Former NCS General Secretary Vows To Restructure Judo In Uganda
By: Hassan Sendija
On Tuesday this week, the former National Council of Sports General Secretary, Jasper Aligawesa Muwonge was appointed to lead a normalization Committee of four Man-team to reorganize Uganda Judo Association.
Aligawesa as a chairman, will be working with the former national team captain Mike Ojok, AIP Peter Malavu of Uganda Police Judo Team and Hanington Musoke of Makerere University and they were tasked to rebuild the sinking Association in three months.
After receiving that responsibility, Aligawesa is confident of improving Uganda Judo Association into the right right place.
In an exclusive interview with this website, Aligawesa Says; by the end of the given time, the Association will be in the right place.
“I am confident on improving the Uganda Judo Association, we are starting with constitutional amendment to develop proper governance of the association, the club registration shall come next and that shall be followed by improving affiliation at Africa and Intentional level, by the end of three months the Association shall be having a proper leadership through an election we will organize”
To reach this level UJA was advised by Africa Judo Union to audit and re-align themselves following unethical acts at the Association which happened mostly after the falling apart of David Katana, the long term serving General Secretary of the Association and Captain Herbert Mulasa Musiitwa the founder and Association Chairman.
The advise came last month at the Unions elections of the continental president.
Following advise from the Africa Judo Union, we are undertaking an organizational audit and realign to conform with their procedures and structures. The Africa Judo Union also noted with concern suspicious and unethical acts by officials claiming to represent the president of Uganda Judo Association which they brought to my attention” Captain Herbert Mulasa Musiitwa, founder and president of Uganda Judo Association Said.
There are a number of Judo clubs in Uganda as Abedi, Entebbe, Black Moster (Jinja), Divine Martial Arts, Agahakan, Uganda Police, Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF), Smart Kigwo Martial Arts, Nakivubo, Makerere and Lukwago Fitness club.
About Judo:
Judo is system of unarmed combat, now primarily a sport. The rules of the sport of judo are complex.
The objective is to cleanly throw, to pin, or to master the opponent, the latter being done by applying pressure to arm joints or to the neck to cause the opponent to yield.
Techniques are generally intended to turn an opponent’s force to one’s own advantage rather than to oppose it directly.
A ritual of courtesy in practice is intended to promote an attitude of calm readiness and confidence.
The usual costume, known as jūdōgi, is a loose jacket and trousers of strong white cloth.
White belts are worn by novices and black by masters, with intermediate grades denoted by other colours. Jūdōka (students of judo) perform the sport with bare feet.
Kanō Jigorō (1860–1938) collected the knowledge of the old jujitsu schools of the Japanese samurai and in 1882 founded his Kōdōkan School of judo (from the Chinese jou-tao, or roudao, meaning “gentle way”), the beginning of the sport in its modern form.
Kanō eliminated the most dangerous techniques and stressed the practice of randori (free practice), although he also preserved the classical techniques of jujitsu (jūjutsu) in the kata (forms) of judo.
By the 1960s judo associations had been established in most countries and affiliated to the International Judo Federation, which is headquartered in Budapest, Hungary.