The Next 500 Years

‘‘Fundamentals!” my judo teacher used to emphasize to his students. “It is not your failed fancy move that gets you in trouble. It is always forgetting to practice fundamentals that gets you thrown by your opponent!” Walking is the beginning and end of all the judo fundamentals, and so my judo teacher would often watch us walk from one end of the dojo (training gym) to the other, back and forth, for the first 30 minutes of the class.