Mike Takata-Judo Sensei-Memento Combat Sports

Mike Takata

Judo Sensei

6th Degree Black Blet

Mike Takata has been shaping judoka in Knoxville for nearly three decades, and his own journey started much the same way.
He was seven years old when Sensei Sam Imoto introduced him to judo in Visalia, CA, teaching not just technique but the deeper philosophy behind it: Seiryoku Zenyo and Jita Kyoei, the ideas that we should move efficiently and lift each other up.
Mike carried those lessons through a career in software engineering management, a Stanford degree in Quantitative Economics, and all the way to a 6th degree black belt and IJF International “A” Level referee certification.
Since 1996, he’s passed that same tradition on to students at the University of Tennessee.

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