Modern sport training and scientific acknowledgments have allowed all people to play judo.

Peculiar features:

Effects on muscular system and skeleton
Increasing muscular strength, elasticity, and powers of concentration. Since judo is a symmetrical sport, we can obtain a global harmonious grown, acting on slight dismorphisms ( i.e. minor curvature of the spine ).

Effects on circulatory system and respiratory tract
Increasing ribcage expansivity, pulmonary air capacity, heart efficiency, and powers of recovery.

Effects on nervous system
Improving reaction and coordination capacity, especially in the following aspects:

• body structural scheme;
• balance control ( static, static-dynamical, dynamical );
• sensorial/motorial coordination;
• space-time coordination;
• breathing control;
• global posture/single body segment control;
• global dynamic/single body segment coordination.
  

Effects on psychical environment
Improving brave, willpower, and perseverance gifts. Both psychologists and educationalists think highly of martial arts in matter of education. Judo is especially suitable for children and kids. We can understand how important is the study of voluntary movement. It’s known, as psychic grown events in a subject are closely related on his own motorial evolution.

WHERE YOU CAN PLAY JUDO
Well, you can choose whatever gym you want among many sporting centres in our territory. However, your choice should be a function of teachers… It means there’s only one way to play judo: being straight and honest, and that’s how the master you’re going to choose should be.

Our advice is:

• Know the master before
• Take a look at his teaching methods during (at least) one lesson
• Observe his ability to establish a relation with children or adults
• Make sure he has the federal qualification ( CONI or C.S.I. )
• Make sure he regularly attends refresher courses

In short, don’t choose your judo school only if it’s closely to your home… 

Coaching our Masters

San Mamolo Judo's Masters are trained-up to taking care of educational and psychomotor aspect in the art of teaching children.
Children are dowered by nature with a receptive mind. Our purpose is to wean every child on good behaviour principles, like: HONESTY, FORCE, GAME, WILL TO LIVE, AND ART.
The sporting aspect performs a driving function to go in for judo, however. This is why we have tried to join our best athletes (national and international awards winners) and our young beginners.

Also, an internet site has been opened for two years. Here the URL: http://www.judoitalia.it

San Mamolo Judo makes courses on introduction to sport for young people. Best age: from 5 to 18. 

Educational purposes: 

MOTOR COMUNICATION: respect other people , learn fighting (agon) behavioral rules. 

BRAVERY ENHANCEMENT: accept the physical contact, govern your emotional reactions during a fall or a hand-to-hand fight.

SOCIALIZATION: understand the rules and go by them , play and work with your partners. 

?TERALIZZAZIONE?-COORDINATION: learn to coordinate actions and moves both of your arms and your legs , learn to attack both on the right side and the left side. 

PSICOMOTILITY: perform simple actions (pull, push, coordinate your moves, etc.), improve your ability to handle more and more difficult motor activities. 

The main educational purpose of our Masters tends to obtain a complete grown of children. We can spot three basic steps to carry-out it : 

• Enhancing safety, mutual trust, and solidarity feelings.
• Optimizing aggressiveness, jealousy, and competitive inclinations.
• Learning the team-spirit to stand with people going by the life rules. 

A good master can achieve this goal only when he uses both authority and respect in teaching. Besides, he should know how to goad children to : 

• ACCEPTING THEMSELVES 
  I know my history 
  I understand both genders and roles 
  I know myself ( body and feelings ) 
  I trust myself 
  I can live peacefully out of my family, improving my self-sufficiency 
  I can establish new relationships with children and adults 
• ONGOING CONVERSATION 
  Having new friends 
  Accepting our differences 
  Voicing our feelings 
• COOPERATING 
  I give, I receive 
  I ask, I answer 
  I help, I get help 

In brief we can say: "San Mamolo Judo helps children to get over the natural SELF-CENTREDNESS stage, teaching them to live in armony with the environment reality".