Surely he is not known by Jos Muos in Santiago, Oroso, or the rest of Galicia. Much less as doctor Muos, because it turns out that the character finished Medicine. And it is that everyone knows him in Compostela schools and in the CEIP Sigeiro as Pepe Judo (as, with j, as admitted by the Royal Galician Academy). A champion in his specialty —the only 6 dan in the Santiago area, a level that cannot be bought at the Salgueirios fair— and a champion in humanity.
He is, without a doubt, the most emblematic judoka in this country, who is dedicated to teaching in schools how much he knows. It is also about a person who breaks archetypes born in recent times, which relate martial arts with an attitude that is not very respectful towards life and others. Because the judo —Pepe said it many times— is above all respect, the least aggressive technique in the world, defensive, which does not aim to take the eyes off the person in front or break their femur, but to parry blows and, at best, immobilize .
The covid nipped in the bud the expansion of judo in Santiago and its surroundings now that it was beginning to gain momentum with weekly activities in schools, a strong presence in that great Galician event that is the Miguelito, meetings of judokas from surrounding town halls… And all this thanks —not only, of course, but to a great extent— to the constant work of Pepe Judo.
That sport —it’s not risky, the risky one is football, the character usually says— goes through very bad times, because if there is one of contact, here it is. Recovering it will be a difficult task, a challenge. But the Jew has already survived more than a hundred years since its invention. Who said fear?
