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Roosevelt's White House Judo Course

ホワイトハウス柔道稽古
categoryCourse
calendar_month1904-03/1904-04
location_onWhite House, Washington, D.C. United States

Also known as

Yamashita Teaches Theodore Roosevelt (1904)

Description

The judo instruction Theodore Roosevelt received from Yamashita Yoshiaki in the White House. The naval attaché Isamu Takeshita arranged the meeting in March 1904; impressed by the demonstration, Roosevelt engaged Yamashita on the spot, and during March and April 1904 he practiced judo three afternoons a week in a ground floor White House office, then occasionally through the summer before the elections. His training partners included his sons, his private secretary, Takeshita, Secretary of War William Howard Taft, and Secretary of the Interior Gifford Pinchot.

Part of

Professor Yamashita in America

Participants (1)

  • Yamashita YoshitsuguInstructor
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    Frederico Muñoz
    Researcher, Martialis
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    The Svinth article, drawing on Roosevelt's own letters and contemporary press, documents Yamashita teaching Roosevelt three afternoons a week in the White House during March and April 1904.
    “in the words of the New York World, Yamashita and his partner "caused Mr. Roosevelt to quit winking and gasp. They showed him what jiu-jitsu really is and they were engaged on the spot."”
    — Joseph R. Svinth, "Professor Yamashita Goes to Washington", Journal of Combative Sport, Oct 2000link
    “during March and April 1904, Roosevelt practiced judo three afternoons a week, using a ground floor office in the White House as his workout space.”
    — Joseph R. Svinth, "Professor Yamashita Goes to Washington", Journal of Combative Sport, Oct 2000link

Students (2)

Takeshita Isamu
1870 – 1949 · Hayato, Kagoshima
Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
Kōdōkan Jūdō · 1858 – 1919 · Manhattan

Styles (1)

Kōdōkan Jūdō
講道館柔道 · founded 1882, Tokyo

Tags

kodokan · white-house · theodore-roosevelt

Sources

“in March 1904, he also arranged for Professor Yamashita to meet with President Theodore Roosevelt in the White House.”
— Joseph R. Svinth, "Professor Yamashita Goes to Washington", Journal of Combative Sport, Oct 2000link
“So, during March and April 1904, Roosevelt practiced judo three afternoons a week, using a ground floor office in the White House as his workout space. Then, for the rest of the summer, he practiced occasionally. He stopped training during the elections.”
— Joseph R. Svinth, "Professor Yamashita Goes to Washington", Journal of Combative Sport, Oct 2000link

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Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). Roosevelt's White House Judo Course. In Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database. https://martial.is/entity/01M19SYYS3VTD98FGQQXEEMMJW - CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.
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