Post date: 29-Oct-2014 18:54:34
Mike Healy came back onto the Mat especially to award Colin with Second Dan.
Eloquent as ever, Mike discussed the stages of learning Judo. To Summarize briefly, by the time you have reached 1st Dan you have learnt the Zen judo syllabus. Then you start learning Judo.
Some words from John Roberston "... Zen Judo and the martial arts is that the greater your understanding of the basic techniques and syllabus the more you realise there is still to learn. As martial artists we never truly arrive we are just a bit further along the journey no matter what color belt we have."