Saturday, December 22, 2007

Red Square's Black Belt

To all judo fanatics out there (i'm talking to You, Cedric) Putin, the president and soon to be prime minister of Russia, is going to make an instructional video on judo, with world and olympic champion, Yasuhiro Yamashita.

In yahoo sports::

"ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) -- President Vladimir Putin is known for his political maneuvers. Now, everyone can check out his moves in another area of expertise: judo.

Putin, a black belt, said Friday that he and Yasuhiro Yamashita, a world and Olympic judo champion from Japan, have made an instructional video together."

To read the rest of the article, go here.

Putin, being a black belt judoka, is more than qualified to do this. I can't wait for the video to come out (and more importantly, to leak into youtube. XD)

1 comment:

Eli James said...

Didn't surprise me at all! Haraigoshi specialist! Woohoo!

*wonder if he gets thrown by Yamashita in the vid*