勝負 Shoubu

Shoubu　
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　勝負
the new buzz word at Uni Judo, watch this page.
Shobu means to challenge ,shou means win, and bu means to lose and shoubu was very popular up until the beginning of WW.II.Two of the most famous recent martial artists who practiced Shobu were Oyama Sensei karate and Kimura Masahiko Sensei judo. It was a means of testing ones skill or raising money.
It went like this!
A rough looking martial artist stands at a dojo door banging loudly. 
Sensei ;what do you want ?
I'm here to challenge you !Shobu 
But you cant do that,i'm a only a paper grade sandan and i invented the fishing hook judo system.
Then put your money where your mouth is.
Here is some money please go away or would you prefer some red judo mats?
If the challenge had been accepted and the dojo lost then the winner got the dojo kamban [sign]
meaning the dojo was finished or the the sensei paid money to get it back. 
The most famous story is about Mas Oyama who defeated a karate dojo ,took the kamban and stood at the dojo entrance and was about to give it a judo chop when the dojo begged him to take money instead.
Haa! the good old days ,lets  bring them back to weed out those who do judo with their mouths and not their bodies.

MATSUMOTO, Nagano -- A man used a judo throw to scare off a bear that attacked him while he was picking mushrooms on a Nagano Prefecture mountain Monday afternoon, police said Tuesday.

At around 3:50 p.m., Keiichi Yamaguchi, 63, a resident of Matsuda, Kanagawa Prefecture, was picking mushrooms on a mountain in Omachi, Nagano Prefecture, when an Asiatic black bear suddenly attacked him, police said.

The bear bit Yamaguchi on the hand and left thigh and he responded by hitting it on the nose and in the stomach. When he used a judo technique to hurl the bear, it ran away from the scene. The bear was about 170 centimeters long, police said.

Yamaguchi said his injuries are not serious, but he intends to receive medical treatment at a local hospital. (Compiled from Mainichi and wire reports, Japan.