My First Book
“I came to the decision to write this book because I have often felt the lack of a work that explains and illustrates the study and training of Judo, which constitute the foundation of judo practice and which lead to the desired result. In Italian there are many books and some of them are irreplaceable as historical documents of the global vision of the Great Masters. But until now no one has attempted to explain that classical technique must be interpreted and applied to real combat situations; that to achieve good “form” one must go through the different stages of a well-designed program and, above all, training methods have always been neglected.
So I have tried to express in these pages not Judo, but my concrete experience: data, concepts and exercises that have given me results and on whose path I continue. It will certainly not be “the” training method par excellence, but it is “a” method, demanding, but valid.”
A. Vismara
