"Chols" <NOSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<3f85a2f8$1_3@news.arrakis.es>...
> Any active, interesting, and spam-free newsgroup you know of? I know I'm
> probably looking for too good a ng, but that is what japan.budo.judo used to
> be.

Hi Chols,

yep  i  find  great  value  in  rec.martial-arts. very little spam,
very  high  value discussion   of  martial-art  training  methods, 
style  differences,
competition, weapons, legal & selfdefence issues.  

yes there is also a lot of 'locker-room talk' (profanity & gross
sexuality etc) but if you can handle that, it is well worth your
while.  while there are some very vocal posters who love to denigrate
'traditional martial arts', they have some very good reasons for doing
so.  Luckily Judo is one of the few tradtional martial arts that gets
a lot of respect :-)

if  you are only interesting in specifically Judo, then it is not very
good.   But  a  few Judo topics do come up every couple of weeks, and
there  are 4 or 5 very experienced Judokas who read and post there, on
a variety of topics

cheers,
charlie





> Any active, interesting, and spam-free newsgroup you know of? I know I'm
> probably looking for too good a ng, but that is what japan.budo.judo used to
> be.
> 
> 
> Yoko Guruma <yoko.guruma@gmx.de> escribi$(D??(B en el mensaje de noticias
> k009ovkm78e3k5b4dpki1p0g9b6n87hdo3@4ax.com...
>> a shame this is such a dead newsgroup.
>>
>> for anyone who didn't know : good Judo discussion at E-budo and the
>> Underground

> 
> 
> Yoko Guruma <yoko.guruma@gmx.de> escribi$(D??(B en el mensaje de noticias
> k009ovkm78e3k5b4dpki1p0g9b6n87hdo3@4ax.com...
> > a shame this is such a dead newsgroup.
> >
> > for anyone who didn't know : good Judo discussion at E-budo and the
> > Underground