Sensei Greg Pennington began studying judo in 1963 in Cleveland, Ohio. He is a yodan (fourth degree black belt) and along with his brothers he was an active competitor in the Konan Yudanshakai. Sensei Greg represented the region in the first and second national junior judo championships in 1965 and 1966 and started the judo club at Harvard University. Though he travels a great deal as a consulting psychologist, he is an active judoka still teaching at his home dojo, AJM. Sensei Greg teaches and embraces the judo principles of “maximum efficiency and minimum effort”, and “mutual benefit and welfare”. He looks  for the few small things you can do to continue to improve and while teaching how to support, encourage and protect each other on the mat. For him, judo has indeed been “the way” to continue to grow, learning and sharing along the way.