84 Years Old, 9th Dan, Still on the Mat | Hiroshi Nakamura

In 1968, Hiroshi Nakamura left Japan for Canada with three goals. 58 years later, I sat down with him in Montreal to see how they turned out. 🇨🇦 Then I spent 9 days in Quebec looking for his third goal:    • From a Judo Legend to Canada’s National Te...   ➡️ Monthly support:   / thejudonomad   All my links: https://linktr.ee/julienbrulard_ In this interview: • The Three Goals — 1968: An Olympic medallist. Judo as big as hockey. One page in Canadian judo history. • Tokyo 1964 — The Olympics that got away: The Games came to his hometown. He never made the team. • How Judo Reached Canada — From Jigoro Kano in Vancouver in 1938 to the Japanese Canadian camps of World War II. • Kosen Judo & the Lost Techniques — Kuchiki-taoshi, kibisu-gaeshi, morote-gari: old-school judo from a man who lived it. • The Kodokan, 1954 — Where it all started: He walked in at 12. His teachers included Kyuzo Mifune. Nakamura sensei is a 9th dan. He founded the Shidokan dojo in Montreal in 1973 and was Canada's head coach at five Olympic Games. At 84, he's still on the mat. "If I die, I want to put one page or half page of my name on the Canadian judo history." 📍 Video Chapters: 0:00 The three goals 0:43 Tokyo 1964: the Olympics that got away 3:32 Why Canada 4:46 How judo reached Canada 7:15 Goal 1: an Olympic medallist 11:07 Goal 2: judo as big as hockey 14:17 "To me, it's no more fun" 17:39 Kosen judo 19:22 The lost techniques 22:44 The Kodokan, 1954 24:18 The old gang 25:27 Goal 3: one page of history #Judo #TheJudoNomad #Kodokan #Canada #Montreal #JudoHistory #MartialArts #JudoInterview #Quebec #JudoNomad 🌍 JOIN THE JOURNEY (66/197) The Judo Nomad mission is 100% community-funded. My goal is to share the values of Judo across every nation on Earth, keeping lessons free for the clubs I visit. Stories like this one disappear when the people who lived them are gone. That's why I record them, country after country. 🗺️ The journey, country by country: https://thejudonomad.com/journey/ 📸 Follow the journey on Instagram:   / thejudonomad   🙏 Support The Judo Nomad on Patreon or Tipeee! This project runs 100% on donations, and every contribution helps me continue teaching judo worldwide. If you enjoy my content and want to support: 👉 Patreon (monthly):   / thejudonomad   👉 Tipeee: https://fr.tipeee.com/un-judoka-migra... 👉 One-time (PayPal): https://paypal.me/thejudonomad If you can't donate, no problem! A LIKE, COMMENT, and SHARE helps this video reach more people and keeps this project alive! 🙌 🇨🇦 My full Canada episode is coming soon! 🎥 Subscribe for more Judo & Travel content! 🔔 Turn on notifications so you don't miss the next adventure! 📍 All my social media, updates, and blog posts in one place: 👉 https://linktr.ee/julienbrulard_ ARCHIVE & CREDITS Tokyo 1964 newsreel: Universal Newsreel (public domain) Jigoro Kano and Shigetaka Sasaki, Vancouver, 1938: Wikimedia Commons (public domain) Japanese Canadians sent to the camps, BC, 1942: Library and Archives Canada, C-057250 (CC BY 2.0) RCMP constable checks documents, Slocan City, c.1942: Tak Toyota / Library and Archives Canada, C-047387 (CC BY 2.0) Japanese Canadian men leave by train, Vancouver, 1942: Province Newspaper / Vancouver Public Library, VPL 1384 (public domain) Judoka at Tashme camp, BC, 1945: Shigetaka Sasaki collection (public domain) Kosen judo, 1920s / The Kodokan, 1937 / Kyuzo Mifune with Jigoro Kano: Wikimedia Commons (public domain) All-Japan Championships, 1954 / Toshiro Daigo, 1951: Kodokan / All-Japan Judo Federation (public domain) Kuchiki-taoshi: Yoshida Chiharu, 1893 (public domain) Kibisu-gaeshi and morote-gari drawings: Jdcollins13 (CC BY-SA 3.0) Sukui-nage drawing: Michael Hultström (CC BY-SA 3.0) Maps: Natural Earth (public domain) The two Tokyo 1964 images at 0:48 are AI illustrations, labelled on screen. Music: Epidemic Sound Licences: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 · creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0#Judo #TheJudoNomad #Kodokan #Canada #Montreal #JudoHistory #MartialArts #JudoInterview #Quebec #JudoNomad