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Christmas season kicks off in Lexington, NC!

Christmas season kicks off in Lexington, NC!

Uptown Lexington Inc. and local merchants will get into the spirit of the holiday season this weekend with the Second Annual Lighting of the Trees on Saturday evening followed by the 16th Annual Christmas Open House on Sunday.

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The Second Annual Lighting of the Trees will begin at 6:30 p.m. Saturday. Meet in the lobby of host NewBridge Bank and stroll the 14-block route as the trees downtown are lighted.
The 16th Annual Christmas Open House will be from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. There will be free musical performances, horse-drawn carriage rides, Mr. and Mrs. Claus and the North Pole express train ride for children.

On Saturday, host NewBridge Bank will welcome strollers to their lobby to await the start of the annual walk to individually light each of the more than 40 trees along Main Street in Lexington. Beginning at 6:30 p.m., strollers accompanied by a horse-drawn carriage with musicians will leave the NewBridge lobby for the approximately 14-block walk that takes strollers first down South Main Street, loops at Third Avenue and continues to Third Street where they will cross to return down North Main to Center Street. Strollers can join the walk at any point along the route. After the lighting, NewBridge employees will treat strollers with hot beverages and cookies.

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Judo

Judo (柔道, jūdō^?), meaning "gentle way", is a modern Japanese martial art (gendai budō) and combat sport, that originated in Japan in the late nineteenth century. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the object is to either throw one's opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue one's opponent with a grappling maneuver, or force an opponent to submit by joint locking the elbow or by executing a choke. Strikes and thrusts (by hands and feet)—as well as weapons defences—are a part of judo, but only in pre-arranged forms (kata) and are not allowed in judo competition or free practice (randori).
Ultimately, the philosophy and subsequent pedagogy developed for judo became the model for almost all modern Japanese martial arts that developed from "traditional" schools (koryū). In addition, the worldwide spread of judo has led to the development of a number of offshoots such as Sambo and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Practitioners of judo are called jūdōka.

History and philosophy

Early life of the founder

The early history of judo is inseparable from its founder, Japanese polymath and educator Jigoro Kano (嘉納 治五郎 Kanō Jigorō, 1860–1938). Kano was born into a well-to-do Japanese family. His grandfather was a self-made man: a sake brewer from Shiga prefecture in central Japan. However, Kano's father was not the eldest son and therefore did not inherit the business. Instead, he became a Shinto priest and government official, with enough influence for his son to enter the second incoming class of Tokyo Imperial University.

[edit] Founder pursues jujutsu

Kano was a small, frail boy, who, even in his twenties, did not weigh more than a hundred pounds (45 kg), and was often picked on by bullies. He first started pursuing jujutsu, at that time a dying art,^[4] at the age of 17, but met with little success. This was in part due to difficulties finding a teacher who would take him on as a student. When he went to university to study literature at the age of 18, he continued his martial arts studies, eventually gaining a referral to Fukuda Hachinosuke (c.1828–c.1880), a master of the Tenjin Shin'yō-ryū and grandfather of Keiko Fukuda (born 1913), who is Kano's only surviving student, and the highest-ranking female jūdōka in the world. Fukuda Hachinosuke is said to have emphasized technique over formal exercise, sowing the seeds of Kano's emphasis on free practice (randori) in judo.
A little more than a year after Kano joined Fukuda's school, Fukuda became ill and died. Kano then became a student in another Tenjin Shin'yō-ryū school, that of Iso Masatomo (c.1820–c.1881), who put more emphasis on the practice of pre-arranged forms (kata) than Fukuda had. Through dedication, Kano quickly earned the title of master instructor (shihan) and became assistant instructor to Iso at the age of 21. Unfortunately, Iso soon took ill, and Kano, feeling that he still had much to learn, took up another style, becoming a student of Iikubo Tsunetoshi (1835–1889) of Kitō-ryū. Like Fukuda, Iikubo placed much emphasis on free practice. On the other hand, Kitō-ryū emphasized throwing techniques to a much greater degree than Tenjin Shin'yō-ryū.

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