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Table concerning characteristics of complementary sports

Judo
Characteristics	Complementary Sports
1. fighting sports;	1. relaxing activity: the game;
2. sports in closed spaces;	2. sports in open spaces;
3. individual sports;	3. team sports;
*4. research for small attitudes;	4. research for big attitudes;
5. practice from September to June;	5. practise from July to September;
6. prehension sport;	6. extension sport;
7. physical quality: virility, agility, form and resistance;	7. qualities which are found in all sports;
8. psycholgical quality: controlled aggressiveness;	8. mutual co-operation;
9. heard and lung intensity nervous concentration.	9. lower intensity, economy of nervous influence.

Judo includes a great quantity of elements such as push and traction power, balance, direction shifts, throws, holding-techniques and so on. Its practice will need a detailed study of these elements according to participants' behaviour.

When reaching highest levels, the strategy used on attacking techniques and applied with perfect timing seems not to involve any strength whatsoever. It is necessary to add following principles to the one just stated:

1. best use of energy; maximum effectiveness with minimum effort;

2. help, prosperity and mutual improvement, which are fixed goals;

3. Such techniques do not only involve the physical level but also the mental the judo way and technique, which consists of giving softly away to better win. and philosophical one of the person.

Even though basic exercises in order to have a perfect control over its own body are the most important ones. Judo helps to develop strength, resistance, sense of balance and orientation, breathing and body circulation, independence in movements and it also develops physical capacity for better adaptation to every day's life.