", though traditionally only those of 4th Dan or higher were called "judoka". The suffix -ka, when added to a noun, means a person with expertise or special knowledge on that subject. Other practitioners below the rank of 4th dan were called kenkyu-sei or "trainees". However, today the term judoka is used worldwide to refer to any practitioner of judo without any particular level of expertise being implied.
