Judo was founded by Jigoro Kano as a practice that make the practitioner a better person. 

"I regard it as a principle of life, art and science. In fact, it is a means for personal cultural attainment."

Jigoro Kano stated the principles of judo in 1934 as:

1st. ‘Whatever be the object, the best way of attaining it shall be the maximum or the highest efficient use of mental and physical energy directed to that aim.

2nd. ‘The harmony and progress of a body, consisting as it does of different individuals, however few or many the number of those individuals may be, can best be kept and attained by mutual aid and concession.’

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