In “Share a passion“, judo-louis-combes-receives-his-8th-dan/” title=”Judo: Louis Combes receives his 8th Dan”>Louis Combes looks at the world of judo and the lessons that society can draw from this discipline. An innovative book since with the help of several students, the 90-year-old judoka made it an innovative interactive book!
At nearly 90 years old, Louis Combes, 7th dan black belt, former PE and judo teacher, has acquired relative wisdom from his sixties on the tatami mats. A lot of lessons also and life lessons. “Today, it’s talking about judo and making this discipline known that torments me,” he admits. Also he always recorded in his computer his thoughts in relation to situations, his ideas often against the prevailing opinions. “I was told, these ideas, you have to make a book of them. »
This book is here, “Share a passion”, made possible thanks to crowdfunding. “It’s a book that talks about judo for an informed public, but also about life in society and civilization, details its author. We talk too often about sports performance, but we forget everything that leads to this result, training, clubs and organized sport that people tend to shun, the risks involved too. Today, people play sports alone, self-taught, to lose weight or others. We certainly get richer. But we also isolate ourselves. we lose the gathering and the relationship to the other. But man needs that. » Precepts found in judo. “In society, the other does not exist, slice Louis Combes. While in judo, we realize together, as we learn, first with the other, then by the other but also against the other because it is obligatory to seek the truth in this confrontation, and finally for the others. There is a concern to read the other and to accept him as he is. We reason from the other and not from ourselves, as too often in life. »
In his book, Louis Combes also scratches the federal institutions of judo which do not “create emulation” and makes several proposals, including giving precepts for adults who would like to get on the tatamis, as he has done at 23 or this doctor from Tarbes at 68 who became a black belt three years later.
15 QR codes and comment spaces
That’s it for the background. The form is resolutely innovative, with the help of five former students of the Barbazan judo teacher: Bruno Cazale, Gilles Hamonic, Philippe Manche, Francis Dufourg and especially Jimmy Loubet who put his “master” at the service of his computer skills to develop a system of QR codes to enrich the reading experience and interact with the author. “It refers to videos, audio podcasts, to give visibility, but also to disseminate and make accessible its message, details Jimmy. I had produced with Louis a series of about forty interviews and episodes, the mouse tatami. It makes it possible to directly touch this other of which it is question in the work. “Videos also allow to appreciate the movements recommended by Louis Combes, in this book which is not intended to be technical.
Another novelty, a space left free where the reader can write down his remarks, his comments in order to then enter into interaction with the author. “It’s not very used but could be a school,” admits Louis Combes, 90, who has adapted to these new technologies. I undertake to discuss and respond to comments that will be sent to me” promises Louis, ready to fight on the tatami of ideas.
