“My father wanted me to go into boxing,” he recalled. “I tried, but I wasn’t very good. So he decided I should try judo. I thought, ‘I’ve let the old man down a bit so I better stick at this’.
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Pensioner is youngest person to be awarded 10th Dan in judo
The Second World War was just ending when eight-year-old Edinburgh schoolboy George Kerr took his first steps on to a judo mat in a community centre in Lorne Street in Leith.
