It all began in 1947, when a 16-year-old named Sethiro Namie stepped onto a tatami for the first time in the Cocuera neighborhood of Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil. He could not have known, in that moment, that he was laying the foundation for one of the city's most enduring judo traditions — one that three generations of his family would carry forward to this day. The story of the Namie Judo Association does not begin in 2015. It begins much earlier, with a family that made judo a