Hochinteressant finde ich, was Brian N. Watson in "Judo Memoirs of Jigoro Kano" in dem von ihm selbst verfassten Text "Early History of Judo", ab Seite 137 zu diese Thema schreibt:
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[...] I trained in judo for three years at one of the above-mentioned universities and for a shorter period at another. While in training at both of these two dojos I soon noticed the observance of a strict hierarchy among the Japanese students that lasts throughout their four-year period of training. The elder students customarily assume dictational authority over the juniors. Not only is this relationship maintained daily in the dojo but it is also observed outside training hours, since all judo club members ordinarily share the same dormitory facilities. Similar to life in some military barracks, slaps, kicks and the occasional hazing of juniors by one or more seniors are commonly meted out, and from time to time, these assaults result in injury.
Und das in der allerpädagogischsten Kampfkunst der Welt ...
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Although i never personally witnessed any mistreatment of juniors whenever the judo instructor was present in the dojo, it was when he was absent that the acts of physical abuse inflicted on the juniors were mostly carried out. The bullying rarely had anything to do with judo training as such, but was usually handed out for the most trivial of reasons, at times merely in order to relieve the senior's frustration or as a seemingly effective way of maintaining his dominance over the younger boys. Many, particulary in the West, would perhaps view such gratuitous torment of the juniors as inexcusable. However, rarely in life are situations totally good or totally bad, for the bullying did, sometimes, have positive effects also.
Charakterschulung ...
Tugenden ...
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For instance, it tended to make the juniors adopt a more serious, alert and disciplined attitude towards their training which in turn made them more effective as judo contestants in competition. For it must be remembered that to attain victory in top contest matches one needs to adopt the killer instinct. Some able judo men are occasionally too relaxed, or for want of a better expression, too kind-hearted to pursue an advantage in contest and so sometimes lose, which is of little help to one's teammates when they are trying to win a major championship. To give an extreme example of how a certain instructor dealt with this problem, he knew one of his contestants was such a man and so he took him to one side shortly before the start of his match and spat in his face, wiped it off and screamed some things to the effect, "Now get out there and WIN!" which the young man did, almost immediately after the contest started.
Das muß die berühmte Friedenserziehung durch Budo sein ...
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Being under such oppression daily can naturally result in the students feeling a sense of resentment and anger. However, provided this pent-up hostility in the juniors is expended in the dojo during training or directed towards an attempt at the successful outcome of some other worthwile objective, such as their studies, for example, bullying seems to be unofficially condoned and tolerated by university judo club administrators.
There is, of course, a delicate balance to be maintained here, for naturally if such physical abuse is overdone or prolonged, the victim suffers not only physically but also psychologically. This is where the judo team captain and especially the judo club instructor himself should assert authority and ensure that the situation in the dojo does not spiral out of control, for occassionally dire consequences resulting from such mistreatment have been reported in the Japanese press. The most serious incidents sometimes occur after a student has expressed a wish to give up training and leave the judo club and in response to his assumed disloyalty to the club, he is given a hazing by one or more of the members.[...]
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