Rules: From Bad to Worse

I admit it.  I’ve been missing in action for more than I wanted to be.  Several of my readers have reminded me that I haven’t posted anything in over a month.  Time flies when you are busy.  I’ll have a lot to discuss in the coming weeks.  In December, I spent 12 days in Japan watching the Tokyo Grand Slam and teaching here and there.  I recently received The Second Life of Judo, a new book by Alan Rafkind, who’s one of my fans.  I’ll have more to say about that soon.  And then, when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, there’s the IJF with its latest version of how to make Judo even more irrelevant.

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