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Mom learned judo at university, and was supposedly very good at it. She says she was a black belt, although that's pretty meaningless. Imbued with Heavy Duty Ukrainian Farm Girl size and strength, mom was very formidable according to legend. As for me, I competed for quite a while, and quite successfully. If I had continued to compete, who knows how far I might have gotten. The word "harmony" really never appeared in mom's vocabulary, and judo as practiced in my family is pretty **** intense. Lessons I learned tended to focus on ideas like "if you trip somebody in this position, you land with their full body weight, and yours, on their shoulder. It'll **** 'em up."For some reason, that makes me think of "Sensei Rex" from Napoleon Dynamite. I can't shake it.Sensei Rex wouldn't have lasted 30 seconds before being laughed out of my dojo. I hate the attempts to Americanize karate.