Assist. Prof. Dr. Liza Rustum Yacoub, a faculty member from the Team Games Branch at the College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences for Women, in cooperation with the Scientific Affairs Unit, held a qualitative lecture for the students of the undergraduate studies entitled (The difference between judo and karate).
She explained the interpretation of the word (Judo) that is consisted of two parts, the first (JU) that means flexibility while the second part is (Do) which means art, so its meaning is a flexible art that defines one of the Olympic martial arts games that gives the practitioners a sense of self-confidence and superior skill in facing the dangers surrounding it and make it control itself and its competitors as required by the guidance of the healthy mind, classifying its types into the arts of throwing, confinement to the ground and control, suffocation and self-defense against knife, stick or a pistol. Then Dr. Liza Rustum explained the concept of karate, that is a Japanese word consisting of two syllables (Kara) meaning empty and (Te) that means hand or fist, thus its meaning is an empty hand. She noted that this game is one of the most important basic skills in which natural standing is the position of the horse rider, the lateral position or the back position.
