Mean people: One-third of the reason I’m not around judo much any more

annmariastat
5 min readDec 9, 2019

Every now and then, I run into people from judo who say,

“Hey, we never see you around any more? Why is that? What happened to you?”

I wrote this years ago for a project on the Spirit Lake Dakota Nation, and our Country Manager for Strong Mind Studios, our company in Chile, came across it recently. (If you read Spanish, check it out.)

Nothing happened to me. I do run a practice or a clinic now and then, but it is true I am not nearly involved as much as I used…

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annmariastat

President, The Julia Group & CEO 7 Generation Games If it touches a number, we do it. 4 daughters, 4 degrees, 1 world championship.