The One-Armed Judo Champion

by David Hooper on Sep 5, 2008 3:00 PM EDT

There is a story floating around that is fairly common in martial arts schools as a motivation to do your best, despite the apparent odds. The story is probably apocryphal (though I don't know for sure) and takes on many forms. (In my former karate days, I heard it as a teenage girl who won a...