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Baku 2026: seven days, fourteen judo world champions
Japan took half the titles, Georgia had its thunder, the UAE won its first ever gold and a 19-year-old Korean closed the week. The story of the Baku Judo World Championships.
Friday, October 30, 2026Daily edition No. 1
Kawaraban WABUKAN
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The world’s martial arts, told as stories
Master of the day
Chang Dongsheng
Chang Dongsheng was a Hui martial artist, one of the best-known practitioners and teachers of shuai jiao (Chinese wrestling).
It also appears in the symbol of the Sikh faith.
Weapon of the day · Khanda
Weapon of the day
Khanda ਖੰਡਾ
A straight, double-edged sword that broadens at the tip. It also appears in the symbol of the Sikh faith.
Art of the day
Iaido
The Japanese art of drawing the sword and cutting in a single movement, practised in solo forms with deep focus.
Technique of the day · Throws and takedowns
Scooping throw
The attacker reaches behind the opponent’s legs or body and scoops them up and backward, lifting with the legs and tilting them off their base.
In brief
NewsBielsko-Biała 2026: karate’s new young world championsTwo Japanese teenagers repeat their titles from two years ago, a Portuguese reaches the kata final and an Egyptian is champion again. The karate World Cadet, Junior and U21 Championships in Poland.NewsFrom Nagoya to Paris: an autumn of martial arts in three weeksKarate, judo and taekwondo at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, and a Chinese champion who won again in Paris nine days later.MastersMiyamoto Musashi: the swordsman and The Book of Five RingsWho Musashi really was: the duels, the two swords of Niten Ichi-ryū, the paintings and the book he wrote in a cave shortly before he died.WeaponsThe katana: steel, forging and mythsCinemaSeven Samurai (1954): Kurosawa's masterpiece and the sword on screenComparisonsKarate or taekwondo? Origins, techniques, rules and training side by sideEarlier editions
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