When the 2016 Rio Olympics hit the airwaves, some viewers — especially kids — will be inspired to try a new sport. Fans of martial arts can watch judo and taekwondo during the Olympic Games. Parents ...

Structure, discipline and confidence are proving to be worthy opponents in the battle against autism. Shinjiro Sasaki, a fourth-degree black belt in judo, is perhaps at his most masterful in his ...

When Maksym Kovalov sees his eight-year-old son Boris rolling and running on the mats at the Abbotsford Judo Club, he says he could not be happier. “When I see my son happy at the judo, this is the ...

In the quaint community room at the San Francisco Police Station in the Tenderloin District, Officer Thomas Smith trades in his police uniform for a judogi. "Saw a need here in the Tenderloin, because ...